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  • Andrej Bauer on Language Design

    Andrej Bauer starts essay, On programming language design, with a simple premise, “Programmers are just humans: forgetful, lazy, and make every mistake imaginable.” Then he looks at what this really means in how we design languages.

  • Running Silverlight and Any Other Windows Application in a Sandbox

    Xenocode, an application virtualization company, has recently added support for Silverlight allowing companies to publish Silverlight applications in a sandbox without needing a runtime to be installed. Actually, any Windows application can run in the same manner regardless to the browser or underlying operating system.

  • Microsoft Velocity Caching CTP3

    A new version of Microsoft's distributed in-memory application caching platform is available. Velocity CTP3 includes new cache notifications, peformance improvements, security enhancements, and new cluster management options.

  • J.B. Rainsberger: "Integration Tests Are A Scam"

    Well-known agilist and TDD expert J.B. Rainsberger has begun a series of posts to explain why his experience has led him to the thought-provoking conclusion that "integration tests are a scam".

  • .NET Scientific Computing with Meta Numerics

    Meta Numerics is a .NET library for scientific computations offering support for complex numbers, matrixes, advanced functions and statistical operations.

  • Presentation: Making Roles Explicit

    In this presentation recorded during QCon London 2008, Udi Dahan, The Software Simplist as he calls himself, explains why sometimes it is not enough to apply good OOP and patterns lessons. He introduces a new principle: make roles explicit.

  • No More Underscores in VB 10

    Visual Basic 10 will have an improved compiler that makes underscores optional for most line continuations. This represents a significant change for VB, traditionally a line-terminated language.

  • Presentation: Interactive Websites with Comet and DWR

    In this session filmed during QCon London 2008, Joe Walker presents Comet, a long polling AJAX method used for updating the browser’s page, and DWR, a Java library for writing web sites using AJAX.

  • Silverlight Has Lost an Important Customer

    Yesterday, the MLB 2009 season started being broadcasted live on the Internet by MLB.TV using Flash instead of Silverlight. After one year of using Silverlight, MLB switched back to Flash due to problems plaguing Microsoft’s player.

  • Clojure Roundup: Clojure on CLR and Javascript, Terracotta, New Release

    Clojure has attracted a lot of interest recently. A new project allows to use Clojure with Terracotta to run code across many JVMs, ports of Clojure to .NET and Javascript have become available, and a new Clojure release adds new features and makes sequences fully lazy.

  • Interview: Chad Myers on FubuMVC - An Alternative MVC Implementation in ASP.NET

    When ASP.NET MVC was first made available, Jeremy D. Miller and Chad Myers worked with the pre release versions and changed some of the underlying implementation. Later almost nothing was left of the original ASP.NET MVC implementation and they decided to create the alternative ASP.NET MVC implementation FubuMVC. Later they invited in Mark Nijhof as one of the major contributors to the project.

  • Enhancements in JScript 5.8, the IE8 Scripting Engine

    After a couple of betas, IE8 was finally released last month including version 5.8 of its JScript engine. The main enhancements of the scripting engine are: JSON support, performance optimizations, ECMA 3 compatibility, a profiler plus a debugger.

  • ASP.NET MVC is Open Source

    It has just been announced that ASP.NET MVC has been released under Microsoft’s open source license. The Microsoft Public License is certified by the Open Source Initiative, making is appropriate for most projects requiring an open source license including Novell’s Mono.

  • Jeff Moser's How .NET Regular Expressions Really Work

    Did you know the last 15 regular expressions are cached? Or that the .NET engine uses a form of machine code? You can learn this and more from Jeff Moser's in-depth study of how regular expressions work in .NET.

  • Critical Security Vulnerability Found in Quicksort

    In what is sure to become one of the most wide-reaching security vulnerabilities yet known, a researcher with L0pht Heavy Industries has uncovered a flaw in the standard implementation of the Quicksort algorithm. InfoQ spoke with Dildog of L0pht to learn more about this vulnerability and it's ramifications.

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