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Red Hat Named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's Virtualization and Cloud Computing Conference & ExpoRed Hat is a trusted open source provider. Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management, and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 12-Oct-2008 00:15
Alleged Palin Hacker Indicted
David Kernell, the kid who allegedly hacked Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Plain?s Yahoo e-mail, distributed screenshots to the Internet and gave others access to the account, has been indicted and arraigned in federal court in Tennessee where his daddy is a Democratic state legislator.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 10-Oct-2008 23:15
Book Review: LINQ in Action
This is a great book on LINQ from some people who not only know LINQ, but also understand LINQ. Many current LINQ books are based on preview versions of LINQ, but authors Fabrice Marquerie, Steve Eichert, and Jim Wooley thought it worth waiting for the final released version before publishing their book. There were some significant changes in the syntax of a few significant commands, so where code in some other books may need minor changes to run, the code in this book is all ready to go.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 10-Oct-2008 22:35
Mono 2.0 Released
The open source Mono project that makes Microsoft's .NET development framework cross-platform ? and is meant to entice Windows developers to Linux by making things seem warmly familiar ? is now loosely compatible with .NET Framework 3.5. It lacks Windows Presentation Foundation, Workflow Foundation and Communication Foundation.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 10-Oct-2008 00:00
Enterprise RIA - Real Examples and Lessons Learnt
With the web as the new platform, it?s very clear that client-server application architecture of yesterday must migrate to the Rich Internet Applications (RIA) of tomorrow. This new RIA platform yields significant improvement to the user experience (UXP) while lowering the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). We will present several cases of real deployment (using Curl RIA Platform) by large customers and discuss the lessons learnt - such as demands for robust scalability, high security, and super high performance. The need for very flexible architecture and agile development will also be covered.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 09-Oct-2008 21:00
AJAX and Cloud Computing
Cloud computing has recently grown to encompass hosted database services. The idea behind 'Database as a Service' (DaaS) is to side step the complexity and cost often associated with running your own database. Unfortunately for AJAX programmers, it is not easy to access a DaaS directly from JavaScript. To solve security issues, AJAX apps need to talk to an intermediate server that acts as a proxy between the web client and the database. This means that the AJAX developer has to develop lots of server-side code that coordinates between the proxy and the database.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 09-Oct-2008 05:30
Study Explains Why Microsoft Virtualization Is Different
Internet Research Group (IRG) announced the release of its latest report on technology infrastructure, "Why Microsoft Virtualization is Different (and possibly better)." With this summer's launch of Hyper-V, Microsoft began shipping its long awaited entry into the server virtualization market in competition with VMware's ESX, the market leader. This new research report compares Microsoft's quite distinct virtualization strategy to that of VMware as the two companies battle to win enterprise customers.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 09-Oct-2008 05:00
How To Build On-Demand Business Apps Using Force.com & Flex
Enterprises are enthusiastically embracing the shift from traditional client/server computing to SaaS. Inspired by customers who have embraced the web, developers are using RIA tools to create innovative new on-demand business applications. One important factor in the shift from traditional computing to SaaS has been ease of use through vendors' careful attention to the user experience utilizing RIA technologies. This jointly presented session will present how RIA technologies such as AJAX and Flex - in combination with the Force.com platform - provide all the tools necessary for developers to build an enterprise-class application - sometimes within hours!
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 09-Oct-2008 04:00
AJAX World RIA Conference - How Linked Data and AJAR Changes Everything
The web has evolved into a structured data space of loosely connected databases, enabling granular data access-by-reference to web-accessible entities, courtesy of HTTP. This evolution and the emergence of AJAX-based RIA technologies lay the foundation for a new generation of libraries, widgets, and frameworks, that together embrace and extend enterprise data access practices of yore.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 09-Oct-2008 00:45
eBay Layoff Rumors True
Those rumors about eBay making layoffs proved true. It's kissing 1,600 people good-bye, 10% of its workforce. The move, which will save $150 million a year, isn't supposed to stem from the punk economy, which is admittedly hurting business, CEO John Donahoe said. It?s more institutional and competitive. Traffic on the site is down 11% over the last two years, though revenues this year are expected to be up 17% to $9 billion.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 09-Oct-2008 00:00
Learn Server-Side, PHP-Generated AJAX
As web-based applications are pushing the "Rich User Experience" envelope, AJAX is quickly becoming a standard front-end for any PHP application. But unfortunately as PHP applications that utilize AJAX are being forced to morph from two-tier to three-tier architectures, pushing code to the client adds inherent issues with security and code maintenance. New techniques are being developed which focuses on server-side generated AJAX, allowing developers to code AJAX applications in PHP instead of JavaScript. This session will discuss and demo many of these new techniques which will allow for the development of rich, AJAX user experiences without needing to code any JavaScript whatsoever.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 08-Oct-2008 12:45
Hummer Winblad to Present at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo
Cloud computing is changing the ground rules for startup companies ? both in their infrastructure choices and in the bar for technology development prior to funding. In a breakout session at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo, Lars Leckie - a Principal at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners - will walk through the venture capital perspective of the cloud computing market covering both consumer and enterprise usage. Leckie's session will cover the tools for cloud computing as well as the leverage that portfolio companies are achieving with cloud computing.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 08-Oct-2008 12:45
JBoss to Present "AJAX in Enterprise Portals" Session
Not only enterprise portals integrators are using AJAX at the portal level but now they can also use it for the development of more user-friendly JSR-168 portlets. With the arrival of new standards, AJAXified JSF Components like IceFaces to RichFaces became a reality that can be portable across the many JSR-168 portlet containers implementations, in the commercial or open source worlds. During this presentation, we will explain how this has been made possible and how one can write such portlets.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 08-Oct-2008 11:30
AJAX Push for the iPhone with ICEfaces
The iPhone has brought the unification of the Desktop and Mobile Web, but there are still a number of challenges in bringing AJAX applications to mobile devices, including reduced bandwidth, increased latency, reduced screen size, and limited battery life. This session provides an overview of the mobile web and how mobile constraints are satisfied by the ICEfaces AJAX framework, presenting a number of JavaServer Faces application techniques that allow both iPhone and desktop users to be addressed simultaneously. Demos and case studies will include AJAX Push applications focusing on enterprise collaboration.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 08-Oct-2008 11:00
HTML 5, WebSocket, and Comet - The Future of the Web
This session will provide an in-depth look into the use of HTML 5 WebSocket and the techniques and technologies required to build Comet applications with it. Additionally, the speakers will discuss the trade-offs between emerging de jure standards (such as HTML 5's WebSocket) and de facto standards such as the Bayeux protocol. Furthermore, the session will cover the server and network architecture that powers an event-driven web application. Attendees will be introduced to the technologies and requirements for delivering scalable, real-time Comet web applications, and, most importantly, to the pitfalls they may face in the process.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 08-Oct-2008 01:00
Creating On-Demand Enterprise Applications for the iPhone
The arrival of the iPhone has heralded a new era for Internet-enabled devices; however, the device wasn't designed with the enterprise user in mind. To be successful, enterprise apps need to be optimized for the user experience and fit business requirements. In this session, Dave Carroll will demonstrate how developers using a modern Model-View-Controller (MVC) development approach provided by the Force.com platform can shape the presentation of data to a specific context and use standard web development technologies?including HTML, and AJAX?to create on-demand enterprise applications. With these technologies developers can easily add the iPhone to provide mobile access to their enterprise.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 08-Oct-2008 00:00
It's 11 p.m., Do You Know Where Your Queries Are?
Object-relational mappers such as Hibernate, LINQ, and Rail's ActiveRecord can greatly simplify creating database-backed web applications. These tools do such a good job of abstracting the database, that is possible to create very complex web applications without ever considering the database at all!. Unfortunately, ignorance is not always bliss. When naively programmed, seemingly trivial application code can cause inefficient queries at best, and scalability and concurrency nightmares at worst. This talk will show that while ORM's provide tremendous power and speed, it is still very important to know what is going underneath the comfortable abstraction layer the ORM provides. Examples will include identifying client-side joins, concurrency problems, and scalability issues.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 07-Oct-2008 12:00
Web 3.0 and the Age of Intelligence
Often called the Semantic or Pervasive Web, Web 3.0 brings a level of artificial intelligence to transform the Internet from a searchable catalog to a personal guide that can reason in a human-like fashion and provide users with more services and options for social networks. This session will map out the world of Web 3.0, exploring the unique benefits for end users, as well as opportunities for businesses. Using specific examples, Jon Doyle will demonstrate how Web 3.0 will change the way users interact with the web ¬ from planning and booking an entire vacation to automatically scheduling doctor's appointments based on personal preferences.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 07-Oct-2008 12:00
Use JavaScript 2 Today with OpenLaszlo
JavaScript 2 is becoming increasingly important. Learn how to take advantage of JavaScript 2 while still running in today's browsers. Leverage your current JavaScript and HTML skills to build applications that run in Flash 7-9, DHTML and more with no code changes! OpenLaszlo 4.2 includes a new JavaScript 2-based compiler that translates JS2 syntax to a variety of formats, including JS 1.5, Actionscript 1 & 2 and Actionscript 3. When Firefox 4 is out, we'll be ready with native JavaScript 2.0 support! Come learn about this exciting new development, and about the new features designed to make developing complex apps easy, including cross-browser history and vector graphics support.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 07-Oct-2008 12:00
Interoperable AJAX Tools and Mashups
This session describes current work at OpenAjax Alliance around AJAX tooling and AJAX mashups. AJAX developer tools have been hampered by lack of interoperability among various IDEs and AJAX toolkits. This session introduces a new XML industry standard, OpenAjax Metadata for AJAX Libraries, designed at OpenAjax Alliance's IDE committee by representatives from Adobe, Aptana, Eclipse/ATF, and Microsoft Visual Studio. This standard will result in plug&play between AJAX IDEs and toolkits.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 07-Oct-2008 05:30
Extending Dojo via New Widgets
The Dojo Toolkit is an open-source JavaScript toolkit that has a large community following in and out of the Enterprise. One of the many useful aspects of Dojo is the ability to extend the toolkit to incorporate new functionality. dojo.E is a set of extensions for dojo 1.1 that makes it easier to build web applications, using XML to create user interfaces, handle events, make DOM modifications, and manage state transitions. This session takes an in-depth look at the dojo.E project, including several examples of apps and widgets that were built using dojo.E. Learn about extending Dojo via new widgets and how you can use it to rapidly build your own apps.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 07-Oct-2008 00:45
RIAs "Flying Pixel" and Enterprise Applications?
Rich Internet Applications have become ubiquitous to the point that many of us rely on them for daily activities. But there's a big difference between consumer websites and enterprise-class applications. While new browser capabilities provide a richer look and feel for consumer sites, they also facilitate mission-critical enterprise applications that deliver improved functionality, richness and end-user productivity. This session will explore various approaches to building RIAs and the pros and cons of each. As part of his review, Jeremy Chone will outline seven practical tips for bringing RIA to the enterprise.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 07-Oct-2008 00:45
What Happens When SOA and Virtualization Intersect?
Virtualization is a buzzword that is living up to its hype as it takes hold in IT. It has spawned magazine covers, conferences, and analyst reports, and all with good reason. Virtualization allows applications to be deployed in a highly efficient manner. By taking the physical servers out of the equation, virtualization allows applications to be deployed across a number of servers, or for multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on one server.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 04-Oct-2008 18:00
Microsoft to Enable Cloud Computing Through Rosario
Presumably still months before rollout ? there?s no date yet ? Microsoft started talking up the next version of its developer tools and platform, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0, Monday describing them as enabling cloud computing and democratizing application lifecycle management (ALM). The ?democratizing? Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010, code-named Rosario, is supposed to bring all the members of a development organization ? from the core developers and testers to the wider team of project managers, designers and business analysts ? into the application development lifecycle and remove many of the existing barriers to integration.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 04-Oct-2008 16:00
Cloud Computing: Automation's Great - But I Trust Humans More
We need services like Feedburner and Yahoo Pipes to provide the service they say they will. I know they?re not bound by the kind of service level agreements that would be in place if we were actually paying them, but they surely have to operate within the bounds of, well, operability. Because if they don?t, someone else will.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 03-Oct-2008 19:15
Open-E Data Storage Server Certified with Virtual Iron's Server Virtualization Software
Open-E announced that Open-E Data Storage Server (DSS) has been certified for use with Virtual Iron's server virtualization software. Environments deploying both Virtual Iron and Open-E Data Storage Server (DSS) will benefit from streamlined virtual infrastructure, improved server and storage utilization and robust business continuity.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 02-Oct-2008 19:00
xkoto Virtualizes SQL Server
Xkoto, the database virtualizer, fielded a Gridscale for Microsoft SQL Server virtualization product today that it says improves application performance, scalability and reliability in SQL Server environments. The active-active widgetry virtualizes the database infrastructure and distributes application loads horizontally across multiple instances of SQL Server. Xkoto says that means better reliability and performance than more costly and complex legacy clustering solutions with their shared storage, partitioning and mirroring.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 02-Oct-2008 15:45
Microsoft To Unleash Windows Cloud
At the end of this month, at its Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft intends to unveil something that CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday referred to as "Windows Cloud." Ballmer explained that "Just like Windows Server looked a lot like Windows but with new properties, new characteristics and new features, so will Windows Cloud look a lot like Windows Server."
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 02-Oct-2008 13:00
Lanamark Releases Virtualization Suite
Lanamark has announced the general availability and product packaging for its flagship software solution, Lanamark Suite. The company also launched its global solution provider program that will help value-added resellers, system integrators and consultants accelerate delivery of virtualization services across desktops and servers.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 02-Oct-2008 11:30
Virtualization Expo: Microsoft's Hyper-V Released
Let the games begin. First thing this morning Microsoft said that its standalone Hyper-V Server 2008, the bare metal hypervisor meant to help it wrest leadership of the virtualization market from VMware, would be available today. Anticipating Microsoft?s coming, VMware declared its standalone hypervisor a commodity a couple of months ago and ? in a market broadening play ? cut the $495-$1,090 price to free. Microsoft, which was only supposed to charge a nominal 28 bucks a head for its like-minded widgetry, followed suit a few weeks later.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 02-Oct-2008 10:00
White House Asked To Create an IP Czar
The US Congress had trouble passing the ?save the world? legislation the White House asked for this week, but it didn?t seem to have any trouble sending the White House a bill the White House didn?t want ? and may veto ? that would establish a so-called Senate-confirmed IP czar or Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator with cabinet-level chevrons, who?s supposed to chair an inter-agency committee and fight a tougher fight against counterfeiting and piracy worldwide.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 01-Oct-2008 17:00
Microsoft in the Line of Fire: Ballmer
As the financial crisis deepened, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who last week said hardware and software sales would be hurt without following that statement to its logical conclusion, raised the decibel level and told Reuters that Microsoft would get hurt ? some parts more than others.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 01-Oct-2008 03:00
AJAX World RIA Expo - Microsoft Adopts jQuery
Scott Guthrie, who will be keynoting next month's AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo, announced Sunday that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward. "We will distribute the jQuery JavaScript library as-is, and will not be forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch," Guthrie blogged. "The files will continue to use and ship under the existing jQuery MIT license.," he added. Microsoft will also distribute intellisense-annotated versions that provide great Visual Studio intellisense and help-integration at design-time.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 30-Sep-2008 17:45
Tutorial: Installing Google Android SDK 1.0 On Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop
This guide explains how you can install the Google Android SDK 1.0 on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. With this stable release of the Android SDK, you can now develop applications for Android smartphones (like T-Mobile's G1) and offer them on the Android Market.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 29-Sep-2008 00:30
Microsoft To Pass Out Windows 7 Alphas
It seems like this was already clear but just in case it wasn?t Microsoft has now officially announced on one of its blogs that it?s going to be handing out pre-beta builds of Windows 7, its post-Vista operating system, at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in a month. It?s promising ?advances? in the kernel, networking, hardware and devices and the user interface and to discuss the widgetry in-depth. There are also new APIs.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 28-Sep-2008 15:00
VMware Adds To VDI Protocol Collection
VMware is collecting protocols. Last week it made Teradici?s day and announced that it had licensed the software implementation of the Canadian start-up?s PC-over-IP display protocol technology as a key piece of its so-called PC-replacing vClient initiative.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 28-Sep-2008 04:00
Interfaith Medical Center Deploys VMware Virtualization Infrastructure
?VMware is helping make our hospital more efficient and effective,? said Nasir. ?We?ve increased server utilization from eight percent to 70 percent. We expect to save over half a million dollars in two years with virtualization. That means we can focus more resources on delivering world-class healthcare. And all the improvements we?ve made in application availability and performance are helping our nurses and doctors spend more time attending to their patients rather than dealing with technical issues.?
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 23-Sep-2008 19:15
The Planet Expands Virtualization Portfolio with Microsoft Virtualization
?We are beginning to see significant interest from our customers who are ready to take advantage of new virtualization technologies,? said Urvish Vashi, general manager of dedicated servers at The Planet. ?Many companies are looking to better utilize their server assets, which has long been the promise of virtualization. As a Microsoft Gold-Certified Partner, we see Hyper-V as a new option that helps businesses better manage their IT infrastructures.?
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 23-Sep-2008 18:45
Cloud Computing Solutions Provider Secures $8 Million in Series B Funding
?AppNexus is making enterprise-class infrastructure accessible to a wide range of businesses and has seen significant traction in the advertising and consumer product industries,? said Mike Tyrrell, general partner at Venrock. ?We are impressed with the company?s leadership and vision, and look forward to supporting their expansion and growth into new industries and markets.?
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 23-Sep-2008 16:30
DataDirect Named "Diamond Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo
DataDirect Technologies is the software industry's comprehensive provider of software for connecting the world's most critical business applications to data and services, running on any platform, using proven and emerging standards. Developers worldwide depend on DataDirect products to connect their applications to an unparalleled range of data sources using standards-based interfaces such as ODBC, JDBC and ADO.NET, XQuery and SOAP. More than 300 leading independent software vendors and thousands of enterprises rely on DataDirect Technologies to simplify and streamline data connectivity for distributed systems and to reduce the complexity of mainframe integration. DataDirect Technologies is an operating company of Progress Software Corporation.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 23-Sep-2008 02:00
Cloud Computing Expo - RightScale Goes Multi-Cloud
RightScale, the Santa Barbara cloud management start-up, has gone multi-cloud. Besides Amazon?s EC2, where its users reportedly have hundreds of thousands of instances running, RightScale widgetry now works on GoGrid and UK-based FlexiScale clouds too. It?s also working with Rackspace Hosting to support its Mosso and CloudFS infrastructure.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 21-Sep-2008 00:45
Cloud Computing Expo - Ingram Micro Feels the Pinch
Ingram Micro, the world?s biggest IT distributor, has lowered its third-quarter outlook. It?s now expecting to net $30 million-$39 million, 18-23 cents a share on revenues of $8.3 billion-$8.6 billion. It?s also trying a freight-recovery initiative to offset rising fuel costs.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 20-Sep-2008 17:00
Cloud Computing Expo - Bluenog Has Rolled Out ICE 4.0
Bluenog ? a nog being a peg that holds a structure together ? has rolled out ICE 4.0, or Integrated Collaborative Environment, calling it the industry?s first pre-integrated suite of enterprise content management, RIA portal development environment and business intelligence reportedly suited to non-technical users.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 20-Sep-2008 14:00
Perfman Offers Virtualization Lifecycle Management
Perfman, the old-line enterprise systems management company, has arrived at virtualization?s door with a new cut of its cross-platform performance and capacity planning software that includes a Virtualization Planning Tool (VPT) and VMware Sprawl Reporting.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 18-Sep-2008 23:15
Virtualization News: Wyse & Novell Deliver Thin Client OS
Wyse and Novell are delivering the promised Wyse Enhanced SUSE Linux Enterprise, an operating system designed for thin computing. It will be available only on Wyse devices starting with Wyse?s X50L mobile thin clients in Q4. The pair quotes IDC?s projection that the Linux thin client market will grow from nearly one million units in 2008 to 1.8 million units in 2011 when Linux is supposed to reach a 30.5% share of all operating system shipments on thin client devices, the result of Linux? inherent TCO savings and the increasing irrelevance of the client operating system given virtualization.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 18-Sep-2008 23:15
NEC & Unisys Produce First Identical Machines
NEC and Unisys have produced their first common platform three years after they bound themselves to do it, using as its base Intel?s new four- and six-core Dunnington chip. The pair is pressing the chip to its outer limits in a mainframe-y configuration of 16 processors, or 96 cores, laid out in 4U increments, each holding four multi-core chips and capable of supporting, all told, 1TB of memory.
Source : dotnet developer's journal | 18-Sep-2008 18:30