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Jeff Jones Security Blog : Download: H1 2008 Desktop OS Vendor Report - Vulnerabilities and Days-of-Risk
Jeff Jones has released his six monthly report on desktop OS security vulnerabilities and Days-Of-Risk. One highlight was the pie chart on security vulnerabilities in the different OSes.   This certainly is in contrast to what a lot people are saying Read More...
Posted 27 October 08 10:21 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Moonlight (Silverlight on Linux) – Interview with Miguel de Icaza
Code to Live: Dancing in the Moonlight with Miguel de Icaza The interview is a bit old, but has just been published. Miguel de Icaza talks about Moonlight and how it came about. Thanks to Josh Holmes for posting it. Read More...
Posted 02 July 08 01:03 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Ruby on Rails, Silverlight and IronRuby
Was just chatting to my colleague John Lam, the drive for IronRuby in Microsoft about his recent participation in RailsConf 2008 . At the event there were two cool things that they showed. 1. Silverlight plugin for Ruby on Rails, bringing the richness Read More...
Posted 02 June 08 12:15 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Expanded Format Support in Office 2007
There is some great news coming out of Redmond today around some of the feature improvements being delivered via Office 2007 Service Pack 2, scheduled for the first half of 2009. Service Pack 2 will incorporate document support for XML Paper Specification Read More...
Posted 22 May 08 12:10 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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First Moonlight Release - Miguel de Icaza
Here is some great news, the first release of Moonlight to the public. Just to ensure that I dont elevate expectations at this point, this is just a source code release, and not a full and final release and Miguel mentions on his blog. But if you are Read More...
Posted 16 May 08 01:28 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Expression Studio 2 is out... now with PHP support!!!
Lots of things happening today... Got to admit, the branding of the Expression tools is really funky, however the tools themselves are equally awesome. Expression Studio brings together the various Expression products together such as; Expression Web Read More...
Posted 05 May 08 05:08 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Interoperability Principles
Back in February you would have heard the interoperability principles that Microsoft announced to enable non-Microsoft products and Microsoft products better interoperability to share data and capabilities. If you missed out on that announcement,  Read More...
Posted 09 April 08 12:55 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Virtual Maps Case Study now in Flash format
Ok, so from one of my previous blog posts a Linux user was having difficulties with regards to the complexities of setting Moonlight up on Linux to run Silverlight. So on his/her advice I have uploaded the video to soapbox so those who are using Flash Read More...
Posted 05 April 08 05:12 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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PHP runs up to 130% faster on Windows Server 2008
Some might say this is a pretty outlandish statement to make, but we recently did some work with a local customer by the name of Virtual Maps that developed and maintains local Singaporean travel portal StreetDirectory.com , to test their popular web Read More...
Posted 01 April 08 01:40 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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Sneak Peak - How to use Windows Server 2008 Core for PHP, MySQL
I challenged Dennis Chung (my counterpart in the security bytes video, and one of the smartest guys I know when it comes to IT) recently to see what kind of usage scenarios we could use Windows Server 2008 Core . For those of you who are unaware of what Read More...
Posted 19 November 07 02:16 from The Platform and the Hardman | 0 Comments   
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