SkypeKit gives Linux developers access to core functionality, allowing Linux developers to add video, calling and instant messaging features to desktop applications.
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Miguel de Icaza: .NET technology for web browsers
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The creator of the Mono project suggests integrating the Common Language Infrastructure into browsers. Icaza says this would give programmers a more comprehensive choice of programming languages and allow them to develop improved applications
Read more »Moonlight 3.0 Approaches With New Features
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Moonlight, the de facto open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight platform for Linux that leverages Mono, is nearing its 3.0 release. Moonlight 2.0 was just released a half-year ago, but Moonlight 3.0 Preview 7 was just released and it's offering up more features.
Read more »Install Adobe Flash Player 10 in Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10
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Flash Player 10 adds new filters, 3D effects, better typography support, and more. For Linux users this version offers windowless mode support (transparency through Flash, and page elements rendered above Flash), V4L2 camera support, smooth fullscreen video playback, and better performance.
Read more »Build and maintain large applications with new ASP.NET MVC book
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The book demonstrates how to work effectively with views and controllers – two of the most important ingredients of the ASP.NET MVC framework. Readers can work with actions and controllers to perform some important tasks such as creating a CAPTCHA system and generating a PDF order summary.
Read more »Microsoft Brings Silverlight 2 to Linux
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One of the difficulties open source software faces is in implementing support — where it is even possible to do so — for the wide variety of codecs, formats, and other proprietary technologies that users have come to rely on. One such technology is Microsoft's Silverlight framework, which until early this year, was a no-go for Linux users.
Read more »Ruby for .NET gets stable with IronRuby 1.0
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Microsoft's Jimmy Schementi and the IronRuby team have announced the first stable version of IronRuby, the Ruby runtime for the .NET platform's Dynamic Language Runtime
Read more »What Are The Effects Of Open-Source DRM?
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Open-source DRM may sound like a contradiction, but someone is trying it. Traditionally, DRM has been a technology that restricts freedom, rather than granting it.
Read more »Novell Moonlight 2.0 Gets Microsoft's Blessing
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The new version of Moonlight is out, and with it, an expanded patent covenant enabling any Linux user to run Novell's open source Silverlight implementation.
Read more »Open source closes gap on Microsoft's next Silverlight
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Code has been released for the open-source version of Silverlight that closes the gap on the as-yet-unfinished next version of Microsoft's browser-based media player.
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NVIDIA Releases 185.18.14 Display Driver
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NVIDIA hasn't released as many Linux driver updates in May as they have in past months, but this week they are out with the NVIDIA 185.18.14 driver update.
Read more »Nine Months Later: Mono 2.6 and MonoDevelop 2.2
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About nine months ago we released MonoDevelop 2.0 and Mono 2.4. Today we are releasing the much anticipated upgrades to both. Mono 2.6 and MonoDevelop 2.2.
Read more »Using commercial tools in Backtrack 3
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In a previous article Linux-Tip explained how to install the current release (Backtrack 3 Final) in a virtual environment using VMWare. The goal was to run Backtrack 3 from the hard disk connected to a Wireless USB Adapter and to use the tool Kismet. It further explains how to collect valid wireless networks and to display them on Google Earth’s worldwide map system.
Read more »Testing Basic HTTP Authentication using PHPUnit in Zend Framework
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Although Zend_Auth reference guide shows how to implement Basic HTTP Authentication, it does not show how to test it using PHPUnit. Therefore, in this post, a simple example of a Zend project, along with the associated PHPUnit test case is presented. The full source code of the project is available for download.
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Books: SugarCRM Developer's Manual: Customize and extend SugarCRM
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Following on from the success of their first book on SugarCRM, Packt is pleased to announce its follow up. Written by CRM expert Dr Mark Alexander Bain, SugarCRM Developer's Manual focuses on customizing this open source CRM.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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