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Recent News and Articles - July 2012

Google announced the Google Compute Engine. Even though it is too early to comment, as a customer of Amazon's EC2 services, I am loving this; competition is definitely good news for business.

For the gamers out there, Epic Games introduced the Unreal Engine 4 recently. Have a look at the Wired article to understand the implications of this new engine on the gaming and hardware industry. Here is the development walk-through. There is also a showcase demo available for a preview.

Warning, shameless self promotion here: the Symfony Blog picked my article about creating a custom JMSSerializerBundle handler.

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