N.S. company helps build plasma rocket
Last Updated: Thursday, January 7, 2010 | 2:06 PM ET
CBC News
Engineers at Ad Astra Rocket Co. assemble a prototype plasma rocket engine using Nautel’s radio-frequency amplifiers. (Ad Astra Rocket Co.)A Nova Scotia company that builds transmitters for radio stations is helping develop a new plasma rocket engine that could cut a trip to Mars down to just 40 days…
Monthly Archives: January 2010
How Will Oracle Ownership of MySQL Affect IBM, Microsoft? – Database from eWeek
By: Brian Prince
2010-01-27
With its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle is bringing the MySQL database into the fold, which analysts agree will pose a challenge for Microsoft and IBM. IBM, however, says its strategy will be unaffected…
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Web Development Renewed In ASP.NET MVC 2.0 — InformationWeek
ASP.NET MVC provides added flexibility and control.
By Dino Esposito
InformationWeek
January 30, 2010 12:01 AM (From the February 1, 2010 issue)
ASP.NET is a stable, mature, and productive Web development platform, but the 8-year-old framework is showing signs of age. One alternative is MonoRail, a variation of the classic Web Forms model based on views (the HTML output) and controllers (methods executed in response to requests). MonoRail’s views are produced by an ad hoc engine that uses a source template and input data to produce the HTML.With MonoRail, you don’t focus on pages as you do with Web Forms. Instead, you focus on the actions being taken from the page (methods on a controller class) and its user interface (markup and data placeholders in the view). This leads to separation of concerns (SoC), where the functions of each feature in the program overlap as little as possible, and higher testability…
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