Monday, May 31st, 2010
We’ve just dropped another two chapters and sample code to the Parallel Programming Guide to CodePlex site. These next two draft chapters are: Chapter 3 Parallel Tasks Chapter 2 shows how you can use a parallel loop to ...
Tags: Events, p&p, Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Visual Studio
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
Or… The evils of hope and the endless battle of crushing math versus the reasoning power of our lower bowels.
We’ve all been there at one point or another. Half way through an iteration and things aren’t going quite as planned.
The team of four engineers has two weeks left on their ...
Tags: agile, Management, Parallel book, Scrum, Visual Studio
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
We’ve just dropped the preface and first chapter to the Parallel Programming Guide to CodePlex site. This is in addition to chapters 2 & 5 which released last week.
Preface
This book describes patterns for parallel programming, with code examples that use the Parallel Extensions of .NET Framework 4.0 and the ...
Tags: Events, p&p, Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Visual Studio
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Friday, April 16th, 2010
We’ve just dropped the first two chapters and sample code to the Parallel Programming Guide to CodePlex site. We have a group of advisors helping us with the content but if you you’re interested in reading what we have so far and providing feedback on it then ...
Tags: Events, p&p, Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Visual Studio
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Since running the Patterns of Parallel Programming Workshop at PDC 2009 we (patterns & practices) have been working on what to do next to help people understand the opportunities and challenges afforded by parallelism and some of the new features of Visual Studio 2010. We’re in the process of ...
Tags: p&p, Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Patterns, Visual Studio
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Mercurial ships as a command line tool. Here are some UI based tools to make it work that much better on Windows and in Visual Studio.
TortoiseHg – A Windows Explorer integration for Mercurial (You can download the latest versions of Mercurial and TortoiseHg from the Mercurial site)
HgScc – A source ...
Tags: Mercurial, Visual Studio
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Here’s nasty little quirk of MSBuild and Visual Studio which took me some time to solve last night… I have a C# project file which has been modified to import a custom .targets file. This targets file in turn imports some settings (property and item groups) using the following ...
Tags: Coding, Gotchas, Visual Studio
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
I've been thinking of other ways to put my Windows Home Server to good use and my recent trip to Florida got me exploring ways I could work on a couple of personal coding projects while traveling. Eventually much of this code may well get published on CodePlex but ...
Tags: Coding, Tools, Visual Studio, Windows Home Server
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
One of the questions I got at the p&p Summit after my distributed agile development talk was, how do you use Microsoft Visual Source Safe (VSS) with distributed teams? This is an issue because VSS was never written with distribution in mind. The VSS client connects directly to the ...
Tags: Distributed teams, Events, Proven practices, Seattle, Tools, Visual Studio
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
Teams at patterns & practices use Visual Studio Team System to run their projects. Here are a couple of approaches for getting a traditional Scrum or XP task board experience with Team System; creating paper task cards from Team System using Word's mail merge feature and the Conchango Scrum for ...
Tags: Distributed teams, Proven practices, Scrum, Visual Studio
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