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OOCs? Books? Forums? Just diving in? Accomplished software developers, language creators, and authors share their perspectives on the best way to learn a new programming language. "It is not easy to tell good advice from the far more plentiful harmful nonsense."
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First Floor Software is proud to announce the immediate availability of the first beta release of XAML Spy for Visual Studio. XAML Spy for Visual Studio enables spying on Silverlight, Windows Phone, Windows Store and WPF apps right in Visual Studio. Get your angle brackets all shined up nicely
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Change is coming to Redmond, but change itself isn't a plan. In the future, all corporate plans will be displayed on their Web sites for ease in reporting
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Nostalgic revamp shows power of games built for Web standards. Maybe they'll also bring back the Plus pack from Win95?
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Before YouTube, watching video on line was a hit-and-miss proposition. There were Flash video players, but many videos need to be downloaded before you could play them. Developer Yash Kumar saw a parallel to the world of code. No cat videos? Then what's the point?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: less fewer cat videos
FTFY
It'll never fly.
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Reactive programming, in which programs react to events, is gathering steam as a mechanism for programming on multicore processors and for Web development. The concept is growing in importance in the Java realm, in particular. Typesafe, which has built its Akka middleware stack around the Scala language and reactive programming, is an advocate, and Netflix has been touting functional, reactive programming with its RxJava library for asynchronous and event-based programs, based on Microsoft's Reactive Extensions project. Java reacts to .NET
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I always appreciate it when readers take the time to explain why they feel a certain way. I'm often accused of being overly loyal to a brand (Microsoft), but it's easy to see when people are being just as loyal to their own (Apple, Google, VMware, and so forth). I'll admit this may affect my judgment. It's the fanboys of the other stuff that are the problem
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It's clear that open source is shaking up the technology industry. What isn't yet clear is how this impacts legacy vendors. /sigh. When in doubt, sprinkle a little hyperbole in your headlines
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I’m sorry to be the one to break this to you, but, well, your company network is compromised. I know, I know, you thought you had firewalls and antivirus and Dropbox is blocked but somehow the nasties got in. Unfortunately that also means that all the web apps you have behind your corporate firewall are, for all intents and purposes, now public. "There's a mole, right at the top of the Circus. And he's been there for years."
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Three of Microsoft's biggest investors are petitioning the company's board members, asking for the resignation of Bill Gates as chairman. First they came for Ballmer, and I did nothing...
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I’m excited to announce the September 2013 release of the Ajax Control Toolkit, which now supports building new Ajax Control Toolkit controls with jQuery. Have your jCake, and eat it too
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Microsoft Research, the central research arm of that tech giant of the northwest, was founded in September 1991. This is the prehistory. "Once upon a time..."
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Did you find this blog post through Bing? Probably not—67% of worldwide searches go through Google, 18% through Bing. But Microsoft has advertised in a substantial TV campaign that — in the cyber analog to blind taste testing — people prefer Bing “nearly 2:1.” A year ago, when I first saw these ads, the 2-1 claim seemed implausible. I would have thought the search results of these competitors would be largely identical, and that it would be hard for people to distinguish between the two sets of results, much less prefer one kind 2:1. Even the economists are piling on Microsoft
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Freakonimics wrote: The upshot: several of Microsoft’s claims are a little fishy.
No kidding. They are often fishier than the Pacific Ocean.
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Getting the right license for your open source project can mean the difference between success and failure for your software. IANAL
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Ten years of surveys show an influx of younger developers, more women, and personality profiles at odds with traditional stereotypes. "Because one of its legs is both the same?"
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A software developer is a person in your neighborhood...
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D'oh. How did I miss that one? grumble grumble
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TTFN - Kent
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Spacecraft detects propylene, an ingredient use to make car bumpers and storage containers, in Titan's atmosphere People! That stuff goes in the blue box
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Kent Sharkey wrote: People! That stuff goes in the blue box
Goes to show that not every alien civilization is an advanced one. There's hope for mankind still.
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Smart files, but not so smart about letting you know what it's doing Well... smart-ish?
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Microsoft just announced it's backing off a Windows 8 policy that made no sense: limiting Windows accounts to five devices Just a few more to go (like Windows 8 itself)
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Microsoft will be rolling out its latest Visual Studio development-tool suite starting in mid-October. Pricing will remain in line with that of the current VS 2012 suite. Coming soon to an MSDN download near you
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Windows 7 generated more growth in share in the past month than Windows 8, amid warnings on continued poor PC sales and a weak "back to school" season during the third quarter. News flash!
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