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Smart Software - The Future of Software World

Keyvan Nayyeri, May 26, 2012
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One of the advantages of being in a research environment is that you can witness many ideas and innovations come true from pure theory or prototypes. Having that, you can know what is going to happen...

Telerik Hudson Office Signs

Steven Smith, May 24, 2012
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The new signs went in earlier this week, replacing the NimblePros signage with Telerik in the new Hudson office location.  Youll find our office at the corner of Stoney Hill Drive and Darrow Road...

If doctors would work like software engineers, no-one would consult them

Frans Boumas blog, May 24, 2012
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When I woke up this morning, in the vague state of my barely booted mind a thought popped up: we software developers bicker and debate almost solely about procedure, never about diagnostics and which ...

Mash This Episode 8: Turning Your API Into a Business

Keyvan Nayyeri, May 23, 2012
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My most recent blog posts have been nothing but announcing new episodes of Mash This podcast, and this one is no different. Episode 8 is up that is about turning your API into a business. For this...

Introducing GitHub For Windows

youve been HAACKED, May 21, 2012
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For the past several months Ive been working on a project with my amazing cohorts, Paul, Tim, and Adam, and Cameron at GitHub. Ive had the joy of learning new technologies and digging deep into the in...

Using Absolute Positioning to Create Flexible Mobile Layouts

Chris Love's Official Blog - Professional ASP.NET, May 16, 2012
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Struggle isn't exactly the right term. More like prolonged torture describes the frustration and experience I have had with some CSS concepts. Let's face it CSS is more of an art than some place where...

When somebody changes my code...

The Code Project Latest Articles, May 15, 2012
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This blog entry is about that 'non-deterministic' behavior that sometimes happens to 'us' while developing software and all of the sudden something does...

Achievement unlocked: Mobilism 2012

QuirksBlog, May 15, 2012
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Wow. Mobilism 2012 is done, and it was a lot more awesome than I thought. Not that I thought it would be a dud, but it’s always pleasant when your expectations are exceeded.We have worked with this pa...

Selling software using PayPal IPN as an eCommerce platform

The Code Project Latest Articles, May 12, 2012
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Use PayPal API to automatize software selling, send templatized emails with license keys to customers...

DotNetNuke Top 50 CMS

Shaun Walker, May 11, 2012
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Last week Website Magazine published their June issue which contained a list of the Top 50 Content Management Solutions available in the market. The list included both open source as well as proprie...

Tiny UML Sequence Diagram Markup Language for Agile Developer Documentation

The Code Project Latest Articles, May 6, 2012
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I hate overdocumented software components and frameworks. There are top 3 reasons for that: Only the code tells the truth (programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Only_the_Code_Tells_the_Truth)...

Peer Code Review – Are they worth the hassel?

Joe Brinkman, May 5, 2012
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Over the last many months the Engineering Organization at DotNetNuke Corp. has been making many process changes to deliver high-quality Software. As Scrum Master and Lead Developer, Id like to dedica...

Metrics - A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing (or 'Why you're not clever enough to interpret metrics data')

Simple Talk, May 3, 2012
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At RedGate Software, I work on a .NET obfuscator called SmartAssembly. Various features of it use a database to......

Quest Tools Aimed at Easing Exchange Online, Office 365 Migration Challenges

Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online | Todays Top Picks, April 30, 2012
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Quest Software announced two new migration solutions for organizations moving to Exchange Online and Office 365....

Here we grow again. Telerik acquires NimblePros

the telerik blogs, April 26, 2012
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It doesnt even feel like its been that long since I wrote a post on Telerik in Numbers (almost 10 months to date), and that blog content feels very out of date. While I plan to update you with some ne...

Principles of Product Development Flow Book Review

Steven Smith, April 25, 2012
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One of the more advanced books Ive read relating to the subjects of Software Development and Lean is The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G....

Peldi Guilizzoni: Geek of the Week

Simple Talk, April 24, 2012
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Peldi is one of the most likeable of the new hybrid IT generation; part entrepreneur, part geek. Balsamiq is Peldi's creation, a tool for creating mockups of software. Balsamiq has shown what a good f...

Microsoft Announces Open Technologies Inc. Subsidiary

Shaun Walker, April 23, 2012
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A few weeks ago Microsoft surprised many folks in the industry by announcing a new wholly owned subsidiary known as Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. The stated goal of the new enterprise is to advan...

.NET Popularity Increases, Java and PHP Decrease…

Shaun Walker, April 16, 2012
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TIOBE Software has maintained a Programming Community Index for more than 10 years. Updated on a monthly basis, it is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages in use around the world. ...

The Syndrome of Brute-force Management

Keyvan Nayyeri, April 15, 2012
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For those who are not familiar with the term, brute-force refers to the most naïve approach of designing an algorithm or strategy to solve a problem that consists of more than one possibility b...

Activating the Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone

JohnPapa.net, April 6, 2012
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I received my Nokia Lumia 900 today and was very excited to open it. I had 3 goals for today: 1) activate it 2) make sure my unlimited data plan was still in place 3) get my apps to the new phone I ac...

Microsoft and Open Source

Brendan Tompkins, April 5, 2012
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I have been a vocal, and sometimes harsh, critic of Microsofts approach to Open Source Software. I call that activism, some call it whining, ranting or pisser dans la soupe. People are entitled to the...

Quacks At Work

K. Scott Allen, April 3, 2012
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"The Lords of Finance" includes a story about famous economist John Maynard Keynes, who was diagnosed with a chronic cardiac condition and needed medical help*. In 1939, he fell into the hands ...

Run Firefox Daily and make the web better! Ubuntu Install Steps.

MS-Joe, April 2, 2012
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If you are any kind of a techie you run some pre-release software. Since joining Mozilla I’ve been amazed at how much work gets done by such a small group of people. One of the ways this happens is th...

Done. Done Done. When is a feature really done?

the telerik blogs, March 30, 2012
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At Telerik, just like at every other software development shop, we have struggled with the definition of "Done". Throughout the years we've had many definitions of "Done" within teams and individ...

Never ever do business with Samsung India Software Operations

QuirksBlog, March 28, 2012
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Back in October 2010 I was very glad to receive a mail from the people behind the Samsung Dolfin browser, who turned out to work from Bangalore, India, asking for my cooperation in making it better an...

Charge for bad code?

Brendan Tompkins, March 27, 2012
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So let’s throw out a quick idea that we have batted around a bit internally. What if Mighty Moose were to be free? What if we were only to charge you for two features inside of the software that are …...

What Are Brogrammers Afraid Of?

youve been HAACKED, March 22, 2012
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Disclaimer: these opinions are my own and dont necessarily represent the opinion of any person or institution who are not me. The topic of sexism in the software industry has flared up recently. This...

Kanban Book Review

Steven Smith, March 21, 2012
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While researching material for my Kanban Fundamentals video training course on Pluralsight, I read Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, by David J. Anderson.  Ive ...

Dynamsoft enabled Urban Turtle for the TFS hosting service

ASP.NET Announcements, March 19, 2012
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Following the launch of Build Server and Managed TFS Hosting Solution, Dynamsoft built a partnership with Pyxis and enabled Urban Turtle for its TFS Hosting service. The management tool is an agile ta...

Openness vs. Control in Software

Keyvan Nayyeri, March 10, 2012
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It's a beautiful Spring weather in Texas already and it has been raining non-stop in the past couple of days. Since my car's wipers can't keep up with the pace of rain, I'm stayin...

Personal Kanban Book Review

Steven Smith, March 9, 2012
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Not long ago, while preparing my Kanban Fundamentals video training class for Pluralsight, I read Personal Kanban, by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry.  If youre new to the concept of kanban...

Surprising interest in the WP7 GeoBlog

Softwaremaker, March 3, 2012
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I had posted more than 3 months ago about my little port from WM6.0 to WP7 of my GeoBlog application. This successful port was not made available in the Windows Phone Marketplace as I had s...

Deferred and Promises (BYOSP Part 8)

K. Scott Allen, February 29, 2012
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When I started thinking about adding animations to the slide presenter I pictured a few different types of animations simple animations to make items appear one by one, but also animations to pan, zo...

New Book: Notes to a software team leader

ISerializable, February 28, 2012
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I've started to write my upcoming book titled "Notes to a software team leader" (hat tip to Kevlin Henney for the name idea). The book will combine many of the subjects my 5whys blog addresses, plus...

7 Must-have Features When Choosing an Agile Management Tool [Whitepaper]

the telerik blogs, February 27, 2012
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There is an overabundance of tools on the market today. Some of these tools span across various landscape areas of development processes where some tool choices only target specific areas. The applic...

Steve Jobs - A Perfectionist

Keyvan Nayyeri, February 24, 2012
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Today is the 57th birthday anniversary of Steve Jobs, a man who left his name in history of computers and technology regardless of all the criticism against him. I've been wanting to write th...

The Road to Visual Studio 11 Beta and .NET 4.5 Beta

Somasegars WebLog, February 23, 2012
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Today, I’m excited to announce that Visual Studio 11 Beta and .NET 4.5 Beta will be available in just a few days, on February 29th, 2012.  These releases will be “go live,” mean...

The what-if brain: Social pariah for developers?

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., February 22, 2012
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As developers and analysts, we spend a lot of time asking what if?. What if the user enters too many characters into this data entry field? What if the network hiccups during a database save? ...

What Is The Spirit of Open Source?

youve been HAACKED, February 22, 2012
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In my last post, I attempted to make a distinction between Open Source and Open Source Software. Some folks took issue with the post and thats great! I love a healthy debate. Its an opportunity to lea...

TECHbash 2012: A Free Technology Conference in Northeastern Pennsylvania

Jason N. Gaylords Blog, February 17, 2012
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Ever want to check out the latest technologies but have been too busy dealing with kids, co-workers, or angry birds? Nows your chance. Push everything aside and get ready to attend the coolest confere...

Open Source and Open Source Software Are Not The Same Things

youve been HAACKED, February 16, 2012
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It all started with an innocent tweet asking whether ASP.NET MVC 3 is open source or not? I jumped in with my usual answer, of course it is! The source code is released under the Ms-PL, a license reco...

A Tale Of Two Offshorings

K. Scott Allen, February 16, 2012
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Company A I've worked with company A on a number of interesting commercial products over the years. After months of trying to find more good engineers in the local area, they recently decided to star...

Microsoft Server Products in Virtualized Environment

Colt Kwongs Blog, February 9, 2012
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When designing solutions to different customers, a common question that I had heard is whether software X supported in virtualized environment? What about server product Y and Z supported as well? Bel...

January 2012 BITS Software Assurance Framework

Radical Development, February 7, 2012
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If you have not yet heard of this framework, I urge you to take the time to give it a serious read. While the executive summary talks to how software is critical to the financial industry the truth is...

Michelle Trachtenberg

Radical Development, January 31, 2012
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Michelle Trachtenberg was born in New York City, the younger of two daughters of Lana, a bank manager, and Michael Trachtenberg, a fiber-optics engineer. Her father is from Germany and her mother was ...

Mila Kunis

Radical Development, January 31, 2012
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Mila Kunis was born in Chernivtsi in the Ukrainian SSR. Her mother, Elvira, is a physics teacher and drug store manager, and her father, Mark Kunis, is a mechanical engineer and cab company executive....

Reviewing Scrumban the Book

Steven Smith, January 27, 2012
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Ive been reading a bunch of kanban and lean books recently as I work on my Pluralsight course on Introducing Kanban (not published yet will link to it when it is).  The most recent one Ive finis...

Software Release Management - Why You Can’t And Shouldn’t Force People to Use the Latest Version

Fervent Coder, January 25, 2012
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As software creators we don't get to decide what version of our tools / libraries that people use. If we try to force them, our users will go somewhere else. Update: What Type of Software This Ap...

Can desktop software be Lean?

Simple Talk, January 24, 2012
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We're currently trying to build a service that lets developers silently update their application. We want desktop developers to enjoy all the same advantages as those who code for web. Desktop softwar...