Konstantin Shlykov

How to improve the labor quality of mobile apps testing employees and to escape from routine? Obviously this can be done with the help of additional tools: from small applications and extensions of SDK to multifunctional automated complexes that execute testing.
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Elisaveta Gordienko

Apple Inc. introduced a technology of automatic reference counting in 2011 and recommended ARC for using in new projects and also a transfer of existing code under ARC control.

However, not all developers are quick to change already familiar patterns of manual memory management with the introduction of new technology. One of the reasons is that ARC not only frees a developer from having to evidently send messages retain and release, but also requires more deep understanding and attention to relations and connections between the objects, proper approach to the code writing and also knowledge and understanding of some features, which will be noted in the following sections.
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Denis Rechkunov

In the 4th version of Microsoft framework a lot of improvements have been done in the parallel programming field: fundamentally new things for .NET were added and already existing mechanisms were improved, used by developers before.

Starting from version 4.0 in the framework a separate library was additionally picked out for solving parallel tasks, the so-called TPL (Task Parallel Library), including high-level engines for execution, planning and synchronization of parallel actions.
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We intentionally have announced the release of our new product, “Sea Battle: Confrontation” game, only in Twitter, leaving the most delicious for this blog. And we’ll see it.

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27th of December. Thursday. Evening. Somebody is somewhere, but we are on New Year’s corporate party photos from which we are ready to share.

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“Every year on the 31st of December we with friends go to the bath” © Eugene Lukashin

Rephrasing a popular quote of Myagkov’s character from movie “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath” we every year before the New Year’s corporate party arrange a competition for the best New Year’s decoration of rooms.

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This post will be short, as the days left until the New Year. New Year’s theme will be not once in this blog before the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013. Even in this paragraph there is so much of New Year, and you will understand the reason below.

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Verbaenglish is a unique application for iPhone / iPad, developed by Enterra that will become your indispensable assistant in studying English language.

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All in all the programmer’s day turned into the programmer’s night, then the programmer’s morning, and as a consequence, in “damn, it’s already time to work?” of programmer (с) bash.org.ru

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A new application SmartLocker for Android dismisses from permanent entry of password and automatically unlocks the phone when the device is placed in a trusted Wi-Fi network.

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