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Oracle will submit its AJAX render kit to the open source community, enabling JSF components to become more dynamic.

CodeProject get its 3 millionth sign-up!

News for Thursday, May 11 2006

Plans to introduce a top-level domain for adult content have been shelved after internet regulator ICANN voted against a proposed agreement for a dot-xxx address.

WORLD OF WARCRAFT, the most popular MMORPG and one of best-selling games in the world, will be getting a mission pack in the next couple of months.

The next version of ADO.NET will enable a higher-level abstraction of data-access programming by introducing an entity model that brings conceptual-level data access concepts directly into the code. See what Microsoft is planning for ADO.NET in this technical preview.

New version of Desktop (now with Gadgets!), Google Co-op (annotating the Web) and Trends (what have people been searching for lately?) latest out of the search-meisters.

Sun will remain the shepherd of Java's future according to the language's designer, James Gosling.

They will be releasing a Beta of Spry, a new HTML-centric framework for building Ajax applications.

What are some good books on protecting your network and data?

"Live Anywhere" will allow gamers to take their tags, stats, and online profiles with them wherever they go online, whether it's on the Xbox, a PC, or even a Pocket PC or mobile phone.

Novell took a swing at Microsoft's dominance on the corporate desktop this week with the release of the Novell Open Workgroup Suite, which repackages several open-source applications and tools under new licensing terms. Didn't they try this once before?

This package is a combined update of both the VB and C# LINQ Community Technology Previews released in January 2006 and December 2005. It includes samples, whitepapers, hands-on labs and compiler/IDE support for creating LINQ-enabled applications. Major component additions in this release are the DLinq Designer, LINQ over Dataset, Data Binding, and ASP.NET LINQ project templates.

The Sun's Great Conveyor Belt has slowed to a record-low crawl, implying that solar flares may be at an all time low for the next few years.

News for Wednesday, May 10 2006

Jeanson James Ancheta, who used a network of zombie computers to rake in tens of thousands of dollars and buy himself a BMW, was sentenced to almost five years in federal prison on Monday.

For those of you who need a little extra help in the debugging department.

Microsoft is on a small buying spree lately, buying technology companies to help them out Google.

Now with up to 32,000 processes, a rewritten kernel and integration between Platform Builder and Visual Studio 2005.

The Big Three peel back the curtain on their latest round of their next-generation console war.

Yesterday was Patch Tuesday. You know the drill.

WS-Addressing 1.0 offers a transport-neutral mechanism for addressing objects in Web services.

The Rich Server Platform - User Interface Framework aims to provide a new flexible and cross-platform server-side framework.

A programmer with an analogy is like a plate of spaghetti.