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TwitterWe all know the big names and the languages floating around but do we rea
lly know how they all started? The very first Fortran manual published in 1956? Or the C reference manual that Dennis Ritchie released to the research community in 1976? Or the Ethernet patent filed in 1975? These are all historic documents that must be kept in a Computer Science Museum – do we have one yet? – The list contains documents ranging from Programming Languages to Software Systems to Architecture and Networks. You might have never seen any of them but you know all the big names founded on them. You sure have to take a look!
You probably might be wondering what the title really means and if you haven’
t yet read the news about how UK police officers are on the hunt for past offenders (typically young blacks) not for interrogation or trying them in courts but only because their DNA’s will ‘enrich’ the national DNA database. You thought it was a joke? No, this is happening in the broad daylight while civil rights is fast asleep. Sorry but I can’t hold back but be biased.
With so many websites offering service providers and employers to get connected and do work, it has virtually unleashed a whole new area for the rapidly shrinking global m
arket. Freelancing is fun especially when you need some extra bucks to keep you afloat. After all, who does not like to set his/her own working hours and be your own boss? These are just some of the popular (and truly so) slogans of ‘working from home’ – something that has transformed the lives of millions across the world wide web.
The goal of this book is to help developers and solution architects build effective, high quality applications on the Microsoft platform and the .NET Framework more
quickly and with less risk by leveraging tried and trusted architecture and design
principles and patterns.
The book provides an overview of the underlying principles and patterns that provide a solid foundation for good application architecture and design. On top of this foundation, the guide provides generally applicable guidance for partitioning an application’s functionality into layers, components, and services. It goes on to provide guidance on identifying and addressing the key design characteristics of the solution and the key quality attributes and crosscutting concerns. The guide builds still further and provides guidance that is more specific on the architecture and design of the most common application types, such as Web, rich Internet applications (RIA), rich client, services, and mobile applications.
Bigger players are finally entering the Android apps market in hordes and probably the
re’s a strong reason for that. When it comes to Twitter clients for Smart phones, Seesmic is definitely a well known name. Today they have announced their Twitter client for Android phones.
The title seems pretty explanatory after all and I don’t need to put in some more words explaining what it really means. Let’s start with the need of viewing the mobile vers
ion of a website? Well, there can be several reasons for that. Developers usually have to be sure that their site is loading right in the mobile devices or else they’re losing thousands or possibly millions of smartphone users that they otherwise might have got. We usually have to make sure that our mobile version is fast, simple layout with great UX or else it’s of no use because no one wants to render a complete heavy web version into their mobile devices.
Who doesn’t love free stuff? I don’t think there’s anyone who doesn’t especially w
hen you are getting something you really want for free! Who said web is all cruel market? There are people who want to give away things they no more require and then there are others who want those things but couldn’t buy or don’t want to buy. Now with Listia.com you can do exactly that. It’s like eBay of free stuff online where the only currency they quote is ‘credits’ which you accumulate by giving away things that you don’t need.
Yesterday at PDC, Microsoft Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL http://www.programmerfish.com/category/windows-azure-microsoft/’ target=’_blank’>Azure November CTP was announced. The toolkit includes series of new components that allows you to Sync with SQL http://www.programmerfish.com/category/windows-azure-microsoft/’ target=’_blank’>Azure. Until now, there is no UI tool to sync Compact to SQL http://www.programmerfish.com/category/windows-azure-microsoft/’ target=’_blank’>Azure or SQL http://www.programmerfish.com/category/windows-azure-microsoft/’ target=’_blank’>Azure to SQL Server. Mahjayar demonstrates a simple code that allows you to sync schema from Compact to SQL http://www.programmerfish.com/category/windows-azure-microsoft/’ target=’_blank’>Azure. The Sync Framework Power Pack comes with set of tools that can be used to perform this task. With a simple code, schema can be synced very easily.
Read ‘Moving Schema from Compact Database to SQL http://www.programmerfish.com/category/windows-azure-microsoft/’ target=’_blank’>Azure at Mahjayar’s’ blog
Today, Microsoft released Silverlight 4 Beta at PDC. Just a while ago, Channel 9 is updated with the new Silverlight 4 Training Course for developers. The course includes 7 units that will make you familiar with the development of new Silverlight 4 features.
The Silverlight 4 Training Course includes hands-on-labs, a video and a whitepaper designed to help you learn about the new features in Silverlight 4 focusing on three major areas: Enabling Business Application Development, Empowering Richer Experiences and Moving Beyond the Browser. Some of the new highly anticipated features include Printing, WebCam and Microphone support, custom right-click, rich text, HTML support and access to local files with trusted applications.
With the release of Office 2010 beta, Office Mobile 2010 beta for Windows Phone is also now available for download. Office Mobile 2010 contains Word, PowerPoint, Excel and SharePoint Mobile. This beta version will work till 5th April 2010. Previous versions of Microsoft Office Mobile that were installed after the phone was purchased will get uninstalled. If Microsoft Office Mobile came pre-installed on your phone then it will not be effected.
Today on 2nd day of PDC, The Microsoft Internet Explorer team showed the Alpha version of Internet Explorer 9 on which they started working just 3 weeks before the event. Most of the developers and users aren’t satisfied with the rendering behavior and application performance of Internet Explorer 8 so this time they are really concentrating on it. Let’s see what we will get when it’s available for download.
Office 2010 and Office Web apps are released to public now. Links are not online yet but you can download them from the link given below. The build number for for this release is 14.0.4536.1000 that is same what Technet and MSDN subscribers got 2 days before this news.
Not a long time ago, Microsoft released Silverlight 3 in July, and today at PDC, Microsoft has released Silverlight 4 to public beta. Silverlight is a technology for Rich Internet Applications. Silverlight 4 has several features for developers to create better RIA applications. This release for Silverlight has major additions.
Who does not want to take some time out and get some quite time.
Some like it in the natural untouched beaches while others want to hit to the serene beauty of the mountains. Everyone wants holidays but in this surge of air fares and hotel prices, holiday goers have decreased. Added to this misery is the still continuing global economic meltdown. Now people are more interested in getting the same
Whether you are making your personal websites or a Database Driven websites, all can be done through Microsoft’s ASP.NET under the hood of their famous IDE Microsoft Visual Studio. It is a must for every programmer, its the best IDE (Integrated Development Environment) rich in programming languages like Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual C# and ASP.NET.
