Saturday, December 10, 2011

This week readings..


No SQL databases
Interesting point, as James Philip mentioning, high percentage of real word Software Application scenarios are document-centric by nature. This concept does not talks about the data normalization, tables, joining or data redundancy, but document oriented data model, concentrate on storing very large amount of information, then analyze the information to learn something.

WebOS 3.0 is based on Enyo, a new HTML framework
HP is targeting a Web base OS for mobile devices, which is based on HTML framework called “Enyo”. And they have release WebOS SDK and PDK and that’s a good new for developer..
And finally WebOS 3.0, announced open source.

Binding Enhancements in WPF 4.5
It’s cutting edge Binding features from WPF latest..
1.       Support Binding static properties via class name
2.       Delay Binding

I’m a big fan of Eric Lippert and he is Microsoft Employee and most importantly fantastic writer. This weekend I went through his blog and found few interesting posts,
Why IL
This is about Microsoft intermediate language - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2011/11/18/why-il.aspx

The Roslyn preview is now available – Compiler as a Service (CAAS)
When we needed to access the MS code compiling and code analysis capabilities, we used to use Microsoft CodeDom in our applications. But this Roslyn framework, MS is trying to provide these capabilities as a API, where anyone can use those capabilities easily. Microsoft Visual Studio development team will also follow the same and will use this as a base platform for code analysis and compiling.


 Lakmal

Sunday, December 4, 2011

This week readings..


Linked Data – Connect Distributed Data across the Web - http://linkeddata.org/home
It’s about how to use, publish,etc Linked Data across the web and more..
First time I got to know about this and look very interesting.
Handling Dates with Java – Date4J – A Minimalistic Library for handling dates - http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/12/date4j-vs-joda-time
First time I felt great while reading this because I had to change my gear to the .NET platform at the initial part of my carrier. With the amount of functionalities available in .NET languages to handle date and time, you will feel great as a .NET developer.  It’s almost painless..

Lakmal