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Microsoft pushes embedded to the cloud
News Software giant outlines cloud strategy surrounding embedded systems in move expected to impact device makers, developers and users, says executive.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software engineering/development, Microsoft Corp., Video Surveillance, Embedded System, Asia, Cloud computing, Server, Dallas, Microsoft Developer Network
Developers get boost for multicore apps
News Chip giant Intel unveils a suite of new tools that aims to help developers engage in parallel coding, for a future where every machine is multicore.
Tags: Processors, Intel Corp., Multi-core, Tool, Quad-core, Developer, 3D, Environment, software, processor
Gartner: Nine ways to measure SOA success
Techguide There are a lot of service-oriented architecture efforts going on out there, but with no sense if they're delivering or not.
Tags: Web services, SOA, Gartner Inc., Business Process, ROI, Joe McKendrick, Microsoft Visual Studio, blog, analyst, application development
Microsoft to fix critical hole in IE
News Microsoft said it would be releasing security updates this week for a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer and a moderate vulnerability in Visual Studio.
Tags: Web browsers, Software, Security, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Microsoft Update, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Software, security bulletin, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows
Building a Google Android application
Blogs The new Google Android HTC G1 smartphone promises to cover the middle-ground, between the Apple iPhone and Windows Mobil...
Microsoft repackages its software licenses
News Company announces two ways for small and midsize business to pay for application and server software usage, which aims to save customers up to 40 percent.
Tags: Software licensing, Software, New Orleans, software license, Environment, Server, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, IT Governance, IT investment
BlackBerry dev tools target Eclipse, Visual Studio
News Research In Motion has released updated tools for developers who want to build BlackBerry Web applications within the Eclipse and Visual Studio environments.
Tags: Mobile platforms, Mobile applications, Smart phones, RIM BlackBerry, Smart Phone, Plug-in, Tool, Eclipse, Web Application, Environment
Building an iPhone application
Blogs The iPhone has a terrific touchscreen and great features like 3.5G mobile broadband and GPS, making the iPhone highly su...
How to run .NET applications on Linux
Blogs In many enterprise environments we work with a mix of Windows and Linux servers. If you had to build a large, complex en...
Employ refactoring to write better code
Techguide Discover Visual Studio add-ins that bring refactoring--the practice of making code cleaner and clearer without affecting the functionality--to the Visual Basic community.
Tags: Software, Microsoft Corp., Feature, Code, Developer, Extreme Programming, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, development environment, Visual Studio IDE, Refactoring
Where is the passion for extending Microsoft apps?
Techguide Here are some theories about why there isn't much coverage about Internet Explorer plug-ins in comparison to Firefox.
Tags: Web browsers, Extension, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Plug-in, Eclipse, Internet Explorer plug-in, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, theory
Microsoft embraces open source with jQuery
Techguide Microsoft plans to integrate the JQuery library into both the ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET Model View Controller frameworks. Tony Patton outlines how jQuery may work within an ASP.NET application.
Tags: Software engineering/development, .NET, Open source, Java, Microsoft Corp., Library, Plug-in, Animation, CSS, Plugin Architecture
Hands-on with CodeGear's 3rdRail Ruby IDE
Techguide Justin James says that, if you're a Ruby or a Rails developer in need of an IDE, you'll definitely want to check out CodeGear's 3rdRail--despite its flaws. He says the product even inspired him to start learning Ruby.
Tags: Software, Ruby, Eclipse, CodeGear, 3rdRail 1.1, Ruby Ecosystem, Help File, Ruby on Rails, console, IDE
Hands on with Mono 2.2
Techguide If you are writing an application designed to work on many platforms, Mono is still an alternative but it may not be a simple matter of "recompile and deploy" in many cases.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Authoring, Microsoft Corp., C, system tray, C#, Authoring, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio, Mono
Code Contracts makes validation easy and accurate
Techguide Code Contracts allows developers to create validation logic within their methods and classes without needing to write a lot of if/then statements.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Code, C, Method, blogging, XML file, Justin James, Microsoft Developer Network, network management, business logic
