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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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VMware Acquires SpringSource for $420 Million - Industry Reactions (Updated)
Today VMware announced they have acquired SpringSource for a mix of approximately $362 million in cash and equity plus the assumption of approximately $58 million of unvested stock and options. Industry reactions soon...
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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.
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NHibernate LINQ Provider Released
NHibernate Linq 1.0 has been released. Based on the stable provider from NHibernate Contrib, NHibernate Linq 1.0 is a LINQ provider that supports most operations available through the NHibernate criteria query API.
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'State of Agile' Survey Open
The fourth annual 'State of Agile' survey is open for public participation. The 6-page survey takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete and participants remain anonymous. Over the past 3 years the survey, sponsored by VersionOne, has gauged how widely agile practices have been adopted, as well as the results obtained.
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JBoss Netty 3.1 Released
Netty 3.1.0 was recently released by the JBoss Community and is another option when writing client/server network applications.
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Is CRUD Bad for REST?
In his new post, Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz explains that REST is more than just a set of standards and APIs, and it requires following REST architectural principles for reaping its complete benefits.