Archives
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Tim O'Reilly's Big Fat Head (2.0)
Apparently, Tim O'Reilly is in agreement [1] with his company's moves on trying to monopolize the Web 2.0 term. The worst part about this ordeal is that his company is acting as if we wouldn't have any term to call this whole next-generation web if it wasn't for his conference. I have news for you Tim, you didn't popularize the term, the people who spoke at your conference did. You didn't invent anything, you just came up with a catchy term to describe something that already happened and now you want to act like you own the concept.
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Google is About to Get a New Face
Doug Bowman, who had a hand creating the awesome Google Calendar UI, has been hired as Visual Design Lead to help "the company establish a common visual language across all their collaborative and communication products." Maybe this means the days of google's hideous UIs are numbered? I hope so. Google Calendar is slick, everything else is just blah.
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Deceiving for Dollars
Madcap software has the following statement on their site about their screen recording tool:
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WPF/E
Tim Anderson has some commentary on WPF/E. He sums up his thoughts like this:
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Introducing Language Oriented Programming
We have Object Oriented, Component Oriented, Service Oriented, and now Language Oriented programming. Take a look at this interesting project from JetBrains called Meta Programming System which seeks to make defining their own languages to solve their own problems something that any developer can do.
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Windows Mobile 5.0 + 30 GB!
I've been waiting for something like this for a long time.
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FREE Calls in the US / Canada with SkypeOut
Till the end of the year, all calls in the US and Canada are FREE with SkypeOut. Wow.
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More WPF/E News
Channel9 has a WPF/E video up here.
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TechEd Gone Wild
Roy is reporting that 2000 people, including himself, walked out of a TechEd session he was attending because of the presenter. Wow.
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Microsoft and OpenAJAX
Looks like Microsoft is looking at joining the OpenAJAX group. This just after Adobe, Backbase, Fair Isaac, ICEsoft, Innoopract, Intel, JackBe, Opera, SAP, Scalix, Software AG, Tibco and XML11 joined the group. This could be interesting. Combined with the other members BEA, Borland, the Dojo Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, Google, IBM, Laszlo Systems, Mozilla Corporation, Novell, Openwave Systems, Oracle, Red Hat, Yahoo!, Zend and Zimbra they could really accomplish something great.
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Blog With Word 2007!
Joe Friend says that Word 2007 will support metaweblog API and Atom API for posting direct to blogs. Not only that, but it posts with clean HTML and will let you specify image upload information (via ftp in beta 2, more options coming later). Speaking of Office 2007, go sign up for the beta if you want an early look.
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The Ajax Experience
JD, reporting from the Ajax Experience conference says:
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Thinking In Code
Bruce Eckel has some great interviews with people like Anders Hejlsberg and Martin Fowler available for download.
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Mix Sessions Online
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Flex.NET
Joe Orbman sent me the following email, which I thought I would pass along. Great news.
I thought this would be of interest to you. We just launched a public beta of the 2.1 version of our product - WebORB, the new release is a full implementation of Flex Data Services for .NET. We have added AMF3 support and now anyone using Flex on the client-side can integrate it with the .NET backend. Currently we fully support the RPC services functionality from FDS and are working on adding Messaging and DataService. Essentially, WebORB will become a .NET implementation of FDS, and anyone using Flex Builder can continue to develop the client side there.
There are a few articles describing the integration: First is an overview of creating a Flex application and wiring it up with the .NET side. You can access the article here: http://www.themidnightcoders.com/articles/flextodotnet.htm
The other article describes a new feature we added for Flex clients. The feature enables developers to fetch any type of object from the server, modify its contents and then automatically sync the changes from the Flex application into the original object instance on the server-side. The feature is called object auto-update. There is a live example, client and server-side code in the article: http://www.themidnightcoders.com/articles/objectautoupdate.htm
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Flash File Format 8
Ok, it's a month late, but you can download the Flash 8 Specs from Macromedia if you haven't already. http://www.adobe.com/licensing/developer/