Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008 introduces a whole new set of .NET technologies that will revolutionize, once again, the way you develop smart client and web-based applications; the most notable being LINQ, WPF and, of course, Silverlight. For most of us working in and around web application development in the business world, Silverlight is a big step forward; especially if you consider that it provides clean coding practices with extensible languages (e.g. XAML and C#). It also provides some of Visual Studio’s rich programming model that we have become accustomed to and can no longer live without; such as class libraries, debugging capabilities and IntelliSense among many others.
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The JavaFX Script programming language lets you create modern looking applications with sophisticated graphical user interfaces. It was designed from the ground up to make GUI programming easy; its declarative syntax, data binding model, animation support, and built-in visual effects let you accomplish more work with less code, resulting in shorter development cycles and increased productivity.
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This Redpaper gives a broad understanding of the programming environment of the IBM® PowerPC® 970 microprocessor that is implemented in the IBM Eserver® BladeCenter™ JS20. It also provides information about how to take advantage of the Vector Multimedia Extensions (VMX) execution unit found in the PowerPC 970 to increase the performance of applications in 3D graphics, modelling and simulation, digital signal processing, and others. The audience for this Redpaper is application programmers and software engineers who want to port code to the PowerPC 970 microprocessor to take advantage of the VMX performance gains.
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