Anith Gopal

I rarely get calls on my office phone, but last Friday afternoon I got a call from Ken Levy asking if I could spare a few minutes to give an interview on F# for the podcast that accompanies Code Magazine .  Although I was being highly productive by listening to music and playing with a yo-yo, I agreed to meet him.  I hadn’t even started drinking. Ken posted the interview last night.  It clocks in at just under 40 minutes, and you can listen to it here .  We mainly discuss F#, functional programming, and Visual Studio 2010.  Some of my remarks on Windows Phone were removed, but for more information on that you can watch some of the presentations from MIX10 this week.  There are more “um” and “stuff like that” phrases at the beginning than I would have liked, but I only had a few minutes to prepare.  About a minute from the end I almost make myself laugh. I’m going to need a sample app for some presentations I am giving in the next few weeks so I think I will make a variation of the Dots and Boxes game.  I will just use a random set of dots and base the scores on the total area you capture with any polygon instead of just boxes.  I will also use the game to gauge the interest of some students I work with in geometry and programming.

I’ve been thinking for a while: “How come Microsoft doesn’t have a Mocking Library like Moq , Rhino Mock , NMock , Typemock , etc?”. Off course you could argue that we don’t need one of our own, you could use one of the existing once or you could just implement some stubs yourself.

Just in the session “ Voice-assisted Care: Taking Usability & Care to the Next Level” with Amar Kapadia , Director, Acute Care, Vocollect Healthcare Systems, Pittsburgh, PA A very interesting use of voice interaction within a care exosystem. Amar makes some very good points about how clinicians get used to this – especially not having paper with them. They have anecdotal evidence that clinicians love the fact that they do not need ot be at the computer so much and can spend more time with their…( read more )

Walkthrough Setting up a SQL 2008 Replication Distributor using TSQL Scripts Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services In this video •Configuring Distributor is first step in setting up SQL Server Replication •We verify Distributor is not configured •Walkthrough setting up SQL Replication Distributor using TSQL Scripts •Highlight of key parameters •Show how to generated Distributor TSQL commands automatically from SQL Server Management Studio Remember, you can double-click the video to view FULL SCREEN.  

When I show this tool to developers or QA guys, their eyes light up with excitement.

It is always helpful for government contractors executives to tell their solution stories to other executives who are in the early stages of  discovery.  Lessons learned from real life experience are worth their weight in gold.  At the Microsoft Government Contractor Summit, Steve Miller, CFO of Powertek Corporation shared why his organization choose Dynamics NAV to manage their financials and government contractor compliance needs.  Essentially, Powertek looked at Deltek GCS Premier, Costpoint and NAV.  Steve had personally been a Deltek user for over a decade.  Steve shared that their organization opted for Dynamics NAV for the following reasons: GCS Works but is Limiting Could not easily import into Excel WBS Project Set up in GCS Premier was difficult and complex Advantages of Dynamics NAV NAV was more flexible in setting up projects, departments and divisions Many more reporting options Microsoft Support and Integration was very attractive SQL Based vs GCS Flat File database structure PVBS strong commitment to Government Contracting Technorati Tags: Powertek Corporation , Dynamics NAV For Government Contractors , Microsoft Government Contractor Summit , Deltek GCS Premier , Deltek CostPoint

I have recently been partnering with a lots of international site managers in Microsoft on various global SEO initiatives.  I had interesting discussion with one of our Spanish site managers this week, which reminded me how critical it is to work with someone who understands the local language AND the local culture when tackling SEO internationally. We were discussing optimisation for various pages on Microsoft.com, many of which were targeting search strings containing ‘computer’.  We have a lot of content on our websites which is shared across regions with common languages, so websites in Spain often share content with Latin America Spanish speaking countries (e.g.

Young grasshopper, do you know the way of the legendary Han Tao? No? Well, you better learn it quick.

For anyone looking to find out how many SQL Servers they have deployed, and gain insight into resources used or performance – here is a selection of tools I have been using a lot on projects.  Ok System Centre isn’t free, but sometimes I am lucky enough to find it is already installed before we are doing a SQL discovery or assessment exercise. Tool Pros System Centre Operations Manager 2007R2 Microsoft’s flagship operational management product

В конце первой серии говорилось, что, начиная с Висты, в ETW поддерживается мультиплексирование. Это очень позитивное нововведение, которым мы сейчас конкретно займемся

Reading several blog posts in the last few days, there has been some apparent confusion over StreamInsight’s usage of Reactive LINQ’s IObservable/IObserver interfaces. StreamInsight is an event processing platform that has well defined application time semantics.

Once in awhile I get a glimpse of what healthcare is going to look like in a few years – and it is super-awesome. That happened the other day — I got to experience what happens when you take two really great consumer health ideas and loosely couple them through HealthVault.