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[RO] Seminar - Storage si programare distribuita

Florin Lazar , Todi Pruteanu si cu mine am demarat in cursul acestei saptamani un seminar tehnic pe teme de storage in Vista si programare distribuita in WCF. Mai multe detalii aici: http://reg.studentclub.ro . Pana acum seminariile din Bucuresti si Cluj Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 10:57 AM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments

Gartner redesigns Windows Vista

There is an article in Techworld.com mentioning a curious research report from Gartner implying a redesign of the Windows Vista code base, around virtualization. Huh? To quote from the article: Instead, the research firm predicts, Microsoft will be forced Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 1:55 PM by AdiOltean | 5 Comments

...but, in Soviet Russia, the web services use YOU!

Actually, in US too. No, I'm serious! The technique it's called Mechanical Turk , and its first form is developed by Amazon.com. The process is quite simple: 1) A large number of humans are going to that site. 2) They will be asked to do some work. 3) Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 19, 2005 11:53 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments

Are there any COM programmers out there?

Even with all this new wave of .NET stuff, I still find myself in the XXI century doing good old COM programming - and I enjoy doing it... So is anyone still interested in blog posts around COM programming? (especially around COM servers, COM security, Read More...
Posted Friday, September 30, 2005 11:56 AM by AdiOltean | 10 Comments

How big is Hotmail?

Huge. Here is some data from a PDC Hotmail presentation : ~200 million active users 3.3 billion inbound emails a day 1.5 billion blocked at the router 1.0 billion deleted as spam (never hits the user's mailbox) 0.5 billion sent to the junk folder Over Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:41 PM by AdiOltean | 6 Comments

A weird-looking concept: End-user development?

Normally, you would think that developers and end users do not mix. And, given the current state of software development, I would agree. But , on the other side I always thought that we need more tools that allow simple end-users to do more or less sophisticated Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 31, 2005 1:17 AM by AdiOltean | 5 Comments
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Why Java VMs do not have a Pre-JIT feature?

Both Java and .NET have several things in common - their runtimes are both able to execute code written in a machine-independent "assembly language". As we know, this code is represented in binary format: bytecode in the Java world, and IL in .NET. The Read More...
Posted Friday, March 25, 2005 2:58 AM by AdiOltean | 10 Comments
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What is your preffered deployment strategy: SxS/GAC or XCOPY?

There is an interesting article in the latest MSDN magazine about Reg-free COM and .NET components: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/04/RegFreeCOM/default.aspx The technology was present for quite a while, but still not very well known. Part Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 23, 2005 8:15 PM by AdiOltean | 5 Comments
 
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