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Mini review and competition of Essential ActionScript 3.0
We've got a brand new mini-review and competition of the Essential ActionScript 3.0 book. The friendly people of O`Reilly & Associates are giving away 5 books! Read MoreGeneral
SourceForge.Net 2007 Community Choice Awards
SourceForge.Net 2007 Community announced the Community Choice Awards 2007 are over. Winners at 11 different categories were chosen.Read More
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Eclipse 3.3: New and Improved
Peter Hendriks has written an interesting review of Eclipse. Although he is missing features of the "old' Eclipse based tool there are a lot of positive features to compensate.Read More
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Microsoft's Vista SP1 fixes not out until 2009?
Unconfirmed sources say that Microsoft has told executives of a major PC maker not to expect a formal release of Windows Vista SP1. The first major set of upgrades and bug fixes to its Vista operating system
can 't be expected until 2009 at the earliest.
That explains why Microsoft was so desperate to correct erroneous reports, spread by a careless team of developers at Microsoft, that a beta version of SP1 would be out last week. Microsoft now says it "currently anticipates" a beta of SP1 later this year. Anticipations, of course, are not always met...
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JavaScript - window.onload Is Bad M’kay
According to Geek Daily you shouldn't use the window.onload command for a page with large files like images, animations, or video because there will be a huge delay before your code gets executed. This is because the onload event does not fire until every last piece of the page is loaded. Read MoreAdobe
Adobe Ships ColdFusion 8
Adobe released ColdFusion 8, a powerful development tool for building dynamic Web sites and Internet applications. The company claims the latest version increases developer productivity, advanced integration with complex enterprise environments, and rich and engaging experiences for users. Read MoreMicrosoft
Microsoft Announces Second Beta of Visual Studio 2008 with SilverLight 1.0 and .Net 3.5
Microsoft announced the availability a new beta version of its upcoming Visual Studio 2008 developer tools and the last version of its Silverlight rich media software code.
According to Scott Guthrie, general manager of Microsoft’s Developer Division, Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 will feature a “dramatically improved HTML designer” and rich Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) support.
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P2P networks harm national security
Politicians charged last week that peer-to-peer networks can pose a "national security threat" because they enable federal employees to share sensitive or classified documents accidentally from their computers. Read MoreMicrosoft