Become a patterns & practices Developer!

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

I have an opening on the patterns & practices team for a developer. These don’t come up very often and they tend to get filled pretty fast. If you’re interested then read on… You can find out more about p&p by visiting our developer center; who we are and ...

p&p Summit 2009: Developing for Multi-Core

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

The p&p Summit is in full swing this week in Redmond. Today I’ll be talking about Distributed agile Development and thinking about how to make the most of multi-core hardware. I was up preparing a pre-talk video last night. If I can shrink it small enough I’ll post it ...

Patterns of Parallel Programming; “It’s not just a recompile”

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Last week Robert Hess interviewed me for the Knowledge Chamber on Channel 9. We talked about why understanding the fundamentals of patterns for writing parallel software is going to become more and more important over the next few years. Why simply recompiling your code for the latest processor from Intel ...

Take the patterns & practices Survey

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Got a couple of minutes to provide the patterns & practices team with feedback? We’re trying to find out more about who’s using our products and how happy they are with them. Take the survey here: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB229HEVSWBED It really is a couple of minutes. There’s a dozen ...

Patterns of Parallel Programming at PDC 2009

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

The patterns & practices team are hosting a Pre-Conference Day at the Professional Developers Conference 2009. We've got a great day lined up for you with speakers like Herb Sutter and Steven Toub—Senior Program Manager on the Parallel Computing Platform—and Richard Ciapala—Principle Developer on the HPC Server team. The ...

patterns & practices Summit 2009

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Dates and an session schedule for this year’s patterns & practices Summit have been announced. The next patterns & practices Summit takes place October 12-16 in the Kodiak Room at the Microsoft Conference Center at Microsoft's main campus in Redmond, Washington. We’ve got a great lineup of speakers including Martin ...

Agile in 500 words… and An Updated p&p Agile Showcase

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

About nine months ago we launched the patterns & practices Agile Showcase. Since then we’ve been slowly adding content. Yesterday we launched a new layout with additional content. A recommended books list, video browser and links to some useful tools. I was also asked to add an introduction. Which ...

Kent Beck’s Strategies for Evolving Design

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Kent Beck gave the keynote at the p&p Summit today and had some interesting thoughts on strategies for evolving your design. Leap from one design to another. This seldom works but when it does it's great. Parallel implementations of different designs, get them both working at the same time ...