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Finally Some Patent Progress
SCOTUS found KSR's arguments convincing, ruling that the Federal Circuit had failed to apply the obviousness test. "The results of ordinary innovation are not the subject of exclusive rights under the patent laws," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the Court. "Were it otherwise, patents might stifle rather than promote the progress of useful arts."
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Props to Adobe
Flex is going to be open sourced!
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Vista Died Today
All of the sudden Vista just broke. I can't connect to the internet. Initially, the DHCP client just refused to start. I resolved that problem by granting some permissions and setting a registry key, but I still can't use the internet.
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WPF/E = Silverlight
One of the reasons WPF/E is going to give Flash a real run for it's money is the video story. Unlike Flash, Silverlight (the new name) will support DRM, it supports the industry standard VC-1 codec used in HD-DVD and Blueray, and it can take advantage of the built-in media streaming capabilities of IIS. The video story is better just about any way you look at it with Silverlight as far as content providers are concerned. It's cheaper, it's faster, etc.
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Who Needs ORM, I've got SQL 2005
One of the coolest features of SQL 2005 is the XML support. With the recent enhancements to the FOR XML option, you can really get a lot of mileage out of SQL. A common task in a lot of applications involves retrieving an item with many children. Due to the way a lot of systems are built, this usually ends up resulting in a lot of extra queries. For example, suppose I have a customer entity like so:
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Tray and Play: ClickOnce for PC Games
Console'ish load times for PC games on first run coming to a PC near you:
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JD Confused
JD is confused about the statement made in a MS presentation with don and chris:
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Frans on ORM
Frans has finally pulled the discussion out of SOA land back to DB land. With his post "Why change-tracking has to be part of an entity object."
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Information Software and the Graphical Interface
Excellent paper that you should not pass up reading. If you read one thing this week, it should be this: "Information Software and the Graphical Interface"
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Udi On SOA (Part 2)
Udi, continuing the SOA discussion, suggests a solution to the transaction issue: