By Bryan Halfpap  Welcome to part two of the four part primer to HTML5 development. In this article, I will showcase some of the additions to the HTML5 tag library that we can leverage to make media-rich websites and web applications in the blink of an eye without flash or other 3rd-party code. Jan. 22, 2010 05:15 PM EST Reads: 5,944 |
By Dmitry Sotnikov  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 – Windows S... Jan. 15, 2010 08:30 PM EST Reads: 12,848 |
By Ken Fogel  I received an Amazon Kindle for Xmas. It wasn’t a surprise as I put it on the Xmas list my family insisted I provide. My wife had me order it with her credit card to make sure it was exactly what I wanted. The order was placed at the beginning of December to ensure it [...] Jan. 4, 2010 11:00 AM EST Reads: 8,930 Replies: 1 |
By Kevin Hoffman  One of the biggest problems developers have when building apps for the iPhone is memory violations. A lot of developers, especially those who come from a Java or .NET background, have trouble adjusting to an environment where they need to manually keep track of reference counts and the... Dec. 15, 2009 09:30 PM EST Reads: 6,019 |
By Bob Gourley  Adobe Flex is a software development approach and environment which enables the production of cross-platform Rich Internet Applications. Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is the cross-platform runtime environment used by Flex (as well as Flash, HTML, JavaScript and AJAX) for deployment o... Dec. 6, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 4,853 |
By Kevin Hoffman  So far I’ve remained relatively aloof from the whole “eBook” craze. Ordinarily, given my geeky background and borderline insane craving for technology, one would think that I’d be all over these things. The problem is, my love for the written word also extends to a love for the experie... Nov. 26, 2009 08:30 PM EST Reads: 43,182 |
By Alois Reitbauer  The dynaTrace AJAX Edition has been out there as an Alpha for a couple of weeks. It gave you the first impression what was to come. All the feedback we have received (like that from Steve Souders, and all that has come in via the contact form and the online forum) in that time made it... Nov. 17, 2009 03:15 PM EST Reads: 6,251 |
By Kevin Hoffman  As mentioned in my previous blog post, you don't get full designer support on SQL Azure within SQL Server Management Studio. In addition, you don't get designer support for LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework, either. So what ... Oct. 31, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,373 |
By Colin Walker  What could you do with your code in 20 Lines or Less? That's the question I ask (almost) every week for the devcentral community, and every week I go looking to find cool new examples that show just how flexible and powerful iRules can... Oct. 30, 2009 01:12 PM EDT Reads: 4,629 |
By Kevin Hoffman  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: 8,017 |
By Stephen Wong  According to the CEO of Adobe America, Adobe company is planning to transplant its flash player to iPhone.
Adobe CEO indicated that Adobe may cooperate with Apple to ensure the smooth flash player application on iPhone in Adobe company’s first quarter performance conference early this... Oct. 20, 2009 10:51 PM EDT Reads: 5,126 |
By John Funnell  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: 17,126 |
By Kevin Hoffman  Let's take a look at this pretty common scenario. You're building an ASP.NET application (MVC or otherwise) and you intend to publish it in the cloud and you're using Azure Storage (not SQL Azure) for your underlying data store. You've already hooked your app up with... Sep. 29, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 7,065 |
By Yakov Fain  Russia "will" develop a new Web browser for federal employees. The news was published on infonews.ru. The project is funded by the Ministry of Defense and FSB (formerly KGB). According to infonews, "several million rubles will be spent on creation of Russian Web browser". They are pla... Sep. 26, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,684 |
By Marek Miesiac  Microsoft engineers began brainstorming concepts for an interactive table back in 2001. In early 2003 a new product was presented to Bill Gates the Microsoft Chairman. A year later, the MS Surface team grew and became the Surface Computing group. Finally in 2007 they had a prototype t... Jul. 3, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 5,864 |
By Sarah Seddon  Segro was about to launch a new MRI finance group application so it was vital all data feeding in was controlled with changes approved and with a full audit trail of changes. This information was both financial and property, and included such information as area, how much was let, how ... Jun. 16, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,367 |
By Web 2.0 News Desk  Delivering the power of the Internet at the click of a mouse necessitates the need for comprehensive overview and tracking capabilities. So it is very timely that Keynote Systems, the global leader in on-demand mobile and Internet test & measurement solutions for continuously improving... Apr. 28, 2009 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,303 |
By Yakov Fain  The goal of this article is to demo a sample Pet Store application written in JavaFX 1.0. I work for a company called Farata Systems. Laura is our office manager, and she doesn’t know Java. Everyone else does. We work in the enterprise RIA space using Adobe Flex as a main development ... Feb. 12, 2009 09:00 AM EST Reads: 14,481 |
By RIA News Desk  There are a couple of very common issues in enterprise publishing, and they almost invariably lead to bottlenecks. For example, if the designer is the only person who can modify a page layout, even minor changes will depend on his or her availability. If only a small number of people i... Jul. 22, 2007 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 10,770 |