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I have written before a short comparison between "old" and newer technologies, but at the beginning of that post I state that part of the choice of a new technology is the market trend towards that technology. After reading Justin's post showing that moving to ASP.NET is beneficiary because it's becoming a prominent technology I decided to implement his research methods (using Google) on different technologies. I began by searching for file types However, this reflects only on files...
In a recent announcement Microsoft declared a "Strategic Change" in their relationship with the open source community: Publishing on MSDN over 30,000 pages of documentation for Windows client and server protocols and API. Protocol documentation for additional products, such as Office 2007, will be published in the upcoming months. Microsoft is providing a covenant not to sue open source developers for development or non-commercial distribution of implementations of these protocols. These...
We all know about the "cool new kids in town", meaning new technologies all developers want to use. Offer a developer two positions: Programming with C# 1.1 Programming with WPF and C# 3.5 What do you think most developers will choose? However, there is the question of an existing project, written in an "uncool" technology. In my experience developers tend to push towards using newer technologies, but how do you convince the people in charge? Here are my thoughts on the subject...
החלטתי לאחרונה לקנות מחשב נייד , כשהשימוש שלו יהיה בעיקר לאופיס ופיתוח מזדמן. הדרישות שלי היו כנ"ל: זיכרון - מדובר במוצר זול והכרחי, לכן דרוש לפחות ג'יגה כונן אופטי - קורא DVD (צורב אינו הכרחי) מעבד - לא ממש קריטי ליישומים אותם אני מעוניין להריץ - מנסיון במחשב שולחני גם סלרון יספיק, אבל אני מעדיף מעבד עם HyperThreding דיסק קשיח - גם 40GB יספיק לי קישוריות - הכרחית תמיכת בBT ובWiFi אחריות - שלוש שנים מקלדת - ללא הkeypad , כדי שהמקשים יהיו גדולים יותר מסך - כנראה 14 או 15 אינץ' מערכת הפעלה...
זכיתי להיות מבין הבלוגרים ברי המזל שהוזמנו אתמול למסיבת העיתונאים בה הוכרזה ההשקה של חבילת שירותי הרשת החדשה ( Windows Live ) של מייקרוסופט. לפי המצגת של ליאור צורף, מדובר בשירות מבטיח מאוד שיכול לספק תחרות קשה לשרותי GMail ו-Picasa של גוגל. הנה מספר נקודות מעניינות שעלו במצגת: מעמדה של מייקרוסופט בשוק: לפי מייקרוסופט יש למסנג'ר 280 מליון משתמשים ברחבי העולם, פי כמה וכמה ממספר המשתמשים של ICQ למשל. גם דובר על כך שמספר המשתמשים בהוטמייל גדול פי שלושה ממספר המשתמשים של GMail. אם המספרים האלה מדוייקים...
I have read Oren's post , in which he writes (again) why he thinks Asp.Net is a bad web platform. I have been reading about various tools like Ruby or MonoRail and people promoting over using simple Asp.Net. Coincidentally, I have recently listen to an Arcast episode with Markus Frind, the founder of http://plentyoffish.com/ . This dude is the only employee in the "company" (acting as the developer, architect, CEO, janitor, etc), running the web site on two servers from his home. He wrote the site...
I am working on a C4I application using GIS engine, and since the engine uses the CPU for it's calculations (not many GIS systems use the capabilities of graphics cards so far) the effect of the processor is critical in terms of performance. We recently ran a test of the same system and scenario, once with an old processor, and once with a new, faster (both in clock speed and FSB ), HyperThreading capable processor. According to some benchmarks, the new processor performed twice better than the old...
VAC (Voice Activated Commands) system is an application which resides in your system tray, and uses the Microsoft speech recognition engine to convert voice commands to keyboard commands. Since I watch my TV playing stuff originating from the computer...
How many times you saw an advertisement featuring a model who's photo got improved by photoshop experts? Now you have this option available to you, through the FixMyPhotos web site, allowing you to upload your picture and pay (1.5-10$) for enhancement...
After browsing through Abhishek Krishnan's gadgets blog, I started thinking, which gadgets do I use in my life? My primary thing is my cell phone (Motorola i880), which I use to listen to podcasts and take the occasional photo. While driving I use a small...