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The October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine features lots of articles about parallelism and concurrency. I guess it's all the rage these days! That's what happens when Moore's Law is no longer directly related to more GHz but more CPU cores instead. Concurrency is one of the big reasons why there's...
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I will be speaking at Microsoft TechFEST 2008 Singapore on October 23rd. The topic? Nothing special -- just same old LINQ Hopefully I can present it in a practical manner that will help developers get up to speed with it. In any case, I think LINQ is so simple to grasp that it's more likely that...
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I couldn't believe it: read ScottGu's blog post . Finally, Microsoft is getting *it*. No need to fight it, no need to exhibit their traditional NIH mindset and create their own (as they have demonstrated many times, not only in the .NET platform). They're finally including a useful open source...
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Silverlight Overview http://www.microsoft.com/SILVERLIGHT/ <---- check this out! so cool! Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for building and delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIA) for the...
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OVERVIEW Microsoft ® Visual Studio ® 2008 delivers on Microsoft’s vision of smart client applications by enabling developers to rapidly create connected applications that deliver the highest quality, rich user experiences. With Visual Studio 2008, organizations will find it easier than...
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RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX (Prometheus) is Telerik’s next-generation ASP.NET UI control suite, which is built on top of the industry-standard Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX framework. RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX (Prometheus) delivers faster performance, unified programming model and enhanced functionality...
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Microsoft .NET Framework is a software component that is a part of several Microsoft Windows operating systems. It has a large library of pre-coded solutions to common programming problems and manages the execution of programs written specifically for the framework. The .NET Framework is a key Microsoft...
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It was my first time to join a community event in Singapore during yesterday's Heroes Community Launch and it was a blast! It was also cool to see that of nine presentors during the event, three of us are Pinoys. I definitely am looking forward to meeting more of the community people soon. First...
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Wow, I've been in a black hole for months! The usual excuse -- busy at work on projects. Now that we've gotten our app into production, we're now into firefighting, er... I mean maintenance work for that app. Here are some of the lessons I've learned in optimising and debugging our Windows...
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Okay, after almost a year and an offshore assignment, I finally had a chance to update this blog. I was developing a .Net 2.0 C# windows application wherein I basically have to print PDF files from a Windows application. I tried to use the Adobe Acrobat Reader ActiveX object embedded in my form to preview...
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The previous incarnation of that Microsoft article was heavily panned by critics and in a rare move, Microsoft actually pulled it out of its developer web site. I didn't realise it but Microsoft actually replaced it with one written by Jeffrey Palermo -- http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730844...
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Sounds like Woody , Lynn , Jason , Tim , Anand , Rob , Mithun and JD are going to hit the road with there Microsoft Truck this 2008. What's a Code Trip? Think of it like Cannonball Run. Only slower, and geekier. We sat around on a campfire burning copies of Microsoft Bob a while back and decided...
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Man, this is fast becoming an all out war. I think Mr. Gates and Mr. Jobs would be anxious on whats going to happen with this latest release from Google specially knowing that Google is giving away $10,000,000 to the best application built on top of the Android platform Check out the video here :
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11-13-2007
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Filed under: Microsoft, Google, Windows Mobile, Mobile Phones, Mobility, Gadget, Apple, IPhone, Android, Bill Gates, Competition, Steve Jobs
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It's true. Everybody has their own match. Their own weakness. Their own kryptonite that would hold them to their knees and trade their philosophies and senses for a chance to break free. And for my friend who is a recognized Linux and Java guru(he founded the largest Java User Group in the Philippines...
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Just when you thought I've crossed over to the dark side , I guess it wasn't complete yet. This one takes it further. My peers in the office often express amazement at my Visual Studio color theme. Maybe they weren't born yet during DOS (those) days of green on black, or better yet yellow...