How can I increase the number of files I can open at a time? (2)
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People who ask this question invariably under-specify the question. They just say, "How can I increase the number of files I can open at a time?" without saying how they're opening them. From the operating system's point of view, the number of files you can open at a time is limited only by available resources. Call CreateFile until you drop. (This remark applies to local files. When you talk over the network, things get weirder.) ...
Visual Studio 2010 is its name (2)
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CouchDB (with rails) (1)
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I've been playing with CouchDB a little recently. Its a "schema-free document-oriented database", which sounds pretty weird when all you've ever known is relational databases. At work, we're considering what architecture we want to go with for a new product that needs to be very flexible - the users need to be able to add fields, remove fields, and do all sorts of crazy things with the application. One of the options we have, is ...
The Bloggers Guide to Oslo and Connected Systems V0.2 (1)
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It’s been a very busy week in terms of announcements. “Dublin” has been announced, and Darren Jefford probably has the best summary of what Dublin is and how it will affect us. Channel 9 has published some great webcasts looking at Visual Studio 2010 and the testing and UML features included in the new release. I like working with UML, but it’s not had that much exposure on the .net platform. I fought hard with ...
Parallelism in October 2008 MSDN Magazine (9)
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The October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine just went online yesterday, and it's chock full of content on parallelism. Definitely worth a cover to cover read! Paradigm Shift: Design Considerations For Parallel Programming Coding Tools: Improved Support For Parallelism In The Next Version Of Visual Studio Concurrency Hazards: Solving 11 Likely Problems In Your Multithreaded Code Easy Async: Build Concurrent Apps From Simple F# Expressions Editor's Note: new Thread(ReadEditorsNote).Start(); yourAttention.WaitOne(); Windows With C++: Exploring High-Performance ...
Coming Soon: Amazon EC2 With Windows (38)
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We're getting ready to enable the use of Microsoft Windows Server on Amazon EC2 later this Fall. You will be able to use Amazon EC2 to host highly scalable ASP.NET sites, high performance computing (HPC) clusters, media transcoders, SQL Server, and more. You can run Visual Studio (or another development environment) on your desktop and run the finished code in the Amazon cloud. The 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows Server will be available ...
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Christian said:
Du windows sur Amazon EC2 !
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AndrewBadera said:
SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET! "The 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows Server will be available and will be able to use all existing EC2 features such as Elastic IP Addresses, Availability Zones, and the Elastic Block Store. You'll be able to call any of the other Amazon Web Services from your application. You will, for example, be able to use the Amazon Simple Queue Service to glue cross-platform applications together.Existing EC2 tools will be able to launch Windows-powered EC2 instances. Once launched, you can use the Windows Remote Desktop or the rdesktop tool to access your instances."
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Marcus said:
This is great! I wonder what the pricing will be like...
Product: Gearman - Open Source Message Queuing System (9)
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High Scalability - Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites. (216)
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Gearman is an open source message queuing system that makes it easy to do distributed job processing using multiple languages. With Gearman you: farm out work to other machines, dispatching function calls to machines that are better suited to do work, to do work in parallel, to load balance lots of function calls, to call functions between languages, spread CPU usage around your network. Gearman is used by companies like LiveJournal lets you express yourself, ...
Separate Assemblies != Loose Coupling (6)
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Sorry guys, but it's time to rant. I see so many people needlessly complicating their architecture and deployment by insisting on using separate assemblies for every layer of the app or even doing the trick where interfaces are in one assembly and the concrete classes are in another assembly. Stop it! It's a waste of time. Logical de-coupling from UI to business logic to infrastructure to the database is very important, but using separate assemblies ...
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D. Lambert said:
Amen to this. I'm jumping up and down and waving my arms in violent agreement. Really, I am.
Cloud Computing. (1)
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RMS says Cloud computing is a trap, and Ellison says He's sick of cloud computing. But still I think they're here to exist forever. It's little over hyped - just like any other new technology. But sure it's the next-gen model of computing.
Half an hour of mobile goodness (13)
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Last Friday I had Sumit Agarwal, product manager on Google’s mobile team on my show, which is about how the Internet is changing work, WorkFastTV. Damn, that guy knows his mobile! In half an hour we run through dozens of things you can do with your cell phone. This is my favorite WorkFast show so far, because I learned a ton of stuff that I could do with my cell phone that I didn’t know ...
VoiceXML (1)
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VOIP-info.org Wiki Changes (2)
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VoiceXML is used to create IVR applications in PBX solutions and other applications. From the W3C Candidate Recommendation document: VoiceXML is designed for creating audio dialogs that feature synthesized speech, digitized audio, recognition of spoken and DTMF key input, recording of spoken input, telephony, and mixed initiative conversations. Its major goal is to bring the advantages of web-based development and content delivery to interactive voice response applications. See Also VoiceXML Standard links: Voice XML Forum ...
ArchiMate - The Emerging Architecture Modeling Standard? (1)
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At the Gartner EA Summit in London it seemed like there was quite a bit of talk on the solution showcase floor regarding an architecture modeling standard called Archimate. I'm not sure if this was due to the fact that this was a European event (ArchiMate derived from the Netherlands) or if there is truly significant reasons to have the buzz. It looks like there are two primary drivers behind all the buzz: Open Group ...
What is the Managed Extensibility Framework? (2)
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It's not an IoC container, It's not MAF, it's not the Managed Entity Framework either :-) So what is it? There has been no shortage of discussion on this very topic since MEF was first announced. Quite simply, MEF makes building extensible apps, libraries and frameworks easy. It shares some common characteristics of other frameworks out there, but it also addresses a whole new set of problems that arise in building extremely large scalable extensible ...
Remix08: DIY Multitouch device (2)
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At the Sneak Peek keynote we showed off the MSR Cambridge Family Archive project. A research project that uses a multitouch tabletop hardware solution to enable families to record, store and view digital images of items important to them. As well as the obvious photos and videos, the device had a camera attached that enabled other physical objects to be 'captured' and stored in the system as well. Note the device we demo'ed was not ...
Links for Remix session on Entity Framework, 19th Sept (1)
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All of the links I showed are included in a session I did last week for QBS except the following: Dynamic Data Entity Framework Workaround – this allows ADO.NET Entity Framework to better work with ASP.NET Dynamic Data ADO.NET Entity Framework Extensions – this allows ADO.NET Entity Framework to better work with stored procedures Entity SQL – this tool allows you to play around with Entity SQL Thanks to all those who showed up my ...
Getting rid of spaghetti code in the real-world: a Case Study (7)
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A part of my job as lead developer of the tool NDepend, is to make sure that the product fits real-world development team needs. To do so, I sometime go consulting with some of our clients, see what their problems are and try to propose some solutions. This is a win-win activity: clients can get an outside view about their developments and for my part, I can see how NDepend is used in their shop ...
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tgeros said:
Worthwhile case study of refactoring a large code base with a mix of technologies using ndepend.
Cheap, Easy Audio Transcription with Mechanical Turk (24)
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After recording last week's interview, I was left with a 36-minute MP3 and a profound feeling of dread. You see, I hate transcribing audio. I used to transcribe interviews in high school, and it's always tedious, taking upwards of eight times the length of the clip itself. Bracing for a good four or five hours of rewinding and writing and rewinding, I remembered that this is The Future! So, instead, I tossed the job over ...
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Role said:
hört sich cool an. wenn das auf deutsch wär...könnten wir unsere vorlesungen "abtippen" lassen ;)
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Robert Scoble said:
I need to start transcribing videos. I wonder if this is about the price it'd cost to do a video? If so, this is pretty darn cool.
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Harry Brignull said:
This could be good for those research projects where your client wants tedious full transcriptions of interviews. It's dead cheap!
The Morning Brew #184 (1)
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Looks like the .NET blogging crowd have been busy this weekend… Software A Graph Tree Drawing Control for WPF - A useful looking WPF library for drawing tree graphs with auto layout. I think the source code might be interesting reading for me as I’m trying to get into WPF. QuickGraph 3.0 - Jonathan ‘Peli’ de Halleux has upgraded his Graphing library to C#3 and .NET 3.5, making changes to the API to take advantage ...
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And the .NET Framework 4.0 is coming too! More details here and here.Contribute commentvideos - Channel 9 (11) permalink
For V1 of ADO.NET Data Services (aka Project Astoria) we introduced a process we called Transparent Design. The point of this was to make sure we got the design of our features out to users early enough so we could get feedback that we could act on. Here is a couple of samples: http://blogs.msdn... http://blogs.msdn... In general, this worked out quite well, however we found it difficult to completely capture the design discussion in notes. ...Shared by Paul (21)Contribute commentShawn Wildermuth's Blog (16) permalink
URL: http://www.silver... It has come to my attention that my current examples using ADO.NET Data Services are performing very badly. I was using that example as anecdotal evidence that Data Services performed slower than the Web Service counterparts. I don't think this is accurate. I am working on some performance comparisons that I will share on my blog once Silverlight 2 goes into a full release so I can be sure that the numbers reflect ...Shared by Paul (21)Contribute comment
