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Red Hat chief: 'Cheaper generally wins'

Red Hat's chief executive, Jim Whitehurst, has claimed his company is well placed to deal with the current economic crisis because it is a low-cost supplier. Read more »

Copyright attack: Sydney net cafe fined

The Sydney CBD internet cafe raided by the Australian Federal Police late last year has been fined $82,000 in the Downing Centre Local Court for copyright violations. Read more »

Microsoft in patent battle over Visual Studio

Aiming to head off further legal action against its customers, Microsoft is asking a federal court to declare that its Visual Studio product doesn't violate patents from WebXchange. Read more »

Microsoft offers free software for start-ups

In its boldest bid yet to win the affections of emerging businesses, Microsoft on Wednesday announced a program that will allow some start-ups to use its server software free of charge. Read more »

Developers want Ballmer to show money

Australian developers have asked Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer what the company will do to address a Microsoft coding landscape that hasn't offered financial rewards like those available to iPhone and Facebook developers. Read more »

Windows 7 gets mixed reviews

As developers received their copies of Windows 7 on Tuesday in the US, they offered varied reactions to the Microsoft operating system update. Read more »

Adobe releases Flash Player 10

Adobe has today announced the release of Flash Player 10, allowing web developers and designers to create more advanced web applications. Read more »

Visual Studio 2010 can replay bugs

Microsoft has revealed plans for the next version of its development suite, Visual Studio 2010, to be able to record testing sessions so that developers can reproduce and closely examine software bugs. Read more »

Microsoft taps JQuery for Visual Studio

Microsoft said Sunday that it plans to ship the JQuery JavaScript library with its Visual Studio developer tool suite. Read more »

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Intel unveils developer tools for multicore apps

As Intel prepares for multiple cores in every machine, it is bringing new tools to the table for software developers. Read more »

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Microsoft details plans for Visual Studio and .NET

In the wake of the recent PDC and TechEd developer events, Microsoft has decided to put some of its key executives out on the road to explain the innovations that Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 have in store. Read more »

Script Table definitions using TSQL

Generating scripts in SQL Server using TSQL has never been easy. This article will show you how you can use TSQL in SQL Server 2005 code to script a table's definition. Read more »

10 questions to ask before migrating to Linux

If you're thinking about making the switch to Linux, Jack Wallen is all for it -- but only if you approach the migration with your eyes open. He recommends that you evaluate a number of key issues before taking this big step. Read more »

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What Ray Ozzie sees in Azure's cloud

In an interview after his keynote at the PDC, Ozzie talked about what Azure means for developers, businesses, and even the everyman. Read more »

How my memory of Ada code influences my current .NET code

The following is not a recommendation on how to perform this type of concurrent programming. This is more of a meditation on how my early programming experience has shaped the patterns that I use today. Read more »

Mono 2.0: .NET goes non-Windows

We interview Miguel de Icaza, VP of Development Platforms and a founder of Mono to find out what is and is not included in the latest release. Read more »

Build an AIR application for your website

Adobe AIR brings web technologies to the desktop through the integration of the Webkit rendering engine in a Flash-style desktop-based runtime. AIR applications running on HTML, CSS and Javascript can interact with the local file system, manipulate local SQL databases and even use AJAX on any domain. Read more »

More New SQL Server 2008 Features

Microsoft updates SQL Server on a pretty regular basis. Its newest version, SQL Server 2008, includes some new features not found in older versions. Here's a list of some of them. Read more »

Microsoft unveils the F# programming language

This article kicks the tyres on the September 2008 Community Technology Preview of F#. Read this brief overview of the programming language's features and environment. Read more »

Help! My SQL Server Log File is too big!

Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. This article discusses the perils of not handling SQL Server log growth properly, and what can be done to correct the problems. Read more »

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The future of software development practices

Ivar Jacobson gives his predictions on what he thinks the next big trends will be for the software industry. Read more »

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.NET multi-core support yet to arrive

Jason Zander, the general manager of Visual Studio, explains the state of play for multi-core support in the Windows world. Read more »

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Intel unveils new software for parallel computing

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, company General Manager Renee James announces a new suite of parallel coding tools designed to work with Microsoft Visual Studio. The tools will support Microsoft's concurrent runtime environment, which is expected to become a central component of Microsoft's next-generation computing model. The... Read more »

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The doldrums of Visual Studio

We are currently in the doldrums of Visual Studio, as the design tools are not fully ready for WCF. Juval Lowy claims that this will be remedied in the next Visual Studio release. Read more »

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Looking into Visual Studio's future

Jason Zander, general manager, Visual Studio, Microsoft explains the areas of work that will appear in future versions of Visual Studio. Read more »

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Visual Studio 2008 takes to the tubes.

The latest release of Visual Studio has added network functionality. Read more »

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What's doing with non-C# languages in .NET?

Jason Zander, general manager, Visual Studio, Microsoft discusses using J#, F#, IronRuby and IronPython with .NET. Read more »

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Visual Studio vs Expression Suite

Jason Zander, general manager, Visual Studio, Microsoft explains where Micrsoft draws the line between developers and designers and how this affect their development tools. Read more »

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Eliminating boilerplate code with LINQ

Jason Zander, general manager of Visual Studio, Microsoft, explains the advantages of using LINQ. Read more »

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Tips for managing smart people

General manager of Visual Studio, Jason Zander, explains how he manages the smart people in his team. Read more »

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Will Microsoft build native Mac and Linux tools?

[blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- If the future is in Microsoft's online services why isn't the company building native tools for Mac and Linux developers? Read more »

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Azure: A matter of trust

[blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Ray Ozzie hit the nail on the head when he said Azure's success will hinge on trust. Who outside (and inside) the core circle of ISV trust Microsoft? Read more »

Windows Azure: New windows, same tools

[blogs:betaliving] -- Microsoft was at pains to stress that it will be creating an environment that developers feel familiar towards for Windows Azure development. Read more »

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Microsoft prescribes more REST

[blogs:syslog] -- Details have begun to emerge about the next versions of Visual Studio and Windows Server this week -- and the message from Redmond is to REST up Read more »

Java pioneer joins Microsoft

[blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Neal Gafter, one of the leading developers who influenced the Java language has left Google to work on the .NET platform. Read more »

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Confirmation: Vista is about nothing

[blogs:syslog] -- The man who has made a career from making humourous observations on the mundane things in life, is bringing his skills to promoting a slighted OS. It looked good on paper: get Jerry Seinfeld, one of the world's most successful clean comedians, to promote Vista. But was it really thought through? Read more »

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This is still meant to be the festive season, isn't it? When they say you should show goodwill towards your fellow (hu)man, I don't think they meant redundancy payments. Read more »

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Tools for the Semantic Web

This blog post covers some of the technologies available for creating applications for the Semantic Web. Read more »

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Bridging the gap between programmers and the vision

A successful project will have a hard time flying if you don't walk through the game plan before writing a line of code. Read more »

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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder

On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.