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 ...
Tags: Microsoft, p&p
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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 ...
Tags: p&p, p&p Summit 2009, Parallel Computing
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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 ...
Tags: Concurrency, Events, p&p, Parallel Computing, Patterns, PDC 2009, Trivia
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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 ...
Tags: p&p
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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 ...
Tags: Events, NBody.net, p&p, Parallel Computing, Patterns, PDC 2009
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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 ...
Tags: Distributed teams, Events, NBody.net, p&p, p&p Summit 2009, Parallel Computing, Seattle
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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 ...
Tags: agile, p&p
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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 ...
Tags: Events, p&p, p&p Summit 2008, Seattle
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