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06.10.2009
A Microsoft Silverlight 3 Primer
If you thought Silverlight 2 was great, you haven't seen anything yet. Silverlight 3 introduces 50 new features that will make your browser applications truly spectacular!
05.13.2009
Microsoft's Axum Parallel Programming Language Advances
Microsoft has come one step closer to delivering a commercial parallel programming language to developers. Microsoft has turned the Axum incubation project over to its MSDN DevLabs portal where the company houses some of its more innovative projects that are being worked on and evaluated for commercialization.
04.29.2009
Using the New Web Slices Feature of Internet Explorer 8
Internet Explorer 8 has a number of interesting new features, but possibly the most interesting is the ability to slice a Web site into subscribable pieces using Web slices.
04.22.2009
Microsoft Creating New Parallel Programming Language
Microsoft is working on a new language for parallel programming named Axum. Formerly known as “Maestro,” Axum is an incubation project that Microsoft is working on to help programmers tackle the issue of parallel programming in the .NET environment.
04.22.2009
Review of JavaScript: The Missing Manual
Review of JavaScript: The Missing Manual, by David Sawyer McFarland. O'Reilly/Pogue Press 2008. $39.99. ISBN: 978-0-596-51589-8.
04.15.2009
Ecma Delivers Final Draft of ECMAScript Update
Ecma International issues the final draft of the next version of ECMAScript, now known as ECMAScript, Fifth Edition. ECMAScript is the standard that defines JavaScript.
04.01.2009
Waitable Timers in .NET with C#
A waitable time is a synchronization object whose state is set to signaled when a specified due time arrives. In this article, Jim Mischel shows you how to get the most of waitable times using C#.
02.25.2009
Code Contracts for .NET
In a solution called Code Contracts for .Net, which came out of Microsoft Research, Microsoft is providing a design-by-contract mechanism for .Net programmers.
02.10.2009
Ruby in Emerging Markets
More than twice as many developers in emerging IT markets such as China and India use the Ruby language as in North America or Western Europe, according to a study from Evans Data surveying 400 application developers. Evans Data says the study found that in emerging markets and Eastern Europe developers showed a much stronger interest in the use of Ruby.
01.28.2009
AJAX API Playground from Google
Google's AJAX API Playground is a new official way for Google to show JavaScript samples to application developers. The Google AJAX API Playground is built on Google App Engine and is open-sourced under an Apache 2.0 license.
12.17.2008
Dynamic Language Use Pops in Asia
An Evans Data survey shows that the use of dynamic languages is big among developers in Asia. More than 88 percent of surveyed developers in Asia said they use dynamic languages some of the time for application development, with JavaScript the most widely used language and PHP use on the rise.
12.11.2008
Python 3.0: The Holy Grail?
The Python Software Foundation releases Python 3.0, the latest version of the Python dynamic language for application development. Python 3.0 is incompatible with past versions and introduces several new features and ways of doing things.
12.03.2008
Book Review: C# 2008 for Dummies by Chuck Sphar and Stephen Randy Davis
So, you've finally decide to learn C# to obtain access to the low-level functionality that it provides. C# is one of my favorite languages (I have many), so I was especially interested in reviewing this book. Like many Dummies books, C# 2008 for Dummies focuses on the needs of the novice and helps the intermediate reader a little toward the end.
10.16.2008
Programming a Dynamic Method in C#
Dynamic methods have some powerful uses. Paul Kimmel shows you how to take them to the next level.
10.15.2008
The Ruby is Rising
A study based on Black Duck Software’s Koders.com search engine data shows that the use of the Ruby language has grown significantly in the last four years. According to the Koders.com data, Ruby usage is ahead of dynamic language alternatives such as PHP, Python and Perl, and just behind more entrenched languages such as Visual Basic, C/C++ and C#.
08.06.2008
Microsoft Adds to Ruby Support
At OSCON, Microsoft announces support for the Ruby specification effort and says it will participate in the RubySpec project.
05.28.2008
Google to Deliver GWT 1.5
Google is expected to roll out the latest version of the Google Web Toolkit at its developer conference.
05.21.2008
Engine Yard Advances Ruby, Rails
With help from Engine Yard, Rubinius now runs Ruby on Rails, and Rails can scale.
05.21.2008
Jargon: What the Marketer said to the Programmer
Here are some important tech terms you, the programmer, might not be aware of.
05.14.2008
Understanding and Using LINQ Expression Trees
Expression trees provide the means for parsing expressions sent to your
method and for implementing some special LINQ techniques.
