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Oh well...I am biased since I worked on this...but I really think this is a COOL demo of silverlight and AJAX and what eCommerce scenarios can look like. I especially like the use of videos which I was initially skeptical about but I think can actually
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The Process Monitor looks like a great tool to help in debugging issues and includes a bunch of features from a diverse set of sysinternal utilities such as RegMon, FileMon etc. I think this is the first tool offering to come out since the acquisition
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Finally managed to make at least the first basic robot using the Lego Mindstorm NXT kit which I ordered recently. Still haven't tried the Microsoft Robotics Studio (which recently announced the October 2006 CTP release) but that will be the next (or should
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Am trying out the new Blogging feature in Word 2007 and love it. One of the biggest benefits is the ability to use the good ‘ol familiar (not anymore in 2007?) Word features such as spell checking and formatting etc. to write up your blog posts. Very
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So now that we RTMed Commerce Server 2007 (and the docs are online on MSDN as well), I finally got a chance to dogfood the cool new Windows Vista Beta 2 and Office 2007 Beta 2 , and have been very impressed. The changes in both these flagship products
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I knew someone would stand up one day for the rights of those poor old whitespaces . Such a pleasure to see that someone has taken the time and effort to come up with the first whitepace-friendly programming language , aptly named, " Whitespace " (please
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If you work with Commerce Server you will find the following tools invaluable. These tools were created by Max Akbar, who recently joined our Program Management team, but has been working on Commerce Server for a long time and has a very detailed knowledge
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Well - as promised here is the solution for the Spot the Bug (contest?) posting which was correctly answered first by Nat (Congratulations!). The Bug : The following line of code will fail intermittently when executed and most of the time rerunning will
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Ran into this recently and thought it might be interesting. Can you try and spot the bug and the possible error that can occur with the following lines of code? Decimal randomDoubleAsDecimal() { Random rand = new Random (); return Decimal .Parse(rand.NextDouble().ToString());
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Joel offers some great tips to Computer Science students (or really anyone in college who is a geek and likes software and programming) who will soon be graduating - very practical advice. In addition, it would be great to see fresh graduates trying to
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So have we reached the top of the graph predicted by Moore's law ? Seems like it (if not the top, very close to it), especially with respect to performance of a single, lonely processor. Herb Sutter has written a very nice article on how we are reaching
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Just in case, you haven't heard the news - MSN has come out with the Beta of a new and fabulously cool general blogging tool called MSN Spaces . I tried and loved it for a lot of reasons, among them: Photos - This makes it so much more personal and effective
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Feels great to share the news that the 5th largest retailer in US (by fiscal year revenues) is now using Commerce Server to drive their Costco.com online store. If you needed to know whether Commerce Server can perform well at the top of the tier - well,
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If you have worked with Commerce Server 2002, you have probably used one of the Solution Sites which were shipped as great examples of how Commerce Server could be used in various ways. These included the very popular Retail site and the international
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The official word is out (great to be able to share what we will be working like crazy on, for the next > 12 months) - Commerce Server will be coming out with the V.Next release in 2006 . Some big things to keep in mind, that will be added / supported
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