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Google Wave Preview Opens Up on Sept 30th - What to Expect
With the Google Wave Preview scheduled for public availability on September 30th, Wave API Tech Lead Douwe Osinga has posted on the Wave Google Group about what the team has been working on along with some future directions.
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Enabling the Last Responsible Moment in Deployment
An interesting question can be asked during a design decision: "Does this approach create a commitment" rather than "is this the right design?". A conversation on the KanbanDev Yahoo! group explores this question, different approaches to implement an effective answer, and the benefits to be reaped by this approach.
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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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The “IE6 No More” Campaign
Once the most prominent browser on the web, IE6 has drawn lots of criticism for it compatibility and security issues culminating with the “IE6 No More” campaign supported by web companies tired of spending extra time coding specifically for IE6.
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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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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.
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Interview on Wolfram|Alpha, a Computational Knowledge Engine
Wolfram|Alpha was launched two months ago. It is time to review a few frequently asked questions: What is the relationship between Wolfram|Alpha and Google? How would Wolfram|Alpha position itself in the market? To what extent is Wolfram|Alpha a Semantic Web search engine? And how could Wolfram| Alpha make profit in the market? An interview with Xiang Wang, Wolfram Research, China.
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HyperSpace, a Browsing Environment with a Small Footprint
Phoenix Technologies has created HyperSpace, a small OS that supports only browsing. HyperSpace precedes Google Chrome OS which is supposed to offer the same functionality with some differences.
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Scott Leberknight on Polyglot Persistence
The data persistence solutions in software development have come a long way in the recent years. At the recent Lone Star Software Symposium, Scott Leberknight talked about "Polyglot Persistence" trend where the developers have a choice of different database products like Amazon SimpleDB, Google Bigtable, and CouchDB to choose the data persistence solution.
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Microsoft Is Contributing 20,000 Lines of Code to the Linux Kernel
Microsoft is contributing 3 Linux device drivers, 20,000 lines of code, to the Linux kernel 2.6.32 under GPLv2 license.
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“Good” Lessons on How To Fail a RIA Project
In a presentation called "Ten Ways to Ensure RIA Failure", Anthony Franco, president of EffectiveUI, gives 10 pieces of advice to those who want their RIA project to fail. Gerd Waloszek, SAP AG, wrote "18 Golden Rules for Bad User Interfaces."
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Comparing Ajax Frameworks
This news item reframes the question of how and why to select an AJAX framework or toolkit to reflect contemporary applications and points to both a selection criterion matrix and a Web site that provides critical information useful for making this important decision.
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Call Native Code From Your Android Applications
Responding to a call from developers, the Android Native Developer Kit (NDK) now supports calling native code in the Dalvik virtual machine. CPU-intensive operations that don't allocate much memory may benefit from increased performance and the ability to reuse existing code. Some example applications are signal processing, intensive physics simulations, and some kinds of data processing.
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A Type System for Scala Actors to Enforce Race Safety Without Sacrificing Performance
Philipp Haller and Martin Odersky introduce a type system that enables safe massage transfer in Scala actors. Formalized as an extension of the EPFL Scala compiler, “Object Capability Types” system, based on capability checking and external uniqueness, enforces race safety without sacrificing performance and removes significant limitations on message shape imposed by existing approaches.
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Sun Shareholders Approve Oracle Acquisition
Sun Microsystems' shareholders voted on Thursday to approve the company's acquisition by Oracle, but not by a wide margin.