Hoje, os laboratórios vivos de Microsoft são anunciar Inspecção prévia da tecnologia de Volta, um toolset do colaborador para aplicações multi-tier da correia fotorreceptora do edifício usando ferramentas existentes e familiares, técnicas e testes padrões. Tier-rachar declarativo de Volta permite colaboradores de postpone decisões architectural sobre a distribuição até o último momento responsável possível. Também, os agradecimentos a um modelo de programação compartilhado através dos múltiplo-tiers, Volta permitem perfilar end-to-end novo e testar para uns níveis mais elevados do desempenho, do robustness, e da confiabilidade da aplicação. Usando tier-rachar declarativo, os colaboradores podem refinar as decisões architectural baseadas nestes dados perfilando. Isto conserva o tempo e os custos associados com refactoring manual. De fato, Volta estende a plataforma de .NET para permitir mais mais o desenvolvimento de aplicações de software+services, usando ferramentas existentes e familiares e técnicas.

You architect and build your application as a .NET client application, assigning the portions of the application that run on the server tier and client tier late in the development process. You can target either web browsers or the CLR as clients and Volta handles the complexities of tier-splitting. The compiler creates cross-browser JavaScript for the client tier, web services for the server tier, and all communication, serialization, synchronization, security, and other boilerplate code to tie the tiers together. In effect, Volta offers a

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While so many people wanted to get their hands on iPhone, some of them have their own iPhone usage. One of the customer uses his iStrength with an iHammer doing an iSmashing on the highly sought iPhone… Why o tell me why???

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but when a couple of amateurs offer a video homage to our Cracking Open the Apple iPhone gallery – by way of the Captain Caveman school of computer diagnostics – we can’t help but feel slightly insulted, embarrassed, and highly amused. That’s video gold, people. Nice work.

Source: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/geekend/?p=755&tag=nl.e138

Issue: iPhone impact on the enterprise

Make no mistake, the iPhone is a consumer electronics product. It’s an uber-phone aimed at digital enthusiasts who want to use their phone to have a better Internet and computing experience on the go. Of course, no one wants and needs a better mobile computing experience than business users. That’s why the iPhone could quickly spill over to have a significant impact on businesses.

Many businesses and IT departments are already anticipating iPhone requests from employees. In response, Gartner analysts are advising businesses against adopting the iPhone for a variety of reasons, including:

• Lack of enterprise-level security
• Lack of support from mobile e-mail providers (BlackBerry and Good)
• Limited backup options
• iPhone’s $500 price tag
• Apple’s inexperience in delivering enterprise products

In its research note titled “How to Plan for User Interest in the Apple iPhone,� Gartner even went so far as to estimate that the total cost of ownership (TCO) of supporting the iPhone will be double the TCO of supporting the BlackBerry or Palm Treo.

Full article can be found over at: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=518&tag=nl.e138