Archive for February, 2008
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
ScottGu on Silverlight 2 Out comes some more Silverlight 2 info; http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/02/22/first-look-at-silverlight-2.aspx this is a tutorial over quite a few pages but it's well worth a read. If you've spent time reading Petzold, Sells/Griffiths, Nathan and you've done some work in Expression Blend... ...
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Will Windows Server 2008 fully embrace Linux? There has been much debate over the last week as to how the forthcoming Windows Server 2008 release from Microsoft will embrace Linux, specifically with regard to the interoperability between Windows and Linux as evidenced by Release Candidate 1 code. ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Bill Foote on Blu-ray Disc Java In a video at java.sun.com, Bill Foote, Sun's Blu-ray Disc Java (BDJ) architect, explains Java's role in high definition Blu-ray Discs, and demonstrates the kind of interactivity it enables. problem in ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Darcey This is a personal post, some of these seem to escape into feed aggs so feel free to ignore this if you wondering what it's doing in your reader :) Three weeks ago I became a dad, the two most imporant events in my life ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Lines of code != running time I've just realised I do a bizarre thing in my subconscious when I'm coding. Now I'm all .NET 3.5, I've been writing code like:feeds.ForEach(f => ProcessFeed(f));One line of code instead of the usual four (OK, so two ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 geographically Greetings, my name is Brenda Carter. I am a technical writer who writes content for the IT Pro audience about Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services. The purpose of this blog entry is to tell ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Going to Mix? I'm lucky enough to have a ticket as Mix08 is now sold out. If you've been at one of the Silverlight sessions I've done over the last few days you'll have heard me plug the visitmix site as we ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Test Smarter, Not Harder By Scott Sehlhorst When we re testing any software, we are faced with the tradeoff of cost and benefit of testing. With complex software, the costs of testing can grow faster than the benefits of testing. If we apply techniques like the ones ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
LINQ to XSD is Back :-) A new version of the LINQ to XSD preview that works with Visual Studio 2008. Get the details from here. If you're not so sure on what LINQ to XSD is all about it's essentially for the ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Expanding interoperability Well I really wish I'd had a little bit more time to do some research into all of these announcements that we've made today about interoperability. Unfortunately I'm sitting at my hotel in Banff waiting for the bus to take me ...
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