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Tweet Moments of Fun If being a developer isn’t one of the best jobs in the world, at least it has its moments. Sometimes you create your own moments, perhaps with an Easter egg, or maybe by writing small games, Web sites or utilities that have no real commercial use, yet satisfy a creative need [...]

Tweet CollabNet ups ALM Ante CollabNet Corp.’s integration of the technologies it acquired last year from VA Software continues apace. The Brisbane, Calif.-based maker of software lifecycle management tools recently released a new version of its SourceForge Enterprise application lifecycle management (ALM) system. The company also introduced a new desktop-configuration tool. Among other things, CollabNet’s [...]

Tweet SQL Server 2008 Is Here It’s official: Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008, the culmination of a series of new tools and server product launches by the company this year, including Visual Studio and Windows Server. Microsoft also released the first Service Pack (SP) of Visual Studio and of .NET Framework 3.5 (see the [...]

Tweet Shine on Silverlight and Windows with XAML Web bling tone Extensible Application Markup Language, or XAML, lies at the heart of Microsoft’s rich-client strategy. The user interface for both Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight, which is mostly a subset of WPF, is typically defined in XAML. It is, therefore, something Windows developers will [...]

Tweet F# Update: MonoDevelop, a New Book, and a New CTP Though still officially just a research project, the excitement over F# continues unabated. In today’s roundup, we take a brief look at what’s new for F#. First up is a new F# IDE plug-in for MonoDevelop 2.0. This version of MonoDevelop is still in [...]