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Anyone who has taken a formal college education in computer science or software engineering will have most likely taken a class entitled "Data Structures". When I took this class in 1994 these concepts were presented using the Modula-2 programming language and then we moved on to using the C programming language. Soon after that I took an advanced [...]
I am happy to launch my first Blog post as a member of Intel's Software College and Academic Community. Much of this first post is introductionary & I am looking for your feedback. I am working with some of the brightest folks here at Intel, our subject matter experts and architects, such as Clay Breshears, Michael Wrinn, Bob [...]
EE Times published an article yesterday explaining that ARM will have the majority of MID sales until 2014. Shockingly, I'm not too worried that anyone working on Atom or MID development is going to abandon ship. First, ...2014? I'd love to know what is going to be happening by the end of this year, let alone [...]
I just found a website for the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference 2008 that just concluded in the UK on April 29th and the slides for the architecture conference are now available here. I guess Microsoft didn't evangelize this conference much outside of the UK. It would be interesting for Microsoft to hold such a conference here [...]
On January 16th 2008 Microsoft announced that Visual Studio 2008 can be configured to download the source code for the .NET Framework to enable an improved debugging experiance. Shawn Burk has a great post about configuring Visual Studio 2008 to download .NET source code here. Unfortunately, the only way to get the source code for the [...]
Thanks to my good friends in our SSG Marketing group, I did a 5 minute video on the work we're doing at Intel to enhance OpenSolaris for our processors. Here is the URL - http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/videos/home.aspx?fn=1490: Of course, none of this would be possible without the awesome work from very talented engineers. My thanks to [...]
Today, while debugging C# code that uses System.Transactions for scope management, I recieved the following exception message. Network access for Distributed Transaction Manager (MSDTC) has been disabled. Please enable DTC for network access in the security configuration for MSDTC using the Component Services Administrative tool. So, as the message indicated, I went looking for the Component Services [...]
I'm currently debugging some issues with an application written against the .NET Framework version 3.0 and today I found an interesting blog post by Shawn Burke where he describes how to configure Visual Studio 2008 to allow the debugger to step into the source for the .NET Framework itself!!! If, like me, you find yourself debugging [...]
While looking into some security coding that I knew I'd be working on in the coming few days I found an interesting new assembly which shipped with the .NET Framework 3.5: System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement Within this assembly are some types that simplify many tasks that have taken considerably more code to achieve in previous versions of the .NET Framework, [...]
The other day, I ran across an interesting interview with Donald Knuth. Knuth, of course, is world-famous as the creator of the Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures (1 potrzebie = The thickness of issue #26 of MAD Magazine - just ask Google!) Only slightly less known is Knuth's series of books The Art of [...]