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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The Honor Society of Leap Year Babies, which describes itself as the world's largest Internet birthday club, has released free software to correct the "invalid birth date" bug that can impact those born on February 29.
Persons born on that date, which only shows up on the calendar once every four ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Fresh from the delivery of its Visual Studio 2008 toolset and .Net Framework 3.5 this past fall, Microsoft is readying enhancements to these technologies in the area of client development, a Microsoft official said in a blog this week.
"We have put a lot of effort into addressing some of ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
In a dramatic move, Microsoft is opening up documentation for it APIs and communications protocols, the company announced Thursday.
Developers do not need a license or pay a royalty or other fee to access this information, the company said. Open access is intended to ensure that third-party developers can connect to ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Business process management (BPM) is one of the fastest-growing software markets but faces organizational challenges, according to a BEA Systems study on the BPM market.
Completed January 25 and released this week, BEA's "The 2008 State of the BPM Market White Paper" drew on more than 100 analyst reports, articles and ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Looking to entice a new generation of software developers, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates unveiled Monday a software giveaway program for college and high school students to access Microsoft developer and designer tools, the company said.
Available now to 35 million college students in several companies including China and the United ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
Microsoft plans early next month to release the next public preview of ASP.Net MVC (Model View Controller) Framework, said Scott Guthrie, a general manager in the Microsoft Developer Division, in his blog this week.
The framework is set to be released at the Mix08 conference, which is being held in Las ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
Microsoft's patterns and practices group has released a February Community Technology Preview of Unity, a lightweight extensible dependency injection container for software development.
Dependency injection is a technique for building loosely coupled applications.
Offered on CodePlex, Microsoft's open source project site, Unity Application Block, or Unity for short, addresses the ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
The "early-look" release of the Android SDK, for building mobile applications for the Google-backed Android platform, has been updated this week.
Release m5-rc14 is available now, featuring a new user interface that replaces the previous placeholder interface, according to a blog by Jason Chen, Android developer advocate. Also, developers now ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
The World Wide Web Consortium this year plans to mark the 10-year anniversary of XML 1.0 as a formal W3C Recommendation.
The now-ubiquitous markup language has found its way into multiple standards, including XSLT, for transforming XML content; XQuery, for querying XML databases and XML Signature and Encryption.
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Sun Microsystems said Tuesday it plans to acquire innotek, which provides the VirtualBox open source virtualization software package.
VirtualBox will extend the Sun xVM virtualization platform onto the desktop, enabling developers to more efficiently build and run applications on multiple platforms, Sun said. With more than 4 million downloads, VirtualBox ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
The Ruby.Net compiler project to bring the Ruby language to the .Net environment is set to continue as a extension to Microsoft's IronRuby project, which also involves running Ruby on .Net.
The leader of Ruby.Net, Wayne Kelly, this week announced he would instead be supporting IronRuby. But another Ruby.Net advocate, M. ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
On-demand business services vendor Workday has acquired enterprise service bus vendor Cape Clear Software, Workday said on Wednesday.
The Cape Clear ESB already is a component of every Workday deployment; it will no longer be offered as a standalone product and will be available only as part of the Workday ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
The maintainer of the Ruby.Net compiler project for running the Ruby programming language on the .Net platform is now supporting an alternative, IronRuby, according to a blog post.
In a Ruby.Net Compiler Discussion blog this week, Wayne Kelly, who has maintained the project, cited the Microsoft Dynamic Language Runtime, which is ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Twenty-four aspiring software developers from around the world are in Silicon Valley this month with the mission of developing solutions to real-world problems and creating a business venture.
Sponsored by BT and Microsoft, six teams of developers are showing their work at the third annual Imagine Cup Innovation Accelerator program. Demonstrations ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Adobe Systems announced Tuesday the promotion of Kevin Lynch to chief technology officer.
Lynch, who has served as Adobe senior vice president and chief software architect, will oversee Adobe's experience design and core technology across business units, the company said. He will continue to "drive" the Adobe technology platform for designers ...
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