RabbitMQ – Implementing Scatter Gather in .net Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 In this article we will try to talk through an implementation of the scatter gather pattern using RabbitMQ. The sample is written using .net to show how this can be achieved. Before going into the detail ... RabbitMQ – Implementing Scatter Gather in .net 0 0 4
Safely Cloning Virtualized Domain Controllers with Windows Server... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 When virtualizing Active Directory Domain Controllers in the past, we've needed to be very careful that we don't invoke any steps, such as applying an old snapshot, that could possibly cause USN rollback ... Safely Cloning Virtualized Domain Controllers with Windows Server... 0 0 0
Curiosity landed safely! TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Curiosity the latest Mars explorer landed safely at 06:17 GMT today. Here are some details courtesy of SPACE.COM ... Curiosity landed safely! 0 0 0
A "snark-free" post on the Metro naming debacle* (Caution: May co... mbrit, January 1, 0001 In a parallel universe I'm writing a much less kind version of this post, but with GA of Windows 8 being measured in a short number of months, I'm going to try and be helpful. Am I happy about the naming ... A "snark-free" post on the Metro naming debacle* (Caution: May co... 0 0 0
Ignoring the Mobile and Tablet Segment. Barry Shulam, January 1, 0001 0 0 1 424 2421 Volcorp 20 5 2840 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; ... Ignoring the Mobile and Tablet Segment. 0 0 0
My journey to the dark side dgreen, January 1, 0001 After some deep soul searching, I’ve decided to venture into the world of Objective-C and the wonderful world of iOS development. Mind you, its not some whimsical fancy. As a .NET developer by trade it ... My journey to the dark side 0 0 2
Part 3–PassBook Server Richard Jones, January 1, 0001 So far we have covered some basic principals, a simple database schema to store pass-jobs. Next step is to go about actually tie all this together and generate some passes. I’m being careful to avoid talking ... Part 3–PassBook Server 0 0 0
Things seem the same, but different. foxjazz, January 1, 0001 I remember I had joined the Air Force and spent my first paycheck or 2 on a 286 pack bell. The decision came in 1991 when I went to the software shelves and looked at the software available. At the time ... Things seem the same, but different. 0 0 4
The Truth About .NET Objects And Sharing Them Between AppDomains Alois Kraus, January 1, 0001 I have written already some time ago how big a .NET object is. John Skeet as also made a very detailed post about object sizes in .NET. I wanted to know if we can deduce the object size not by experiments ... The Truth About .NET Objects And Sharing Them Between AppDomains 0 0 2
Part 2–PassBook Server Richard Jones, January 1, 0001 So now that we’ve established we are going to-do a glorified mail merge to build up our individual passes. The next step is to construct a database that is going to drive the entire process. I’ve built ... Part 2–PassBook Server 0 0 0
Disappearing Boundaries in the Post-PC/BYOD World Webgui, January 1, 0001 A lot has been written recently about how we live in the Post-PC world. But what does mean practically? Up until relatively recently, even as smartphones became more technology capable and increasingly ... Disappearing Boundaries in the Post-PC/BYOD World 0 0 0
Confirming communication with an XBee radio and FEZ Cerbuino Bee ParadigmShift, January 1, 0001 So I’ve decided to expand my horizons further into the world of Microcontrollers. As a .NET engineer with little hardware experience I found that the learning curve to enter the hardware world has drastically ... Confirming communication with an XBee radio and FEZ Cerbuino Bee 0 0 1
Part 1–PassBook Server Richard Jones, January 1, 0001 So before we talked about the potential of building a server to issue and maintain Passbook passes. The design goal to being able to issue boarding passes, concert tickets, etc. to iOS devices. The starting ... Part 1–PassBook Server 0 0 1
Debugging Passkit Install on iOS Simulator Richard Jones, January 1, 0001 Top tip, this just saved my life in OSX Terminal run - tail -f /var/log/system.log This let me debug what was going on with a faulty Passbook pass (well faulty since iOS 6 beta 3) ... Debugging Passkit Install on iOS Simulator 0 0 0
Apple…Why I bought a MB Air… MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 I haven’t touched an Apple Machine since high school really. I never really wanted to buy one until recently. I have two Apple devices and I wanted to know how to build a mobile application. I have a strong ... Apple…Why I bought a MB Air… 0 0 0
Inside the DLR - Callsites simonc, January 1, 0001 The DLR was introduced in .NET 4 to allow dynamic languages, like Python or Ruby, to run on the CLR. The DLR is also used by C# 4, released at the same time, to implement dynamic binding via the dynamic ... Inside the DLR - Callsites 0 0 0
VS ALM Rangers July 2012 Announcements and New DotNedUG Podcast a... hassanfadili, January 1, 0001 I'm very happy to announce that a bench of Visual Studio Application Life Cycle Management Rangers Projects are shipped for RTM. As part of Rangers team, we are very proud to share this great news with ... VS ALM Rangers July 2012 Announcements and New DotNedUG Podcast a... 0 0 0
Traveling abroad - an IT experience for work (part 1h andywe, January 1, 0001 After almost 30 years of being a sr. engineer and architect, I finally got myself into a project where another person was not being allowed to travel far from home and family to be boots on the ground. ... Traveling abroad - an IT experience for work (part 1h 0 0 0
PassBook Server - Goals Richard Jones, January 1, 0001 So Apple releases the Autumn/Fall iOS 6. Included feature PassBook looks fantastic. The ability to store all those loyalty cards, coupons, tickets and travel documents in a unified interface looks compelling. ... PassBook Server - Goals 0 0 1
Mutexes, Semaphores, Monitors, ReaderWriterLocks, AutoResetEvents... Abhijeet Patel, January 1, 0001 Mutexes, Semaphores, Monitors, ReaderWriterLocks, AutoResetEvents & ManualResets oh my! Up until a few years ago, mainstream programming for the most part did not involve asynchrony and/or parallelism ... Mutexes, Semaphores, Monitors, ReaderWriterLocks, AutoResetEvents... 0 0 6
Developing BizTalk Rules the BDD way Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 Recently we have been looking at changing the way we develop and test BizTalk Business Rules to use a BDD approach and our tool of choice to help with this is Specflow. I wanted to talk through how we ... Developing BizTalk Rules the BDD way 0 0 0
ResolveUrl() from WCF service Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 I wanted to ResolveUrl() from WCF service and foundhttp://www.west-wind.c... .However the function assumes that the call is synchronous, in asynchronous ... ResolveUrl() from WCF service 0 0 0
DataContractSerializer truncated string when used with MemoryStre... Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 We've used the following DataContractSerializeToXml method for a long time, but recently noticed, that it doesn't return full XML for a long object, but truncated it and returns XML string with the length ... DataContractSerializer truncated string when used with MemoryStre... 0 0 1
Convert collections of enums to collection of strings and vic... Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 Recently I needed to convert collections of strings, that represent enum names, to collection of enums, and opposite, to convert collections of enums to collection of strings. I didn’t find standard LINQ ... Convert collections of enums to collection of strings and vic... 0 0 0
Book Review: “Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Query... Sam Abraham, January 1, 0001 In the past few weeks, I have been reading “Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying” by Itzik Ben-Gan et al. In the next few lines, I will be providing a quick book review having finished reading ... Book Review: “Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Query... 0 0 0
VLC Media Player 2.0.2 TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 The latest version of the free VLC media player is available for download at http://www.videolan.org/"VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia ... VLC Media Player 2.0.2 0 0 0
FileOpenPicker/FileSavePicker doesn't allow *.* wildcard file ass... mbrit, January 1, 0001 On Twitter, Matthias Jauernig commented that the FileOpenPicker and FileSavePicker doesn't allow *.* wildcard file associations. I was relaxed about this and wrote back that it was related to sandboxing ... FileOpenPicker/FileSavePicker doesn't allow *.* wildcard file ass... 0 0 0
Azure WNS to Win8 - Push Notifications for Metro Apps JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Background The Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 allows you to build a Windows Azure Cloud Service that can send Push Notifications to registered Metro apps via Windows Notification Service (WNS). Some ... Azure WNS to Win8 - Push Notifications for Metro Apps 0 0 1
Easy Scaling in XAML (WPF) Robert May, January 1, 0001 Ran into a problem that needed solving that was kind of fun. I’m not a XAML guru, and I’m sure there are better solutions, but I thought I’d share mine. The problem was this: Our designer had, appropriately, ... Easy Scaling in XAML (WPF) 0 0 8
My Generation Drivers DropdownList Empty hmloo, January 1, 0001 I just installed MyGeneration 1.3.1 on my Windows Vista, and when I try to setup the default settings there are no drivers to select from. but it's OK in my Windows XP machine. At last I got the answers ... My Generation Drivers DropdownList Empty 0 0 2
Visual Studio Load Testing using Windows Azure Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Updated 29th June 2013: Microsoft is now previewing Load Test Service in TFS Service. Please check out more on the official offering by navigating to http://aka.ms/loadtfs In my opinion the biggest adoption ... Visual Studio Load Testing using Windows Azure 0 0 2
Kendo UI Mobile with Knockout for Master-Detail Views Steve Michelotti, January 1, 0001 Lately I’ve been playing with Kendo UI Mobile to build iPhone apps. It’s similar to jQuery Mobile in that they are both HTML5/JavaScript based frameworks for buildings mobile apps. The primary thing that ... Kendo UI Mobile with Knockout for Master-Detail Views 0 0 6
Better Embedded 2012 Valter Minute, January 1, 0001 Il 24 e 25 Settembre 2012 a Firenze si svolgerà la conferenza “Better Embedded 2012”. Lo scopo della conferenza è quello di parlare di sistemi embedded a 360°, abbracciando sia lo sviluppo firmware, che ... Better Embedded 2012 0 0 0
How to remove Visual J# .NET from installation package (MSI) Narendra Tiwari, January 1, 0001 While creating Web Setup, Visual J# .NET automatically included in the MSI package.When we install this MSI on a server machine which does not have Visual J# .NET installed, installer prompts a message ... How to remove Visual J# .NET from installation package (MSI) 0 0 0
O'Reilly 50% off selected Training Kit Ebooks to July 5, 2012 at ... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 At http://shop.oreilly.com/cat... there is 50% off a selection of Microsoft Press Training Kit ebooks" Make the most of your study time with Microsoft Press ... O'Reilly 50% off selected Training Kit Ebooks to July 5, 2012 at ... 0 0 0
Windows Metro Requests Scott Dorman, January 1, 0001 Windows 8 and Windows Metro style apps have a lot of potential, but only if application vendors realize there is a demand to see their app as a Metro style app and not just as a desktop app (or worse, ... Windows Metro Requests 0 0 2
Autoscaling in a modern world…. last chapter Steve Loethen, January 1, 0001 As we all know as coders, things like logging are never important. Our code will work right the first time. So, you can understand my surprise when the first time I deployed the autoscaling worker role ... Autoscaling in a modern world…. last chapter 0 0 0
Surface and the Uphill Battle to Win Over iPad Users (Namely: Me) D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 I went away this past weekend and decided to bring along the Windows 8 tablet from the Build conference last year – y’know, to give Windows 8 a try in a typical scenario. I also brought our iPad 2 along ... Surface and the Uphill Battle to Win Over iPad Users (Namely: Me) 0 0 1
256 Windows Azure Worker Roles, Windows Kinect and a 90's Text-Ba... Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 For a couple of years I have been demoing a simple render farm hosted in Windows Azure using worker roles and the Azure Storage service. At the start of the presentation I deploy an Azure application that ... 256 Windows Azure Worker Roles, Windows Kinect and a 90's Text-Ba... 0 0 4
Video on Architecture and Code Quality using Visual Studio 2012&n... terje, January 1, 0001 Find the video HERE. Updated June 28th 2012: Marcel has blogged about this too. Adam Cogan did a great Web TV interview with Marcel de Vries and myself on the topics of architecture and code quality. It ... Video on Architecture and Code Quality using Visual Studio 2012&n... 0 0 0
From Pocket to Instapaper Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 Some time ago I’ve described the issues that I’ve had since a new version of Read It Later, named Pocket, was introduced.I’ve waited with hope for a new upgrade, but I had a huge disappointment with the ... From Pocket to Instapaper 0 0 0
NMap 6.01 TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 NMap 6.01 has been released at http://nmap.org/download.ht... ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators ... NMap 6.01 0 0 0
Navigation in Win8 Metro Style applications Dennis Vroegop, January 1, 0001 In Windows 8, Touch is, as they say, a first class citizen. Now, to be honest: they also said that in Windows 7. However in Win8 this is actually true. Applications are meant to be used by touch. Yes, ... Navigation in Win8 Metro Style applications 0 0 0
Why bother writing an Windows 8 app? Dennis Vroegop, January 1, 0001 So you want to know more about development for Window 8. Great! There are lots of reasons you should be excited about this. Since I don’t know why YOU are interested in this, I’ll make a list of reasons ... Why bother writing an Windows 8 app? 0 0 21
Microsoft Cloud Day - the ups and downs Charles Young, January 1, 0001 The term ‘cloud’ can sometimes obscure the obvious. Today’s Microsoft Cloud Day conference in London provided a good example. Scott Guthrie was halfway through what was an excellent keynote when he lost ... Microsoft Cloud Day - the ups and downs 0 0 4
Virtualising Windows 8 on OS X with VMware Fusion above the 8GB l... mbrit, January 1, 0001 tl;dr - don't.VMware Fusion has an 8GB limit, so on my 16GB MacBook Pro (which is an old one with a 16GB memory upgrade), I wanted to use more than 8GB. You can fudge it my editing the .vmx file and changing ... Virtualising Windows 8 on OS X with VMware Fusion above the 8GB l... 0 0 0
MS Marketing Strategy Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 I found this week’s Windows Phone 8 event interesting. Not just because it looks like some fantastic new features in the new OS but because of the wait for release. If I were a Nokia shareholder (which ... MS Marketing Strategy 0 0 0
Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts when virtualising OS X mbrit, January 1, 0001 Seriously, I have no idea why this took me so long to actually sort out.So in Windows 8 you have new keyboard shortcuts for accessing search (Win+Q), charms (Win+C), settings (Win+I), etc. Problem is that ... Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts when virtualising OS X 0 0 0
My Feelings About Microsoft Surface Valter Minute, January 1, 0001 Advice: read the title carefully, I’m talking about “feelings” and not about advanced technical points proved in a scientific and objective way I still haven’t had a chance to play with a MS Surface tablet ... My Feelings About Microsoft Surface 0 0 0
SharePoint Alternate access mapping Configuration MJ Ferdous, January 1, 0001 Alternate Access Mappings is a feature of SharePoint which allows a website to function correctly under different URL scenarios, including, reverse proxies and load balancing. It is a common practice used ... SharePoint Alternate access mapping Configuration 0 0 0