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Mitch Pronschinske03/15/10
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Silverlight 4 RC and Windows Phone Marketplace Unveiled at MIX

On the first day of Microsoft's annual developer conference, some big announcements have just been made. Microsoft launched the first release candidate for Silverlight 4 and they also unveiled the Windows Phone Marketplace, which is going to replace the...

Jon Rose03/15/10
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A Deep Dive into Flash Builder 4

In this article we are going to take a look at Adobe’s Flash Builder tool. Flash Builder 4 is part of the Adobe Flash Platform, and the latest release of Adobe's commercially available integrated development environment (IDE) for building Flex and AIR...

Rebecca Murphy03/15/10
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srchr: Crowdsourcing JavaScript wisdom

I've been working on a blog post about using classes and pub/sub for structuring jQuery applications, and I had in mind a pretty simple demo app that I was going to build. I also wanted to show a version of the app that was built in a more traditional way,...

Corey Schuman03/13/10
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MIX10 Resources

Only days away and MIX 2010 will be upon us. Here is my compellation of links and resources to get ready for MIX. Links The Devil’s Field Guide to MIX10 - http://thespiderking.com/wordpress/the-devils-field-guide-to-mix10/ SKETCHFLOW AND BLEND AT MIX 2010...

Michael Ceranski03/12/10
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Goodbye Http Handler, Hello FileResult

If you have been developing applications in ASP.NET MVC then you are probably familiar with the ActionResult class. The ActionResult is the most common type of object returned from an action. When building MVC apps, most of time you will use the ActionResult...

Alvin Ashcraft03/11/10
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Don’t Reinvent the Wheel (Part 3) – Silverlight Styles and Themes

It’s time for another installment of .NET Zone’s “Don’t Reinvent the Wheel” series. This week I have aggregated a list of great (and mostly free) Silverlight themes and styles you can download and use in your projects today. The great thing about...

Jose Maria Arranz03/11/10
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The Single Page Interface Manifesto

I have published The Single Page Interface Manifesto. The objective of this manifesto is to promote the progressive disappearance of the use of pages not only in web applications also in dynamic web sites.

Mitch Pronschinske03/10/10
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JIRA Studio Now Integrated with Google Apps

Atlassian currently is in the process of migrating their employees from Zimbra to Google Apps to reflect their recent move to integrate JIRA Studio, their hosted SDL package, with the Google Apps suite. With the relaunch of the Google Apps Marketplace, JIRA...

Mitch Pronschinske03/10/10
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Cassandra Usurping MySQL on Twitter

One source had confirmed that Twitter was working with the NoSQL data store, Cassandra, late last year. Some more details have finally surfaced about this quiet transition from a MySQL + Memcached system to Cassandra. The MyNoSQL blog recently interviewed...

Alvin Ashcraft03/10/10
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Book Review: ASP.NET MVC in Action

This book is aimed at experienced web developers with a solid background. It covers advanced topics and does not try to hold the reader's hand.It covers ASP.NET MVC Framework v1.0. This is the...

Emil Stenström03/10/10
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Rendering a web page – step by step

Have you ever thought about what happens when you surf the web? It’s not as simple as it seems:

Mitch Pronschinske03/10/10
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Titanium 1.0 - Native Web Apps Have Arrived

Today is a major milestone in the evolution of the web as an open development platform. Appcelerator's newly unveiled Titanium 1.0 framework lets web developers build native applications for the iPhone and Android phones using nothing but web...

Mitch Pronschinske03/09/10
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CouchDB Moving Into the Cloud

Apache CouchDB is one of the more promising technologies under the NoSQL distinction. The project is strongly supported by commercial backers such as Cloudant, who plans to sell cloud services for CouchDB. By making the non-relational database more...

Eric Hagan03/09/10
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Everything You Need to Know About ColdFusion Builder

ColdFusion Builder is the first IDE built specifically for ColdFusion. Currently in its third beta, CF Builder doesn't use a GUI interface for designing...

Robert Nyman03/09/10
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Is WebKit too fast for its own good?

Let me start by saying I have the utmost respect for the WebKit team, and all the amazing things they have delivered with their rendering engine. Also, very important, for putting pressure on other rendering engine vendors and making them step up. What I...