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Saturday, November 28, 2009 2:30 AM

How To Host Your Site and Content On Azure Quickly and Easily

This entry seeks to provide you with a quick and easy way to get up to speed on Azure quickly by deploying your own personal website as an MVC application in to the cloud. Consider it a “Hello World”. I will do the following: Demonstrate how to write
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:45 AM

Software Transactional Memory: Debunked?

If I go in to my excellent academic article organizer, Papers , and search for "software transaction memory" or "stm" I get at least 30 results of papers both high level and detailed regarding this next big thing that will allow us to finally, without
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Friday, November 28, 2008 10:29 AM

What I've Been Working On: Microsoft Online Launched

One of the things that is hard to get my head around is what to be secret about and what I am free to talk about. Therefore, I have decided to not talk about what I'm working on very much. Some choose not to talk at all. I considered that, and can see
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Saturday, September 27, 2008 6:03 PM

Un-PC Reality

One of the things in all the better Leadership training seminars I've been to in my career has been the insistence and dedication to reality. Usually the best strike hard by announcing a string of facts about what is changing that is causing organizational
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:36 AM

Conferences

This is a collection of conferences or meetups I've presented at in the software or business community. I usually try to share all my slides after I have presented the sessions. If something is missing or you want more information on something feel free
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:34 AM

Published Articles

Things that I have written outside of my website that you may find interesting. These mostly deal with enterprise design and abstract software concepts. You can also check out slides from some presentations I've done as well. Service Data Objects in POJOs
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 4:26 AM

Tech Trends For Fall Reading: Software Transactional Memory, Cloud Computing Storage, and more

Now that the summer is over – the tech industry is back to work – and the new products and service announcements are coming quick, why not do some good reading to prepare for the fall when everyone returns from vacation and you get back to the serious
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:27 AM

On The New Communications of the ACM Redesign

A while ago ACM embarked on an ambitious mission: to change their flagship publication, Communications of the ACM, for Association for Computing Machinery members, in to the JAMA of Computer Science. If this new issue of the re-designed CACM is any indication,
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Friday, September 19, 2008 5:35 PM

Goodbye Map Reduce - Hello Cascading

An interesting post from Nathan Marz regarding an abstraction layer from Chris Wensel called Cascading : We have been doing a lot of batch processing with Hadoop MapReduce lately, and we quickly realized how painful it can be to write MapReduce jobs by
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:24 AM

Microsoft Live Mesh on Apple Mac OS X

This is a screenshot of Mesh running on the Silverlight platform on Mac OS X. Pretty neat example of the future. By the way, if your interested in developing for Live Mesh, there are some new videos posted on Microsoft Videos that provide an impressive
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:17 AM

The Rise Of Functional Programming: F#/Scala/Haskell and the failing of Lisp

Over at Lambda The Ultimate, the best academic programming blog on earth, there is a large debate going on regarding what the future of languages will be for 2008. The most important thing to emerge from the discussion is the larger role functional programming
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:33 AM

Thoughts On Google's Conference on Scalability In Seattle

If you are looking for a good collection of notes regarding the topics covered at the Seattle Conference on Scalability , you can do no better than what James Hamilton put together . Instead, I'll write a quick commentary on what I experienced. Scalability
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