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Mac OS X 10.5.1 Update

Apple released the first Leopard OS update, Mac OS X 10.5.1. The new update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac. Read More

Browsers Struggle To Keep up with AJAX

Dietrich Kappe, a Pathfinder’s CTO published a posting in which he talks about problems of the browser execution of Ajax Applications he faced with. He points out that today's browsers have difficulty keeping up with the latest Web 2.0 applications.

"Ajax and the browsers it depends on are running out of time. If the notion spreads that it isn’t reliable, it will be as dead as the Java Applet, never to be heard from again," says Kappe.

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The family of .NET languages is increasing

F# will be the youngest language in the .NET family. Just a few days before the release of the VS 2008, Microsoft development tool Vice-President Soma Somasegar announced that his division would work with Microsoft Research to integrate the F# language into Visual Studio. F# is a project that looks to exploit functional programming techniques.

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Astoria Project on the way!

Microsoft’s Project Astoria has been in development since this summer. Astoria exposes data as web services through an Entity Framework Data Model. Once exposed, you can use URI based syntax to query data through the conceptual layer of the entity data model. You can control what is and isn't exposed and you can also do inserts, updates and deletes. The results can be output in a number of formats.

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Mini-review And Competition Of The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP book

We've got a brand new mini-review and competition of The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP book. The friendly people of friends of ED are giving away 5 books! Read More

Winners of Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites book competition

Thanks to the friendly people of friends of ED we had 5 copies to give away of; Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites. Take a look to see the correct answer and if you're one of the lucky winners. Read More

Mozilla hunting for memory

Christopher Blizzard, a member of Mozilla's board plans to lower the memory use of Firefox. The browser is suffering from significant performance problems, where it used to be one of the fastest browsers it has become one of the slower ones. Mozilla developer Stuart Parmenter is researching the matter.

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