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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.
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IntelliJ Goes Open Source
Today Jetbrains announced the creation of an open source community edition of IntelliJ as well as a new commercial Ultimate Edition.
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Simple Build Automation with psake
psake is a build automation tool integrated with PowerShell (PS). Version 2.01 works with PowerShell 2.0. Ayende Rahien is using it to build Rhino Tools.
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Embed Python, Ruby, and XAML directly into your HTML with Gestalt
JavaScript is a language that is showing its age. A lot of developers now prefer to work with languages like Ruby or Python, falling back on JavaScript only for the browser. Sure there were attempts to support other languages in the browser like VBScript, but they never really took off. Well Microsoft is trying again, this time with Python and Ruby.
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Serious Memory Leaks Plague WPF
WPF, also known as Windows Presentation Foundation, represents the future of UI on the Windows platform. And if Microsoft has its way, its younger sibling Silerlight will take over the web and mobile markets. But like any new technology, it has some issues to work through including some rather serious memory leaks.
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Java EE 6 Proposed Final Draft Hints at Future Direction of the Platform
The Proposed Final Draft of the Java EE 6 Platform adds standardised dependency injection and bean validation for the platform, and introduces a new specification for managed beans providing a clear indication of the future direction of the platform.