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Hi... as I talked a lot about this event Lang.NET Symposium they published the videos of the event here http://langnetsymposium.com/talks.asp CU 0xff
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Hi... I did a talk on Dynamic Languages yesterday during the German launch event in Frankfurt. The room was crowded which shows me that there is a huge interest in this topic... (that one was easy ;-) I got a lot of feedback (thanks) and wanted to react
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Hi... I am currently in Neuss at an HP event. HP is a sponsor of our MTC and the event is all about the HP EVA program. That means: Storage, more storage, terra bytes, peta bytes...lots. I was talking to one of the HP guys who is involved in the development
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Hi... this paper might contain some explosives: ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2007-167.pdf The basic idea is "The platform aims to enable selling digital content by any- one, anywhere, and anytime"... ??? The system works by having two trusted
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Hi... ok, I must admit it took me quite a while to get it. After reading the documentation I found THE sentences to define it in a few words right on the landing page: The Volta technology preview is a developer toolset that enables you to build multi-tier
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Hi... I found a nice paper by MSR here ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2007-146.pdf . It is about Bell's law of the life cycle of computer classes. Gordon Bell tries to find some kind of rules behind the development hardware has done over the
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Hi... in my last posting I was bit harsh to Apple because of the security of its iPhone. OK, now I learned that they even block out 3rd party software. If you try to mess around with it, it will simply block itself for ever. Anyway, this is not on me
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Hi... researchers made a "transistor" able to use a single photon (input) to amplify a stream of light (output). This sounds like nothing special first but it could open the door for faster and less power consuming computers. http://spectrum.ieee.org/aug07/5497
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Hi... since I just been luring around a bit and searched through MS Research papers... there is an interesting project called AJAX View. The idea is to observe and measure the behaviour of AJAX applications in the wild. To do so a proxy is installed between
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Hi... I found a nice paper by MSR ( ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2007-101.pdf ) talking about code splitting. Todays AJAX applications tend to get thicker than most of us might expect. Sizes of more than one megabyte is getting normal and
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Hi... Sometimes I do wonder why we are not using our own stuff. Want an example? Here we go: When we started to show what was called Longhorn that time (what is now called Windows Vista) customers tend to ask about hardware requirements. Well, we had
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Hi... I just found an article on problems regarding relevancy in search results and how it is resolved (see http://www.channelpartner.de/news/245588/index.html in German). As widely known relevancy of pages are measured by counting the number of references
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Hi... ever wondered what Microsoft is doing about Robotics or better why and how?? Have a look here http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/aug07/5391 CU 0xff
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Hi... just downloaded I will do my first steps with it within the next and will keep you posted. If you want to try it yourself go here http://www.iunknown.com/2007/07/a-first-look-at.html CU 0xff
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Hi... when I started developing software it was all about saving memory and processor cycles. Ladies and Gentlemen, this changed dramatically... I am in the process of learning Ruby. Since I do this in little steps (10 minutes here, 15 minutes there)
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