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U.S. tech hiring for the second half of 2011 will increase as the gradually improving economy results in companies updating their IT systems after scaling back during the recession, according to a hiring survey from technology job website Dice.com.

To the dismay of .NET developers, Windows 8 seems to be betting big on HTML5 and JavaScript--which leaves them working with .NET on mobile platforms. So hey, guess which new Mono startup is highlighting .NET development on iOS and Android? And what might this mean for Mono on Linux?

Developers can build services and APIs accommodating both platforms

Microsoft rolls out a local help viewer for Visual Studio 2010 and integrates Project Server with Team Foundation Server to enable teams to work more effectively

The NuPack package manager is designed to make it as simple as possible to integrate open source libraries within .Net projects.

Evans Data asks developers about ease of use and other attributes, but Rails founder pans the survey's findings

If you're in the Houston area on April 6, 2010 (6:30 to 8:30), stop by the April meeting of the Houston Dynamic Language Users Group to hear about Python .NET development.

Both the Visual Studio 2010 IDE and the accompanying .Net Framework 4 programming platform are being readied for a late-April launch

Noelios' Restlet Extension for ADO.Net Services leverages REST to join the two platforms

Novell technology lets developers use .Net and C# instead of C or Objective-C to build applications for Apple's handheld.

Developers of the open source Mono Project, which enables Microsoft .Net applications to run on Linux, Unix, and the Macintosh, have released Mono Tools for Visual Studio to a limited number of developers.

Microsoft is offering its .Net language for building parallel applications -- Axum -- enabling developers to build scalable applications for mult-core systems via the .Net Framework, a Microsoft official said in a blog entry.