Anith Gopal

Some Free February Appy-ness with a new piece of free software for teachers from Microsoft every day in February. Many of these items are unknown heroes, but they all share two things in common: 1) They are useful for teachers or students and 2) they are free

We used to think about we as tester are some kind of gatekeeper for the product, and we are quality assurance (QA) people. In his blog http://www.developsense.com/blog/2010/05/testers-get-out-of-the-quality-assurance-business/ , Michael Botlon argue that we as tester has less control or influnce on the quality of the project than developer or a PM.

SharePoint caches the content (Could be images, etc.) in two of its system folders.

  Due to long winter vacations in many Universities across Pakistan.

Недавно у нас была возможность продемонстрировать некоторые практические аспекты магазина Windows на нескольких мероприятиях — на нашей конференции по //build/, на презентации магазина , а на минувшей неделе еще и на выставке CES. Мы подумали, что сейчас было бы кстати дать полное описание таких характеристик интерфейса магазина, как навигация и поиск по каталогу, а также обновление и перемещение приложений в Windows 8. Джонатан Вонг (Jonathan Wang), руководитель программ в группе обслуживания клиентов магазина, описывает элементы магазина и комментирует наши проектные решения

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This webinar which will help you  Maximize your Microsoft Software Assurance Benefits and is hosted by Northwest Cadence, a Gold Certified ALM Partner and a national leader in Microsoft ALM and Software Process solutions.   Event details: Date : February 13, 2012 Time : 9:30am-10:15am PST Register : http://nwc_sabenefits.eventbrite.com/  Join Rick Flath , Director of Business Development at Northwest Cadence , for this 45 minute webinar that will provide you with an overview of the three (3) DTDPS offerings, along with the how to activate and strategically utilize these benefits to enhance your software deployment planning. Additionally, we will review how you can connect DTDPS to other Software Assurance benefits within your agreement to ensure you gain the highest return on your investment.

Don’t you hate it when you are going to do a simple thing like copy a UserControl and then it doesn’t work?  Seriously, how can you steal other peoples work if you have to redo all of their code.

So, to round out the Hadoop Streaming samples I thought I would put together an XML Streaming sample. As always the code can be found here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Hadoop-Streaming-and-F-f2e76850 XML Streaming Reader So how does one stream in XML

With the tragedy of the Costa Concordia, design with the human in the control loop comes to mind.  A cruise ship is a large system with many moving parts and error points.  In a large mechanical system like a ship have long used computers, in the past the computers might have been the sextant to determine position, the length and angle of a rope pulled by a rock for speed, as well as other analog types of tools.  In some cases, though not many, analog computers can be faster and more accurate than digital computers.  No matter what you use, what are the goals of Software Architecture? So what is good Software Architecture? Good architecture reduces the business risks associated with building a technical solution

Happy new year. Over the last several months since //BUILD/, I’ve published multiple blog posts outlining advancements made in Visual Studio 11, from languages to the .NET Framework to IDE productivity to platform-specific tooling .  I’m concluding this five-post series with a look at some of the work that’s gone into making Visual Studio 11 a premier system for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).  Since many of these features were first announced at TechEd North America 2011, many individuals from my division have spoken and blogged quite eloquently about the new capabilities, so I’ll use this opportunity simply to highlight a few of these new features and to point you to the other resources they’ve created to describe them in more depth. The ALM offering in Visual Studio 11 was designed to enable improved collaboration amongst team members, accelerate the adoption of agile processes, and improve the cycle that links development and operations.  I’ll take a look at a few examples of how Visual Studio 11 achieves this

小ネタです。 Windows Phoneアプリケーションは、App Hubに登録すると、製品ID (GUID)が割り当てられます。こちらは、アプリケーションのWMAppManifest.xmlのProductIDとは別の番号になります。製品IDがわかっている場合、次のような形でリンクを作成できますので、お試しください。以下、<AppId>は製品IDのプレースフォルダとします。 Windows Phone Marketplaceへのリンク (ディープリンク) http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=<AppId > Windows Phone Web Marketplaceへのリンク http://www.windowsphone.com/ja-JP/apps/<AppId > 画像へのリンク (95×95) /primaryImage?width=95&height=95&resize=true">http://catalog.zune.net/v3.2/ja-JP/apps/<AppId>…( read more )