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Genuitec is raffling off a Catspaw Blade and Loras Tyrell helmet from HBO's Game of Thrones. Learn how you can win at the link.

Today's your last chance to enter to win #GameOfThrones #ValyrianSteel or #ElderScrollsOnline from Genuitec. You have until midnight tonight to enter and socialize your entry for a chance at winning one of our spectacular prizes.  Winners of the Valyrian Steel and Elder Scrolls Online will be announced tomorrow morning at 9 am CST at the above link. Good Luck!

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Last Week to Enter the Game of Thrones Raffle!

This is your last week to enter our Game of Thrones Valyrian Steel raffle! You can use this link, https://www.genuitec.com/raffle/, to enter and then upon entry you'll receive a personalized URL that you can share on social networks as you like. Each entry cast using your shared URL, scores you an extra entry in the raffle. The raffle will close after Sunday's Game of Thrones episode and we'll announce our winners and top referrers on April 29th. Our top 3 referrers will win a license to the new Elder Scrolls Online game!

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Tax Day Refund for MyEclipse, $63 in your cart

Genuitec is helping developers find relief during on Tax Day with a $63.55 refund for the MyEclipse shop. From now until midnight on April 15th, you can access the link below to gain access to a $63.55 refund towards the purchase of a MyEclipse Professional license or you can apply the refund to one of the other MyEclipse license offerings. https://www.genuitec.com/coupon/mefree2014/ If you have a developer friend who could also use a Tax Day boost, the link has a "Share" section where you can quickly send them the offer.

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We've developed a really cool project to help you design Eclipse projects for your Raspberry Pi. Now you can use, PiPlug, with it's sleek front-end to write Eclipse SWT that can be used to setup games, create garage door openers, and other super awesome projects on your Pi. We'd love to chat with you about the IoT, how you're using PiPlug, and the cool projects you're making for your Raspberry Pi. Hit us up on the discussion boards at: http://genuitec.github.io/piplug/

You can also use the above link to see our recorded session from EclipseCon North America 2014 on our PiPlug project and it's capacity to  create Pi apps for smart home projects.

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Found a cool survey for all you developers out there! This survey lets you select your favorite tools and IDEs. We're happy to see that MyEclipse made the list and look forward to seeing how the community responds. What are your favorite mobile development tools? What's your favorite IDE? What about your thoughts on cloud development? We'd love to hear your thoughts!

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Genuitec has created a cool open source project called, PiPlug which let's you create Java plug-ins for your Raspberry Pi. The project is available on GitHub, http://genuitec.github.io/piplug, and gives you an extensible front-end for the Raspberry Pi while allowing small Java plug-ins to be written using Eclipse SWT. Now with the help of PiPlug you can get a head start on making cool Pi projects like home security systems, garage door openers, or even using your Pi to sync up lighting with music. Click the link above to see the experts at Genuitec, Jed Anderson and Tim Webb, introduce our PiPlug project.

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Subscribe to the Game of Thrones YouTube: http://itsh.bo/10qIOan Game of Thrones Season 4 premieres April 6 at 9PM, only on HBO. Connect with Game of Thrones...

The new trailer promises that "All Men Must Die". Yikes! Sounds like it might be a good idea to enter Genuitec's #GOTFans raffle for a chance at winning a Catspaw Blade or a Loras Tyrell Helmet so you can suit up! Enter here: https://www.genuitec.com/raffle/

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Genuitec is raffling off a Catspaw Blade and Loras Tyrell helmet from HBO's Game of Thrones. Learn how you can win at the link.

Genuitec is kicking off their next raffle! Click the link above to learn more about how you can win a Catspaw Blade or Loras Tyrell Helmet from HBO's hit series Game of Thrones in honor of their 4th season. Also, this time the 3 Top Referrers will receive a license to the new Elder Scrolls Online game. Enter and then share your personalized URL on social networks everywhere - every entry made with your URL helps score you can extra entry in the raffle!

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Our #GeekLove raffle ends at midnight!

You've got just under 12 hours left to enter our #GeekLove raffle for a chance at winning a PlayStation 4 or XboxOne from Genuitec. Click here to enter: https://www.genuitec.com/raffle/

  We'll announce the winners of the XboxOne and PlayStation 4, as well as the winners of the 3 $50 Amazon gift cards for our Top Referrers, on our blog. Also, tomorrow we'll be kicking off our next raffle! I hope you're ready to go Stark raving mad with us ;) This next raffle will be quite the Game indeed! Stay tuned!

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Genuitec is raffling off a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this Valentine's Day. Learn more about how you can spread the #GeekLove and win yours!

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It's a Great Time to Be a Software Developer

U.S News has released a report on the best jobs for 2014 and we're happy to see that Software Developer has taken the #1 Best Technology Job ranking, as well as the overall #1 Best Job ranking for 2014! Awesome, right!?!

The full report is available here, but I wanted to share some of the amazing stats from the article that caught my eye.

Awesome Facts For Software Developers - The U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics says growth will continue! In fact, the BLS predicts that employment growth will grow a whopping 22% between 2012 – 2022, with an estimated 139,000 jobs that will be filled. Not too shabby for a 10 year period!

- Software Developers have the lowest unemployment rate.

- Software Developers are bringing in the dough! The reported average salary for 2013 of Software Developers is $90,000 with the lowest 10% of developers still bringing in $55,000. As a note, that 55K is currently above the U.S. Household Income average; in 2012 U.S. median household income was $51,371 per the Census Bureau.

These are some pretty spectacular facts for all of you Software Developers! You can officially take a bow for choosing THE most secure job position in America and do a happy dance to celebrate the fact that not only is your job considered to be one of the more flexible positions but one that will be necessary to all of our lives forevermore.

Now because this IS a company blog, I will go ahead and mention that you should give MyEclipse 2014 a try. But I don’t mention that just because I happen to work for Genuitec, but rather because MyEclipse 2014 has a long history of providing software developers with the hottest technologies used in the field today and does so in a lightweight and super cost efficient package. You can bump over to this blog here, to find out which of the top technologies for developers that MyEclipse 2014 supports.

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Grab the New Java 7u51 Pack Here.

What’s New @Java. - Jarsigner now encourages timestamping: The new jarsigner will encourage you to use a timestamp URL to avoid taking unexpected hits when a certificate expires.

- Default Socket Permissions: Applications that open listener ports, e.g. servers,  will run into security issues now because Java limits which sockets you can bind to without modifying the security policy.  A good tutorial on how to do this can be found at here.

- Clearing of Remembered Decisions: If you’ve accidentally selected incorrect or unnecessary security alerts, this release will now let you easily clear out our selections so you can always be sure you have only the settings you really want.

- JAXP Xalan DOM Implementation: Now when you have a Security Manager in your application, JAXP will always use the default DOM implementation. This should only affect those of you who have replaced the DOM implementation in your application.

For additional details on the release, you can read the full release notes here.

What you’ll see from Genuitec. Applet Security: For this pack update, SDC will now include support for the applet security issues. SDC now ships with web installation flows turned off by default to ensure users avoid receiving notifications that applets may be insecure. Users can easily turn applet support on by selecting the re-enable the option on the Access Policy page of the Admin Console.

Grab your Java here. In an effort to keep you and your team up-to-date with the latest tools, Genuitec will now be making the Java packs available within a week of their release. Java packs, as well as the most current SDC downloads, will always be available at this link – http://www.genuitec.com/sdc/download_all.php

Not using SDC to deliver your team’s tools? To schedule a demo and learn more about how SDC is making delivery and security for your team a breeze, click here.

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Discount for MyEclipse Subscribers on Cloud Hosting!

Great News, MyEclipsers!

MyEclipse subscribers can now get 25% off Linux VPS Hosting or Linux Cloud VPS Hosting hosting from RoseHosting.com!

Rose Hosting has been the trusted cloud hosting provider for Genuitec for some time now and they have graciously put together this amazing discount for our customers.

You can claim this 25 percent off promotion by logging into their site, or learn more about RoseHosting services by following this link: http://www.rosehosting.com/

When you get to checkout, simply drop “GENUITEC” into the promotional code field in your shopping cart.

Thank you, RoseHosting.com, for this awesome deal for our customers!

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Genuitec is raffling off a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this Valentine's Day. Learn more about how you can spread the #GeekLove and win yours!

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Genuitec Spring & Bling Workbenches Gain Mobile Tools!

They're finally here! Our Spring and Bling workbenches for MyEclipse 2013 have launched and we’re thrilled to introduce the inclusion of Mobile Tools into these builds. Now our Spring and WebSphere enterprise Java developers have access to HTML5 and PhoneGap/Cordova tools for their apps.

New MyEclipse 2013 for Spring and Bling takes your enterprise apps to the next level. Grab the Spring workbench if you’re interested in adding Spring Scaffolding and Bootstrapping to your projects. Or, for WebSphere developers looking for an adventure, try MyEclipse Bling which perfectly blends your WAS skills with Spring capabilities.

Download your copy today!

Now with the Spring and Bling workbenches, you can take advantage of Genuitec’s Mobile Tools – add audio, video, and API elements to your projects to create complex web applications for mobile devices (Android, iOs) and across Linux, Mac and PC desktops. Utilize our sleek HTML5 Visual Designer, allowing you to layout your app visually while Mobile Tools codes your cross-platform design on the back end.

Capitalize further on rapid design and prototyping, with new User template support to create custom app templates for your team and new Mobile Web Simulator with hot-synch technology to showcase image and styling changes instantly to your design.

Take advantage of our one-click technologies with the newly enhanced Maven integration (Learn more about Maven for MyEclipse) and Migration support for RAD projects making RAD projects compatible with your current version of MyEclipse in one easy click.

There’s plenty of updated features for you to take advantage of and make your app development experience better than ever.  Of mention:

Web Fragments support from project creation to deployment

expanded Eclipse library support

WindowBuilder Swing and SWT designers

embedded Tomcat 7 server and TomEE server

updated embedded Derby server (now 10.9)

the latest 1.6 JDK – 1.6 update 43

WebSphere Portal Server 8.0 support

Schedule a demo with us today and learn how we can make adding Mobility to your Eclipse Java apps smoother and faster than ever before.

Feel like playing in our Sandbox? Download a free 30-day trial now.

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Service Release Now Available for MyEclipse 2013

Current MyEclipse 2013 users will notice an available update today!

Service release 2 for MyEclipse 2013 is now available and can be updated from directly within your current ME2013 install or manually installed from our download page.

SR2 will provide users with multiple updates, bug fixes, and a sprinkle of features new to ME2013.

SR2 is taking Enterprise Java tools to higher heights with the expansion of our  HTML5 Mobile Tools. Now, take advantage of rapid prototyping and design with jQuery Mobile Palette to eliminate the need for coding jQuery by hand and create your own shareable design templates with the new User Template support. Use our HTML5 Mobile Tools and jQuery Mobile Palette in conjunction with the Mobile Web Simulator, to speed up the development process by allowing for instant visual adjustments of image and styling designs.

Specifically for our MyEclipse Blue users, WebSphere Portal Server 8 support has been added.

If you’ve not yet migrated to ME2013, what’s the hold-up? Give our Mobile Tools and improved IDE a try – in fact, you can grab 30 days of free trial simply by downloading the installer! What have you got to lose by giving the newer, sleek MyEclipse 2013 build a try? You certainly have a lot to gain!

We hope you will enjoy these enhancements and as always, if you have any technical questions please do not hesitate to reach out to us – ours teams are dedicated to making your experience top-notch!

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Trends in Mobile Development

You may have noticed over the last couple of years that the mobile app world is changing at a wickedly fast pace.

Those of you who are developing mobile and web apps are in a constant state of updating and adjusting your applications to include the latest technologies, the newest phone sizes, and security concerns. And those of you who are trying to break into the mobile app arena are discovering how an over abundance of amazing technological advancements quickly become a pain in the you-know-what when you’re trying to incorporate the lot of them into your app.

What’s more, those of us providing app builder software are stuck in the middle of this battle, trying to keep up with the latest trends, decide the future of those trends, and meet high customer demands wherein half of those customers are hard-core developers and the other half are have no idea what API even is. Throw in the speculation of latest features and rumors of new directions from mobile phone makers, and what you get is a chaotic battle of balance for all parties.

We’ve done a lot of research on what these trends currently are and have compiled a list of what we feel are the top 5 trends in mobile development. These 5 trends represent the vast majority of the new apps breaching into today’s market, and we feel strongly that these trends also have the strongest staying power.

We’re looking forward to seeing how these trends transcend time. With the plethora of new technology coming out on what seems like a daily basis, we’re curious how you feel about these trends.

What technologies are you using in your apps? Are you moving your apps to the Cloud? Do you think we’ll see NFC available in iPhones anytime soon?

I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts, opinions, and concerns about these trends.

For those of you curious about what’s new in our app builder, MobiOne Studio, I am happy to report that an upcoming release of MobiOne Studio 2.5 is imminent. A production release is already available for tinkering by clicking here.

If you’re needing an application development solution at the enterprise level, consider MyEclipse 2013 with Mobile Tools. ME2013 utilizes the full app dev power of MobiOne while incorporating the IDE power of MyEclipse.

Both MobiOne and MyEclipse are available for a free, no-obligation trial. We’re making great strides to keep up the pace with an ever changing industry and the latest trends in app development.