Anith Gopal

We’ve posted an update to our sample pack at http://code.msdn.com/concrtextras for the release candidate of Visual Studio 2010. There’s a lot of good stuff from the team here including demos, concurrent data structures and additional parallel algorithms and helper functions. New Demos: There are 3 new demos in the sample pack: The parallel plug-in for excel we blogged about earlier is now available in the sample pack it’s a great example of how to use the PPL for financial applications and how to build an excel plug-in in C++.

If you’re not sure what security only crawl is, please see some of my earlier post on this subject. It’s much easier to troubleshoot security only crawls now that we have included Security Updates category within the crawl log in SharePoint 2010! For example, now I can easily spot the incremental crawl at 11:03 AM was a security only crawl:     Just wanted to point this out and provide a heads-up that some of the advanced troubleshooting techniques from the past can now be avoided.   Thanks Colin for supplying the pic

[Part 13 of the FScheme series ] Now to add input to our Functional I/O system; following up on the previous post . We already had bouncing balls so how ‘bout we add a mouse-controlled paddle and make a primitive “Pong”? Mouse Input To keep it simple, we’re just going to add mouse position as input; including the current mouse x/y in the world state passed in on each iteration.

Everybody is talking about clouds these days but really the choice to move to the cloud is not an all-or-nothing proposition. With different types of cloud offerings, you have flexible options about which services to obtain in the cloud and which to keep on site.

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