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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