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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/21

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47:13 +0000

The Cray XT5 "Jaguar" supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now the world's fastest computing system according to the TOP500 rankings. The Jaguar grabbed the number one spot from IBM after upgrading roughly 250,000 processors from quad-core Opterons to six-core Istanbul Opterons. The system, which is used by the US Department of Energy, delivers a performance of 1.75...

Shut Up and Build Something

sarajo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:02:40 +0000

I want to preface this post by saying thank you for everyone that contributes to the movement of trying to get women into software. I respect each of you and appreciate that something that is important to me is important to you as well. References Reference: Shut up and build something ...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/20

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:43:04 +0000

A few more details about the closures announcement for Java 7 surfaced today. According to Stephen Colebourne's blog, Mark Reinhold said that JDK 7 closures won't have control-invocation statements as a goal and it won't include non-local returns. Reinhold also indicated that access to non-final variables was unlikely.

PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Scott Guthrie

sashag — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:23:21 +0000

[Also see the first part – the keynote by Steven Sinofsky.] The second part of the keynote was delivered by Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President, Developer Division, Microsoft Corp.References Reference: PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Scott Guthrie alashcraft

Silverlight 4 Gets Top Requested Features

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:24:51 +0000

The immediate release of Silverlight 4 Beta was just announced at Microsoft's PDC conference. The new version comes on the heels of Silverlight 3, which was released four months ago. The version 4 beta includes many of the top requested features from Silverlight developers.

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/19

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:57:25 +0000

It was announced this morning that closures would be added to JDK 7. Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference. Before today, Sun could not reach a consensus on the inclusion of closures in JDK 7. Three proposals for closures were submitted to Sun over the last few years and now early reports say the starting point for Java closures will be the FCM v0.5 proposa

Azure to Feature App Marketplace

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:58:36 +0000

Mirosoft just announced that the Windows Azure cloud computing platform is now generally available in beta form. The announcement was made at this week's PDC conference where Microsoft is promoting their Azure cloud services. Microsoft says that the Azure cloud will come with marketplaces for online apps

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Programming

jesus_was_rasta — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:03:41 +0000

ISBN or ASIN: 9780071604086 Cover Image: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Programming.png Book Author(s): Jamie Plenderleith Steve Bunn ...

PDC 2009 Day 1: Code Contracts and Pex: Power Charge Your Assertions and Unit Tests

sashag — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:38:06 +0000

Code Contracts are a mechanism coming out of incubation at Microsoft Research for expressing design intent when implementing an API. The idea is to specify assertions that are verified at runtime to ensure that callers provide proper information to your methods. There are ways to specify contractual information on methods – Contract.Requires and Contract.Ensures, and there are also...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/18

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Microsoft released version 4.0 of its .Net Micro framework under the Apache 2.0 licence. That's right, the .Net Micro development framework is now open source. The TCP/IP stack and cryptography stack are still closed, however, because a third-party owns the software. The .Net Micro framework is a development and execution environment for small devices.

A Quick Rundown of PDC 2009 Day 1 Announcements

alashcraft — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:19:57 +0000

Microsoft kicked off Day 1 of its Professional Developer Conference (PDC) 2009 with a keynote by Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia. Here are the highlights of the morning's announcements, with links to more information. Visit http://microsoftpdc.com/ for continuing coverage from the Channel 9 team as well as tomorrow morning's Day 2 Keynote featuring Scott Guthrie. Article Type: ...

Introducing Windows 7 for Developers

sashag — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:25:13 +0000

Our book, “Introducing Windows 7 for Developers”, is now in stock on Amazon!References Reference: Introducing Windows 7 for Developers alashcraft

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/17

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Mark your calendars! The dates have been set for next year's Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. Both conferences will take place from June 22nd to the 25th. Register here for a chance to present at either conference.

Developers Meet at "Geek Heaven" in Los Angeles

alashcraft — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:03:45 +0000

LOS ANGELES — Nov. 16, 2009 — For Damir Tomicic, the opportunity to visit Los Angeles this week isn’t just about catching the hottest stand-up gig in town, even though an evening at Sunset Boulevard’s Laugh Factory is certainly on the itinerary. This trip is primarily about understanding how recent and forthcoming innovations on Microsoft’s server and tools landscape can impact...

Fun with LINQ Aggregate

mikehadlow — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:15:54 +0000

Say we’ve got a CSV file:private const string csv = @"1,2,3,4,56,7,8,9,1011,12,13,14,1516,17,18,19,20";We want to parse it into nested List<int>, and then print out all the numbers on a single line. We might do it like this:References Reference: Fun with Linq Aggregate ...