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Want to learn about Silverlight and Expression?

Here are a list of useful links to start with: Silverlight · To learn more about Silverlight visit the Silverlight Community site . This site includes tons of tutorials, videos , getting started information, samples and a showcase where you can...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2008 3:27 PM by petersm

Filed under: silverlight, expression

App Arch Guide project

Anyone ever designing, architecting or understand a project (whether it's .NET or not) should check out these guidelines . And you should never ever hire anyone without knowledge of this :)

Published Fri, Sep 09 2008 8:59 AM by petersm

"Silverlight Shines at International Broadcasting Conference 2008 in Amsterdam"

I don't want to repeat a press release , but quite a lot of interesting things happened to Silverlight today: H.264 support announced AAC support announced MP4 container support announced As Scott Guthrie has written - this doesn't mean Microsoft...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2008 4:56 PM by petersm

Filed under: silverlight, olympics

Windows HPC Server 2008 is around the corner

We are just a few weeks away from announcing the Windows HPC Server 2008. For developers and architects this will be an opportunity to think different - think in High Performance. Therefore I list here three webcasts that should enable you full power...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2008 3:31 PM by petersm

Filed under: webcast, hpc, windows hpc server 2008

Believing in Success and Innovation

This is a bit (?) Hungarian specific thing. I believe in that a small country like Hungary will never able to compete in quantity with countries like India or China. I believe we have to compete on quality, and in the continious innovation that happens...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2008 1:44 PM by petersm

Filed under: success, award, partner, innovation

IE8 beta 2 - (another) great step towards standardization

Already in available in 4 languages - the brand new beta 2 version for IE8 is out in the wild . Some of the newly announced features (inprivacy browsing, smartscreen, etc) are quite compelling - worths to check out. Some of the favourite things among...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 8:40 AM by petersm

Reflector - is it the end or a new beginning?

News of yesterday - "Red Gate has recently acquired .NET Reflector. We will continue to maintain a free version for the benefit of the community ." - you remember my post about open source? All open source projects have or may have this problem...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 1:10 PM by petersm

Filed under: open source, dile, reflector

A short introduction to cloud platforms - an enterprise oriented view

I'd like to draw the attention to a whitepaper by David Chappell - not a long one, being comprehensive, can be easily cited (like cloud platform is " kind of platform lets developers write applications that run in the cloud, or use services provided...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 12:49 PM by petersm

Long live Windows Server 2008 R2

The Windows Server Division has named the next server Windows Server 2008 R2 . The release would be 'just' a "minor" or Update release. In a blog posting, Windows Server '7' aka "Windows Server 2008 R2" , the team announced...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 12:43 PM by petersm

Filed under: Windows Se7en, Windows Server 2008 R2

A short overview of cache providers, part 2

The short overview of cache providers continues with two more of them - NCache and Velocity. NCache As a surprise - it doesn't come free! So our (my) expectations should be even higher. But hey - it has a free option as well! So - what we get from...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2008 2:12 PM by petersm

Filed under: cache providers, ncache, cache, velocity

Off to TechReady7...

In the following weeks, I'm going to learn about new technologies, strategies - or shorter to say: get a glimpse into the future. I'm going to get tons of information about things like new wave of products and old products' new waves - and...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 10:12 AM by petersm

Unmanaged resources and leaking

Everybody knows about, that you have to be very keen about using unmanaged resources (like filestreams, sharepoint objects, sockets, etc), disposing them whenever it's important, etc. But do we know all situations, that you have to be careful not...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 9:16 PM by petersm

Filed under: leak, resource, unamanged, c#, SharePoint

Open source and ... your company?

According to a commenter there is always a question - are we allowed to use non-ms labeled technologies whenever it is appropiate? Answer is tough - myself had the opportunity to use multiple technologies like NHibernate or NVelocity at multiple projects...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 5:27 PM by petersm

Filed under: open source

Open Source Series 2.: NVelocity (part 2)

I forgot an important part of the previous posts - I was talking about many projects using the original Velocity for many purposes - but is the .NET version used? I tried to put together a noncomprehensive list of usages - feel free to comment to add...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 3:52 PM by petersm

Filed under: series, open source, velocity, apache, VTL, nvelocity, jakarta

Silverlight and Playready

First of all - the Silverlight DRM client is FREE ! The main component for playing DRM protected content with silverlight streaming was released during the weekend - and it's called PlayReady Server SDK. There are two distinct license agreements depending...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 2:55 PM by petersm

Filed under: playready, silverlight, drm

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