I just stumbled on this article Sunday morning.  This snippet sums up the product:
There is a way of marrying the advantages of .NET development with Java deployment. Using Mainsoft for Enterprise Edition (EE), Visual Studio developers can write code in .NET and cross-compile it to Java. Not only code, but pieces of the Framework; Mainsoft [...]

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I had a chance to catch up with the Symfony guys at the MySQL User Conference a few days ago.  We get some background on the Symfony project, and a glimpse as to where things are going in the near future.
This was my first ‘from the floor’ recording - I think the levels are *OK*, [...]

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I’m sitting in on the Blob Streaming with MySQL session.  The project is at http://blobstreaming.org.  Coincidentally,  my brother had put together a proof of concept for streaming blobs from MySQL a few months ago before either of us heard about this project.
Why to put blobs in a database?  The biggest pro seems to be for [...]

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I’m seeing a large cross section of age groups represented at the MySQL conference.  The typical late teens through mid twenties are here, as expected, but I’m seeing a high number of people who are clearly older than that - many likely mid 40s or higher.  It could just be that database work is typically [...]

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Tonight I met someone from a (largish) local company and learned they’re migrating their search functionality to SOLR.  This is the second largish company in the area I know that’s migrating to SOLR.  I’m not naming names only because I’m not sure they’d want me to do so.  Suffice it to say these are names [...]

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Robert Scoble just switched his home pages from TechMeme to FriendFeed.
“So what?” is likely what you’re thinking. Yeah, big deal, right? Well, TechMeme had a clustering algorithm which would group together news articles of related content, and give you a good idea of the ‘hot topics’ of the day. It did this [...]

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There’s an article on TechCrunch about Yahoo offering support for a number of microformat standards.
They are saying that they will support a number of microformats at the start: hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom and XFN. They will support vocabulary components from Dublin Core, Creative Commons, FOAF, GeoRSS, MediaRSS, and others. They will support RDFa and eRDF [...]

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I’ve had a book project in the back of my mind for a bit.  Though there’s never enough hours in the day to get everything done I need to, I have one book I’m wrapping up in the next few days, and am seriously considering committing myself to this next one.  No publisher lined up [...]

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I was doing a big of Grails work this weekend and stumbled on this page describing GORM events.  The 1.0 release of Grails introduced 4 new events in to domain objects:

beforeInsert
beforeUpdate
beforeDelete
onLoad

You can probably guess what these do based on the name - there’s nothing terribly secret going on here.  It’s not even terribly earth-shattering, but [...]

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I’m testing out the latest Firefox 3 (beta 3).  It upgraded quickly, loads faster, and has some really neat new features.  You can grab a copy here.
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