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Presentation: JQuery - a Javascript DOM Library
Announcing a presentation on JQuery: a JavaScript library that provides cross-browser compatibility, Ajax and DOM services, rapid construction of interactive prototypes, and the addition of dynamic behavior to existing Web applications. The presentation introduces Jquery, demos it use, and discusses particular features that differentiate it from similar library products
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DryadLINQ, Distributed Computing Made Easy
Dryad and DryadLINQ are two Microsoft Research projects which facilitate large data processing on computer clusters or data centers for the C# developer.
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InfoQ Virtual Training: Design, DSLs, Deployment Automation, Web-based services in May and June
In-house training or tutorials at conferences are quite expensive, but what if you could attend some of the best tutorials by leading experts live and from your own office at a low cost? InfoQ is testing this idea with the launch of our virtual training: one-hour and half-day training initially covering agile, effective software development, web-based services, DSLs, and more.
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New Version Of Microsoft Managed Services Engine Released
Microsoft Released the May 2009 CTP of the Managed Services Engine (MSE) with source code that is available at Codeplex. The CTP is minor update to the February Beta release.
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Five Questions with Eric Hexter and Jeffery Palermo
Eric Hexter and Jeffery Palermo are the founders of MVC Contrib, an open source extension to Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC. With MVC Contrib getting ready for its first first production-grade release, we asked them to take a moment to reflect on the project and ASP.NET MVC as a whole.
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Should ASP.NET Developers Learn ASP.NET MVC?
Many discussions of whether or not developers should use or learn ASP.NET MVC has been going on in blogs, Twitter and forums the last couple of weeks. The opinions varies from not recommended to all ASP.NET developers should learn it. InfoQ have tried to summarize some of the recent activity around this topic.
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Article: Grid Computing on the Azure Cloud Computing Platform, Part 1
In this 3-parts series of articles, David Pallmann explains how to perform grid computations on the Azure cloud computing platform. In Part 1 he presents a design pattern for using Azure for grid computing, while in Part 2 and 3 he is going to give a concrete code example.
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Interview: Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp
In this phone interview that took place in front of an audience at OOPSLA 2008, Guy Steele spins a yarn with John McCarthy, the father of Lisp, attempting to find out some details surrounding the language inception in the 50’ and its later evolution.
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What Is .NET 4.0 Beta 1 Going to Bring to PLINQ?
Ed Essey, a Program Manager on the Microsoft Parallel Computing team, wrote on the latest enhancements to PLINQ that are to appear in .NET 4.0 Beta 1 that is to be released soon. Some of them are: “With” Operators Pattern, Execution Mode, Cancellation, Refactoring, Performance Improvements.
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SQL Enlight T-SQL Analyzer
SQL Enlight is a tool designed to expedite and facilitate T-SQL development through code analysis and templating. SQL Enlight integrates into MS Visual Studio and SQL Management Studio.
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Implementation Roundup: Ruby 1.8.x update, JRuby on .NET, MacRuby and MagLev Progress
New versions of Ruby 1.8.6 and 1.8.7 are available now. JRuby development moves ahead with experiments with running JRuby on IKVM. Also: MacRuby continues performance work and MagLev now runs RubyGems.
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What Software are Other Geeks Using?
Wakoopa, a new start-up based in Amsterdam, Holland, has created a new social network aimed at discovering and sharing what applications people are using. While its user base is relatively small and geek oriented, the network provides useful insight on software usage with a social twist.
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Presentation: Gallio, a .NET Testing Automation Platform
In this presentation recorded at QCon SF 2008, Jeff Brown presents Gallio, a test automation platform, and MbUnit, a test automation framework for .NET. He shows how a test framework works on Gallio and talks about the difficulties faced when building such a platform.
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Using Newspeak and Hopscotch for UI Composition
Hopscotch is an application framework and IDE for Newspeak, a new programming language and platform inspired by Smalltalk, Self and Beta. Hopscotch avoids a number of design limitations and shortcomings of traditional UIs and UI frameworks by favoring a framework architecture which enable easy composition of interfaces.
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Pex White-box Test Generator Updated
Microsoft Research has released a new version of Pex, an automated white-box testing library for .NET. Pex v0.11 brings support for Delegates as Parameters, a new Exception Tree View, Stubbed Events, and Recursive Stubs.