Microsoft has released the trial version of its flagship software development product for software developers, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. The Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 includes Visual Basic (.Net), Visual C#, Visual C++ and ASP.NET. Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 provides an industry-leading developer experience for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and the Web. In addition, it continues in the Microsoft tradition of development language innovation. Microsoft has offered a 90-Day trial period for this new package and allows users for evaluation.

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Most websites and web pages will be compatible and work fine on iPhone and Blackberry. However, it’s still possible to make the web sites more supportive, ready and friendly to Apple iPhone by giving more information to iPhone about how the webpage should be displayed on the iPhone browser. Beside, for web sites that try to emulate the functionality of the built-in iPhone applications such as webapps that use Canvas, AJAX functionality and limit the size of the page to 320×480px (or 480×320px), it’s best to ensure iPhone and Blackberry compatibility to ensure that the page is rendered and formatted correctly and avoid problem such as web page or application not scaling properly when rotate and Safari browser zooming out.

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Ever wonder how your mouse connects to the cursor and moves it around your screen? Believe it or not, I found a website that explains this technical process clearly thanks to a giant digital magnifying glass.

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Perl programmers or system that using CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) extensive list of modules or distributions may occasionally has the following message shown in log file, especially when using script that acts as a package manager or automated update script such as in the case of upcp script for cPanel WebHost Manager hosting server:

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Adobe Systems has released Adobe Apollo alpha version for sneak peak and free download from Adobe Labs. Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime technology that allows rich Internet application to port and run offline, and thus allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills on Adobe (Macromedia) Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax and etc to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop. Apollo, if success, may threaten threaten the popularity of programming platforms such as Java and Microsoft.NET.

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Oracle JDeveloper is a free Java IDE or integrated development environment from Oracle that offers features for development in Java, XML, SQL and PL/SQL, HTML, JavaScript, BPEL, PHP, and more. JDeveloper provides covers the end-to-end full development lifecycle from modeling, designing, developing, coding, debugging, optimization and profiling to deploying Java application and web services. Full features of Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle’s Java/J2EE Workbench for Oracle 10g includes ADF, SOA, J2EE, UML, Database, Java, and XML, with newer version also support BPEL, ESB and EJB 3.0/JPA.

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Robots addicts, enthusiasts, hobbyists, educators or students now have a good news, in a way that Microsoft has released Windows-based, robotic-platform-agnostic Microsoft Robotics Studio (MRS) CTP (community technical preview) November 2006 for free download. Microsoft Robotics Studio offers visual, services-based platform for programming robots or create robotics applications in the real and virtual world, and intends to be software platform for the robotics community that can be used across a wide variety of hardware, is applicable to a wide audience of user and can be used for development of a wide variety of applications. Commercial or business developers that intend to use the MRS for commercial purposes or use the programming tool to control and drive robot have to license the runtime for $399 per seat.

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Microsoft has released XNA Game Studio Express and the XNA Framework out of beta as version 1.0, a games development tool designed to let game developers, designers and hobbyists to easily create and develop video games for Windows and Xbox 360 gaming platform using new and optimized XNA Framework, a set of managed code development cross-platform gaming libraries based on Visual C# Express 2005. XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 is available for free.

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