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A couple of months ago some of us here in GPD-E Dublin got the chance to play with a development version of the new Zune HD . At the time the Zune team was still completing their work on the new device, however we managed to convince them to send us a
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Introduction JavaScript Memory Leak Detector ( download ) is a debugging tool to detect memory leaks and enforce best practices in JavaScript code when working with version of Internet Explorer older than IE8. As described in detail in this MSDN article
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As Silverlight 3 has just released, a new version of the Silverlight Toolkit is now available. Microsoft’s Global Product Development - Europe team is delighted to have contributed the Silverlight Treemap to this release. The Treemap allows hierarchical
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In November I wrote about our Silverlight Treemap which visualises hierarchical data as a set of nested rectangles. Microsoft’s Global Product Development - Europe team has now released this control through the Silverlight Toolkit . You can read more
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Marek Latuskiewicz, a senior development lead on our AdCenter team, has recently launched a blog about programming with Silverlight and C#. Marek plans to blog regularly on: 1) Ready to use, generic architectures to address interesting problems, which
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There is a funny thing that happens when people mention the terms “test”, “tester”, or “quality assurance” in the computer programming industry. Groans can be heard about laborious, manual point-and-click activities. A cutting remark is almost always
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PD-E’s Mobile Browse Platform team is excited to be releasing the Mobile Device Browser File, an XML file containing the web browsing capabilities of 500+ of the most common mobile phones, such as screen width and height, supported image and video types,
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Sami Vaaraniemi, a software developer on our Hotmail Mobile team in Dublin, is presenting a paper titled “Designing for Testability” at ACCU, the pre-eminent European software development conference, in Oxford, England, on April 23. Read about Sami’s
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Justin Saunders, a software test developer on GPD-E’s mobile services team in Dublin, presented a talk at the Software Quality Conference 2009 in Dublin on March 4. The conference is the largest quality-focused conference in Ireland and hosted representatives
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Diego Colombo, a software developer on our Experimentation Platform team in Dublin, presented a talk at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Conference (SIGAPP) on March 10th. Diego’s paper, “Aspect-Oriented Procedural Content Engineering for Game Design”,
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Microsoft Ireland was recently voted the Best Workplace in Ireland for 2009, as determined by the Great Places to Work Institute . This award is recognition of the importance Microsoft Ireland has placed on its people for the past 24 years – developing
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Flavien Charlon, a software developer on our adCenter team team recently wrote a series of articles on his blog after completing SQL Server training by Kimberly Tripp. Each blog post outlines the different query execution plans. Part 1: SQL Server Data
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Microsoft’s Global Product Development team in Europe recently completed its Treemap control for visualising hierarchical data, seen below. You can read more about it here and leave your feedback. If you are excited by what you see us doing, check us
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Microsoft’s Global Product Development – Europe team recently released a Silverlight version of the Treemap visualization for adCenter Analytics. Below we can see it displaying site traffic by user occupation: You can read more about it on this blog post,
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Jonathan, a PM on our adCenter, recently wrote a blog post for the adCenter Community blog about the new "path visualization" feature in adCenter Analytics (see below for a picture). The full post can be read here: http://adcentercommunity.com/blogs/analytics/archive/2008/09/18/Understanding-Visitor-Behavior-_2D00_-The-adCenter-Analytics-Path-Report.asp
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