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Presentation: Building Rich Internet Applications in Silverlight 2
Silverlight 2 is a cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in and runtime for building rich internet applications. Mike Taulty walks through Silverlight basics such as the XAML UI Model and progresses to building applications with both Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Studio.
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RubyConf'08 Videos: Ruby VMs: Internals of YARV, Rubinius, MagLev
The videos from RubyConf '08 are available. We looked at the Ruby VM talks. Sasada Koichi, creator of the Ruby 1.9 VM, talks about the state of the VM, experiments with Ruby to C AOT, Ricsin and more. Evan Phoenix talks about the state of the Rubinius C++ VM. A detailed talk shows how MagLev is implemented. Also: MacRuby, JRuby, IronRuby, VM optimizations, RubySpec.
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Silverlight for Linux: Moonlight 1.0 Beta 1 Is Available for Download
Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight targeted at Linux and Unix/X11 systems. Moonlight has been developed under the Mono project since September 2007 and is sponsored by Novell. Moonlight 1.0 Beta 1 has been released to the general public.
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LINQ to SQL, The Next Step
Despite the numerous problems with Microsoft ORMs and the plethora of alternatives such as LLBLGen, nHibernate, and OpenAccess, many developers are forced to use Microsoft tech because that is why their company or customer wants. And between the two offerings, it seems most developers believe that Entity Framework is not a viable option. So what are they do to?
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Does LINQ-to-Entities really return different results depending on previous queries?
In a recent blog post Stu Smith claimed that “LINQ-to-Entities will return different results depending on what previous queries you’ve executed!”. If true, this would make using Entity Framework much harder than necessary to use. We talked to Elisa Flasko of the ADO.NET Team to find out what’s really going on.
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Article: Book Excerpt and Interview: Aptana RadRails, An IDE for Rails Development
Aptana RadRails: An IDE for Rails Development by Javier Ramírez discusses the latest Aptana RadRails IDE, a development environment for creating Ruby on Rails applications.
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GEMVC ActionScript Framework used in Altair Lunar Lander
The GEMVC ActionScript framework is used for developing Flex applications in Johnson Space Center's Altair Lunar Lander project. Christopher Dean, the solution architect who created GEMVC, is also the chief scientist for the extensible information model (XIM) program for the Altair Lunar Lander project. InfoQ spoke with Dean to learn more about GEMVC.
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Jigsaw - the death knell of JSR277?
Following up from an earlier post about modularising the JDK (which InfoQ covered earlier), Mark Reinhold posted the announcement of Project Jigsaw as part of the OpenJDK. Is this the death of JSR277?
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Update on the .NET Reference Source
With the release of the 3.5/SP 1 source code for WPF, we take the opportunity to look at what's been going in the realm of .NET Source.
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Windows Server 2008 SP2 & Vista SP2 Beta Getting Ready
Microsoft has announced the public availability of Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Vista SP2 Customer Preview Program (CPP) starting Thursday December 4th on TechNet which is already loaded with information about the CPP. Besides fixes, Vista SP2 includes better searching, Bluetooth 2.1 and Blu-Ray support, an extension to the FAT file system to support UTC time stamps.
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Sun’s Withdrawal of SwingX Funding Angers Community
Jeanette Winzenburg’s announcement that Sun has withdrawn funding for the SwingX project has generated a large amount of anger amongst Swing developers who see Swing losing out to JavaFX.
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Working Around Entity Framework's Large Data Model Issues
The Entity Framework doesn't support data models with much more than 50 to 100 entities. But since companies typically run everything from one central database, several hundred tables are the norm. Microsoft's ADO.NET team is presenting an article on Working With Large Models In Entity Framework, a list of issues and work-arounds for EF users.
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Crack.NET ��� Like Greasemonkey for WinForms and WPF Applications
Using tools like Greasemonkey, users are able to extend many web applications whether or not the site owners want them to. With Crack.NET, that same level of user control can be achieved over WinForm and WPF-based .NET applications.
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Envers Joins Hibernate
Envers is an open-source project from JBoss which has recently been added under the Hibernate umbrella.
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Ruboss – A Flex Framework on Rails
Ruby on Rails (ROR) is a Ruby-based open-source framework for rapid Web application development. Both Rails and RIA communities are actively seeking convergence to offer integrated solutions. The Flex framework, Ruboss, is an example. InfoQ spoke with Peter Armstrong, the co-founder and CEO of Ruboss, to learn more.