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 Templated Helpers are one of the new features in ASP.NET MVC 2. The other day, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 came out and some of you may have noticed that it comes pre-equipped with a beta release of ASP.NET MVC 2. In short a templated helper is a way of using various combinations of impl...Oct. 23, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,147 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Rhomobile, Inc., the makers of the Rhodes smartphone development framework, will be Exhibiting at the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, taking place November 2-4, 2009 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA. At the e...Oct. 23, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,426 |
 The other day I ran into a blog entry from the Astoria team discussing the projections feature of the 1.5 CTP2 version of the product. If you're not familiar with ADO.NET Data Services (formerly codenamed Astoria), it's basically a layer that you can put on top of an Entity Dat...Oct. 21, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 736 |
 Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is now available to MSDN subscribers and will be available to the public at large late next week. The list of stuff that is awesome and worth checking out in VS2010 Beta 2 is too long and ridiculously in-depth for me to cover here. Some of the big things that ...Oct. 21, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,182 |
 Pundits talking about how Windows 7 is all about Microsoft competing against Apple, recovering with Vista consumer adoption disaster, or getting people off of XP, are missing one other – extremely important – part of the Windows 7 story. Windows 7 and its server counterpart...Oct. 20, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,518 |
 New testing options in Visual Studio 2010 will help ensure quality code. Enhancements to the integrated development environment mean that whether modeling, coding, testing or debugging, developers can use existing skills to deploy a growing number of application types. Built-in tools f...Oct. 20, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,775 |
 IBM senior VP Robert Moffat, the head of IBM's Systems and Technology Group - in other words the guy who runs all of its hardware as well its microelectronics unit - and Intel Capital's director of strategic investment Rajiv Goel, one of its VC people, were arrested Friday morning on i...Oct. 18, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,792 |
 The Twitter conversation between Christofer Hoff and I went like this:Christofer - I haven't formally blogged a resp. (yet) to @Kevin_Jackson on his 'maneuver warfare in IT' Not just a cultural shift but a huge tech. oneKevin - @Beaker I'm looking forward to your comments.Christofer -...Jun. 15, 2009 09:44 AM EDT Reads: 1,863 |
 I'm proud to announce that representatives from Lockheed Martin, SAIC, and Unisys will join me in a "Tactical Cloud Computing" Panel at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo in Washington DC on October 6, 2009.As Technical Chair of this conference, my goal has been ...Sep. 30, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,650 |
 I was quite brazen at first, I just logged straight in not fully understand the ramifications. No thought of what could happen if.......? Within Days I was affiliated in magazines, aggregated on global sites, people were creating RSS feeds of my content, the whirlwind grew as my page ...Oct. 8, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,106 |
 Adobe is nosing its flagship ColdFusion rapid web site and Internet application development platform onto multiple clouds. Turns out it's been quietly collaborating with Alagad, a North Carolina web development services provider, on a cloud implementation of ColdFusion 9. Adobe just re...Oct. 6, 2009 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,784 |
 Enterprise Cloud Computing is a key strategy for CIOs, stated Jill Tummler Singer, Deputy CIO at the CIA, in her keynote session at the 1st Annual GovIT Expo in Washington, D.C. As the pressure mounts to meet more stringent budgets, CIOs need to find the proper balance between transfor...Oct. 6, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,283 |
 Much, much smaller Cisco rival Brocade Communications Systems, which has gotten a lot more popular with OEMs like IBM and Dell since Cisco went into the server business, is supposedly thinking selling itself off, or so said an unconfirmed piece in the Wall Street Journal Monday. The pa...Oct. 5, 2009 05:56 PM EDT Reads: 700 |
 Adobe Systems has announced Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2 (ES2), a software release enabling businesses and governments to build applications that improve interactions with customers and constituents across devices and channels. Delivering significant productivity improvements to ...Oct. 5, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,986 |
 So here’s the rub, if MSSP’s/ISP’s/ASP’s-cum-Cloud operators want to woo mature enterprise customers to use their services, they are leaving money on the table and not fulfilling customer needs by failing to roll out complimentary security capabilities which lessen the compliance and s...Oct. 3, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,468 |
 A New Jersey outfit called Textscape LLC sued Adobe in a California federal court last Friday claiming that Adobe's Acrobat Reader, which must be on every computer in the universe, treads on its patent for processing text. It's asking for unspecified damages. The widgetry involved lets...Sep. 30, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,145 |
 While I was off enjoying some brain candy by way of obtaining PMI's PMP (Project Management Professional) certification last week, the IT landscape was busy reconfiguring itself. I enjoyed reading Jeffrey Kaplan's analysis of the Perot acquisition by Dell, and Information Week's perspe...Sep. 29, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 911 |
 I try to go easy on frameworks in the classroom, because there could be lots of non-technical reasons for adopting this or that framework. I also know that people who created frameworks are seasoned developers with their vision of how things should be done. No disrespect here. But if t...Sep. 27, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,170 |
 Ok, so, here are my thoughts on Ulitzer... As a blogger, I focus on traffic and I spend quite a lot of time optimizing my SEO. Since the target audience of my articles is much greater than the reach of my blog, Ulitzer is actually helping me increase my content reach. Moreover, Ulitzer...Sep. 26, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,769 Replies: 1 |
 The WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance can bring speed and agility to test organizations by drastically increasing the pace and ease with which users interact with WebSphere Application Server environments. I recently got a chance to catch up with IBM's Robbie Minshall. Robbie is a WebSphe...Sep. 24, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,410 |
 Google, whose Chrome can claim all of 2.8% of the browser market, has come up with an open source plug-in that runs Chrome inside Microsoft's still dominant Internet Explorer. How's that for brass. It calls the thing Chrome Frame and says it works with IE6, 7 and 8 on Vista and XP SP2,...Sep. 24, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,137 |
 In ten days I’ll be sitting at the general session at Adobe MAX 09 in LA. People from Adobe will come up on stage one after another delivering the latest news on the products we all use daily. Here’s my short wish list of the news I’d like to hear. I’m sure people who are using Creati...Sep. 23, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,690 |
 RIAbiz.com recently discussed the findings of an August 24-25, 2009 Investment News survey conducted on the Twitter habits of the financial-advisory community. Not surprisingly the survey reveals that "a mere 14.9% of financial advisers say they communicate with clients or colleagues ...Sep. 23, 2009 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,410 |
 Enterprise Mashups deliver unprecedented information insight for better decisions and improved organizational outcomes. JackBe's Presto® Enterprise Mashup Platform enables the rapid, collaborative, user-driven creation of secure, visually rich mashups without the complexities, costs an...Sep. 22, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,118 |
 Zimbra is open source server software for email and collaboration - email, group calendar, contacts, instant messaging, file storage and web document management. The Zimbra email and calendar server is available for Linux, Mac OS X and virtualization platforms. Zimbra syncs to smartpho...Sep. 21, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,751 |
 Adobe has put out what it calls Flash Platform Services for Distribution, an online, hosted, pay-per-use service for advertisers and content publishers to promote, measure and monetize web applications and games across social networks, desktops and mobile devices. The widgetry is suppo...Sep. 21, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,611 |
 Yahoo has evidently been rummaging through its closet looking for stuff it can sell off, especially now that it’s decided it’s a consumer company and will put $100 million into promoting that image starting Tuesday.
Anyway, that business construction reportedly means it doesn’t nee...Sep. 21, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,367 |
 Twisted Pair Solutions and IDV Solutions have announced their partnership in creating an entirely new communications client for the Microsoft Surface computer. Built upon Twisted Pair’s WAVE software technology and exploiting IDV’s extensive knowledge and experience in creating interac...Sep. 21, 2009 12:03 PM EDT Reads: 1,100 |
 Today, Adobe made a very interesting announcement - Adobe Flash Platform Services for Distribution is available to the public. To put it simple, it’s a new way of distributing, promoting, and measuring the usage of your applications on the Web.Sep. 21, 2009 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,618 |
 Interesting post from Joe Wilcox on betanews that discusses tagging as a form of augmented reality (AR) and suggests that tagging could cut into Google's search business on mobiles. I have a few comments on this.Sep. 21, 2009 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 726 |
 Platform as a service (PaaS) refers to the tools used to build software applications (software programs) in the cloud. Think of it as a cloud-based development environment for building and managing software applications. These custom-built applications are then hosted on infrastructure...Sep. 20, 2009 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,309 |
 Microsoft’s share of U.S. searches jumped 22.1% in August to 10.7% of the market to Google’s 64.6%, up 2.6%, and Yahoo’s 16%, according to Nielsen. Yahoo was down 4.2%. Microsoft was up from 9% in July. That’s a sequential leap of 22.1% for Microsoft’s newfangled Bing search machine, b...Sep. 19, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,046 |
 Intel’s appeal to the Court of First Instance of the European Commission’s monopoly abuse decision against it claims that the EC didn’t prove that it hammered AMD into the ground with its discounts. According to a summary of the otherwise sealed appeal published over the weekend in the...Sep. 18, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,378 |
 Adobe said Tuesday during its earnings call that it’s buying publicly held Utah-based Omniture for ~$1.8 billion cash.
It’s not your most instantly intuitive acquisition ever and it’s costing a pretty penny at that. Adobe didn’t explain to its own people where the web researcher fi...Sep. 16, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,610 |
 Yesterday a friend of mine was asking me what I've been doing lately in my spare time. When I mentioned that I'd been doing a lot of messing around with Windows Azure, he was naturally curious. After explaining what Azure is, he asked me what the difference was between Windows Azure, a...Sep. 12, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,961 |
 The United States Postal Service, which will be lucky if it only loses $7.1 billion by the end of its fiscal year in September, and escapes with a cash shortfall of $700 million and a debt load of $10.2 billion, has come to the cloud in the wake of its FedEx and UPS rivals.
The pos...Sep. 12, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,457 |
 Cascading Styles Sheets 3, or CSS3, comes packed with a number of great new features. In this article you will learn how to use CSS to created rounded corners to rectangles without having to use a complex image cheat.Sep. 10, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,401 |
 During my RichFaces session at JBoss World 2009, I showed three small examples of using Ajax with RichFaces 3.3, JSF 2, and RichFaces 4. I thougth it would be a good idea to show you the difference or more correct the similarities between the three. I will be blogging more about Rich...Sep. 8, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,438 |
 Even though it's considered bad practice, it's often handy to eval code in JavaScript. And in my case, it was simply necessary, since the JSF specification requires eval of scripts. And it's also necessary to execute those evaluated scripts in the global scope. It's not as easy as it ...Sep. 8, 2009 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,618 |
 Desktop management is a constant challenge for most IT or call center managers. A new update, service pack or totally new version of operating system can cause headaches for even the most experienced IT professional. The challenges with provisioning new versions of operating systems fo...Sep. 8, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 862 |
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