Node.js v0.8

Node.js has been released v0.8,  It seems released with significant improvements on performance,API code clean up,etc.

For more information about release updates, Have a look
http://.nodejs.org/2012/06/25/node-v0-8-0/

Download:
http://nodejs.org/#download

Doc:
http://nodejs.org/api/

Reference:
http://.nodejs.org/2012/06/25/node-v0-8-0/

Hibernate ORM 4.1.4

Hibernate team released it's latest version 4.1.4.

Changes Log
https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH/fixforversion/11960

Artifacts available in JBoss Repo & Maven
https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/org/hibernate/

Reference
http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/HibernateORM414Release

Rails 3 tips - Create project with different database(MySQL,PostGresSQL,JDBC,SQL SERVER, etc)

Here are commands to create Rails 3 application with different database

MySQL
rails new app --database=mysql

ORACLE
rails new app --database=oracle

PostgreSQL
rails new app --database=postgresql

SQLite3
rails new app --database=sqlite3

FrontBase
rails new app --database=frontbase

IBM DB
rails new app --database=ibm_db

SQL SERVER
rails new app --database=sqlserver

JDBC
rails new app --database=jdbc

JDBC MySQL
rails new app --database=jdbcmysql

JDBC PostgreSQL
rails new app --database=jdbcpostgresql

JDBC SQLite3
rails new app --database=jdbcsqlite3

Cake PHP 2.3.1 with SQL Server 2005 or higher

Here are steps to connect CakePHP with SQL Server

1. Download latest stable stable version cakePHP from here

2. Copy the framework to web server document root folder(htdocs)

3. Download Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server from here
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=20098

In this link you can see two versions(2.0,3.0) of Microsoft drivers for PHP.  Suppose you use windows XP with PHP 5.3.0 or lesser version then choose 2.0 driver otherwise choose 3.0 driver.

Download the driver and install it. It generates driver dll files. There are two way to connect SQL server with PHP. A procedural interface (SQLSRV) and an object oriented interface (PDO). Both the SQLSRV and PDO APIs provide a comprehensive data access solution from PHP, and include support for many features including Windows Authentication, transactions, parameter binding, streaming, metadata access, connection pooling.

Note:
Microsoft Drivers for PHP 2.0 need Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client
Microsoft Drivers for PHP 3.0 need Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client
More information & downloads available http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc296170.aspx

4. To enable PDO SQL Server extension, copy php_pdo_sqlsrv_53_nts_vc9.dll into "ext" folder of PHP where other PHP extensions are available

5. Enable PDO SQL Server extension on php.ini


[pdo_sqlsrv]
extension=php_pdo_sqlsrv_53_nts_vc9.dll
pdo_sqlsrv.log_severity=-1

6. Restart the web server

7. Make sure pdo_sqlsrv extension enabled by phpinfo

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

8. Edit CakePHP database config file for SQL Server database connection

Go to app/Config/database.php, edit database settings


 public $default = array(
                'datasource' => 'Sqlserver',
                'persistent' => false,
                'host' => 'sqlserver',
                'login' => 'sa',
                'password' => 'password',
                'database' => 'demo',
                'prefix' => ''     
        );

Now i hope you can able to connect database & create models for SQL Server tables.

Zipkin - distributed tracing system

Zipkin is a distributed tracing system that helps us gather timing data for all the disparate services at Twitter.

Twitter open sourcing Zipkin under the APLv2 license to share with the open source community.

For more information, source code and contribution 

https://github.com/twitter/zipkin

Reference:

https://github.com/twitter/zipkin

DjangoCon Europe 2012

Here is video link of DjangoCon Europe 2012 - Especially for python programmers

http://klewel.com/conferences/djangocon-2012/

Reference:
http://klewel.com/

GCC 4.7!

GCC team announced release of version 4.7

Release notes
Downloads

Reference:
http://gcc.gnu.org

Browser security

Here is handbook for browser security. It may help you to check you're browser security level

https://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Main

Rails 3.2.6!

Rails team has been released version 3.2.6. It contains major security fixes.

CVE-2012-2694 Ruby on Rails Unsafe Query Generation Risk in Ruby on Rails
CVE-2012-2695 Ruby on Rails SQL Injection

Source code and more information available here


Reference:
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/6/12/ann-rails-3-2-6-has-been-released/

Emacs 24.1 released

GNU Emacs annonced it's new release 24.1. It is available on the GNU ftp site
at ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/.


Here are some features in Emacs 24.1 release.

- Support lexical scoping in Emacs Lisp.

- New packaging system and interface (M-x list-packages) for
  downloading and installing extensions.  A default package archive is
  hosted by GNU and maintained by the Emacs developers.

- Support for displaying and editing bidirectional text, including
  right-to-left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew.

- Improvements to the Custom Themes system (M-x customize-themes).

- Unified and improved completion system in many modes and packages.

- Support for GnuTLS (for built-in TLS/SSL encryption), GTK+ 3,
  ImageMagick, SELinux, and Libxml2.


See http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html for a list of mirrors.

Smoke - asynchronous HTTP

Smoke is a Simple, asynchronous HTTP. It's a thin DSL for building simple, fast, scalable, asynchronous HTTP services with Scala.

Guide, Example and Source code:
https://github.com/mDialog/smoke

Apple's iOS 6 - Updates and Features

Here are list of updates/features of Apple iOS 6

1. Apple's map service - New Map
2. Facebook Integration
3. Improved iMessages
4. More Synchronization
5. Quick Access to Settings
6. Better Notifications

More details, Have a look
http://gizmodo.com/5916647/apple-ios-6-whats-needed-whats-coming/

Reference
http://gizmodo.com/5916647/apple-ios-6-whats-needed-whats-coming/

gmaps.js - google maps api with less pain and more fun

Nice examples of google map api

http://hpneo.github.com/gmaps/examples.html

It may help you to understand gmap api easily.