Sunday, April 30. 2006
Thursday, April 27. 2006New Version of Atlas (Rough Cuts) Book Published I am happy to announce that the old Rough Cuts version of my O'Reilly Atlas book has been replaced by a version updated for the April CTP of Atlas. So go to the Safari site and have a look! You may also want to read what Scott Guthrie, Bertrand Le Roy, and Shanku Niyogi have to say about the book 
Thursday, April 20. 2006Opera 9.0 Beta 1
Version 9.0 beta 1 of the Opera browser has been released today. The changelog lists some interesting new features, including (but not limited to):
action attribute is undefined; but I am a bit afraid about people using something like <form action="<?=$PHP_SELF?>"> more and more (there are several issues in this code).
Thursday, April 20. 2006Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions will remain free!
Well, I speculated about that some time ago, but now it's official. If you read this press announcement closely, you will find this very interesting information:
The Visual Studio 2005 Express editions now join the SQL Server 2005 Express editions as a no-cost offering within the Microsoft application platform. Previously, the free edition should only be available for one year after their release on November 7, 2005. Now they are supposed to remain free "forever", whatever that means when "Orcas" comes closer.
Wednesday, April 19. 2006Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2005This just in: Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 has been released. You can download the update files for the Enterprise, Developer, Standard and Workgroup editions; if you use the Express Edition, however (also comes with Visual Web Developer Express Edition), you have to download the full installer (note that currently the link to the download from the SP1 download site is incorrect; use the link in this blog entry instead). There is good news for Express users, though: Also available is the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services edition which adds full-text and reporting services support (and yes, it's still free).
According to the description, both these tools are already included in the Advanced Services edition.
Wednesday, April 19. 2006Download manager not appearing/downloads not working with Mozilla browsers
This entry is mainly a note to myself, since this issue comes up from time to time; now I know where to find the solution
 Hopefully this will prove useful for blog readers, as well.Sometimes, Mozilla browsers refuse to open up the download manager; "Save link target as" does not work, as well. I have experienced this several times, especially with version upgrades. AFAIK the root cause for this behavior has not been found yet (most probably it has something to do with compreg.dat), but this bug report gives a (hidden) solution that at least works for me. Just click this link ( javascript:navigator.plugins.refresh(true);void(0)). Works for me ...
Wednesday, April 19. 2006Using Atlas from PHP
As some people have noticed, I've been playing around with Atlas, Microsoft's AJAX framework for ASP.NET 2.0, in the last couple of months. I found it quite interesting, but always wondered whether some of the functionality could also be used from PHP. Now Shanku Niyogi from the Atlas team has posted some code that demonstrates how to use some of Atlas' features (most noticeably the Google Suggest-like AutoCompleteExtender). I think this brings a really interesting angle to the framework. Obviously not all Atlas features can be available to other technologies (due to the server-side portions of Atlas that use .NET), but I maybe some other functionality will be ported, as well.
If you are interested in this, all you need is Shanku's code and of course Atlas itself, available from the Atlas homepage. The file AtlasSetup.msi is a Windows installer. Unfortunately, I am not aware of a non-Windows utility that extracts data from an MSI file, but at least MSI files can be installed using WINE (see this document for more information). During the course of installation, Atlas' client-side script libraries will be unpacked; these have to be put in the ScriptLibrary folder of the Atlas-PHP bridge. FWIW, a VSI file will be created as well, a Visual Studio Integration installer. This is basically a ZIP archive (despite the .vsi extension) containing website templates for Atlas. However since the March release of Atlas, these VSI files do not contain the client-side script libraries anymore, but only server-side components (that, in turn, create the client-side libraries).
Thursday, April 13. 2006XMLHttpRequest goes W3C
just stumbled upon the W3C XMLHttpRequest Working Draft, dated April 5, 2006. I think it's generally desirable to get the object that drives AJAX applications standardized. Strange, though, that the list of authors includes no-one from Microsoft, the inventor of XMLHttpRequest.
Thursday, April 13. 2006Atlas Control Toolkit Released
This just in: The Atlas team has just released the Atlas Control Toolkit. They describe it as "a collection of samples and components that makes it easier then ever to build and consume rich client-side “Atlas” controls and extenders. The toolkit provides both ready to go samples and a powerful SDK to simplify the creation and re-use of your own custom controls and extenders". Sounds very promising, so you should give it a try!
Wednesday, April 5. 2006Apple Officially Supports Windows XP on Intel Macs
... and I thought hell was freezing over when Apple announced Intel Macs some time ago. But now, some reports about people getting Windows XP to run on Apple obviously made Apple quite nervous, so they released a public beta of Boot Camp. From the description:
Boot Camp lets you install Windows XP without moving your Mac data, though you will need to bring your own copy to the table, as Apple Computer does not sell or support Microsoft Windows. Boot Camp will burn a CD of all the required drivers for Windows so you don't have to scrounge around the Internet looking for them.So probably the drivers are the main reason why the download package has 83 MB, but it is well worth a try. Apple also notes that the next major Mac OS X release, Leonardo, will have the Boot Camp technology included in the system.
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