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SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading technology book publisher Manning Publications named "Exclusive Book Publisher Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming AJAX World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place October 20-22, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon... Oct. 15, 2008 05:23 PM EDT Reads: 2,127 |
 Sridhar Vembu, the CEO of Zoho, the online Office wannabe, sent a note around in the wake of Google’s Chrome announcement, claiming its impact “goes beyond the browser” and that the “biggest losers” are the “competing rich client engines like Flash and Silverlight.” Oct. 15, 2008 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,389 |
 Miguel de Icaza, the head of the open source Moonlight project, reassuringly says that “the Silverlight Control Pack under the Microsoft Permissive License really addresses the needs of developers by enabling them to learn how advanced controls are authored directly from the high-quali...Oct. 15, 2008 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,429 |
 "My mission has always been to bring excellence to the field of user interface engineering," says Bill Scott, Director of User Interface Engineering at Netflix, in this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's AJAX & RIA Journal in the run-up to his session on October 20 at AJAX World RIA Conferen...Oct. 13, 2008 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,537 |
 Kevin Lynch, who will be keynoting on October 21, 2008, helped originally coin the term "Rich Internet Application" in 2002. He has been at the center of innovation in Flash and Adobe AIR since their inception, and currently drives Adobe’s technology platform for designers and develope...Oct. 13, 2008 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,352 |
Conference Theme: Beyond AJAX to the Rich Internet Application & Rich Interactive Experience Era. Sponsorship and Exhibit Opportunities Offered on a First-Come First-Served Basis. To inquire about sponsorship and exhibit opportunities please contact Carmen Gonzalez at 201-802-3021 or b... Oct. 12, 2008 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,799 |
Microsoft introduced Silverlight as cross-platform, cross-browser, next generation RIA solution. This session will use real world implementations to show you how to build a Silverlight application from start to finish, as well overall strategy why we should or shouldn't use Silverlight... Oct. 10, 2008 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,919 |
Many of today's (and tomorrow’s) development projects lend themselves nicely to RIA application patterns. Silverlight offers a compelling RIA development experience that works on Linux, the Mac and windows as well as all major browsers. With HD video, vector based graphics and a rich s... Oct. 9, 2008 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,478 |
 Silverlight 2 advanced to Release Candidate 0 over the weekend. Microsoft underscores that it is only for testing and “should not be used for launching Silverlight 2 applications for the general public.” But final release, covering Windows and Mac, is thought to be imminent.Oct. 6, 2008 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,573 |
 With all of the hype surrounding Cloud computing, Microsoft's upcoming Cloud OS and current efforts around Live Mesh, I thought I would take a trip on the WABAC machine to look at where it all started. Back when I was in junior high school, the best type of connectivity that I could ho...Oct. 6, 2008 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,739 |
 Microsoft said, “Going forward we’ll use jQuery as one of the libraries used to implement higher-level controls in the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, as well as to implement new AJAX server-side helper methods for ASP.NET MVC. New features we add to ASP.NET AJAX (like the new client tem...Oct. 6, 2008 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,324 |
 Rich Internet Applications offer the potential to fundamentally change the user experience and in doing so, yield significant business benefits. The theme of this October's AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West is 'Beyond AJAX to the RIA Era' and the Call for Papers, which is still ope...Sep. 28, 2008 02:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,227 |
 Microsoft introduced Silverlight as cross-platform, cross-browser next generation RIA solution. This session will use real world implementations to show you how to build a Silverlight application from start to finish, as well overall strategy why we should or shouldn't use Silverlight....Sep. 21, 2008 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,708 Replies: 1 |
Are you being asked to do more with less, like trying to overcome legacy VPN deployment barriers while reducing costs? Is providing remote access for some users simply too expensive? Citrix requests attendance at an interactive Webinar to hear security analyst Lisa Phifer discuss how c... Sep. 15, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,490 Replies: 1 |
Many of today's (and tomorrow’s) development projects lend themselves nicely to RIA application patterns. Silverlight offers a compelling RIA development experience that works on Linux, the Mac and windows as well as all major browsers. With HD video, vector based graphics and a rich s... Sep. 13, 2008 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,993 |
Nth Penguin has released WW.DataServices to the public and is available for immediate
download at: www.nthpenguin.com. WW.DataServices, the first system of the WebWidgetry engine, removes all the work from accessing your data. You simply point it to a database location, push a button,... Sep. 3, 2008 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,857 |
 Here's another Silverlight app that I've been bursting to share with y'all. It's from the promotion site for the 2008 Formula 1 Grand Prix being hosted in Singapore and sponsored by SingTel. It's a great and innovative use of Video. They are running a competition called the 'heart race...Sep. 2, 2008 10:20 AM EDT Reads: 1,994 |
Gizmox announced the release of a fully functional beta version of its Visual WebGui (VWG) with support for Microsoft Silverlight. For the first time, VWG enables Silverlight for enterprise applications by providing a RAD like Windows Forms development experience with drag & drop desig... Sep. 2, 2008 10:05 AM EDT Reads: 4,398 |
 Microsoft introduced Silverlight as cross-platform, cross-browser next generation RIA solution. This session will use real world implementations to show you how to build a Silverlight application from start to finish, as well overall strategy why we should or shouldn't use Silverlight....Aug. 31, 2008 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 24,440 |
 Many of today (and tomorrow’s) development projects lend themselves nicely to RIA application patterns. Silverlight offers a compelling RIA development experience that works on Linux, the Mac and windows as well as all major browsers. With HD video, vector based graphics and a rich set...Aug. 29, 2008 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,731 |
Michael Phelps is not the only one breaking records and winning gold at the Olympics in Beijing.
If Microsoft's Silverlight continues to have the success it has had in streaming video coverage of the Olympic Games around the world, it could mean gold for Microsoft as the software gian... Aug. 14, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,700 Replies: 1 |
DevExpress is proud to announce the immediate availability of the XtraGauge Component Suite for Windows Forms. Built and optimized for Visual Studio .NET, this Gauge control radically simplifies the way in which developers create and deliver dashboard-style UIs to their customers. Jul. 21, 2008 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,322 |
DevExpress is proud to announce the immediate availability of the XtraWizard component suite for Windows Forms. Built and optimized for Visual Studio .NET, this Wizard control radically simplifies the way in which developers create and deliver step-by-step 'guides' and/or detailed data... Jul. 21, 2008 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,794 |
 Microsoft and its cross-platform, Flash-rivaling, RIA-building Silverlight plug-in are being sued in San Francisco for patent infringement by a no-profile Massachusetts outfit called Gotuit Media Corporation. The thin seven-page suit and its venue comes compliments of California lawyer...Jul. 18, 2008 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,061 |
 E-mail is extremely easy to adopt and use, and lends itself very well to certain types of collaboration. When two people are attempting to collaborate asynchronously, e-mail is usually the best solution. It's certainly far less frustrating than phone tag. But once more people are invol...Jul. 14, 2008 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 7,693 Replies: 1 |
Schematic announced its development of a Web video player anchoring NBC's online coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on NBCOlympics.com on MSN. The announcement was made by Perkins Miller, Senior Vice President, Digital Media, NBC Sports and Olympics, and Trevor Kaufman, CEO of ... Jul. 7, 2008 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,997 |
 From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown ...Jun. 10, 2008 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 100,482 Replies: 2 |
Zmanda, the open source backup and recovery folks, says it's integrated NetApp's Snapshot technology with its own Recovery Manager for MySQL. It's supposed to translate into continuous data protection for mission-critical MySQL databases. With Snapshot, administrators can create point-... Jun. 8, 2008 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,050 |
 Infragistics announced the availability of two Community Technology Preview (CTP) User Interface (UI) components for Microsoft Silverlight beta 2. With the release of chart and gauge components for Silverlight beta 2, Infragistics demonstrates it can create innovative user experiences ...Jun. 4, 2008 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,550 |
Nintex announced the release of Nintex Reporting 2008, the new product for the Microsoft SharePoint platform. Nintex Reporting 2008 collects and analyses SharePoint usage data to provide insight into workplace trends and behaviors. Nintex Reporting 2008 allows everyone from system admi... Jun. 3, 2008 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,213 |
 SplendidCRM announced the launch of Version 2.1 of its flagship platform SplendidCRM. The new Silverlight graphs provide SplendidCRM developers with the ability to create and customize graphs. Extended AJAX support provides the CRM user with a more natural experience.Jun. 2, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,351 |
Google's Web Toolkit Release Candidate 1.5 will be available later this week. That's the stuff programmers can use to develop and debug web applications in Java and then deploy them as highly optimized JavaScript. That way they're supposed to be able to sidestep common AJAX headaches l... May. 29, 2008 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,748 |
 Friday morning the local Fox television station in New York City broke the news - Apple was suing New York City. Six out of 100 of their viewers thought Apple had the right to sue the City, but 94 out of 100 viewers are now calling for New Yorkers to drop Apple and its products, includ...May. 27, 2008 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 26,098 Replies: 2 |
 Have you ever wished you could run ASP.NET applications on Linux, without having to rewrite your code or leave the Visual Studio development environment? In this article, I show you how to port Steve Clements' AJAX ASP.NET RSS Reader to native Java and deploy it to Apache Tomcat on Lin...May. 22, 2008 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 9,170 Replies: 2 |
 Dell is going to try to cut the energy consumption of its laptops and desktops by up to 25% between now and 2010 to avoid millions of tons of CO2 emissions, comparing its pledge to HP's, which is supposed to cut relative its 2005 levels. It says Dell OptiPlex desktop are down nearly 50...May. 20, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,501 |
 At Java One this week Sun has been selling its year-old-but-still-upcoming - and definitely late-to-the-party - Adobe AIR- and Microsoft Silverlight-competitive JavaFX Rich Client environment as a potential revenue-generator capable of putting ads on mobile applications and JavaFX Scri...May. 16, 2008 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 10,234 Replies: 1 |
Xceed launched Xceed Upload for Silverlight, the commercial offering in support of Microsoft's promising new Silverlight technology. The product is available now for purchase or as a fully functional 45-day trial on Xceed's website. Xceed Upload for Silverlight lets developers add uplo... May. 9, 2008 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,527 |
 Silverlight 2.0 is a freaking phenomenal RIA development environment and I would actually, at this point, put the development experience in Silverlight 2.0 above and beyond Flex. I can do more faster and have it look better and run more efficiently in Silverlight 2.0 than I can in Flex...Apr. 21, 2008 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 24,151 Replies: 5 |
Xceed is poised to launch Xceed Upload for Silverlight, its offering in support of Microsoft's promising new Silverlight technology. Slated for release in May or June 2008, Xceed Upload for Silverlight provides programmers with HTTP upload capabilities for C# and VB.NET development usi... Apr. 21, 2008 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,240 |
 Cynergy Systems announced it has been selected by Microsoft to participate in the Microsoft Global Agency Initiative. This invitation-only initiative has resulted in a group of the top 20 interactive agencies that Microsoft recommends to its customers. Cynergy has developed a number of...Apr. 18, 2008 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,020 |
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