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Microsoft To Open C#, VB.Net Compilers
'Microsoft, which has been pursuing concurrent improvements for its Visual Basic and C# programming languages, and add capabilities for asynchronous programming and immutability. Discussed at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los

Nobel Peace Prize to Linus Torvalds?
Now this is one to ponder. This year, the Nobel Peace Prize went to Barack Obama, president of the United States. The prize has been given to both politicians and non-politicians alike, and Keith Lofstrom thinks its time to hand over the Peace Prize to a

Delta Equity Selects FundQuest to Provide Technology, Back-Office, and Investment Research to Accelerate Growth Across National Branch Network
Delta Equity Services Corporation, a national full service broker-dealer, headquartered in Bolton, MA, has selected FundQuest to help them accelerate growth through outsourced technology, back-office, and investment research services. FundQuest, a leader

New Family of eATM Automation Appliances Utilize Java Messaging Service Connection Technologies
Online Development Inc. introduced a new family of eATM automation appliances that enable the connection of plant floor data with enterprise and plant-wide computer systems via Java Messaging Service (JMS) connection technologies in addition to

Novell: Turning The Linux Market Into A Healthy Duopoly - New Report Published
Newly released report, Novell: turning the Linux market into a healthy duopoly, provides detailed company analysis Published on November 20, 2009by Press Office(Companiesandmarkets.com and OfficialWire)LONDON, ENGLAND Novell has grown into a serious

Techies Gather for a Lunch to Save the World
The 43rd floor of the Spear Tower in downtown San Francisco is empty. Possibly because of the slumping economy, there's just a big, open office space with unfinished white walls overlooking a million-dollar view. It was an appropriate setting for , an

Trust Linux!
The latest release of openSUSE, a Linux version sponsored by software maker Novell, comes packaged with software that allows users to set up a trusted computing (TC) environment on their computer, enhancing security beyond the antivirus programs and

Developers get free Acer PC to push Windows 7: MS exec
For: Network World (U.S.) Microsoft wants developers to build against advanced features like touch and sensor by giving them the hardware to support it. But don’t expect a gift-giving one-upsmanship year over year Quick Access Feedback Forum

How Smaller Facebook Game Developers Can Compete With The Big Three
The explosive growth of the Facebook games business has left a small number of companies with a lot of cash. Zynga has raised $54 million. Playdom has raised $43 million and Playfish now has the resources of a billion dollar public company, Electronic

Autodesk Collaborates With DreamWorks and Imageworks on Mudbox for Linux
Autodesk Consulting Provides Linux Pipeline Implementation for Mudbox Digital Sculpting and Texture Painting Software Autodesk has announced that DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (NASDAQ: DWA) and Sony Pictures Imageworks are integrating Autodesk Mudbox

LinMin™ Release 5.5 Introduces ‘Provisioning Rollback’ for Optimization of Linux and Windows Infrastructures and Recovery from Human Error
LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 5.5 also introduces the Provisioning of Debian Linux Systems and refreshes the Deployment Support of new Linux Distributions from Red Hat, Novell, Fedora, CentOS and Ubuntu REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – November 10, 2009 –

Gameloft, other app developers significantly cut back on Android investment
Gameloft said it and other software developers were cutting back investment in developing games and other applications for Google's Android...

Autodesk Collaborates With DreamWorks and Imageworks on Mudbox for Linux
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) has announced that DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (NASDAQ:DWA) and Sony Pictures Imageworks are integrating Autodesk Mudbox software into their Linux-based production pipelines. Autodesk Consulting’s custom development team

Automatic Linux Laptop Backups
cron is great for servers and desktops that are always on, but if you want to schedule a backup (or indeed any other job) on a laptop or other machine that may not always be on, try anacron instead. With cron, you schedule a job at a specific date and

Google Releases Chrome OS To Developers
Google has released the Chrome operating system to open source for developers, but said end users would not be able to use it until late 2010. Google officials released the company's Chrome operating system to open source for developers to begin testing,

Stateful Webservice in java
More hot threads More hot threads More hot threads Brian Goetz continues to lift the lid and peak into the inner workings of Java in Java Urban Performance Legends. In this article he exposes the fallacy behind some of the more common performance myths

White paper: GoPrint - Why Linux?
So why should you consider Linux? Although there are many factors to consider when deciding on which operating system (OS) to deploy, two prominent considerations are TCO- Total Cost of Ownership, and Reliability/Security. With the GoPrint Linux

Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize?
An anonymous reader writes 'I'm as much of a Linux fanboy as anyone else, but I've never thought of anything in computing as being worth a Nobel Peace Prize. Apparently, there are those who take global collaboration seriously, though...' The suggestion

Terracotta grabs another open-source tool to expand Java middleware suite
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Focus on service delivery: Kundra urges developers
LOS ANGELES, US: We need to make sure that CIOs stress on service delivery, pointed out Vivek Kundra, CIO, US Federal Govt here today. In his brief address at the annual geek amalgam from across the world at Microsoft Professional Developer Conference

Techies gather for a lunch to save the world
The 43rd floor of the Spear Tower in downtown San Francisco is empty. Possibly because of the slumping economy, there's just a big, open office space with unfinished white walls overlooking a million-dollar view. It was an appropriate setting for Lunch

Visual Basic 2008 - Create a DataTable From Linq Query Results
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How Chrome OS fits in with Windows, Mac and Linux
After announcement Ive had a little time to think about Googles vision for the OS and how it fits in with Windows, Mac and Linux. The Good Theres a lot I like about Chrome OS because it sound different enough and radical enough to maybe get people

Oddball gifts for techies
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The mother of all adventures: an idyllic day in Java except for the leeches
Jo Thompson crosses into Java where even leeches and kleptomaniac monkeys cannot dampen her mood.

Developers slow to take to Microsoft Surface
Microsoft's Surface touch computer may be generating more oohs and ahs than some of the company's other recent technologies, but the product has yet to generate rabid interest among programmers. A year and half after Microsoft released Surface, just 250

Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with Windows, Mac and Linux
After yesterdays Ive had a little time to think about Googles vision for the OS and how it fits in with Windows, Mac and Linux. The Good Theres a lot I like about Chrome OS because it sound different enough and radical enough to maybe get people thinking