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- Microsoft .NET RIA Services Overview
- This paper looks at the key aspects of the .NET RIA Services preview. In this section, it introduces the challenges of building an N-tier RIA and the approach taken to address the challenges. The following sections outline the core features as a set of task-focused quick starts. They complement the...
- Tags: Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-07-01
- News to know: Yahoo CFO; Oracle's Java; iPhone 3G S specs; EC2 outage
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Yahoo names Tim Morse as new CFO Larry Dignan: Can Oracle give Java a boost (and...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Java, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Pricing, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Microsoft .Net RIA Services: Not until 2010
- Microsoft officials provided this week a timetable for the rollout of .Net RIA Rich Internet Application Services, the technology codenamed "Alexandria." .Net RIA Services is designed to allow coders to bring together the .Net programming model with Microsoft's Silverlight. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- The Oracle open source credibility gap
- The Oracle open source credibility gapIf I was in Larry Ellison's shoes......I'd do the following:1. Spin off MySQL either by selling it to the public, or by setting up a non-profit foundation and transferring all MySQL copyrights and employees to it. Ellison would get to play the good...
- Tags: StarOffice, PRODUCTIVITY, Development tools, open source, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Studio
- Discussion threads 2009-04-27
- 10 skills developers will need in the next five years
- Guest post: If you’re a developer looking to get ahead in your field (or in some cases, to simply stay employed), this is not a good time to be complacent. TechRepublic's Justin James lists the skills you’ll want to work on now to maximize your future job prospects. For more...
- Tags: Job, Developer, Web, Agile, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- Microsoft's 'Alexandria': RAD for RIA
- Microsoft's 'Alexandria': RAD for RIApatch for spageti codeThe more M$ tries to fix their own mess, the more alambicated their code becomes.Time to go with OSS!RE: Microsoft's 'Alexandria': RAD for RIAI think its only hard if you use MS development tools. Its quite easy using Google Web Toolkit GWT. I...
- Tags: rich Internet application, RAD, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-23
- Microsoft's 'Alexandria': RAD for RIA
- Continuing on its self-proclaimed quest to simplify the programming of Rich Internet Applications RIAs, Microsoft has rolled out a first tech preview of its .Net RIA Services technology. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, RAD, Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., .Net Rich Internet Application Services, Pendulum, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Should Microsoft do an IE 8 'Lite'?
- Should Microsoft do an IE 8 'Lite'?I'm more interested in SilverLightand its release date / improvement as a .Net developer. I don't care how some browser speeds Javascript up 1000 times. Browsers are lipstick, and Javascript is a pig. With RIA such as SilverLight, JavaFX and Flash out there, somebody...
- Tags: Web browsers, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Chrome Browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., IE 8, Lite, Microsoft Do
- Discussion threads 2008-09-18
- News to know: 64-bit Windows; JavaFX; Net neutrality; Apple
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Suddenly, 64-bit Windows is mainstream Dear Adobe, can we please have a 64-bit Flash player? Larry Dignan: JavaFX SDK preview launches: Can Sun play the RIA game? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft launches new search...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Broadband, Apple Inc., Net Neutrality, Microsoft Windows, 64-Bit, Network Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- Nokia and Google: Too much emphasis on the mobile OS?
- Nokia and Google: Too much emphasis on the mobile OS?Partially agree, but......The argument is that ALL apps should be web interface with all of the work being done on remote servers. Forget wireless connectivity issues in the USA, the reality is that having apps on your mobile device will...
- Tags: Operating systems, Cellular phones, operating system, Nokia Corp., Google Inc., mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Microsoft starts rolling out new Windows Live platform dev tools, services
- Microsoft starts rolling out new Windows Live platform dev tools, servicesInterestingThis sounds really interesting. Looking forward for the public API's.If I want......rich client on the web, I'll go Flex/Flash. If it'san HTML-based web app, I'll go Java/JSP. Thanks, but no thanks, to your non-standard, M$-locked-in "Live" crapware!non-standard?@techboy_z -...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Flex/Flash, Microsoft Windows Live, tool, new Windows Live platform, JSP, Windows Live Platform, Java, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-02-28
- Microsoft rechristens Silverlight 1.1 as 'Silverlight 2.0'
- Microsoft rechristens Silverlight 1.1 as 'Silverlight 2.0'A quick correctionI just wanted to point out that the standard .NET languages (C#, VB.NET) will be supported in Silverlight 2.0 by a portable CLR framework and not by the DLR framework. The portable CLR framework (not to be confused with the compact...
- Tags: .NET, Middleware, C#, Programming languages, Microsoft development tools, Microsoft Silverlight, CLR, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-29
- Live Documents enters the Office suite ring
- Sabeer Bhatia was the co-founder of Hotmail, the Web email service Microsoft acquired for $400 million in 1998. Now, Bhatia wants to bite the hand that fed him. He formed a new company, InstaColl, and is joining Zoho, ThinkFree, Google, Yahoo Zimbra, Adobe and lesser know others in...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Application, Microsoft Corp., Service, InstaColl, Zoho, Live Documents, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-23
- Visual Studio 2008 coming next week
- Visual Studio 2008 coming next weekAwesome!Christmas will be arriving early for me this year! The second beta release was pretty good, higher quality than beta 2 for VS 2005, so I'm anticipating a blockbuster RTM release this time around as well! Thanks Microsoft!VS 2008 Isolated ShellFor me one of the...
- Tags: .NET, Microsoft development tools, Application servers, Middleware, Programming languages, Silverlight 1.0, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio, RTM Release, Microsoft Silverlight
- Discussion threads 2007-11-17
- Silverlight as the driver for Microsoft's services
- Much has been made of the fact that Ray Ozzie's big vision revolves around services. Today we're getting some screenshots of the Office Live Workplace. The question is whether they will be cross-platform and how Microsoft can compete in a fairly crowded space. It's been interesting to watch Microsoft...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., Sliverlight, Ray, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- Adobe pushes foward on enabling RIA ecosystem with Flex 3, Adobe AIR betas
- The world of rich Internet applications RIA got a little richer on Monday when Adobe Systems released the beta versions of Flex 3 and the Flex SDK with enhanced features for developers. The beta versions are in place of the alpha release, which was...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Rich Internet Application, Beta, AIR Beta, Buzzword, Microsoft Obviously, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise, Part 2
- A new survey of the personal use of Web 2.0 applications by CIOs emerged late last week and provided another interesting, if high-level, datapoint about the future of Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Carried out by CIO Insight, the survey reported the usual trends like high rates of use...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, AJAX, Network, Ruby On Rails, Idea, Product, Business, Amazon.com Inc., Semantic Web, Office 2.0, Jury, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- A bumper crop of new mashup platforms
- While application developers tend to roll their eyes at the concept of end-user mashups, they remain one of the more promising new trends in software development this year. And while it's certainly true it's early days yet for mashups, the tools that enable them remaining rather limited, seems to...
- Tags: Wikis, Widgets, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, Two-Way Web, The Long Tail, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Right To Remix, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Products, Open APIs, Mashups, JSON, Governance, Global SOA, Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Design Patterns, Customer Self-Service, Cost-effective scalability, Business Models, Ajax
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Gillmor's Internet plate tectonics
- Steve Gillmor riffs on my post about Yahoo's lack of a social networking hub, where I state: "Yahoo is about making connections, but right now its more of loose federation of Web applications and servicesâ€"many spokes without a strong hub to hold together a social Web. Yahoo 360 has been...
- Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, Social networking, SaaS, Personal Technology, Office 2.0, MySpace, Microsoft, iPhone, IBM, Google, Facebook, Apple, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-07-01
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