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Report: China Is Likely Attacking GitHub

Since last Thursday, the online coding repository GitHub has been under a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that China is likely behind the

Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio Now Available

Microsoft has released Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio, an open-source extension for the company’s IDE. “Node.js is a platform for building fast, scalable applications using JavaScript,” blogged Sara Itani,

Apple Buys FoundationDB

Apple has purchased NoSQL database vendor FoundationDB. The forty-person startup offered both a community and a commercial version of its database, but downloads of those databases are no longer available

Joyent Debuts Triton Tool for Docker

Joyent has launched a new containerization tool called Triton that it says will simplify the deployment and management of Docker containers. It includes Triton Elastic Container Infrastructure (a Docker engine),

Scriptr Offers JavaScript Engine for IoT

A new startup called Scriptr has launched a JavaScript scripting engine for the Internet of Things (IoT). “Everything you create under scriptr becomes a secure Web services API,” explained Scriptr

Microsoft Open Sources MSBuild

Microsoft has posted the source code for MSBuild on GitHub and made the tool available under an open source license. The application building platform is integrated into Visual Studio, but