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RIA Wars: Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe AIR, Mozilla Prism

xaban — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:41:57 +0000

Well folks, we saw this comming a mile away!

In the brave new world of the Web2.0, RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) there is no room for slackers, and now we can enjoy not one or two but three choices to develop and deliver (and why not: ENJOY) Internet in a new and sophisticated way.

Microsoft Silverlight

My personal Favorite.

Microsoft Silverlight is a versatile cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.

Silverlight Runtime – Feature Matrix


Cross-Browser Support for Firefox, IE, Safari, Opera
Cross-Platform Support for Windows and Mac (and Linux through the Moonlight Project)
2D Vector Animation/Graphics
AJAX Support
HTML DOM Integration
HTTP Networking
Canvas Layout Support
JavaScript Support
Silverlight ASP.NET Controls (asp:media, asp:xaml)
XAML Parser (based on WPF)
Media – 720P High Definition (HD) Video
Media – Audio/Video Support (VC-1, WMV, WMA, MP3)
Media – Image Support (JPG, PNG)
Media Markers
Windows Media Server Support
Support for Visual Basic.NET and C#; Common Language Runtime (CLR) based languages
Support for IronPython, IronRuby, Managed JScript, and other Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) based languages
Rich Core Framework (e.g. Generics, collections)
Multi-Threading
Layout controls including StackPanel and Grid
Full suite of Controls (TextBox, RadioButton, Slider, Calendar, DatePicker, DataGrid, ListBox, TabControl, and others)
Managed Control Framework
Templating Model
Visual State Manager
Isolated Storage
Deep Zoom Technology
Media – DRM Powered by PlayReady
Media – Windows Media Audio 10 Professional support
Media – MediaStreamSource for managed code media file parser and protocol extensibility
High quality resizing
Media – Basic SSPL Support
Cross Domain Network Access
Easy access to server-side data via Web Services
Direct access to TCP sockets
Interoperability with SOAP and REST services, including support for XML, JSON, RSS and Atom data formats
LINQ (including LINQ to XML, LINQ to JSON, and LINQ to Entities)
Duplex communications (“push” from Server to Silverlight client)
Data Binding
ADO.NET Data Services
Managed HTML Bridge
Managed Exception Handling
.NET Framework Security Enforcement
Type Safety Verification
XMLReader/Writer
Enhanced Keyboard Input Support
File Upload Support (via WebClient API)
WPF Compatibility
Accessibility
Localization
Remote Debugging (PC and Mac)

Silverlight’s support for .NET, High Definition video, cost-effective advanced streaming, unparalleled high-resolution interactivity with Deep Zoom technology, and controls, businesses can reach out to new markets across the Web, desktop, and devices.

: Silverlight Media Encoder

Let’s not forget that the brand new Silverlight 2.0 is also integrated on the SURFACE project (Multi-tactile GUI)

Silverligth 2.0 with Surface 2.0

.Net Interaction with Silverlight

Adobe AIR

Adobe® AIR™ runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that deploy to the desktop and run across operating systems.

Google 3D Maps Made with Adobe Air

Adobe AIR offers an exciting new way to engage customers with innovative, branded desktop applications, without requiring changes to existing technology, people, or processes.

Mozilla Prism

In essence, Mozila Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.

(A plus side of this, is that it lets users add their favorite web apps to their desktop environment and when invoked, these applications run in their own window)

They are accessible with Control-Tab, Command-Tab, and Exposé, just like desktop apps. And users can still access these same applications from any web browser when they are away from their own computers.

Links:

Adobe Air:

http://www.adobe.com/products/air/

Microsoft Silverlight:

http://silverlight.net/

Mozilla Prism:

http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/

Source Code for Google Chrome

xaban — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:33:13 +0000

Well, it’s been quite a while, but here I am again.

Many developers want to get a “hands on” experience with the new toy (aka Chrome) so, without further delay…

Prerequisites

Build environment

Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or later, or Windows Vista.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (8.0). Visual Studio 2003 and 2008 are not supported.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (download).
Windows Vista SDK 6.0 or later (download). The Windows 2008 SDK is also supported. To integrate the SDK with Visual Studio, select Microsoft Windows SDK from the Start menu, then Visual Studio Registration > Integrate Windows SDK with Visual Studio 2005

Chromium checkout scripts

Download the depot_tools_win.zip package, which contains gclient, gcl, and svn

tools. Add the depot_tools directory to your path:

C:\>set PATH=C:\depot_tools;%PATH%

The depot_tools package automatically updates itself every time gclient is run. See the depot_tools page if you want to disable this behavior.

Getting the code

Create a directory (with no spaces anywhere in the path name) to hold your source code. In this example we’ll assume it’s c:\trunk, but other names are fine.

Before syncing the client, visit the Chromium Buildbot waterfall and make sure it says the tree is OPEN at the top. [Note: If this part of the infrastructure is not yet working, please check the topic of the #chromium IRC channel on irc.freenode.net instead.] If you sync while the tree is CLOSED, the code may not compile or link. Once you’ve verified that the tree is open, run the following commands (using your directory in place of c:\trunk):

cd c:\trunk
gclient config http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src
gclient sync

You can expect this to take about an hour.

gclient config only needs to be run once to set up your working directory. It creates a .gclient file in your source directory that identifies the corresponding structure to pull from the repository. gclient sync will create several subdirectories in your tip directory. To update your tree in the future, you only need to run gclient sync from that directory. More information about gclient is available from the gclient wiki.

Building Chromium

Open the chrome/chrome.sln solution file in Visual Studio and build the solution. This can take from 15 to 40 minutes.

If you just want the Chromium browser, and none of the tests, you can speed up your build by right-clicking chrome_exe in the solution explorer and selecting Build. You may want to make sure this project is the Startup project (which will display as bold) by right-clicking it and selecting Set as Startup Project. This will make Chromium (as opposed to some random test) build and run when you press F5.

Accelerating the build

In decreasing order of speedup:

Install Microsoft hotfix 935225.
Install Microsoft hotfix 947315.
Use a true multicore processor (ie. an Intel Core Duo 2; not a Pentium 4 HT).
Use 3 parallel builds. In Visual Studio 2005, you will find the option in Tools > Options… > Projects and Solutions > Build and Run > maximum number of parallel project builds.
Disable your anti-virus software for .ilk, .pdb, .cc, .h files and only check for viruses on modify. Disable scanning the directory where your sources reside. Don’t do anything stupid.
Store and build the Chromium code on a second hard drive. It won’t really speed up the build but at least your computer will stay responsive when you do gclient sync or a build.
Defragment your hard drive regularly.
Disable virtual memory.

Optional

Rebuild / Clean

You can use Rebuild and Clean on individual projects to rebuild them. However, because of the large number of files generated by the build system, avoid using Rebuild All or Clean All – these do not erase everything! Instead delete the entire output directory (chrome\Debug or chrome\Release).

Build Chromium with JavaScriptCore

Our default solution file is chrome.sln which includes the V8 JavaScript engine. If you need to make a reference build of Chromium using JavaScriptCore, you should use the chrome_kjs.sln solution file. You will also need to set JS_ENGINE_TYPE=_kjs in your environment, then run Visual Studio (devenv) from that same command line. From the command line, type:

C:\trunk\src\chrome> set JS_ENGINE_TYPE=_kjs

C:\trunk\src\chrome> devenv chrome_kjs.sln

If the devenv command isn’t found, run the Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt in your Start menu (by default, under Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 > Tools). This will set up the correct environment to run Visual Studio from the command line.

In Cygwin, use the following command:

$ JS_ENGINE_TYPE=_kjs devenv chrome_kjs.sln

Troubleshooting

Build failures on Vista

If you build on Vista, watch out for security issues. Make sure that the folder where you checked out your files is writable for users and not only for admins.

Compilation failures

Some common things to think about when you have weird compilation failures:

Make sure you have SP1 for Visual Studio 2005. It’s required. Really.
Sometimes Visual Studio does the wrong thing when building Chromium and gets stuck on a bogus error. A good indication of this is if it is only failing for one person but others (including the Buildbots) are not complaining. To resolve this, try the following steps:
1. Close Visual Studio.
2. Sync to the tip of tree and ensure there are no conflicts (“svn st” should not show any “C“s in front of files that you’ve changed).
3. If there were conflicts, sync again after resolving them.
4. Manually erase the output directory (chrome\Debug and chrome\Release. Using the command line, you can use “erase /S /Q Debug Release” from the chrome directory to do this, or “rm -rf Debug Release” if you have Unix-like tools installed.
5. Restart Visual Studio and open the Chromium solution.
6. Rebuild the solution.

If it still doesn’t work, repeating this process probably won’t help.

chrome_kjs.sln tempfile problems

If, while building JavaScriptCore, you see errors like:

3>Error in tempfile() using /tmp/dftables-XXXXXXXX.in: Parent directory (/tmp/) is not writable
3> at /cygdrive/c/b/slave/WEBKIT~1/build/webkit/third_party/JavaScriptCore/pcre/dftables line 236
3>make: *** [chartables.c] Error 255

…it’s because the Cygwin installation included in the Chromium source is having trouble mapping the NT ACL to POSIX permissions. This seems to happen when Chromium is checked out into a directory for which Cygwin can’t figure out the permissions in the first place, possibly when the directory is created from within a Cygwin environment before running mkpasswd. Cygwin then imposes its own access control, which is incorrectly restrictive. As a workaround, do one of the following:

Edit the NT permissions on third_party\cygwin\tmp to allow Modify and Write actions for Everyone and machine\Users. Cygwin is able to figure this out. Or,

Figure out what went wrong with your checkout and try again – try doing the checkout from cmd instead of from a Cygwin shell, then verify that the permissions aren’t completely blank in your Cygwin installation. Or,

Bypass Cygwin’s access control (NT’s will still be in effect) by editing webkit\build\JavaScriptCore\prebuild.bat and webkit\build\WebCore\prebuild.bat to include the following line before invoking anything that uses Cygwin:

set CYGWIN=nontsec

Only one of these solutions should be needed.

Running Chromium

The chrome.exe executable can be found at chrome/Debug/chrome.exe or chrome/Release/chrome.exe, depending on the selected build configuration.

Debugging

Because of Chromium’s unique architecture, there are a number of special challenges associated with development. See Debugging Chromium for more information.

Contributing

Once you’re comfortable with building Chromium, read the Contributing Code page for information about writing code for Chromium and contributing it.

Packaging

If you want to package your build into a zip file, do the following:

cd /path/to/chrome
./tools/build/win/make_zip.sh Release my-chromium

This will create my-chromium.zip. You can change Release to Debug if you want to zip up the debug build instead.

Troubleshooting

Error message: This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect or The system cannot execute the specified program

Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (download).

Additional (free) downloads

Once Visual Studio is installed, you need to download and install some more software.

Download and install Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1.
Depending on your computer, installation can take about an hour, and you might need to reboot.
Download and install the Microsoft Windows SDK.
You might need to reboot. You can save space by not installing the documentation and code samples.

Note: Although the SDK says it’s for Vista, it works on both XP and Vista. If you already have the Microsoft 2008 SDK, you don’t need to install a new one.
Integrate the SDK with Visual Studio: Start > All Programs > Microsoft Windows SDK > Visual Studio Registration > Integrate Windows SDK with Visual Studio 2005
Get the Chromium depot_tools:
1. Download depot_tools.zip.
2. Unzip the file.
  Note: If you have Cygwin installed, don’t use its unzip tool; it will mess up the permissions.
3. Add the depot tools directory to your PATH. Example: C:\bin\depot_tools
  Note: By default, the depot_tools will automatically update to the latest version every time you run gclient. See the depot_tools page if you want to disable this behavior.

Chromium code

The Chromium codebase consists of hundreds of thousands of files, which means that a checkout straight from the Subversion (SVN) repository can take a long time. To speed up the process, we have provided a tarball that you can use to bootstrap the download. Alternatively, you can skip the tarball and download straight from SVN (not recommended).

Note: There is no advantage to checking out straight from SVN. The tarball includes SVN directories so that after you unpack the tarball, you can get up to the latest revision by using gclient sync.

If you only want to look at the source code, you’ll need at least 1.6 GB of hard drive space available. If you want to build it, you will need just under 10 GB of space, including all the object files and executables.

To bootstrap using the tarball:

Make sure that you have a program that can untar .tar.gz files. Examples include the open-source 7-Zip archiver, the free BsdTar utility (part of LibArchive), and WinZip. Note: Cygwin’s tar tool will not work; it will mess up the permissions.
Download the source tarball.
Choose a directory to hold your source code. Example: c:\chromiumtrunk

Important: Make sure the directory path has no spaces.
Untar the source tarball into the directory you’ve chosen. Example: If you’re using LibArchive, issue the following command:

“C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\bsdtar.exe” -xzf chromium.tgz
Optionally, sync to the latest revision of Chromium:
1. Visit the Chromium Buildbot waterfall to see the state of the tree. [Note: If this part of the infrastructure is not yet working, please check the topic of the #chromium IRC channel on irc.freenode.net instead.] If the top of the waterfall says:
  
  OPEN – The tree is in a good state and you should be able to compile the code. Go to the next step.
  
  CLOSED – There might be compile or test failures. You can download the code, but you’ll get those same failures when you try to compile or run tests. Best to check back later.
2. In a shell window, execute the following commands:cd c:\chromiumtrunk
  gclient sync
  
  The gclient tool is included in the depot tools described above. The first time you execute gclient, there will be a delay (a minute or so) while it updates the depot tools.

To check out directly from SVN:

You’ll use the gclient depot tool to download the Chromium code from its SVN repository.

Create a directory to hold your source code. Example: c:\chromiumtrunk

Important: Make sure the directory path has no spaces.
Visit the Chromium Buildbot waterfall to see the state of the tree. [Note: If this part of the infrastructure is not yet working, please check the topic of the #chromium IRC channel on irc.freenode.net instead.] If the top of the waterfall says:

OPEN – The tree is in a good state and you should be able to compile the code. Go to the next step.

CLOSED – There might be compile or test failures. You can download the code, but you’ll get those same failures when you try to compile or run tests. Best to check back later.
In a shell window, execute the following commands:

cd c:\chromiumtrunk
gclient config http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src
gclient sync

The first time you execute gclient, there will be a delay (a minute or so) while it updates the depot tools. Downloading the Chromium code takes about an hour.

Build and launch Chromium

Once you have all the software and code, you can build Chromium and launch it in debug mode.

Launch Visual Studio.
Choose File > Open Project/Solution…, go to the src\chrome directory (under c:\chromiumtrunk or wherever you put the Chromium files), and open the file chrome.sln.
In the Solution Explorer, go to the App directory, right-click chrome_exe, and choose Set as StartUp Project.
Set the user profile used by your build of Chromium:
1. Right-click chrome_exe, and choose Properties.
2. In the left column, choose Configuration Properties > Debugging.
3. In the right column, change the value of Command Arguments to something like this:
  
  –user-data-dir=c:\tmp\DebugProfile

Click Ok. Chromium creates the specified profile directory (c:\tmp\DebugProfile in the previous example) if the directory doesn’t already exist.

Note: If you don’t set the profile, then if you try to launch Chromium when Google Chrome or Chromium is already running, a new window comes up in the already running browser. This behavior ensures exclusive access to the user profile, but it means that you can’t debug your version of Chromium!

Warning: If the latest build of Chromium has a new profile format, Google Chrome and older versions of Chromium might not be able to read that format. Unless you set the profile, you could lose your Google Chrome profile data.

Press F5, which builds the chrome_exe solution and launches Chromium in debug mode. When you’re asked whether to build out-of-date projects, choose Yes.

Building takes 15-40 minutes. When the build completes, a browser window appears on your desktop.

Ikimono Gakari – Bluebird (Aio Aoi Ano Sora)

xaban — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:17:52 +0000

Arigato gosaimazu, Lynda-chan!!

Ikimono Gakari – Bluebird

Habataitara modorenai to itte
Mezashita no wa aoi aoi ano sora
Kanashi mi wa mada oberarezu
Setsunasa wa ima tsukami hajimeta
Anata e idaku kono kanjou mo
ima kotoba ni kawatteku
Michi naru sakai no yume kara mezamete
Kono hane wo hiroge tobi datsu
Habataitana modorenai to itte
Mezashita no wa aoi aoi ano sora
Tsuki nuketara mitskaru to shitte
Fuikiru hodo
Aoi aoi ano sora
Aoi aoi ano sora
Aoi aoi ano sora

English

You say if you could fly, you’d never come back down
You only have eyes for that blue, blue sky
You’ve yet to learn what sadness is
And are now just grasping what pain is like
Even the feelings I have for you
Must be expressed in words
As you awake from a dream into an unknown world
Spread your wings and take flight!
You say if you could fly, you’d never come back down
You only have eyes for that blue, blue sky
You know if you can just make it through, you’ll find what you seek
So keep trying to break free
to that blue, blue sky
to that blue, blue sky
to that blue, blue sky

Spanish

Dices que si pudieras volar, jamás volverías al suelo
Sólo tienes ojos para ese azul, cielo azul
Aún tienes que comprender lo que es la tisteza
Y ahora, apenas conoces el dolor
Hasta los sentimientos que tengo por tí
Deben ser expresados con palabras
como si despertaras de un sueño a un mundo desconocido
Abre tus alas y alza el vuelo!
Dices que si pudieras volar, jamás volverías al suelo
Sólo tienes ojos para ese azul, cielo azul
Sabes que si te esfuerzas, encontrarás lo que buscas
Así que sigue intentando liberarte
A ese azul, cielo azul
A ese azul, cielo azul
A ese azul, cielo azul

Next .Net Community Reunion

xaban — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:29:40 +0000

Tema: Desarrollando en Componentes VSTO 2008 ( Tema de Lanzamiento 2008 )
Expositor: Manolo Herrera (MVP Visual Client Application).
Fecha: 25 de junio del 2008.
Horario: 18:30 a 20:30 horas.
Lugar: Universidad Galileo 4to nivel torre I.
Otros: Se rifaran Licencias VSTO 2008, SQL 2008 y Server 2008.
El que lleve mas amigos tendrá un kit de licencias de promoción del lanzamiento de VSTO 2008, Sql 2008 y Server 2008. También habrán vouchers para rifar.

Parqueo No inlcuido.

Photo Synth

xaban — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:18:22 +0000

Yep! Seems I’m out looking for it… As many of you know I really like to fool around with Photoshop, and quite recently with Expression Blend. I really like to be able to play around with my photographs and videos “a tad over the usual line” and this really blew me away! so, allow me to introduce my new Photo-Toy:

Photosynth

Photosynth is an amazing new technology from Microsoft Live Labs that will change forever the way you think about digital photos. This little piece of software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space.

With Photosynth you can:

Walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle.
Seamlessly zoom in or out of a photo whether it’s megapixels or gigapixels in size.
See where pictures were taken in relation to one another.
Find similar photos to the one you’re currently viewing.
Send a collection – or a particular view of one – to a friend.

Sounds a little too good to be true? The NASA collection!! (It really knocked my socks off)

Link:

http://labs.live.com/photosynth/collectionHome.htm

Enough with the mushy comments, let’s check the important stuff!
System Requirements:

Operating System: Only Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista RC1 or later are supported at this time.
Web Browser: IE6, IE7, Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 2.0
Memory: 256 MB of memory is a bare minimum; 1GB recommended.
Disk: This technology preview uses almost no disk space. The ActiveX control is less than 5MB in size, and no local disk storage is used when the code is running.
Graphics: Photosynth has been tested on graphics cards that are “Vista Aero Ready”. This includes: support for DirectX 9 graphics with a WDDM driver, 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum), and 32 bits per pixel. If you want to find out whether your card is suitable, the Vista Upgrade Advisor tool will tell you. Photosynth may run on cards that do not meet this requirement, but performance may be poor and functionality may be impaired.

Link:

http://labs.live.com/photosynth/default.html

A new Beginning? .Net Community

xaban — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:00:27 +0000

.Net Community Launch 2008

Location:
Universidad Galileo

7 Avenida, Calle Dr. Eduardo Suger Cofino
Edificio Manuel F. Ayau, Zona 10 Guatemala Guatemala Guatemala

Languages:	Español.
Products:	SQL Server Visual Studio.
Audiences:	Developer.

Event Id:
1032377093

General Information:

.Net Developer Community

Featured Technologies:

Silverlight
SQL Server
LINQ

Presenters:

José Rolando Guay
- Carlos Lone

Top 10 Reasons to Install Windows Server 2008

xaban — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:39:57 +0000

Windows Server Virtualization

The Windows Server 2008 wave will include Windows Server Virtualization (WSv), a powerful, performant, virtualization technology with strong management and security features. Windows Server virtualization will help businesses reduce costs, increase agility and system availability for production server consolidation, disaster recovery, test and development, and, when coupled with System Center Virtual Machine Manager, the end-to-end management of dynamic datacenters.

A World-Class Web and Applications Platform

Windows Server 2008 provides a secure, easy-to-manage platform for developing and reliably hosting applications and services that are delivered from the server or over the Web. New features include simplified management, increased security, and both performance and extensibility improvements which delivers a unified platform for Web publishing that integrates Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7), ASP.NET, Windows Communication Foundation, and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.

Improved Networking Performance

Windows Server 2008 introduces the biggest change in the networking stack since Windows NT 4.0. Technologies like Receive Window Auto-tuning, Receive Side Scaling, and Quality of Service (QOS) allow organizations to take full advantage of today’s multi-Gigabit networks. Integrated IPsec and the new Windows Firewall with Advanced Security allow organizations to completely secure and control the flow of network traffic.

Enhanced Security and Compliance

Windows Server 2008 has been developed from the ground up with the strictest security in mind. Always “shields up,” Windows Server 2008 installs only the needed services for the roles the server is performing. Enhanced auditing, Drive Encryption, event forwarding, and Rights Management Services are just some of the technologies that help organization adhere to today’s strict IT compliance standards.

Take Back Control Over Your Branch Offices

Managing servers, services, and security at remote locations is an on-going challenge for IT Professionals. Windows Server 2008 simplifies administration of the servers in branch offices with enhancements to Active Directory , including Read-Only Domain Controllers and administrative role separation. Technologies like BitLocker, and the Server Core installation option are specific features that increase security and address the unique needs of branch offices.

Server Management Made Easier

Simplifying the day-to-day complexities of server administration is a key theme in many of the enhancements included in Windows Server 2008. New management tools like the Server Manager Console provides a single, unified console for managing a server’s configuration and system information, displaying server status, identifying problems with server role configuration, and managing all roles installed on the server.

Enhanced Scripting and Task Automation

New technologies like Windows PowerShell, a command-line shell and scripting language, helps IT Professionals automate common tasks. With a new admin-focused scripting language, more than 120 standard command-line tools, and consistent syntax and utilities, Windows PowerShell allows IT professionals to more easily control system administration and to accelerate automation.

Centralized Application Access

With Windows Sever 2008, users will have secure access to internal applications through firewall-friendly ports. With Windows Server Terminal Services RemoteApp, only the application window, not the entire remote desktop, launches and runs in its own resizable, interactive window on the client computer’s desktop.

Protect Unhealthy Computers from Entering the Network

Network Access Protection (NAP) addresses the industry-wide problem of unhealthy computers accessing and compromising an organization’s network. NAP is used to ensure that any computer connecting to the network meets corporate policy for “healthy” requirements, to limit network access for computers not meeting the predefined policy, providing remediation services to get those computers back to a healthy state, and to provide ongoing compliance-checking.

Better Together with Windows Vista

Because Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are built as part of a single development project, they share a number of new technologies across networking, storage, security and management. Organizations will immediately see the benefits of running Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista as their client and server solution.

Hero’s Come Back

xaban — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:57:06 +0000

A short while ago, a friend of mine asked me for these lyrics…

Ok, Powell here you go… Dattebayo!!

Hero’s Comeback

Nobody Knows

Tooku de kikoeru koe wo hitori
Hitori mata hitori tachiagaru doushi
Kurikaesu dake no fudan doori kutsugaesu
Junbi iize are you ready?
Karadajuu furuwasu shindou ni hageshiku uchinarase yo stomping
Taezu tsuki ugokasu call me kawarazu yuru ga nutsukamu story
Come on!!
Everybody stand up! Agero kyou ichiban no jikan da
Me ni mo tomaranu supiido hantaa
Daremo ga mina toriko kanban yeah! (Come on!)
Everybody hands up! Matashita na hero’s come back!!
Zujou kazoe yubi oru count down
Ikuze 3-2-1 make some noise!

What you gonna do? What you gonna do?
Taemanaku nari hibiki kizamu
Deja vu yori mo gotsui shougeki ga
Zenshin wo hashiri hanasan break it down
Turn it up (Turn it up) hey kikoekka?
Sakenda kinou made no koto ga
Kawaru darou madaminu asu e
Koborete afureta omoi no bun made

Machinimatta show time saitechiru shukumei
Dochira ni katamuku shouhai no yukue
Agura kaiterya kyou nimo tsubureru
Nagashita chi to ase onore de nugue
Negai mo puraido mo fukume subete wo seotta tagai no haigo
Nasake wo kaketerya dame ninaru ze
Tamote potensharu mentaru men

Neko mo shakushi mo matta you na hiiroo
Hitoban dake no goran, roman hikou
Oo ii nee sonnan ja nee sa
Kick on the corner mada tari nee ka?
Itsumo to chigau hijou na jinkaku mamoru no sa subete
Like a taamineetaa
Yon kai, go kai de tatsu hairaito (fly high, yeah!)
Isso kono ba de tsutaetaru zo

Everybody stand up! Agero kyou ichiban no jikan da
Me ni mo tomaranu supiido hantaa
Daremo ga mina toriko kanban yeah! (Come on!)
Everybody hands up! Matashita na hero’s come back!!
Zujou kazoe yubi oru count down
Ikuze 3-2-1 make some noise!

Mou tashou no risuku wa kakugo desho
Nanka korunda tte tatsu (get it on)
Nare ai ja nai ze kami hitoe no sesshon
Irikunda kanjou kidzukiageta kesshou
Made in hyuuman no dorama no enchou
Marude moesakaru yoshihara no enjou
Endoresu saki mo korogaru nichijou
Warau hodo baka ni narerutte koto

Resseifuku mukaikaze nimo maken
Makikomu nandomo dekuwashite kita ze
Ikudotonaku tatsu kono ba no batoru
Tatakai kata nara kono mi ga satoru
Ichiya niya no tukedakiba ja
Mamoru mon ga chigau na shirohata wo furi na
Hi no moe akogareru hikage wo shiru
Iiwake wa kikan sorekoso ga real

Faito maido i’m proud
Nanikarananima de mada ucchi yanai zo
Yes ka no ja nai itsuka kou warau
Nana kara patto kimeru iku ze aibou

Wakiagaru kansei ga yuuki tonaru
Tachiagareba ima ijou kurushimi tomonau
Soredemo saigo wa kitto warau
Subete sarau shouri to kansei

MSDN Tour Guatemala

xaban — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:56:55 +0000

Today, I got a Special Invitation for our first MSDN Tour 2008.

If you didn’t get the invite, Allow me to treat you:

Feliz año para toda la comunidad de Desarrollo de Guatemala. Estamos arrancando un nuevo año y queremos iniciarlo de la mejor manera. Para ello queremos invitarlos al MSDN Tour, para el cual hemos preparado un contenido que seguro ayudará a enriquecer sus conocimientos en .NET. En eta ocasión le hemos denominado EXTREME SESSION WITH .NET donde tendremos cuatro temas donde se discutirán distintos aspectos de la tecnología .NET. Esperamos poder contar con su presencia y apoyo en esta nueva edición de año nuevo:

Tema: Exteme Session with .Net
Tema 1: (Marlon Ramos) - Visión - Requerimientos y Casos de Uso - Desarrollo - Pruebas - Cambios Tema 2: (Manolo Herrera) - Estándares de Código - Uso de Componentes - Ejemplo (FX Cop) Tema 3: (Carlos Lone) - Pruebas (metodología ágil) TDD Concepto - Ejemplo (Uso de Nunit, MbUnit, etc) Tema 4: (Cristian Prieto) - Pruebas de Integración - Control de Versiones - Ejemplo ( Subversión, Team System)


	LUGAR:	Hotel Intercontinental – Salón Guayacán
	FECHA Y HORA:	Miércoles 30 de Enero, 2008. 17:00 Horas
	DIRECCIÓN:	14 Calle 2-51 Zona 10 Edificio Intercontinental, Guatemala C.A. 01010
	Nivel de la Charla: Intermedio (200)

Reserve su espacio a tiempo. Cupo Limitado.

A Great Book: Silverlight and ASP.NET Revealed

xaban — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:16:32 +0000

As you all know, my fascination with Microsoft Silverlight keeps growing. The experience of creating rich multimedia interfaces with the power and flexibility of Flash, but with the extensibility and the great tools that .NET offers… Hmm. To me, sounds like a piece of heaven!!

Hunting around for Silverlight books, I came by Silverlight and ASP.NET Revealed, I was glad to read through a short, concise and yet excellent mix of fundamentals of Microsoft’s Silverlight technology in conjunction with advanced programming techniques of ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2008.

Nice and easy, it teaches to incorporate Silverlight into an ASP.NET web site and use the ASP.NET controls that render Silverlight content. (I think is proper to point out that Silverlight and ASP.NET Revealed assumes that the reader has a deep knowledge of ASP.NET, but little or no knowledge of Silverlight)

Here’s some Info, just in case you want to take it for a spin:

Silverlight and ASP.NET Revealed By Matthew MacDonald

ISBN13: 978-1-59059-939-6

ISBN10: 1-59059-939-X

50 pp.

Published Dec 2007

http://www.apress.com/