Anith Gopal

Why is there no inherent serialization support for normal object graphs like in the attached example. The attached example is a basic page with two simple vector caclulators. Entering a vector dimension of three in the part named “Add”, filling out a few values, press calculate, you get:  Press “Send arguments” and the arguments are send to the other app.

Lets say you have 1 computer with 1 screen. You watch a ton of video content (like 24 on Hulu ). You like to watch full screen but don’t want to miss IM conversations or other stuff

In some cases you may need to pass a message to a client, have the client enrich some of it’s data and then return the enriched message back. Alternatively you may have a relay scenario, where a message is passed from A to B, it is enriched and then B is passing the enriched message to C.

For a while now I have been using a class that wraps and adds extra functionality to the queue in the StorageLib sample in the Windows Azure SDK. There are a few benefits that this wrapper provides, so I thought it might be time to share: Strongly typed access to the queue

Just hooked up Windows Live writer to this blog. This is WAY cool… Now, since it will be easier to author a blog entry, perhaps I will write more stuff here!

I’ve had a little playground TFS 2008 installation for a while for use with some “pet-projects”. I used TFS 2008 Workgroup Edition for this, as this is already part of MSDN subscription package.

Persistent PHP processes in Erlang/OTP . “It’s so easy, in fact, that I now use it to debug WordPress functions from within Erlang.”

PowerShell MVP Oisín Grehan has done a really good job in getting the diff between PowerShell releases. V1 and CTP3 http://www.nivot.org/2009/02/04/DifferencesBetweenPowerShell10RTMAndPowershell20CTP3Win7Beta.aspx CTP2 and CTP3 http://www.nivot.org/2008/12/23/PowerShell20CTP3HasArrived.aspx Thanks a lot Oisín.

MERGE is a new operation added in SQL Server 2008. It has all sorts of knobs, bells, and whistles.

Microsoft has recently released a beta for Windows 7, and a look at the official web site ( http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default.aspx ) will show you a pretty impressive list of new features and usability enhancements. I encourage you to go look them over for yourself, but in this article I’m going to focus on a couple of Win7 features that are of particular importance to achieving the most performance of your parallel programs.

James O’Neil just posted how to manage Windows Update with Windows PowerShell Here’s a quick sample of what he can do: Add-WindowsUpdate –Auto to download updates and reboot if needed, Set-WindowsUpdateConfig –n 4 –i to schedule updates (Including the merely recommended)  and Get-WindowsUpdateConfig Check it out: http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone/archive/2009/01/27/managing-windows-update-with-powershell.aspx Hope this Helps, James Brundage [MSFT]

Asleep at the Wheel of Creative Destruction . Umair Haque’s thoughts on venture capital and the current crisis.