A fair bit of news recently:
- AWS Start-Up Challenge For 2009 – Amazon has kicked off the third annual AWS Start-Up Challenge now.
- Start-ups in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Israel are encouraged to apply for a chance to win $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, mentoring sessions from AWS technical experts, and AWS Premium Support Gold for one year.
- How to use a CTE in a view. If you dont know what a CTE is check it out here, definitely check out its recursive capabilities here.
- Microsoft Research “Gazelle” fires experimental salvo at Google.
- PCI DSS Legitimizes Conflicts of Interest
- Geneva identity grows up with rebranding roll on Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), Windows Identity Foundation & Windows CardSpace.
- Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Preview 6: V1 Feature Complete Silverlight Support and Much More!
- Not only is this the feature complete build for MEF V1.0 (which will ship with .NET Framework 4) but it also has the first drop of MEF for Silverlight!
- Google releases remote screen viewer NeatX.
- “The good old X Window system can be used over the network, but it has issues with network latency and bandwidth. Neatx remedies some of these issues,” Google engineers wrote on the company’s open source blog.