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Dryad/DryadLINQ and Project Trident Released
There has been a lot of talk going around involving the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, but another event, largely overshadowed, was the 10th annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit. During this summit, Tony Hey, the Microsoft External Research Vice President, announced the release of two tools to help transform research in the academic world, Project Trident and Dryad with DryadLINQ, which you can watch here. These tools are available freely to academic researchers and scientists and can be downloaded here. So, what are they and why should we care?
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[ANN] DC ALT.NET 7/22/2009 – Naked JavaScript
After diving headlong into to our back to basics series on TDD, Refactoring, Pairing, and BDD, I thought we’d take a little break and dive into another area that I’m passionate about, JavaScript. Too many times does this language get dismissed as a toy language and that only script kiddies write it. In fact, some very interesting things are happening in the JS world that were highlighted at the recent JSConf 2009 here in the Washington, DC area. For the next two months at least, we’re going heads down JavaScript and then possibly more.
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Modeling DSLs with F# and Units of Measure
Very recently on Lambda the Ultimate, they had a really good post describing Soccer-Fun, a way to teach functional programming (pdf). The premise is very simple and is described as the following: