Technical News and tips from My learning

Today, I've downloaded IE8 beta 1 as well as Silverlight 2.0 installed on my laptop. This day have seen many products released at Mix 08 by great personalities like Scott Guthrie ,  Bob Familiar , Guy Burstein , IEBlog , etc. According to Jane Kim at an interview for Mix08 , Activities and WebSlices are two of the most exciting new features in IE8. Apart of IE8.0 and SL2.0, there are other products such as Expression Blend 2.5 March CTP Expression Web 2 Beta Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for VS2008 I've downloaded all these .. and am trying out one by one .. what about you??

Unity Application Block , code named as UNITY, is out with latest release:11319 on March 4th 2008 . The main purpose of this Application block, is to make the developers to concentrate on the dependency of the objects they instantiate correctly. The Unity Application Block (Unity) is a lightweight extensible dependency injection container with support for constructor, property, and method call injection. Unity addresses the issues faced by developers engaged in component-based software engineering. Modern business applications consist of custom business objects and components that that perform specific or generic tasks within the application, in addition to components that individually address cross cutting concerns such as logging, authentication, authorization, caching, and exception handling. Here is the road map for Enterprise Library version 4.0 and Unity

This is a nice talk about how the web evolved and where it should have been as of this day. According to Douglas Crocford, instead of progressing into new technology, we are degrading our technology into where it all started. Shocking !!! isn't it !!! .. listen to him from his own voice. His discussion has roots back from Herman Hollerith and the 1890 census. In the begin of this episode, I couldn't imagine how this gentleman brought the relation from the good olden days to now-a-days AJAX and JSON. Am convinced with his idea, and certain facts that he is mentioning about are REAL. According to him, we are doing research on the great thoughts that are published way back in the history by many great scholars. Outstanding .. During the discussion, he mentioned the failures of Java. Another interesting point is that he tells where and how Microsoft could be successful in the key failures of Java. All these days I've seen the failures vs success points of these both technolo