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LINQ to SQL, The Next Step
Despite the numerous problems with Microsoft ORMs and the plethora of alternatives such as LLBLGen, nHibernate, and OpenAccess, many developers are forced to use Microsoft tech because that is why their company or customer wants. And between the two offerings, it seems most developers believe that Entity Framework is not a viable option. So what are they do to?
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Does LINQ-to-Entities really return different results depending on previous queries?
In a recent blog post Stu Smith claimed that “LINQ-to-Entities will return different results depending on what previous queries you’ve executed!”. If true, this would make using Entity Framework much harder than necessary to use. We talked to Elisa Flasko of the ADO.NET Team to find out what’s really going on.
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Windows Server 2008 SP2 & Vista SP2 Beta Getting Ready
Microsoft has announced the public availability of Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Vista SP2 Customer Preview Program (CPP) starting Thursday December 4th on TechNet which is already loaded with information about the CPP. Besides fixes, Vista SP2 includes better searching, Bluetooth 2.1 and Blu-Ray support, an extension to the FAT file system to support UTC time stamps.
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Working Around Entity Framework's Large Data Model Issues
The Entity Framework doesn't support data models with much more than 50 to 100 entities. But since companies typically run everything from one central database, several hundred tables are the norm. Microsoft's ADO.NET team is presenting an article on Working With Large Models In Entity Framework, a list of issues and work-arounds for EF users.
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Envers Joins Hibernate
Envers is an open-source project from JBoss which has recently been added under the Hibernate umbrella.
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IronRuby moves to Github
Microsoft recently announced they had moved their IronRuby project to GitHub. The announcement, like many projects these days, shows the project moving from its current Subversion repository to a Git repository located on Github.
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Amazon’s SimpleDB Enters Public Beta
Amazon finished private beta testing and has entered into public unlimited beta of its cloud database service named SimpleDB. SimpleDB is meant to be a simple to be accessed database in the cloud, and Amazon is offering limited access to it for free.
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Are IBM’s Cloud Computing Consulting Services Generating a Conflict of Interests?
In an attempt to capitalize on the cloud computing hype, IBM announced the launch of a new set of consulting services aimed at businesses which want to use this computing model. It is likely this move will affect IBM’s core enterprise consulting services.
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Cross-platform Delphi is Back
Using Visual Studio Shell as a starting point and Mono as a runtime, Embarcadero Technologies has introduced a new version of Delphi for .NET called Delphi Prism. This project is being target towards cross-platform developers who want to bring the .NET ecosystem with them to OS X.
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SharePoint Development Improves in Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2010 will support tighter integration with the SharePoint development process. The focus of the tooling is to automate tedious tasks, enhance the debugging experience, and provide a GUI surface for visually exploring deployment and feature packaging.
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Clustered JRuby - Transparent Clustering of JRuby with Terracotta
Gemstone's Maglev Demo at RailsConf sparked a lot of interest. A new project experiments with bringing this kind of transparent clustering to JRuby using Terracotta. We talked to Fabio Kung who's been experimenting with this approach.
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Nanite: A Self Assembling Cluster of Ruby Processes
Nanite is Engine Yard's latest addition to their cloud computing strategy: a "self assembling cluster of ruby processes" to form the backend of highly scalable web applications. We talked to its developer Ezra Zygmuntowicz and also got some news about Vertebra.
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The Clouds Can Do Mathematics
Wolfram Research has announced the availability of its product, Mathematica 7, to perform computations using cloud computing services from within the application. Mathematica is a computing environment providing support for numerous numeric and symbolic computations through a dedicated symbolic language.
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Article: Structured Event Streaming with Smooks
The Smooks project has been used in several ESBs for transformation techniques since the first adoption by JBossESB. However, in this article Tom Fennelly discusses how it can be used for much more than that.
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Article: Column Level Security in SharePoint
In this article, Mathew Dressel and Grzegorz Gogolowicz demonstrate how to implement column level security in Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.