Silverlight Developer's Journal

SharePoint on Ulitzer This is already starting to be an interesting topic, so I wanted to post about it.  We’ll start with the facts. SharePoint 2010 only runs on 64 bit operating systems In the past, SharePoint developers have pretty much always had to develop in a virtual envir... (more)

Eclipse Platform on Ulitzer Microsoft was in one of its interoperability moods Wednesday and said that developers using Eclipse, the great open source IDE, will be able to target Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, its Azure cloud operating system and Silverlight. This renewed o... (more)

Web Page Performance was one of the big topics at the Ajax Experience in Boston this week. Steve Souders - author of High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites - talked about the top things to look into when analyzing web page performance. Business impact on Web Site P... (more)

So after the long and torturous wait, you're now in the SQL Azure CTP and you are ready to get the ball rolling with your fabulous, shiny new cloud-based SQL database server. Now what? Well, the first thing you're going to need to do is create a database. To do that, you'll go t... (more)

Microsoft cannot sleep comfortably. There is assault from all flanks- be it mobile, be it OS, be it the venerable Office, almost anything one can think of. Now SQL Azure has a competitor. Amazon Web Services is out with a relational database service, the Amazon RDS. It is still i... (more)

NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 10/29/09 -- Our World Live (OWL) and Billboard have entered into a strategic alliance to bring music fans billboardlive.com, a new internet concert series that allows unprecedented access to the biggest names in entertainment. Music and television ... (more)

As the pressure mounts to meet more stringent budgets, CIOs need to find the proper balance between transforming IT and reducing costs. IT operational costs continue to increase as a percentage of overall IT dollars. At the same time, IT is being pressured to provide an innovativ... (more)

PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/29/09 -- Paladin Energy Ltd ("Paladin" or "the Company") (TSX: PDN)(ASX: PDN) is pleased to provide its Quarterly Activities Report for the three month period ended 30 September, 2009. HIGHLIGHTS - September quarter overall product... (more)

The following reading describes an issue when you can lose an NTFS formatted logical drive in a dual-boot system using Windows XP. While such problems, you should make sure to have a valid data backup to restore it. But if it is unavailable for any reason, you need to use a powe... (more)

ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (Sloan-C booth #511) -- Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFO), the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, today announced the company's Mediasite platform will be used to webcast key sessions a... (more)

Microsoft Developer's Journal Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is an effective framework for implementing services as well as service consumers. Whenever you deal with WCF communication objects you need to pay attention to the disposal of the resources that the... (more)

Amazon Cloud Journal Today Amazon released its answer to SQL Azure, the hosted cloud database offered by Microsoft. The newest service form Amazon, the Amazon Relational Database Service, or Amazon RDS for short, now in beta, makes it easier for you to set up, operate, and scale... (more)

Amazon Cloud Journal Back in July I wrote my post about databases in the cloud.  The big surprise that I discovered at the time was that the only “Native” RDBMS offering in the cloud came from Microsoft. Microsoft SQL Azure (launching formally at the PDC in a few weeks) is a mos... (more)

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vivante Corporation, a leader in consumer oriented 3D graphics processors, today announced that Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL) has deployed Vivante's GC-series graphics processors in the new Marvell® ARMADA(TM) range of application ... (more)

Pervasive Software® Inc. (NASDAQ:PVSW), a global value leader in data integration and data management software and in enabling revolutionary next-generation analytics, today announced the release of Pervasive DataCloud® 2. Already in production delivering prepackaged integrations... (more)

Cloud Computing Expo on Ulitzer Virtualization offers many advantages: cost savings, flexibility, and even ecological benefits. However, it does pose several unique security problems, as witnessed in recent battles over Blue Pill and similar attacks. Trusted computing technology... (more)

HOUSTON, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 10/26/09 -- VisionMonitor Software, a leader and innovator in environmental risk management solutions, is today announcing a new suite of real-time environmental performance solutions. Designed to meet the needs of the most data-intensive operating ... (more)

First let me apologize for the lack of blogging for a while.  We have been under the gun with a sizable SharePoint development project.  I have gown farther down into the innards of InfoPath then I ever thought possible.  To give you an idea, we worked over 140 hours in the 2 wee... (more)

You might be thinking, pfft, I'm never going to need to use Binary Serialization...that's old school. And you might be right, but think about this: Azure Storage charges you by how much you're storing and some aspects of Azure also charge you based on the bandwidth consumed. Do y... (more)

Twitter on Ulitzer Microsoft has cut non-exclusive deals with both Facebook and Twitter for Bing to search their real-time data feeds. Google has followed suit at least with Twitter, but Facebook is the prize because it has like 40 million updates a day from its 300 million user... (more)