Anith Gopal

The CLR performance team is running a survey to get your feedback about what to focus on for performance in the .Net framework. This includes performance in the framework itself as well as performance profiling, optimization, and tuning for the applications that you write. If you have any WCF performance feedback you can always send it to me even if this survey later closes and I’ll direct it to the right people

In slow economic times, it is often hard for customers to justify upgrading technology when they cannot easily identify specific benefits they will enjoy as a result of the upgrade.  For those Microsoft Dynamics GP customers who haven’t yet upgraded to SQL Server 2008, I think you may find the results of our recent Performance Benchmark tests to be reason enough to make the jump! In the latest test results utilizing a very large sample Microsoft Dynamics GP database, the application showed an 18% increase in performance through upgrading from SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition to SQL Server 2008 Enterprise edition when using Row Compression.

Photo by Flickr user Jinho.Jung Over in London, the experimental electronic music scene is positively flourishing. Having lived in the UK’s capital city for the latter part of 2008, I discovered a bubbling sonic subculture — a community of creatives hijacking ice cream vans , reappropriating medical EPGs , and hacking instruments out of scraps of junk, all for the purposes of audio experimentation. Particularly interesting is that, among these esoteric technologies, the iPhone seemed to be emerging as a burgeoning platform for sonic exploration