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Amazon Offers MySQL as a Service
Amazon has announced a new service, Amazon Relational Database Service or RDS, a solution for creating and accessing a relational database in the cloud. The hosted database is MySQL 5.1 and the announcement precedes PDC 2009 by 3 weeks when Microsoft will announce the availability of SQL Azure, a cloud solution based on its relational DB.
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BCL Changes in .NET 4
The BCL or Base Class Library represents the core of the .NET framework. Regardless of what type of application one is developing, the BCL represents the starting point upon which all other functionality is built. This is why changes to the BCL are significant to all .NET developers.
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IronScheme Nears Final Release
IronScheme, the R6RS implementation of Scheme for DLR, has reached RC1 after one year of being in beta.
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RubyForge To Be Phased Out, RubyGems.org Takes Over Gem Hosting
The maintainers of GemCutter and RubyForge announced plans for phasing out RubyForge. The Gem hosting will, more or less seamlessly, move to RubyGems.org (currently GemCutter), while project hosting will have to move to other existing sites such as GitHub.
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Collection and Array Initializers in VB 10
Visual Basic 10, to be released with .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 10, is adding support for collection and array initializers. While these are similar to what we already have in C#, there are minor enhancements such as support for extension methods and improved type inference.
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Quickly Migrate from SQL Server to SQL Azure
In order to make migrating from SQL Server to SQL Azure easier, Microsoft is releasing a migration tool on CodePlex. The SQL Azure Migration Wizard will detect, and if possible, correct incompatibilities between SQL Server 2005/2008 and SQL Azure. In addition to generating scripts for deploying the migrated schema on SQL Azure, this tool will also allow you to migrate table data using BCP.
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A .NET Security Vulnerability Has Affected Firefox
A security vulnerability that has hit Internet Explorer through .NET has also hit Firefox. The culprit for Firefox, a .NET add-on, has been put on Mozilla’s blocked list.
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SQL Azure is Feature Complete, but You Need to Move to the New CTP by December
Microsoft has released a feature-complete version of SQL Azure. CTP 2 includes everything that the final version is expected to have and is currently deployed on Microsoft’s production clusters. This gives CTP 2 an automatic upgrade path to the final release, but users of previous CTPs will need to migrate their data before the older servers are shutdown.
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Helios Uses Satellite Kernels to Deal with Heterogeneous Environments
Helios is a Microsoft research OS project intended to ease the process of writing applications for heterogeneous environments by using satellite kernels. The researchers involved are: Edmund B. Nightingale, Orion Hodson, Ross McIlroy, Chris Hawblitzel, and Galen Hunt, and they published the paper Helios: Heterogeneous Multiprocessing with Satellite Kernels (PDF).
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Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 Prepares the Way for RTM, Scheduled for March 2010
Having a new logo, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 made it’s debut yesterday with performance improvements and better stability, setting the stage for the RTM release on March 22, 2010. F# is integrated with Rx, while Azure Tools are in the works.
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NewRelic RPM 2 Adds Java Support for Performance Monitoring
NewRelic just released RPM 2, the latest version of their performance monitoring software. RPM, which is available as SaaS (Software as a Service) now supports monitoring Java web/JEE applications as well as Ruby on Rails applications. We talked to NewRelic's Lew Cirne about the new release.
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MacRuby 0.5 Beta Brings JIT, AOT, GCD Support, Removes GIL
The first beta of MacRuby 0.5 is available, complete with a new VM, JIT and AOT - and without the GIL. InfoQ talked to the MacRuby core team about the state of MacRuby and whether there'll be a way to write Ruby apps for the iPhone using MacRuby.
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PostSharp 2.0 Makes Aspect-Oriented Programming Easier with IDE Support
One of the biggest complaints about aspect-oriented programming is that is makes it hard to know what the compiled code will actually look like. When looking at source code, developers invariably ask, “What aspects affect this?” For .NET developers, PostSharp has the answer.
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Bundle.update: the Current State of OSGi
It's been a month since OSGi 4.2 was released. What's been happening in the OSGi space since then?
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Making IIS Web Sites More Responsive Using Warm-up
IIS Application Warm-up for IIS 7.5 improves the responsiveness of a web site by loading all related web applications and their dependencies before the first request is made.