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Gates: Vista's Chances 80-20 To Ship On Time
Microsoft Corp's chairman commented on the operating system's chances while in South Africa to highlight partnerships and programs.
One In Six Uses Firefox
Firefox has gained global market share since May, while Microsoft's IE has dropped under the 80 percent mark in the U.S. a Dutch Web analytics firm said Monday.
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Dr. Dobb's Podcasts
Securing ClickOnce
Using ClickOnce in a secure manner as a trusted publisher, and comparing it with the features of the Updater Application Block 2.0. Also comments from ClickOnce guru Brian Noyes on the soon to-be-released Windows Communications Framework (WCF) and why developers should aggressively adopt this technology for remote communication. (MP3, 17:42 mins.)
RailsConf 2006: The Future Looks Really Good
On day two of RailsConf, Mike Riley is looking at Ruby-on-Rails case studies and digging deep into Rails code. (MP3, 5:29 mins.)
New Features
An Interview with Amanda Silver on Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Microsoft's Program Manager for Visual Basic talks about Language Integrated Query technology
Sun, Java, and the Middle Course
Is Sun taking the initiative on openness and community, or is stepping off into the future by taking the middle course just being reactive?
Device Trails
Modern hardware devices contain information that assists the operating system in finding appropriate drivers—and intruders in finding out who was doing what when.
Discovering Relationships in Context
Cogito is a graph-based relationship analytics tool for pattern matching and relationship identification, making it an ideal tool for computer forensics.
Configuring J2EE Deployment Descriptors
Deployment descriptors are J2EE components that manage data connections when connecting to databases or maintaining unique transactions between web sessions.
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