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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:32 PM

In the year of 2005 Skynet launches a massive attack and wins the FIFA World Cup

Months ago the launch of Robotics Studio was announced so that by now many, many people should have developed their pet-robots (as for me, I've lost the touch a long time ago). To prove how versatile those robots are, Microsoft has just released Soccer...
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006 11:24 PM

Shocking: Microsoft pays open source supporters

Now this is a place I would really like to work at. First thing that came to my mind: PHP as a front-end to a WCF business backend, second thing: Mono 2.0. I really hope Port 25 thrives!
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Friday, July 14, 2006 2:36 PM

Summer of Python

is an object oriented dynamic language which has became popular of late (along with Ruby ). Beta 2 of Python 2.5 , the official implementation, has just been released. Further, beta 9 of IronPython , a .NET implementation, has also been released, on schedule...
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 11:11 PM

In five years, Java EE will be the CORBA of the 21st Century

Richard Monson-Haefel is a noted J2EE author , in this article he says: In five years, Java EE will be the CORBA of the 21st Century. People will look at it and say, 'It had its time but nobody uses it any more because it was too complicated. The...
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Friday, June 30, 2006 10:12 AM

From the Peculiar Ideas Departament: Compilr

Say you're away from home and just have to compile some lines of code to prove a theory, how do you do? Easy: browse to http://www.caller.me.uk/Compilr/ , type or paste your lines and the code is compiled in a far and away server. It sounds like a strange...
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006 1:07 AM

What Every Dev Must Know About Multithreaded Apps

Pay attention to this few lines of code: class Calculator { private static int m_TotalCount; public void DailyCut( int limit) { m_TotalCount = 0; while (m_TotalCount != 0 && m_TotalCount < limit) { // some process m_TotalCount++; } } // other...
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Monday, June 12, 2006 8:18 AM

TechEd 2006 *live* presentations

TechEd 2006 started yesterday (and I finally didn't make it). Oh well, thanks to the Internet we can be up-to-date and much closer than not-being-there, for example we can watch the keynote delivered on Sunday afternoon and some other "home made" videos...
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Thursday, June 08, 2006 1:06 AM

Friendly Web sites, design patterns, and metacognition

First of all, you just have to love the guys that created these register policies: Isn't that all what you expect from a Web community member? Who needs lawyers anyway? Before you start laughing, note that JavaRanch gets millions of entries in its forums...
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 1:30 AM

C# Expression Evaluators

Warning: this is not the usual code sample ready to be cut and pasted in your homework due for tomorrow. OTOH, if you are one of those guys that just have to understand why and how you can implement an expression evaluator in C#, then boy has Chuck Jazdzewski...
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Sunday, June 04, 2006 10:57 PM

The Art of Project Management

Today I'm going to make an obvious point: t he stars in a software project are the programmers (well, the architects a little bit too [;)]) no doubt about it. But the scenario is not unlike that of a music concert: the stars are the singers and musicians...
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