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2007-09-05

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"The biggest new feature: ringtones. [...] Big applause."

Not sure yet what's funnier.

But heck, ain't that TouchPod nice ...

2007-09-05-iRing

Laurence Tratt: How difficult is it to write a compiler?

2007-09-05-bigEasy

Flash wannabe Microsoft Silverlight goes 1.0. I'm not sure whether that particular release will have any impact (given that it's little more than a souped-up video player), but the forthcoming 1.1 sounds interesting; it's slated to come with a rather rich^* subset of .NET and, hopefully, a sensible model for creating user interface components. Microsoft is also supporting Novell in their cloning project, Moonlight; for the full scoop, see Miguel de Icaza's announcement.

^* "[...] collections, generics, IO, threading, globalization [huh?], networking (including sockets, web-services and REST support), HTML DOM, XML, local storage, and LINQ." — Source.

2007-09-05-sili