One of the great things about using VirtualPC in software development and testing is that the VirtualPC “virtual machine” really only has one hardware configuration. The virtual machine defines a virtual hard disk, virtual display, virtual network, and even its own virtual BIOS for booting up the virtual machine. The downside to that uniformity is [...]
Microsoft announced today the release of Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 and .NET Framework 4 beta 2! It will be available immediately for download by MSDN subscribers and for general release towards the end of this month. I can’t begin to describe all the stuff that is new and improved in this beta 2, so [...]
Thawte has announced it will discontinue its “Web of Trust” peer to peer identity assertion program later this year. Web Of Trust enables individuals to obtain personal digital certificates without having to go through costly corporate or government paperwork. The idea is that if several trusted WoT members (notaries) assert that they have met the [...]
Dion Almer and Ben Galbraith, cofounders of the Ajaxian web development news portal, have left their digs at Mozilla to head up the developer relations team for Palm‘s webOS. Dion and Ben moved to Mozilla just short of a year ago to work on Bespin, a project to develop tools for building cloud applications. Share/Bookmark
When you’re writing a rich Internet application (RIA) in HTML and JavaScript, sometimes you need to programatically place a DOM element relative to the right or bottom edge of the visible browser window. For example, if you want to popup a help balloon near an item of interest, you probably want to make sure that [...]