Microsoft Surface

Isn't it strange that the readonly monitor + writeonly keyboard and mouse paradigm has not been challenged for so long? Here's the challenge: Microsoft Surface. Minority Reports like.

Here is Bill Gates showing off his expensive table.

Thanks everybody (André Lourenço, Marco Gonçalves and Daniel Gonçalves) for the first links :) Long time since a concept like this generates so much interest in people...

And Mr. Jobs, this is a REALLY re-invention...

FeedDemon 2.5

After reviewing it for some time, I finally bought a copy of FeedDemon(*), the best reeder you can buy for just $20 (*).

Not a great bunch of new features, but the "popular items" now lists different posts from the 2.1 - hopefully for the best. The "Who's linking me?" seems like a great new feature.


(*) use "likeit" as coupon until the end of this month for a $10 rebate.

zonbu

Let's face-it: it's just an old idea that failed us too many times, but what the hack: it can help saving our planet :)

Meet zonbu, the new generation of environmentally responsible computing.

My question is: will people pay $12.5/month for a computer that won't play games with you?...

Critical Features Cut from Windows Server Virtualization

in: betanews

Yet another cut from a Microsoft product (Windows Server 2008):

• live migration of running virtual machines between servers;
• "hot-adds" of virtual components such as storage, processors, and memory; and
• support for more than 16 logical processing cores.

Well, at least the IIS7 and the "server core" technology is still there...

[Update] "server core" is a Windows 2008 command line installation - no GUI. Yeap, a 1GB reduced surface installation. No, not an anti-Linux, but a Linux humble competitor.

Identifying NHibernate-Related Bottlenecks through Performance Monitoring

Here's a great post about NHibernate performance.

Watch out for adapter versions

I've recently acquired an old used Linksys WPC54G for my wife's notebook. I've bought it because WPC54g was supposed to be supported by Ubuntu.

After the first problems (WAP just isn't supported without ndiswrapper), I've found the following site:

http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_part.php?brandname=Linksys

Here I've found that WPC54G has a Broadcom 43xx chipset on version 1 and 3, and a TI on version 2. The first version is supported on Ubuntu, the 2ª isn't, and the third is not fully supported.

Some colleages of mine just told me the same happened to them. Isn't this crazy? Would't you expect the maker to rename a product like a network adapter when the chipset changes? Arghh....

So watch out for model references - always check the version...

Top 15 free SQL Injection Scanners

Found at slashdot: Top 15 free SQL Injection Scanners

Visionary?

As we grow older, we end up spending more time architecting than programming. As a result, I end up spending a lot of my daily work using Visio. So the question arises: does this make me a VISIOnary? :)

PS: please don't feel obliged to answer, this is an academic question :P

His step stones

Here's another blog to watch out for: My Step Stones, from my good old friend, Rui Melo. Rui is presently blogging around MOSS and WSS.

Welcome to the blogosphere :)

Microsoft ASP.NET Futures

Goodie goodie, new goodies :)

ASP.NET AJAX Futures

The new release includes support for managing browser history (Back button support), selecting elements by CSS selectors or classes, and information on accessing “Astoria” Web data services.

Silverlight Controls for ASP.NET

You can integrate the rich behavior of Microsoft® Silverlight™ into your Web application by using two new ASP.NET server controls: a Media server control that enables you to easily integrate media sources such as audio (WMA) and video (WMV) into your Web application, and a XAML server control that enables you to reference your own XAML and associated JavaScript files.

Dynamic Data Controls for ASP.NET

Dynamic data controls are a set of ASP.NET server controls that obtain database schema information at run time, provide default display formats according to common user expectations, and enable you to easily customize those formats. Watch a video showing how to build a task list application using the Dynamic Data Controls from the ASP.NET Futures Release.

ASP.NET Application Services

New services for ASP.NET enable you to add search to your ASP.NET Web applications, using a commercial search engine’s API (such as Windows Live Search) and custom search providers. You can also publish custom and dynamic sitemaps that are configured to assist search engine crawlers. A new service lets you capture JavaScript errors and report them to server-based ASP.NET code.

Dynamic Languages Support in ASP.NET

In ths release, support for dynamic languages in ASP.NET expands on the earlier support for IronPython for ASP.NET. Support for dynamic languages in ASP.NET is built on the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR), a new platform currently under development at Microsoft. The DLR simplifies hosting dynamic languages on the Common Language Runtime.

Two dynamic languages are now hosted on the DLR: IronPython and Managed JScript.

Is my Vista more Mac OS Like?

Not quite, but you can always try these:

• Switcher (Expose);
• Rocket Dock (Mac OS like docker); also works with XP
  

taken from: .net DEvHammer

Byebye Longhorn - Hello Windows Server 2008

No surprise here. Longhorn is dead. Long live Windows Server 2008.