I have been thinking of moving from a free wordpress blog, which is what my blog is currently, to a self hosted wordpress blog. I will be trying the move this weekend. While I will try my best to keep … Continue reading →

最近看了不少有关探索性测试的讨论和观点，老实说越看越糊涂。所以忍不住吐槽一下，在这里和大家讨论一下探索性测试。希望对于想学习和尝试探索性测试的朋友有所帮助澄清，或者是更加糊涂，^_^。 探索性测试有很多很多的定义： 百度百科的定义：“同时设计测试和执行测试”。 嗯。。什么意思？ Cem 老人家的正式定义：“a style of software testing that emphasizes the personal freedom and...

When you hear about threads and threading, you hear that they allow concurrent execution of code, which is supposed to lead to better performance. Most computers nowadays have more than one CPU, meaning that each CPU can be executing code at the same...

Check this out for a cool last minute paper for High School classes.  Sorting data over a network using a new approach developed by a Microsoft Research Team.  To see the results go to the Sort Benchmark Home Page .   This impacts the search...

A couple of interesting stories are out yesterday and today.  Yesterday, we learned that the US had hacked Yemeni website that was run by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and replaced advertisements showing extremists killing Americans into...

This post is in continuation to the blog post yesterday announcing a sample on how to do a SQL Azure lookup using Service Bus EAI Bridges. The post is available here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nitinme/archive/2012/05/25/sample-using-service-bus-eai-bridges...

Yesterday I discovered this story on Gizmodo after a friend in my Facebook feed posted it, or commented it, or read it (I forget which, I can’t be expected to remember these things).  It was about the original founder of McAfee, John McAfee (who...

This bug is my favorite mostly because of how my experience with it transformed my career. It was 1998. I was a middle manager for a platform called CDO, Collaboration Data Objects . The API’s were to allow Application Developers to build fantastic...

As per your requests kindly find attached XNA Slide Deck and Demoes :) [Please read the DISCLAIMER for this blog here .]

JamPot have developed a Software as a Service (SaaS) product (TheAppBuilder) that enables anyone to create a mobile phone “app” for a fraction of the current developer fees. TheAppBuilder is a game-changing product as no technical skills are...

Up until RichEdit 8.0, RichEdit’s native image support was limited to metafiles, enhanced metafiles, and simple images like bitmaps (bmp’s). If OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) had supported other types, such as jpg’s, png’s...

On a project there is a need to invoke a runbook for the following scenario: Product source code is stored in TFS source repository. Daily and gated build definitions are created in the team project. When the team build is triggered, a Windows Workflow...