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Microsoft Releases JavaScript Compatibility Study for IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari
Historically JavaScript compatibility has been a major problem for web developers. Variations between the official spec, the de-facto standard, and the various implementations have kept many a developer up all night. To address this, Microsoft has released a document detailing these incompatibilities in the four most popular browsers.
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A Comparative Clarification: Microformats vs. RDF
James Simmons posted on the Semantic Focus blog and Johannes la Poutré on the Squio blog had a web discussion on the differentiation between Microformats and RDF as they relate to the semantic web. While they both agree that RDF and Microformats are very different, they have a very different take on how that impacts their respective relevance to the semantic web.
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Oslo: Microsoft Takes Composite Applications to the Mainstream
Microsoft unveiled this morning a vision and roadmap to simplify SOA, bridge software + services and take composite applications to the mainstream. The code name of this effort is “Oslo”.
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Debate: Why are most large-scale websites not written in Java?
Nati Shalom of GigaSpaces recently asked why most large-scale websites were written in languages other than Java. This question touched off a large debate in the Java community, and InfoQ took the opportunity to learn more about the major viewpoints surrounding this issue.
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Pattie Maes on Ambient Intelligence
At OOPSLA 2007, Pattie Maes gave an interesting talk about the MIT ambient intelligence projects. One project, ReachMedia, was particularly interesting from an architectural, mashup and social networking perspective.
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Mozilla Labs announces Prism
On Friday, Mozilla Labs’ announced Prism, their entry into the budding market-trend of platforms for running web applications on the desktop, similar to Adobe AIR.
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Ruby on Mac OS X Leopard with DTrace, XCode and Interface Builder support
The newly released Mac OS X Leopard ships with the Ruby 1.8.6 and various Ruby libraries and tools installed. Leopard also includes DTrace probes for profiling Ruby, XCode and Interface Builder support and more.
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MinWin Core: 25MB on Disk and 100 Files
The Microsoft MinWin core is 25MB in size on disk and contains 100 files total. This appears to be a major overhaul of Windows when contrasted with a minimal install of Windows Vista at 4GB on disk and 5000 files in size.
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Microsoft: Hypercall API extended to Open Specification Promise
Today Microsoft announced its hypercall API will now be included under the Open Specification Promise. Microsoft co-announced with Citrix and Novell.
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Adobe and the Future of Software
Adobe has been up to some interesting things of late from their work with Adobe Flex, to their efforts on the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), and their recent announcement that they intend to move all of their software to the web in a model know as Software as a Service (SaaS).
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Erik Doernenburg on Software Visualization
Software visualization aims to provide a representation of artifacts at an intermediate level of abstraction, which provides enough information to be useful but is at a high enough level that you can perform broadly scoped analysis. In this interview Erik Doernenburg talks with InfoQ about different software visualization strategies using a combination of free tools and custom development.
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CBDI Publishes Service Architecture and Engineering Metamodel V2.0
Everware-CBDI announced recently the publication of their second release of ther Service Architecture & Engineering Metamodel which provide different views to capture the metadata associated to services. Salamander announced this week the release of a solution combining their leading MooD product and the SAE metamodel.
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Visual Studio and Installer Classes
Visual Studio has rich support for installation-time actions. However, there is much documentation explaining just what you can do with it. That is why we are delighted to bring your attention to Arnaldo Sandoval's DevCity article on Installer Class and Custom Actions.
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KonaKart: Free Java-based online shopping cart
KonaKart, a free Java-based online shopping cart, just released version 2.2.0.7. InfoQ spoke with KonaKart founder Paolo Sidoli to learn more about this release, and how KonaKart fits into the online shopping cart space.
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J2flex - A Persistence Store for Flex applications
j2flex.com has started rolling out their j2flex product over the last month, blogging about a number of details, and putting the API documentation online. j2flex is a “Persistence Store for Flex applications,” similar in basic features to Hibernate or iBATIS from the Java community.