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Fluent NHibernate Has Been Released as 1.0 RC
James Gregory, the owner of the Fluent NHibernate project, has announced his project has reached the 1.0 milestone and it is currently a Release Candidate.
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SpringSource Cloud Foundry is Launched
Continuing their push integrating Java and cloud technologies, SpringSource today announced the release of the SpringSource Cloud Foundry. The website enables easy deployment of Java web applications to cloud platforms such as Amazon EC2.
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Is the NoSQL Meeting Announcing the End of the RDBMS Era?
The NoSQL meeting tried to raise the awareness towards the opportunity of using non-relational databases which promise to be cheaper, simpler to administer and maintain, and offering superior scalability. Michael Stonebraker, co-creator of Ingres and Postgres, thinks that the end of RDBMS era is close, while others think that we are not there yet.
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Disclosing How C#-SQLite Was Ported to .NET
InfoQ announced the porting of SQLite to .NET two weeks ago. Because the community showed special interest in this project, we interviewed Noah Hart, the developer who did it, to find out how SQLite was re-written in C#.
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Moonlight 2.0 Beta 1 Contains Features from Silverlight 3.0
Moonlight, the open source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight for Linux and Unix/X11 systems, has reached version 2.0 Beta 1. Moonlight 2.0 API is a superset of Silverlight 2.0 API because it contains features from Silverlight 3.0.
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A US Judge Orders Microsoft to Stop Selling Word
A Texan judge has ordered Microsoft to stop selling MS Word in US because it infringes on a patent hold by i4i.
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New Installer Provides a Much Faster Ruby for Windows
Luis Lavena is working on an update to the Ruby installer for Windows, including a new Ruby binary built with a modern compiler. Benchmarks show Ruby 1.8.6 running more than twice as fast than previously. We talked to Luis Lavena about the new Ruby Installer.
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What’s Next for SQL Server?
As we reported last year, SQL Server 2008 R2 will support 256 logical processors. Other features include better multi-server management tools and geospatial visualization in Reporting Services 3. A preview of the new version is available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The general public will have access later this month.
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The Wiki Engine from CodePlex is now Open Source
The Wiki rendering engine from Microsoft’s open source site, CodePlex, has been itself open sourced as an API.
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Windows 7 RTM Available For Download
Today Microsoft made Windows 7 (English) available for download for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Windows 7 will be available for general consumers October 22nd. A complete list of the different availability dates for all type of customers can be found at the Windows 7 blog.
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SQLite Has Been Ported to .NET
Noah Hart has ported SQLite3 to C#. While the first port is slower than the original, the project opens the way for SQLite to be used in .NET managed projects without using P/Invoke or unsafe code.
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Web Services as an Alternative to Copy-Protected Software
Microsoft has released an API for generating Tags, their new barcode technology. But unlike most commercial libraries, there are no attempts at copy-protection. Instead, the library is only available as a web service.
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Patterns for Moving to the Cloud
A new Tech Ed presentation by Simon Guest defines a set of patterns for moving applications to the cloud and discusses implementation of these patterns using Windows Azure
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Google Chose Jetty for App Engine
Google App Engine was initially using Apache Tomcat as their webserver/servlet container but eventually switched to Jetty.
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IronRuby Roundup – IronRuby 0.9.0 and Benchmarks
The community around the IronRuby project is appearing busier as of late as the team moves the project toward a 1.0 release. The team has released version 0.9.0 and Antonio Cangiano has released some encouraging benchmarks for IronRuby.