Infragistics - D-Coding - Developer Humor: A Quick Byte Made me snort laugh this morning......
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
E Pluribus Unum - U.S. House of Representatives publishes U.S. Code as open government data Three years on, Republicans in Congress continue to follow through on promises to embrace innovation and transparency in the legislative process. Today, the United States House of Representatives has made the United States Code available in bulk Extensible Markup Language (XML). “Providing free and open access to the U.S. Code in XML is another win...
Benjamin Nevarez - A Tour of the Hekaton AMR Tool SQL Server 2014 CTP1 has a tool to help you decide which tables and stored procedures you can move to Hekaton or In-Memory OLTP. In this post I will give you a quick tour of this tool, the AMR (Analysis, Migration and Reporting). The AMR tool is integrated with the Data Collector and to enable it you have to enable the new Transaction Performance Collection Sets on the Configure Data Collection...
Brian Harry’s blog - The Improved Microsoft Developer Network Today we launched the new Microsoft Developer Network site. As I've mentioned before, my team is responsible for much of the infrastructure and experience for MSDN. I’m very proud of what we have and at the same time see opportunities for improvement. There are two primary use modes for the MSDN web site. The biggest one is search. You want to know what...
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Microsoft Downloads - Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012 Testing is potentially an obstacle to agile software deployment. The smallest change in your code could require the whole application to be retested. This book shows you how to minimize these costs by using the testing infrastructure of Visual Studio 2012. The code samples gives you a starting point to test your infrastructure. Version: 1.0 Date Published: 7/30/2013 TestingForContinuousDeliverywithVisualStudi2012-EPUB.epub, 10.7 MB TestingforContinuousDeliverywithVisualStudio2012.pdf, ...
CodePlex - Windows 8 App Management Toolkit for Powershell Windows 8 App Management Toolkit for Powershell is the must have cmdlet for automating and managing Windows Store apps. The toolkit enhances the functionality of the existing Get-AppxPackage method by adding methods to Launch, suspend, and terminate Windows Store apps Check if the Start screen or any Windows Store apps are visible on any monitors Discover the capabilities...
Apps for Office and SharePoint blog - Now available: Refresh of Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 developer training The developer training for Office and SharePoint 2013 now contains updated information about new features and capabilities for Office and SharePoint developers. In this post, learn about the 20 training modules, meet the presenters, and find answers to frequently asked questions. We are excited to announce a refreshed version...
Brian Harry’s blog - VS 2012.4 (Update 4) will exist! Sometime this spring, though for the life of me I can’t find it, I wrote a blog post where I said I thought Update 3 (VS/TFS 2012.3) would be the last update in the VS/TFS 2012 update line. I often say that nothing that is said about the future is more than a guess with varying levels of confidence. So, it turns out that I was wrong. A month or two ago we decided that we...
Monday, 29 July 2013
McKinsey - Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Forum - eBook: Big Data, Analytics, and the Future of Marketing & Sales The goldmine of data available today represents a turning point for marketing and sales leaders Table of Contents Introduction Putting big data and advanced analytics to work (& Article) Business Opportunities Use Big Data to find new micromarkets (Article) Value of big data and advanced...
Sunday, 28 July 2013
As I mentioned in the first post, "Haswell is coming...", I've been given an opportunity to review the latest and greatest Intel chipset, Haswell, in the form of a engineering reference ultrabook from Intel. Today I'm going to share the unboxing and my initial impressions (hint, 95% positive, 5% whines). Next post I'll share the spec's and more real world using impressions... This is the first time I've done this kind of thing, so please bear with...
Saturday, 27 July 2013
Channel 9 - Getting Started with PowerShell 3.0 This Jump Start is designed to teach the busy IT Professionals about this powerful management tool. Learn how PowerShell works and how to make PowerShell work for you from the experts Jeffrey Snover, the inventor of PowerShell, together with Jason Helmick, Senior Technologist at Concentrated Technology. IT Professionals, Admins, and Help Desk persons learn how to improve your management capabilities,...
Friday, 26 July 2013
Elegant Code - Byte Magazine Archives Earlier this week I accidentally stumbled on archive.org where they are hosting an extensive backlog of old issues of Byte magazine. This magazine was an American microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s (and well before my time). I’ve been skimming through a couple of these old magazines, and I got quite intrigued by some of these old topics.... Byte Magazine Archive...
Amazon Web Services Blog - AWS SDK Support for Windows Phone and Windows Store Applications Over the last few months, we have released a number of enhancements to help customers and partners build their Microsoft Windows centric workloads on AWS. Just last week, we announced guidance for running Exchange Server in the AWS Cloud which builds on our guidance for SQL Server and SharePoint. When it comes to .NET developers, we have provided tools such as our AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio and the AWS SDK for .NET. In fact, we recently...
Nokia Developer - Simpler installation of the Imaging SDK, using NuGet When it comes to installing the Nokia Imaging SDK to your Windows Phone 8 projects, the easiest way is to use NuGet. Until today, you still had to complete the installation by manually editing your project file (.csproj), but thanks to the fantastic input of PetroQ, an active member of the SDK discussion board, the installation is now significantly simpler. Kudos PetroQ! The steps to install the Nokia Imaging SDK are now: In Visual Studio, from the NuGet...
The Verge - US government announces first national app privacy code of conduct Mobile apps and consumers' expectations of privacy are not always in sync. But now the government is on the case. The US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), part of the Commerce Department, has finished working on the first version of a voluntary national "privacy code of conduct" for mobile apps. The NTIA has been working on the code...
Microsoft Press - Free ebook: Rethinking Enterprise Storage: A Hybrid Cloud Model We’re pleased to announce the availability of Rethinking Enterprise Storage: A Hybrid Cloud Model (ISBN 9780735679603), by Marc Farley, as a free download! You can download the PDF version of this title here (120 pages; 3 MB). We will update this post soon with links to EPUB and MOBI files. We expect these files to be available by the end of the month. ...
Thursday, 25 July 2013
NextGov - History of the Atom Bomb Goes Online The Department of Energy has started to post online the internal history of the first atomic bombs. It was commissioned by Lt. Gen Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, which managed the nationwide complex of labs and factories that developed and produced the raw material for the first atom bombs in a crash three-year project that eventually employed 130,000 people and cost $26 billion...
ProPublica - NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails The NSA is a "supercomputing powerhouse" with machines so powerful their speed is measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second. The agency turns its giant machine brains to the task of sifting through unimaginably large troves of data its surveillance programs capture. But ask the NSA, as part of a freedom of information request, to do a seemingly simple search of its own employees' email? The agency says it doesn’t have the technology. "There's no central method to...
InternetExplorer/modern.IE-static-code-scan modern.IE The modern.IE scan analyzes the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript of a site or application for common coding issues. It warns about practices such as incomplete specification of CSS properties, invalid or incorrect doctypes, and obsolete versions of popular JavaScript libraries. It's easiest to use modern.IE by going to the modern.IE site and entering the URL to scan there. To customize the scan, or to use the scan to process files behind a firewall, you can clone and build the files from...
Channel 9 - Windows Azure Developer Experience Videos - New Windows Azure Benefits for MSDN Subscribers! MSDN Subscriber? You already have free Windows Azure credits as part of your subscription - up to $150/mo! Use them to build development & test environments on demand with Virtual Machines, Web Sites, Databases and more. Activate and try your Windows Azure MSDN benefits before September 30, 2013 and you could WIN an...
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