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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...

CryptoLicensing For .Net 2012 released

ASP.NET Announcements, January 24, 2012
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LogicNP Software has released CryptoLicensing for .Net 2012 which is a 100% .Net solution to add licensing, copy-protection, activation, hardware-locking and usage-reporting capabilities to your .Net,...

Educational Programming

Simple Talk, January 20, 2012
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At last, weve woken up to the worrying fact that there just arent enough good programmers to go around. Instead of aiming to get a generation of students interested in building their own software, edu...

DB2 GET DATABASE MANAGER CONFIGURATION

DBA DB2, January 20, 2012
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Returns the values of individual entries in the database manager configuration file. -- Get configuration values for instance GET DATABASE MANAGER CONFIGURATION -- Focus on -- DFT_MON_BUFPOOL -- HEALT...

Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability

Rico Marianis Performance Tidbits, January 11, 2012
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This series can still be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff649152.aspx While some of the content is stale since it refers specifically to .NET 2.0 I think all of the conceptual con...

Getting stated with Git and GitHub

Code Climber, January 11, 2012
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Now that Subtext, the blogging engine Im working (or at least I should) on together with Phil Haack, has been officially moved to GitHub (guess the reason why), I finally have a reason to really study...

A new year and a new group

Eric Gunnersons C# Compendium, January 5, 2012
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Im starting off the new year (well, in a few weeks) in a new group. I am leaving the HealthVault team, and moving to an internal Engineering Excellence team where I will be working on making our engin...

Amazon Kindle Fire: Return to sender

Method ~ of ~ failed, January 3, 2012
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I wanted to believe, I really did. It has been over a month since my first impressions of the Amazon Kindle Fire. Over the holidays, I processed a return for my Kindle Fire. When the Fire was announce...

Webinar: Introduction to Unit Testing (Wednesday, January 4)

ASP.NET Announcements, January 2, 2012
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Software testing isn’t just a task for QA. In order to prevent bugs and release quality code to market, you also need developer testing, including unit testing. Discover why you should start uni...

Vermont IT Jobs: SysAdmin at NRG Systems in Hinesburg (a cool companycmon do it!)

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., December 30, 2011
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http://www.nrgsystems.com/ Hinesburg, Vermont Desktop/Systems Administrator Job Description Key Focus The Desktop/Systems Administrator is responsible for providing first line support to NR...

Moving to the Cloud Part 2: Mostly Sunny

Marquee de Sells: Chriss insight outlet, December 27, 2011
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In part 1 of this now multi-part series (who knew?), I discussed my initial attempts at moving my digital life into the cloud, including files, music, photos, notes, task lists, mail, contacts, calend...

My Bests of 2011

Keyvan Nayyeri, December 24, 2011
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A couple of times in December 2005 and 2008 I compiled a list of the best things that I found in the year that was ending. For other years, I was unable to find enough items to put on the list and t...

The Value of Social Business

Joe Brinkman, December 21, 2011
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December has been an exciting month for the social collaboration market. Jive Software went public, Telligent acquired Leverage Software and Facebook announced a new feature for Pages. What does this ...

Free Hosted Project Management service with entirely open source code

ASP.NET Announcements, December 15, 2011
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The WorkHub application is now available as a free hosted service so you can create, manage, and collaborate on projects at: http://www.softwaremonkeys.net Just register (top right), create a project,...

Moving My Data To The Cloud: Stormy Weather

Marquee de Sells: Chriss insight outlet, December 14, 2011
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For years, Ive maintained a single main computer. It was the computer that was the central authority of all of the personal data Id accumulated over the years and from which it made me uncomfortable...

Using Windows Authentication with Web Deploy and WMSVC

CarlosAg Blog, December 14, 2011
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By default in Windows Server 2008 when you are using the Web Management Service (WMSVC) and Web Deploy (also known as MSDeploy) it will use Basic authentication to perform your deployments. If you wan...

Better Git with PowerShell

youve been HAACKED, December 13, 2011
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Im usually not one to resort to puns in my blog titles, but I couldnt resist. Git it? Git it? Sorry. Ever since we introduced PowerShell into NuGet, Ive become a big fan. I think its great, yet Ive h...

Dynamsoft TFS hosting service

ASP.NET Announcements, December 13, 2011
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Dynamsoft is launching Team Foundation Server hosting service this week. Sign Up Today to Get 3-Month Free Trial Here at Dynamsoft, our mission is to ease a little burden from busy developers’ s...

Keyvan.TV Episode 9: Writing Good Software Engineering Research Papers

Keyvan Nayyeri, December 6, 2011
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After a short pause in publishing new episodes on Keyvan.TV due to my busy schedule, I finally found time to post the 9th episode that is one of the recent presentations that I had on writing good s...

Using the Kinect to help detect illness, prevent falls and help older adults

MSDN: Coding4Fun, December 2, 2011
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The final post in our medical week inspiration series is how the Kinect can be used to provide 24x7 'eyes' to help those whom might need a little extra care...MU Researchers Use New Video Gaming Techn...

Telerik: Best tech support response ever

Marquee de Sells: Chriss insight outlet, November 19, 2011
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I was playing around with the Telerik WPF controls the other day and I ran into an issue. It wasnt a bug, just a bet peeve of mine, so knowing that two friends of mine, Stephen Forte and Doug Seven, b...

Weekly Links 2011_36 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks)

MS-Joe, November 17, 2011
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Software Developer Links of the Week. Apple isn’t the most hurt today by Amazon’s one-two punch New Toshiba Thrive Model to Be a 7-inch Flavor, Slated for December Release Samsung Taps Intel To Build ...

Computer Security: The Rights Of A Computer User

Radical Development, November 15, 2011
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In terms of ownership of your very own computer system, where do you believe the line is to be drawn when it comes to software and services being installed? For example, if you install a product shoul...

What Counts for A DBA: Observant

Simple Talk, November 14, 2011
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When fires start raging within the corporate software forest, the DBAs instinct is to actively find a way to douse the flames and get back to having no one in the company have any idea who they are. E...

Represent Behavior with Classes not Flags

ASPAlliance.com - The #1 ASP.NET Community, November 11, 2011
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When designing your software systems, favor the use of classes to model behavior within the system over the overuse of flags in your data model. The resulting design will be more flexible, less tight...

Hello Fellow DotNetNukers!

Joe Brinkman, November 9, 2011
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I cant believe that Im at this fine company, working with such wonderful people, for four months, and only now writing my first blog! Bad Bob!! That behavior will have to change right away. Lets begi...

NEW - MerchantTribe 1.0 - Shopping Cart Software ASP.NET MVC C#

ASP.NET Announcements, November 8, 2011
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MerchantTribe is a free, open-source ASP.NET MVC ecommerce platform in C#. For more than a decade, we've been building and selling commercial .NET shopping cart software. Now, we're releasing an ...

Netduino Controlled LED Cube

MSDN: Coding4Fun, November 7, 2011
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Commercial LED cubes have been around for a while now and can be quite large and capable of some interesting displays. This project is on a smaller scale and goes through the steps required to build a...

Design for Software THE BOOK!

Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, November 3, 2011
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About 5 months ago I gave a talk on Design for Software for DevSum11. It was a great event and I was pleasantly surprised at positive attitude the community had towards design. Shortly there after I w...

The Changing Face of DotNetNuke Product Management

Joe Brinkman, November 1, 2011
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DotNetNuke has undergone many changes over the last 8 years in the way the product is developed and managed. Having been part of the main engineering and product teams from the early days of the Open ...

A good book gets borrowed: Version Control By Example

Scott Cates WebLog, October 28, 2011
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Eric Sink ((@eric_sink on twitter) has written a great book on Version Control Software, titled Version Control By Example. It showed up on my desk again this morning. I say again, because I keep lett...

Anatomy of an Acquisition: Inside Cerebrata / Red Gate

Simple Talk, October 27, 2011
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The sale of a favourite software company can be disheartening for users, creating concern that the tools and team you love will vanish. Red Gates Luke Jefferson and Matt Dickens, and Cerebratas Gaurav...

CryptoLicensing For .Net 2011 R3 released

ASP.NET Announcements, October 26, 2011
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LogicNP Software has released CryptoLicensing for .Net 2011 R3 which is a 100% .Net solution to add licensing, copy-protection, activation, hardware-locking and usage-reporting capabilities to your ....

TestRail Hosted edition announced

ASP.NET Announcements, October 20, 2011
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Gurock Software announced the availability of TestRail Hosted, a new SaaS and cloud-based edition of their web-based test management software. TestRail helps software development teams and QA departme...

Slides of My Presentation on Writing Good Software Engineering Research Papers

Keyvan Nayyeri, October 14, 2011
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As I had written last year, we started a reading group for software engineering last summer here at our department and I had some presentations on software traceability with topic modeling, Exemplar, ...

What Are Philosophy-Based Design Patterns?

DevX: .NET Feed, October 13, 2011
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Software engineering is largely about analyzing a portion of the real world and translating it into a software system. What could be a richer source for ideas about reality analysis than philosophy?...

Ex-Amazonian urges Google to sample Amazon's secret sauce

InfoWorld: Web services, October 12, 2011
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A Google+ post-gone-viral by Google engineer Steve Yegge includes both insightful and at times scathing observations about how his employer needs to learn a lesson or ...

Ex-Amazonian urges Google to sample Amazon's secret sauce

InfoWorld: Web services, October 12, 2011
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A Google+ post-gone-viral by Google engineer Steve Yegge includes both insightful and at times scathing observations about how his employer needs to learn a lesson or ...

Ex-Amazonian urges Google to sample Amazon's secret sauce

InfoWorld: Web services, October 12, 2011
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A Google+ post-gone-viral by Google engineer Steve Yegge includes both insightful and at-times scathing observations about how his employer needs lea...

Generating secure product keys: A comprehensive product key management library

The Code Project Latest Articles, October 9, 2011
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This article provides an insight on how to generate uncrackable and flexible product keys. Strong product keys means less piracy and less lost revenue for a software publisher....

Steve Jobs

Keyvan Nayyeri, October 6, 2011
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It was yesterday around his death time when I published my post on vegetarianism and mentioned his name as one of the symbols of pescetarianism. He changed the world in many ways and it’s...

Rise and Fall of Classic OOP

K. Scott Allen, October 5, 2011
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When I was making the switch from C and assembly to C++ I did quite a bit of reading on object oriented programming. It's hard to find material on OOP that doesn't praise the classical pillars of enca...

Cleveland 2011 Software Engineering 101

Steven Smith, September 30, 2011
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Next Friday, 7 October 2011, Microsoft in Cleveland is hosting a free one-day event focused on the basics of Software Engineering.  There are a handful of seats left before the event sells out.&#...

Cleveland 2011 Software Engineering 101

Steven Smith, September 30, 2011
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Next Friday, 7 October 2011, Microsoft in Cleveland is hosting a free one-day event focused on the basics of Software Engineering.  There are a handful of seats left before the event sells out.&#...