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 »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 »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 »Access Google from your Terminal
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This weekend, Google proudly announced GoogleCL, a set of new command-line tools for some of its popular services...
Read more »GoogleCL: Manage Any Google Service Via Command Line
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GoogleCL is a command line tool to manage all the Google services: you can upload photos to your PicasaWeb albums, post to your Blogger blog, modify Google Calendar events, add contacts, manage your Google Docs (upload, delete, and so on) and even upload videos to YouTube. Unfortunately it doesn't come with support for Gmail.
Read more »How To Install Internet Explorer 6/7 On Fedora 10/11
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This document describes how to install the Internet Explorer (IE) 6 or 7 or both on Fedora 10 or 11 using IEs4Linux package. Some Web developers and designers (and rarely users) need to view their pages on IE for testing purpose (and see how CSS / JavaScript behaves).
Read more »Introducing the WebSphere sMash PHPCompute node in WebSphere Message Broker
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The PHPCompute node is a new general-purpose programmable node in IBM® WebSphere® Message Broker that embeds the IBM WebSphere sMash runtime for PHP. This article shows how you can use the PHPCompute node to write PHP scripts that transform and route messages in WebSphere Message Broker.
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