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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/21

The Cray XT5 "Jaguar" supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now the world's fastest computing system according to the TOP500...

0 replies - 690 views - 11/20/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Shut Up and Build Something

I want to preface this post by saying thank you for everyone that contributes to the movement of trying to get women into software. I respect each of you and...

0 replies - 134 views - 11/20/09 by sarajo in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/20

A few more details about the closures announcement for Java 7 surfaced today.  According to Stephen Colebourne's blog, Mark Reinhold said that JDK 7 closures...

0 replies - 1495 views - 11/20/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Scott Guthrie

[Also see the first part – the keynote by Steven Sinofsky.] The second part of the keynote was delivered by Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President,...

0 replies - 222 views - 11/19/09 by sashag in News

Silverlight 4 Gets Top Requested Features

The immediate release of Silverlight 4 Beta was just announced at Microsoft's PDC conference.  The new version comes on the heels of Silverlight 3, which was...

0 replies - 554 views - 11/19/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/19

It was announced this morning that closures would be added to JDK 7.  Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference.  Before today, Sun could...

0 replies - 1894 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Azure to Feature App Marketplace

Mirosoft just announced that the Windows Azure cloud computing platform is now generally available in beta form.  The announcement was made at this week's PDC...

0 replies - 360 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Programming

Since I've been using Visual Studio 2008 for a while now, I figured it was time for me to dig further into the great features that I know this powerful...

0 replies - 530 views - 11/18/09 by jesus_was_rasta in Book Reviews

PDC 2009 Day 1: Code Contracts and Pex: Power Charge Your Assertions and Unit Tests

Code Contracts are a mechanism coming out of incubation at Microsoft Research for expressing design intent when implementing an API. The idea is to specify...

0 replies - 162 views - 11/18/09 by sashag in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/18

Microsoft released version 4.0 of its .Net Micro framework under the Apache 2.0 licence.  That's right, the .Net Micro development framework is now open...

1 replies - 1822 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

A Quick Rundown of PDC 2009 Day 1 Announcements

Microsoft kicked off Day 1 of its Professional Developer Conference (PDC) 2009 with a keynote by Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia. Here are the highlights of the...

0 replies - 331 views - 11/17/09 by alashcraft in Articles

Introducing Windows 7 for Developers

Our book, “Introducing Windows 7 for Developers”, is now in stock on Amazon!

0 replies - 212 views - 11/17/09 by sashag in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/17

Mark your calendars!  The dates have been set for next year's Red Hat Summit and JBoss World.  Both conferences will take place from June 22nd to the 25th. ...

0 replies - 1893 views - 11/17/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Developers Meet at "Geek Heaven" in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — Nov. 16, 2009 — For Damir Tomicic, the opportunity to visit Los Angeles this week isn’t just about catching the hottest stand-up gig in...

0 replies - 172 views - 11/16/09 by alashcraft in Articles

Fun with LINQ Aggregate

Say we’ve got a CSV file:private const string csv = @"1,2,3,4,56,7,8,9,1011,12,13,14,1516,17,18,19,20";We want to parse it into nested...

0 replies - 295 views - 11/16/09 by mikehadlow in News