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So at Christmas I posed a brain teaser . "0:001> .foreach ( greeting {s -[1]u 0 L?0xffffffff "Merry"} ) {.printf "%mu" , greeting } Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Christmas brain teaser : based off this, what can infer
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0:001> .foreach ( greeting {s -[1]u 0 L?0xffffffff "Merry"} ) {.printf "%mu" , greeting } Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Christmas brain teaser : based off this, what can infer about the most likely bit-ness of the process
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Late yesterday, the Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth team released an update to Photosynth as well as offering, for the first time, the ability to create your own "synths". Read all about it over at the Photosynth blog . If you've never heard
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I meant to post this sooner but forgot. Better late than never. Note the below survey is only active until the 22nd of August . Not all my blog posts are written in work time but many are, so here is a short message from my sponsor, as the saying goes
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If you are looking for blogs by Microsoft Employees on specific topics then a good place to start is the Microsoft Technical Communities portal. This portal is an entry point for Blogs, chats, newsgroups and webcasts. If you click the link for blogs you
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Came across this: http://lifehacker.com/395589/windows-live-writer-tweaks-tips-and-updates v. handy if you're a Live Writer user HTH Doug
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I'm pleased to see the launch of a new blog from Microsoft's Environmental Sustainability group.
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I spend a lot of my day debugging other peoples' code, be it the code of my customers or code that Microsoft's developers have written. I also spend a little bit of my day writing and debugging my own code. I would say, on balance that I prefer debugging
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John Robbins, author of " Debugging Microsoft® .NET 2.0 Applications ", " Debugging Applications for Microsoft® .NET and Microsoft Windows® " and " Debugging Applications " has blogged about what has to be one of the worst taxi experiences you can imagine.
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I frequently find my self needing to look up the reference information for ASP.NET configuration settings. I find the fastest way to do this is to use a web search engine and include the words "asp.net schema" in my search terms, for example: That usually
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Here is your chance to nominate a colleague who you consider to be an "IT champion" - maybe even yourself ( :-) ) ! Microsoft UK are running a program to recognise IT champions . At the time of writing, nominations for the first round close in 15 hours.
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I had a day off yesterday and went with my wife, son and aunt to see Welford Park 's display of snowdrops. Very impressive and well worth a visit. Cheers Doug
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A non-technical post for a change. The Times Online has an article about " Britain's best kept secrets ". Makes you want the summer to arrive...
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My job role is "escalation engineer". You can hopefully get a flavour of what I do from reading my blog posts but a colleague of mine Nico came across this interesting 10 minute Jobcast by Jeff Dailey, one of my peers in Microsoft US. Cheers Doug
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