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Growth of API Usage Sparks New Management ToolsOpen APIs have become not only available, but prevalent, giving capabilities to photo, video, messaging, mapping, music, and news outlets. ProgrammableWeb's directory of web service APIs now numbers more than 8,000. With increased API usage, the need for help managing APIs also is growing. | 
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Hubbl App's Spacebar Platform Uses Contextual Ads to Promote Apps Hubbl is an app that helps people discover other apps based on their interests. Through partnerships with content distributors, Hubbl’s B2B platform Spacebar will suggest apps based on the subject matter of the webpage the user is looking at—a sort of contextual advertising. Integration! |
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What Google's Move to Blink Means for Web DevelopersSome web developers felt a disturbance in the force when Google recently announced that the Chrome browser will be moving on within the coming months from WebKit to Blink, its new open source rendering engine that’s based on WebKit. Pamela Rentz looks at what this move will mean for web developers. | 
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Java 8 Gets 2014 Release Date as Java 7 Patches Continue It's safe to say that Java 7 didn't go quite as smoothly as Oracle wanted since multiple major security flaws have been exposed since its release. Oracle's not taking any chances with the much-anticipated Java 8. They've recently announced a newly delayed March 2014 release date. |
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Internet Archaeologists Dig Up Websites Stuck in TimeBonnie Bailey writes on the efforts of Internet archaeologists to document old websites in order to preserve the birth of Internet culture. Technology professionals have the rare privilege to wax nostalgic about a history we helped make, while still actively making that history today. | 
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Stewardship in Agile Software Architecture and DesignSoftware architects typically don’t own the products that individual teams are creating, yet they help define a cohesive approach to developing the products and are often responsible for defining how different products interoperate. Scott Sehlhorst looks at the idea of architecture stewardship. | 
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How Open Source Software Helps after a DisasterAfter a disaster, people may be left looking for quick answers, which in the past has been difficult if not impossible. Now there is a modern-day technological aid for those who don't know where to turn. Learn how free and open source software is being provided to those in need. |
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Put Down the Textbooks: Video Games Now Teaching How to CodeLearning to code is finally starting to take off with younger kids in the United States, and we may have video games to thank for it. Learn how companies are connecting with kids to teach them valuable skills while they're having fun doing what they love best—playing. |
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