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Microsoft To Release Cloud-Oriented Windows OS
Thursday, October 02, 2008 2:34 AM

Post on Slashdot on Microsoft's plan to release an OS intended for developers writing cloud-computing applications. Read more here: http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/10/01/1816208.shtml Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: BizTalk, Integration, Development, General Information, Cload Computing

Famous Programmers
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 1:39 AM

A fun article on what made some programmer famous. http://grok-code.com/37/famous-programmers-from-adleman-to-zimmermann/ Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: C#, Development, programming, .net, Java, General Information

Inside Chrome
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 2:51 AM

The buzz word this week seem to Chrome - Google's newly launched web browser. In this article Wired magazine takes a look behind the scenes. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-10/mf_chrome?currentPage=1 Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! |... Read More...

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Filed under: Ajax, Web 2.0, General Information, Wired Magazine, Browsers

LXDE
Friday, August 08, 2008 2:54 AM

From the LXDE Website : " LXDE is a new project aimed to provide a new desktop environment which is lightweight and fast. It's not designed to be powerful and bloated, but to be usable and slim enough, and keep the resource usage low. Different from other desktop environments, we don't tightly integrate every component. Instead, we tried to make... Read More...

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Filed under: Operating System, Open Source, General Information, Linx

Hiding Menu Items
Monday, July 28, 2008 2:12 AM

I read this interesting little post by Joel Spolsky on the hiding of menu items. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/07/01.html I seem to agree with his view that user's get confused and struggle to get the disabled menu item to work. And sometimes they just give up on the piece of software all together. What do you think? Subscribe in a reader Share... Read More...

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Filed under: Development, programming, Design, General Information

2nd Generation OLPC laptop
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:55 AM

The One Laptop per Child has unveiled its second generation laptop at the beginning of this week. The laptop is not a real laptop as such, but more of an e-book reader. This article from Xconomy has more detail and pictures: http://www.xconomy.com/2008/05/20/negroponte-unveils-2nd-generation-olpc-laptop-its-an-e-book/ Share this post: email it! | bookmark it... Read More...

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Filed under: Installation, eBooks, General Information, OLPC, Computers, Laptops