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Netcraft's February 2007 Web Server Survey results have been released this morning. The latest data confirms a definite trend that kicked off about year ago: web servers running Microsoft IIS are on the increase and Apache is on the decline in terms...
Channel 9 keeps pumping out good stuff. Here is my pick of recent interviews: Charles Torre discusses programming language design with Anders Hejlsberg, Technical Fellow and Chief Architect of C#, Herb Sutter, Architect in the C++ language design group...
Molly E. Holzschlag , formerly of the Web Standards Project (WASP) has joined the IE team on a contract basis to work on standards and interoperability issues. "I’m very excited to announce that I will be working to advance standards and interoperability...
In case you haven't heard , Jim Gray is still missing . Our thoughts are with Jim and his family. I work in the SQL building and obviously everyone here is hoping to hear some good news very soon. We're all wishing for the best and that Jim turns...
Last night's Daily Show, with Jon Stewart interviewing Bill Gates about the Vista launch was fun. Jon: What's your password? Bill: <laughs> Jon: You don't have to answer that. Is it 'Gates'? Bill: I'll tell you later. Jon...
Good news for XQuery and XSLT fans - the W3C has announced the W3C Recommendations for XQuery 1.0 as an XML-aware syntax for querying collections of structured and semi-structured data both locally and over the Web and XSLT Version 2.0 , a specification...
Scott Guthrie has announced the final release of ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 (aka "Atlas"). Other related links worth checking out: Brad Abrams on AJAX for ISVs (video) Scott Guthrie - MIX07, Work, and Personal Details Revealed (video) ASP.NET AJAX Forums...
Tim O'Reilly has posted the second part of the Q406 computer books sales report , comparing Q4 2006 with Q4 2005. This is for top selling computer-related books sales in the US, not just O'Reilly titles. Always interesting as an indicator of trends...
Don Ferguson, IBM Software Group's former Chief Architect, has appeared on the Microsoft.com site with his own Executive bio . According to the bio page Ferguson is now "Microsoft Technical Fellow in Platforms and Strategy, in the Office of the...
Quick backgrounder: In October of last year, Tim Berners-Lee called for a renewed effort to progress the HTML standard from its current version (HTML 4.01) ratified by the W3C eight years ago. More recently, the WHAT-WG , an independent group was established...
The following is a short description of Adobe's play for 2007 - Apollo - big news in my opinion: "Apollo, the code name for “a cross-operating system runtime” is a platform that will allow developers to create to desktop applications...
The Daily Telegraph has 'revealed' 2006's most successful entrepreneurs in Britain under the age forty . Number 36 on the list is Ajaz Ahmed, founder of interactive agency AQKA , with a reported personal value of £51m (just shy of $100m...
Thanks to Lilia Efimova , I saw Raymond Chen's news of a book he's publishing in Jan, 2007: 'Old New Thing, The: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows' . You can pre-order it here . Raymond works in the Windows team...
I did a classic double take when I read this headline on Techmeme this morning - ' A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft '. If you don't know who Jon Udell is, he is what I consider to be the ultimate modern technology...
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