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Microsoft’s plans for post-Windows OS revealed

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

July 29, 2008 — Microsoft is incubating a componentized non-Windows operating system known as Midori, which is being architected from the ground up to tackle challenges that Redmond has determined cannot be met by simply evolving its existing technology.

SD Times has viewed internal Microsoft documents that outline Midori’s proposed design, which is Internet-centric and predicated on the prevalence of connected systems.

Midori is an offshoot of Microsoft Research’s Singularity operating system, the tools and libraries of which are completely managed code. Midori is designed to run directly on native hardware (x86, x64 and ARM), be hosted on the Windows Hyper-V hypervisor, or even be hosted by a Windows process.

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Zend Framework 1.6 Release Candidate 1 now available!

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

An overview of new features:

  • Dojo Integration
    • JSON-RPC
    • Dojo Data packing
    • Dojo View Helper
    • Dijit integration with Zend_Form & Zend_View
    • Dojo Library Distribution
  • SOAP
    • SOAP Server
    • SOAP Client
    • Autodiscovery
    • WSDL access
    • WSDL Generation
  • Preview of Tooling Project in Laboratory (see /laboratory folder)
    • Command Line Interface
    • Project Asset Management
  • Unit Testing Harness for Controllers
  • Lucene 2.3 Index File Format Support
  • Zend_Session save handler for Database Tables
  • Paginator Component
  • Text/Figlet Support
  • ReCaptcha Service
  • Zend_Config_Xml Attribute Support
  • Character Set Option for DB Adapters
  • Zend File Transfer Component
  • New Media View Helpers (Flash, Quicktime, Object, and Page)
  • Support in Zend_Translate for INI File Format

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Easter egg in wordpress 2.6

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

from : www.cybercore.ru/

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The next version of Flex - Gumbo

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

The next version of Flex, code name Gumbo, is now in active development. It is has 3 primary themes:

  • Design in Mind: provide a framework meant for continuous collaboration between designer and developer.
  • Developer Productivity: improve compiler performance and add productivity enhancements to language features like data binding
  • Framework Evolution: take advantage of new Flash Player capabilities and add features required by common use-cases

Download builds of Gumbo from here

 

All detail you could find on adobe site

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Flash Player 10 beta 2 was released

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
download from labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

 

some good links with new features

labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/demos/videos/3d.html

www.gotoandlearn.com/player.php

Key New Features

3D Effects - Easily transform and animate any display object through 3D space while retaining full interactivity.  Fast, lightweight, and native 3D effects make motion that was previously reserved for expert users available to everyone.  Complex effects are simple with APIs that extend what you already know.

Custom Filters and Effects - Create and share your own portable filters, blend modes, and fills using Adobe Pixel Bender™, the same technology used for many After Effects CS3 filters. Shaders in Flash Player are about 1KB and can be scripted and animated at runtime.

Advanced Text Layout - A new, highly flexible text layout engine, co-existing with TextField, enables innovation in creating new text controls by providing low-level access to text offering right-to-left and vertical text layout, plus support for typographic elements like ligatures.

Enhanced Drawing API - Runtime drawing is easier and more powerful with re-styleable properties, 3D APIs, and a new way of drawing sophisticated shapes without having to code them line by line.

Visual Performance Improvements – Applications and videos will run smoother and faster with expanded use of hardware acceleration.  By moving several visual processing tasks to the video card, the CPU is free to do more.

Enhanced Sound APIs – Work with loaded MP3 audio at a lower level in Flash Player 10.  The new APIs will let you do application-level audio mixing through ActionScript and even audio filtering with Adobe Pixel Bender.

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