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Adobe news: Flash Builder 4, Creative Suite 5, quarterly results

By tim, on March 24th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Lots of Adobe news this week.

First, the release of Flash Builder 4. It seems a long time ago that I was looking at the first preview of code-name Gumbo; it’s good to see this finally released. Since it is Eclipse-based, it looks similar to to Flex Builder 3.0; but under the covers there

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MySQL comes to Amazon’s cloud. Anyone for Quadruple Extra Large?

By tim, on October 27th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Amazon has announced the Amazon Relational Database Service:

Amazon RDS gives you access to the full capabilities of a familiar MySQL database. This means the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing MySQL databases work seamlessly with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your

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Why the EU should not worry about Oracle and MySQL

By tim, on September 4th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

The European Commission is examining Oracle’s acquisition of Sun and has concerns about the implications for MySQL:

Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said: “The Commission has to examine very carefully the effects on competition in Europe when the world’s leading proprietary database company proposes to take over the world’s leading open source database company. In

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SQLite C# port raises hopes for a Silverlight local database manager

By tim, on August 3rd, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Yesterday programmer Noah Hart announced a port of SQLite to C#:

I am pleased to announce that the C# port is done to the point where others can look at it.

Unfortunately the code was taken offline almost immediately afterwards, thanks to the intervention of the author of SQLite, D Richard Hipp:

Noah, you

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The end of the Borland story: acquired by Micro Focus

By tim, on May 6th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

It is not unexpected, but still sad to see loss-making Borland acquired by Micro Focus for a knock-down price of $75m. Borland’s release says little beyond the financial details. Micro Focus, which is also acquiring Compuware’s ASQ (Automated Software Quality) tools (such as QADirector, DevPartner and Optimal Trace, I presume) says:

Acquiring Borland and

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A Silverlight database application with image upload

By tim, on April 26th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve been amusing myself creating a simple online database application using Silverlight. I had this mostly working a while back, but needed to finish off some pieces in order to get it fully functional.

This is created using Silverlight 2.0 and demonstrates the following:

A bound DataGrid (as you can see, work is

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SQLite developer argues for quick bug disclosure and fixes, despite egg on face

By tim, on January 16th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

SQLite developer D Richard Hipp has posted to his mailing list to announce a third release in the space of a few days, to fix bugs discovered in version 3.6.10:

Some concern has been expressed that we are releasing too frequently. (Three releases in one week is a lot!) The concern is that this

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SQL Server 2008 is done

By tim, on August 7th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has announced that SQL Server 2008 is released to manufacturing – ie. the bits are done, even if you can’t buy it yet. MSDN subscribers can download it now.

This is the product that was “launched” back in February; it’s been a long delay but I get the impression that the

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Where is your SQL Server CE Database?

By tim, on June 20th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Maybe not where you think. Now, I admit I am three years late with this bug strange feature of Visual Studio but it wasted some of my time today so it is still worth reporting.

I’ve been writing about creating database applications in Visual Studio. Specifically, I was looking at what happens if you

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Bet on Entity Framework, not LINQ to SQL

By tim, on June 10th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

So says Roger Jennings in his post Is the ADO.NET team abandoning LINQ to SQL? His main points in favour of ADO.NET Data Services (formerly Astoria) Entity Framework:

It is the focus of more energetic development It already has richer features It supports multiple database engines, not just SQL Server

As Andres Aguiar, software

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