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110 degrees in the shade, 9 Fortran geeks and dozens of comments and complaints about Fortran: it must be another J3 meeting in Las Vegas! J3 is the US Fortran Standards Technical Committee, a subcommittee of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS). J3 works closely with the International Fortran Standards Committee (ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC22/WG5) and [...]
CodePlex.Diagnostics is an exception publication and logging framework based upon the .net framework 2.0 Provide Design pattern. By default exceptions and log entries are published to a SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008 database although other providers can easily be written to target other databases, the Windows event log, etc. CodePlex.Diagnostics version 2.0.0.4 was released [...]
Not sure how I missed this at the time, but The Register reports UK hosting company Bytemark is using Atom processors in their servers. Huh? Servers? I was initially pretty amused by this, but given that a search of "green data center" on The Google returns 22 million hits I guess I shouldn't have been. Power consumption [...]
A few months ago I wrote a blog post about DVD and Blu-Ray playback within Windows Server 2008 and the fact that even with the Desktop Experience installed external DVD playback software is required. Roxio recently released Roxio Creator 2009 and DVD and Blu-Ray playback within Windows Server 2008 32-bit and 64-bit editions is possible given [...]
In August 2003 Darryl K. Taft of eWeek wrote an article entitled Microsoft Embraces Modeling where he described Microsoft's intent to add model-driven development capabilities into their products leading up to the "Longhorn" release of the operating system. At the time Visual Studio codename "Whidbey" was in beta along with the designers intended to deliver on the promise of [...]
In Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises Roger Sessions discusses enterprise architecture today and how we architects and developers can effectively deal with increasing complexity within the enterprise. Unlike many books on software architecture this book is only 176 pages long making it an excellent alternative to the in flight movie on your next business trip. [...]
If you are a Visual C# developer you might want to take a look at the first release of the CodePlex.Snippets project that brings several new code snippets for the C# developer along with revisions to those snippets provided by the Visual C# team within Visual Studio 2008. You can find the library on the CodePlex [...]
With the demands upon enterprise IT increasing, demands upon enterprise architects and developers also increasing along with tighter and tighter deadlines, design patterns have never been more important than today. Last night I created another open source project, CodePlex.DesignPatterns, within which I will present each of the core design patterns from Design Patterns Elements of Reusable [...]
Earlier I computed various statistical estimates like mean or variance-covariance matrix using Intel® Summary Statistics Library. In those cases I knew for sure that my datasets did not contain “bad” observations (points which do not belong to the distribution which I observed) or outliers. However, in some cases we need to deal with datasets which [...]
I will be in Seattle September 15 and 16 for the Microsoft Visual Studio Developer's Conference, and will have some free time September 17. Is there anyone in Seattle using the AMT SDK? If so, I would love to talk to you, and here's your chance to talk to one of the SDK developers face-to-face. (Or, if anyone [...]