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VS 2010 / .NET 4 Release Candidate

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] This afternoon we made available the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release candidates.  You can find download links here. Right now
 
ScottGu
Mar 08 2010 10:40 AM
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Telemetry Myopia: The Toyota “Fail Safe” system Debacle and Google cavalier attitude toward Privacy

For the past few weeks members of my team and I have been meeting with key individuals in Bing, Microsoft Online services, and Windows.  In those meetings we have focused on rich telemetry.  We’ve talked about technologies to collect data,
 
Ken Johnston
Mar 08 2010 10:04 AM
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Getting code ready for production

I am currently doing the production-ready pass through the Rhino DivanDB code base, and I thought that this change was interesting enough to post about: public void Execute() { while(context.DoWork) { bool foundWork = false;
 
Ayende Rahien
Mar 06 2010 04:24 PM
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The Non-Death of Blogging

I read Joel Spolsky’s departure from blogging earlier this week but haven’t had time to respond till now. I actually think Joel has a key insight in this piece (although he got it from the inimitable Kathy Sierra), which is that the key is
Mar 06 2010 10:52 AM
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Check Window service is running and Check is Stop using .NET (Csharp & VB)

Author: Aamir Hasan ServiceController class to control the SimpleService service.Add reference to  System.ServiceProcess. Namespace: System.ServiceProcess Assembly: System.ServiceProcess (in System.ServiceProcess.dll)   C# static void
Mar 06 2010 10:10 AM
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What’s New In Spock 0.4? Episode 1: Data Tables

With the Spock Framework 0.4 release around the corner, I thought it was time to demonstrate some of the upcoming new features (which are already available in recent snapshots). So here comes the first episode in the mini-series “What’s New
Mar 11 2010 11:21 AM
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Update: The Need for ViewModels

Well, I left out something that was very close to my heart having been developing UI based applications for such a long time.  That’s testability:  How do you Unit Test your UI with standard / Open Source tools (Project White – now rechristened
Mar 11 2010 11:19 AM
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FlexMonkey 1.0 GA and FoneMonkey Announcement

I have written about the FlexMonkey many times, I also wrote about the 1.0 beta announcement several months ago. Such long beta stage will certainly improve a quality of the final product. I think FlexMonkey 1.0 GA will be a excellent application which
 
Marcin Zręda
Mar 11 2010 11:06 AM
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CPU Performance Test Results: Flash Player vs. HTML5

If you've been hearing the noise about Flash Player and CPU utilization over the past couple weeks, you'll want to check out Jan Ozer's post on StreamingMedia.com: Flash Player: CPU Hog or Hot Tamale? It Depends. Instead of weighing in...
 
Michelle Perkins
Mar 11 2010 11:06 AM
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HP Elitebook 8440p – first impressions

As is tradition on this blog, I like to write about my first impressions with new hardware.  Yesterday at about 8am I received the HP Elitebook 8440p.  This machine is HP’s high end professional 14” laptop and I was eager to tear into it and
 
Keith Combs
Mar 11 2010 11:05 AM
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The ethics of aggregating other peoples' content

Content theft Most of the recent - what I'll call - "discussions" about content aggregators have revolved around content theft. I'm not going to flip-flop on that topic: when you use someone else's work, you ask first, and if given the okay, you
 
AaronBertrand
Mar 11 2010 11:02 AM
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SQL SERVER – Force Index Scan on Table – Use No Index to Retrieve the Data – Query Hint

Recently I received the following two questions from readers and both the questions have very similar answers. Question 1: I have a unique requirement where I do not want to use any index of the table; how can I achieve this? Question 2: Currently my
Mar 11 2010 11:02 AM
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Inspiration: Awesome Book-Related Website Designs

If you’re a book lover, you may have noticed that the vast majority of book-related websites out there leave a bit to be desired when it comes to design and information architecture. In fact, some author and publisher websites make me feel like my
 
Callum Chapman
Mar 11 2010 11:00 AM
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NorCal Weekly .Net is Up Now! Catch All for the .Net Events in Northern California!

  I’ve always wanted a place that I could look through to find what .net events are going on in Northern California.  I’ve found that there is a core group of people with common interested... This site is a resource for asp.net web programming.
tags: community
Mar 11 2010 10:35 AM
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Getting our Game On

I’m at the Game Developer Conference (GDC 2010) here in San Francisco most of the week. The conference has barely started and there’s already a ton of great buzz about gaming for Windows Phone 7 Series. A screenshot from the prototype 3D game “The
Mar 11 2010 10:05 AM
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Multiple Blog Support Now on Display at Sueetie.com

If I didn’t want to over-use the exclamation point I would have added it to the post title, cause this is pretty big. Sueetie now natively supports multiple blogs and all that that implies behind the scenes. We know Sueetie can support multiple blogs,
tags: sueetie
Mar 11 2010 09:26 AM
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TuneVision is using Flash Player 10.1 to bring its music video jukebox to Nexus One

Created by SonicSwap.com, TuneVision is a new music video site that builds personalized music video playlists of your favorite artists using Flash Player in your browser. And now, there's a mobile version on the way for the Google Nexus One,...
 
Michelle Perkins
Mar 11 2010 09:00 AM
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XNA Game Studio on Windows Phone

I set out to write an article about the unique features of XNA Game Studio on Windows Phone 7 Series, but while trying to populate my outline, I realized, wow, there actually aren’t many things different about Game Studio 4.0 on the phone compared to
 
ShawnHargreaves
Mar 11 2010 08:59 AM
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Successful Legal Action Helps Protect Microsoft Customers from ‘Spim’

Posted by Tim Cranton Associate General Counsel As you may recall, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit last July  filed a lawsuit alleging that Funmobile Ltd., a Hong Kong-based company owned by brothers Christian and Henrick Heilesen, had
tags: privacy
Mar 11 2010 08:59 AM
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My PowerShell Deep Dive Talk Video

Paul Mooney attended my NYC Code Camp talk and was nice enough to record and post the session. Thanks Paul!
 
Doug Finke
Mar 11 2010 08:59 AM
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don’t worry, we’ll do that in post processing

For a few projects, I’ve been looking around on how to do some photoshop style effects and remembered Silverlight and WPF have shaders! My hunt both started and ended with Nokola’s Silverlight tool Easy Painter. Pastel, Old Photo (LOMO effect), and
 
Coding4Fun
Mar 11 2010 08:46 AM
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Embed Dynamic Bing Maps with Javascript

We were recently asked to add dynamic Bing maps into a website. "No problem" we said - having no clue of the heartache that lay ahead. After beating our head against the wall for a while we eventually figured out how to use javascript to
Mar 11 2010 07:33 AM
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Eleven Years of Erlang

I've written about how I started using Erlang. A good question is why, after eleven years, am I still using it? For the record, I do use other languages. I enjoy writing Python code, and I've taught other people how to use Python. This website is
Mar 11 2010 07:32 AM
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Users of Jackson, Unite!

I know this is something that users of Jackson JSON library must have been craving for longest time: their Very Own Social Network (no? you'd rather have handling of cyclic types? d'oh!)Wait no longer: enter jackson-users.ning.com. Place for developers
Mar 11 2010 07:30 AM
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Insert Tag Snippet plugin for Windows Live Writer (that works with Windows 7)

The source code plugin that I use on my blog is great, but does require that I insert some escaped tags with special class names in the XHTML. For years I’ve used the InsertTagSnippet plugin by Coskun Sunali to help me write posts – but on Windows 7, it
 
Jeff Wilcox
Mar 11 2010 07:30 AM
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Split up your Web.config

Helpful Tip: After going through web.config hell, attempting to manage five different solutions and at least four different environments for each, I just about had it! I finally gave up and started doing some simple research. Did you can split up your
 
Andrew Kharlamov
Mar 11 2010 07:08 AM
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Temporary Post Used For Theme Detection (a98f7a01-7fb3-45df-ab82-673a39c98119 - 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-4005b770f6d7)

This is a temporary post that was not deleted. Please delete this manually. (59f721c7-6d8d-4e84-b647-a12b5083a4ec - 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-4005b770f6d7) ©2010 Oleg Sych. All Rights Reserved..
 
Oleg Sych
Mar 11 2010 07:07 AM
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ASP.NET MVC And Convention Based Forms – Part 1

Series Index Part 1: Reusable controller actions & model inheritance Part 2: Custom meta data provider (coming soon) One of the great new features in ASP.NET MVC 2 is the template system. It is very similar to the template form helper system
 
Torkel Ödegaard
tags: c#
Mar 11 2010 07:07 AM
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Extending WikiPlex with Scope Augmenters

[In addition to blogging, I am also using Twitter. Follow me: @matthawley]   This post is long overdue, but as I'm preparing the v1.3 release of WikiPlex and working on documentation (yes, I did say documentation) I realized that another extension
Mar 11 2010 07:06 AM
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How You Can Easily Boost Your Web Site's Success - A Simple Step-by-Step Guide

How every web site owner can make their site more effective by applying the principles of simple web design explained in Ben Hunt's ebook
Mar 11 2010 07:05 AM
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Groovy/Gaelyk + Google App Engine + Jackson == Nice Restful Framework

Here's another interesting article: "RESTing with JSON in Gaelyk". Looks like Jackson usage on "Google platforms" (Android, GAE) is becoming more of a maintsream thing. This is great for multiple reasons, and multi-platform support is
Mar 11 2010 07:04 AM
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How to upgrade your Blogger OpenID to a decent one

If you host your blog on Google’s Blogger service you may have discovered that your blog is an OpenID you can use to log into various web sites that act as OpenID relying parties. But Blogger’s support for OpenID is limited to OpenID 1.1, which is very
 
Andrew
tags: openid
Mar 11 2010 07:02 AM
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HP Slate Running Flash Player and AIR

Adobe and HP have just launched a new video showing Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0 running on the slick, new HP Slate tablet device. The video shows several types of content and is a great preview of what...
Mar 11 2010 06:49 AM
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Posterous: Fast and Efficient Social Sharing

We are crawling the Internet all the time; monitoring the latest trends and technologies, seeking, discovering. If you're like me, during your web travels you often come across treasures you want to share. But sharing what you find can be time consuming
 
Pamela Poole
Mar 11 2010 06:47 AM
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All Scripts used in jQuery: Novice to Ninja are now FREE to download

For the first time we’re offering the entire code archive for free. Not just the code used in the sample chapters, all code used in the entire book! Related posts:SitePoint Podcast #50: jQuery: Novice to Ninja Kevin Yank is joined by is joined by Earle
 
ShayneTilley
tags: web tech
Mar 11 2010 06:46 AM
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Javascript: Function scoping

My colleague John Hume wrote an interesting post about his experience with the 'const' keyword in ActionScript where he describes the problems with trying to capture a loop variable in a closure and then evaluating it later on in the code. Since
 
Mark Needham
Mar 11 2010 06:46 AM
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To Die, Perchance To Cremate

In today’s number news (State-by-state cremation rates in U.S.), we learn that “slightly more than a third of all persons who died in 2006 were cremated, according to the Cremation Association of North America.” Happily, the article contained the raw
 
Steve
Mar 11 2010 06:45 AM
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The Foundation of an OSGi-Based Application: Design and Bundles

Learn how to lay the necessary groundwork for service-oriented, modular OSGi components in the Eclipse Equinox container.
Mar 11 2010 06:45 AM
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The ethics of aggregating other peoples' content

Content theft Most of the recent - what I'll call - "discussions" about content aggregators have revolved around content theft. I'm not going to flip-flop on that topic: when you use someone else's work, you ask first, and if given the okay, you
 
AaronBertrand
Mar 11 2010 06:45 AM