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Microsoft moves on Azure cloud

Jack Vaughan@nospam.com — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:37:57 -0400

A new CTP for the Azure DB ... free promo time on Azure cloud for some MSDN subscribers ... and some tips on dealing with cloud storage ...

Thom Robbins Joins Kentico as Product Evangelist

Petr Palas@nospam.com — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:51:24 -0400

Web content management system vendor Kentico Software announced the appointment of Thom Robbins as Product Evangelist. Thom Robbins comes from Microsoft where he worked as the Director of Developer Audience.

Say it isn't SOA, Rocky?

Jack Vaughan@nospam.com — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:27:01 -0400

At the Microsoft Patterns & Practices Summit in Redmond today, SOA and distributed architectures were the topic of considerable discussion. Rocky Lhotka said SOA is nothing new. But he has started to see some best practices emerge in building distributed parallel systems.

TestRail test management beta now available

Tobias G.@nospam.com — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:55:28 -0400

A first beta version of Gurock Software's upcoming web-based <a href="http://www.gurock.com/testrail/">test case management</a> tool TestRail is now available. TestRail is intended to help software development teams and quality assurance departments manage test cases, track test results and organize software testing efforts.

WebGrid ASP.NET Data Grid is now available for free

Olav Botterli@nospam.com — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:55:19 -0400

WebGrid generates cross-browser compatible web forms, and handles all data source interaction (update, insert, and delete) for you. WebGrid is fast loading datagrid with codeless data-binding and comes with a rich client-side of properties and tons of features with a performance that beats ASP.NET GridView.

Crypto Obfuscator For .Net 2009 released

LogicNP Software@nospam.com — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:29:14 -0400

Protect and optimize your .Net software using <a href="http://www.ssware.com/cryptoobfuscator/obfuscator-net.htm">Crypto Obfuscator</a>'s advanced obfuscation, encryption and optimization technology.

MS Doloto tool said to speed large-scale Ajax applications

Jack Vaughan@nospam.com — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:34:09 -0400

According to Microsofts Soma Somasegar, the company released Doloto, a tool that analyzes Ajax application workloads and automatically performs code splitting of existing large web applications. [SOATALKBLOG]

New Release: web2test web testing software version 1.3

Benjamin Franke@nospam.com — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:21:36 -0400

New release offers improved handling of AJAX and already supports the new FireFox version 3.5

ProActive 4.1, Open Source Java Grid Framework, Available

Celine Despoix@nospam.com — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:20:02 -0400

Introduction to ProActive Parallel Suite, an open source Java middleware for parallel and distributed computing First major release of ProActive Scheduling: 1.0 New features in ProActive Programming 4.1

CodeSmith 5.1 Released with New Lower Pricing Options!

Shannon Davidson@nospam.com — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:06:16 -0400

<a href="http://www.codesmithtools.com/store">Personal licenses</a> now available for individual developers. Packed full of new Schema Providers, merge strategies, and updated CodeSmith project management, CodeSmith provides an even better code generation experience. <a href="http://www.codesmithtools.com/downloads">Download CodeSmith 5.1 Now!</a>