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Warning: This is my experimentation and cannot be taken as a recommendation ! I gave it to my temptation and installed the Visual Studio 2010 RC despite having a lot of upcoming WCF RIA Services talks.  (One is scheduled right tomorrow   and it would be disastrous to try anything fancy) Much has been explained around the non-availability of Silverlight 4 Tools updated version for this RC release and subsequently the inability to work with WCF RIA Services and SL4.  Infact, Tim Heuer has put up a nice FAQ on VS 2010 RC and Silverlight Development However, I went ahead and installed VS 2010 RC and the WCF RIA Services Preview for VS 2010 Beta 2, hoping to get it work at least for catering to ASP.NET Development.  Much to my surprise, it did work! I could just grab the DLLs from C:Program FilesMicrosoft SDKsRIA Servicesv1.0LibrariesServer onto my project reference and grab the System.Web.DomainServices.WebControls.dll file onto my toolbox and then was able to use the DomainDataSource control in the Webform.  Similarly the “Domain Service Class” template was also available as a “Add – New Item” which I could use to generate the middle tier.  I have written a detailed step by step on this in my earlier post However, note that, this only works and doesn’t provide any warranty.  Also, the SL4 Tools don’t work which means, this is not going to help on the Silverlight development front.

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WCF RIA Services Preview and the Visual Studio 2010 RC

This brand new talk by Jamie Oliver (“The Naked Chef”) at TED 2010 is one I highly recommend you watch. This topic is very dear to my own heart as chronic poor eating habits were a strong contributing factor in my father’s premature death when I was a child

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Jamie Oliver calls for all-out assault on our ignorance of food

Introducing Google Buzz (Official Google Blog ) Presented By: So Google went and did it – it integrated a whole mess of social and local features into Gmail, wrapping the whole thing into a product burrito it calls Buzz (Yahoo has got to be fuming , if it has any more fumes left, that is). The first-day response is somewhat positive – mainly due to the huge installed base that Gmail brings to the party. Brought to you by: Work Literacy

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Weds. Signal: What’s The Buzz, Google?

www.straitsknowledge.com blog articles how-to guides events publications book videos about Knowledge Management Explained in Five Disciplines We welcome Tim Wieringa as a guest blogger to Green Chameleon. blogged ( [link] ) few days back on the similar topic- how to split KM into different worktasks, programs

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Green Chameleon » Knowledge Management Explained in Five Disciplines

I spent last night and today experimenting with a new portfolio design — one I think is better suited to my personal design tastes. The starting point for the coding was this two-column CSS template courtesy of Roger Johannson, and the goal of my design is to place emphasis on the portfolio work (at the time of writing, contextual imagery for design projects hasn’t been added). The eventual plan is to incorporate the new design into my blog here, and I might need to hire someone more proficient with coding.

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Experimenting with a new portfolio design

Digital 3-D projection is fantastic and the way forward for a prosperous future of 3-D, but despite all the huffing and puffing of the Avatar PR machine, 3-D film consumption at home is still 99.9% an anaglyph business. In recent weeks, anaglyph family member ColorCode 3D has been the main format chosen for 3-D TV broadcast in the US and the UK.

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3-D Film formats beyond Real-D, Dolby3D and Xpand 3-D

Mostly only a few people will see these presentations of ourselves, but some will go, as they say, “viral”, and draw all kinds of unexpected attention. No one can predict how people on the web will react to stories and pictures of individuals, whether by yawning and ignoring, or by obsessing and commenting, but it is clear that the presentation of a person on the web can have a profound impact on their lives.

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Presentation of the Self on the Web

Last week Apple unveiled the newly anticipated iPad, boasting the “best way to experience the Web”.  Sadly, just as IPhone and IPod touch, iPad does not have support for Adobe Flash.  This means that you your Web experience won’t be as “revolutionary” as Apple promises.

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Will Apple’s iPad Really Revolutionize the Web?

ShopperPress can be used to sell almost any type of product and service online! Its so easy and takes less than 5 minutes to setup! Built on top of the amazingly popular WordPress premium theme platform, ShopperPress takes the security, stability and flexibility of wordpress, combines them with the features and designs of an ecommerce store front, to create ShopperPress.

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Top Hot Blog – That’s What Blogs Are For: Go Online Your Store With Your WordPress Blog [del.icio.us]

Now many of you are expecting this post to be about the lack of Flash on the iPad or about the future of HTML 5. While those issues are important, there are actually much larger issues facing the web development community. These issues are not necessarily negative, but they will change the way we all work

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Web development will become much more complicated

As I mentioned before , I got the book Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development for review. It took me a bit more time than I though to do this (one of the reasons will become clear soon) but here it finally comes. I think it is a great book for somebody who is somewhat acquainted with Zend Framework and wants to get really good at working with it.

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zf book review

A few days ago, Engadget turned off comments on its posts — a move which, ironically, reignited discussion about the value of blog comments in a world pulsing with social media. But I’m sure there are other factors as well: the kinds of content you’re presenting , the degree of opinion included in that content, and so on

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Are Blog Comments Worth It?

session on How to Turn Blogs and Other Social Media into Revenue Builders. Neil presented a number of models on how to use social I am attending the Webtrends Engage 2010 even t in New Orleans. Yesterday afternoon I sat in on a session Brought to you by: Work Literacy

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We all know the story — it’s the late 90’s, lots of tech company stock prices are going through the roof while the companies themselves are doing nothing but spending tons of “free” venture capital money, our web 2.0 development company, Intechnic, is starting out (well maybe not everyone knew that part of the story), when eventually that bubble crashed.

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Memorable Dot Com Busts

Finding a great looking yet free WordPress theme is really difficult. Especially if you are new to blogging and just starting to find a suitable theme for your blog, then its easy to get overwhelmed by the thousands of free templates you can find online. To test a template, you have to download it, install the necessary folders and codes to your site directory, activate it in WordPress and text if the theme works for you.

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10 New WordPress Themes You Can Use for Free

Silk business cards are very popular because they look very elegant, classy, expensive and at the same time durable and last longer. In commercial or offset printing, silk refers to a special laminate finish being applied to full color business cards and other printed materials to achieve a matte finish and super silky smooth appearance

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20 Best Silk Business Cards with Spot Gloss

Asian, European markets advance after US gains HONG KONG ? World stock markets jumped Wednesday, following Wall Street higher after encouraging reports about the beleaguered U.S. housing sector helped restore confidence in an economic recovery.

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Asian stock markets jump after Wall Street gains on housing report; European shares gain

more images Feb 3, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): The handsome hunk Kartik Sabharwal who found fame as Bhavishya of ‘Ghar Ki Lakshmi Betiyann’ will be making his comeback in Star Plus ‘Tere Mere Sapne’ which will be now be shifted to the afternoon slot of 1:00 pm next week onwards. According to our source, … Read more > > > .

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Kartik Sabharwal to do a cameo in Tere Mere Sapne!

more images Feb 3, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): Actor Prakash Raj, who recently got divorced from his wife, Lalithakumari, is ready to get hitched with choreographer Pony Verma, his girlfriend of two years. His relationship with Pony was the reason behind his divorce. As for publicly announcing their relationship after this long, it was ..

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Wedding bells for Prakash Raj

Fiat workers strike over Sicily plant plans ROME ? Fiat workers across Italy are going on strike to protest plans to end auto production at a Sicilian plant next year. Wednesday’s four-hour strike, which began at 8:00 a.m.

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Fiat workers stage nationwide strike to protest auto production stoppage in Sicily