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I am happy to invite you to attend David Chappel 's session about 'Understanding Software + Services' at Tech-Ed next Monday. This session had a super high score at Tech-Ed Europe. About the session - The move to service-orientation is well underway, both inside enterprises and on the Internet. What role does traditional software play in a world of on-line services? In particular, how is Microsoft approaching the combination of software plus services? This session provides an overview...
Gizmox is an Israeli startup that developed an application UI framework that bridges good-old practices of building enterprise applications (using WinForms) with web 2.0 style application delivery (AJAX style). The idea behind their solution is that the WinForm application style can be sub classed to have a class that separates the UI implementation (and optimizes the communication between the UI and the application logic) from the UI logic. The result is that one can develop a Windows Forms style...
" Facebook and Microsoft Corp. today announced that Microsoft will take a $240 million equity stake in Facebook's next round of financing at a $15 billion valuation, and the companies will expand their existing advertising partnership. Under the expanded strategic alliance, Microsoft will be the exclusive third-party advertising platform partner for Facebook, and will begin to sell advertising for Facebook internationally in addition to the United States."
The Washington Post is reporting that ICANN is testing out fully multilingual domain names . These won't just be [non-western-language].com, but would have TLDs translated into other scripts, fixing annoyances for non-English speaking audiences. An example: 'Speakers of Hebrew, Arabic and any other language written from right to left must type half of the URL in one direction and the other half — the .com, .net or .org postscript — the opposite way. Another interesting this about this article...
Since early 2006, Microsoft and Zend have been working together on a technical collaboration with the PHP community to significantly enhance the reliability and performance of PHP on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. As part of this collaboration, the IIS product group has been working on a new component for IIS6 and IIS7 called FastCGI Extension which will enable IIS to much more effectively host PHP applications. Today Microsoft announced the availability of the Go Live release of Microsoft...
Here is a great web site for those of us that want to surf the net in bed
Java Native Interface (JNI) is a way for java applications to load and invoke DLLs. Because java sources are available for the developer to step into during runtime(I wish we had that too in C#) you could see a lot of JNI calls. For example when you step into java socket you get a JNI call to a C++/C socket. One would think that it would be easy to call C++ from java, because of the multiple use of it in java itself, but it is NOT. You need to generate a .H file from the already compiled java class...