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Microsoft's Culture of Innovation: An Interview with CIO Tony Scott

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:10:41 GMT

Tony Scott, CIO of Microsoft, weighs in on how the company deals with rogue IT, what it's like to lead IT at the tech giant, the company's use of open source, and how the company manages innovation.

Exploring Oslo's Modeling Language Promises

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:34:37 GMT

Microsoft is sharing bits of Oslo at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this week. Learn what's new in M, the company's language for creating domain-specific languages, and why Microsoft thinks it's such a big deal.

6 Scripting Languages Your Developers Wish You'd Let Them Use

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:25:22 GMT

Several up-and-coming scripting languages--some open-source--are gaining popularity among software developers. These dynamic programming languages, including Groovy, Scala, Lua, F#, Clojure and Boo, deserve more attention for your enterprise software development, even if your shop is dedicated to Java or .NET. Here's why.

Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2010. Developers Respond.

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:01:13 GMT

Microsoft's development environment offers new tools for Agile development, software testing enhancements and improved support for cloud computing. Microsoft showed CIO.com a sneak peek, and the author invited developers to chime in with their feedback.

jQuery and Microsoft

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:01:02 GMT

ScottGu announce that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward. We will distribute the jQuery JavaScript library as-is, and will not be forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch. The files will continue to use and ship under the existing jQuery MIT license.

Ballmer Still Searching for an Answer to Google

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:45:48 GMT

Microsoft may be the only company in a position to provide "any real competition" for Google in the online search business, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday. But first it will need to figure out a way to do it. . . The CEO offered little in the way of new insights during the evening, except that Microsoft will discuss "Project Red Dog," its secretive cloud computing initiative, at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference next month.

Microsoft to Boost SQL Scale After DATAllegro Buy

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:34:08 GMT

Within the next 12 months, Microsoft will start extending SQL Server to support very large volumes of data, based on technology it acquired from DATAllegro.

Working with SOA Design Patterns: Understanding Pattern Relationships

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:49:23 GMT

SOA design patterns can be -- and often should be -- interdependent. Implement a proper relationship between design patterns in order to make your SOA solution the best that it can be, suggests Thomas Erl.

List of countries, cities, languages

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:31:03 GMT

You will find in the following links list of countries, cities, and their languages in CSV format, you can import into any database:

The State of the Scripting Universe: Python, PHP, JavaScript etc

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:51:39 GMT

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where they believed the languages were headed. In this follow-up discussion, she asks these dynamic language luminaries what has changed since then—for both developers and the application development managers who determine the corporate programming language strategy.

Tips to Write a Good Bug Report

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:46:03 GMT

Writing is easy, but writing clearly is hard. When it comes to write bug report... well, writing seems to get even harder. Here are some tips on how to write a good bug report

Five Things the Boss Should Know About Microsoft's LINQ

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:20:25 GMT

Does your manager think that LINQ is just another in a long series of odd Microsoft technologies? This article might convince the boss that the database-meets-software-development technology could easily save the development staff time and avoid complexity.

Clear Channel Gets Better IT Integration Between Dev/Ops Depts

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:58:25 GMT

The media company, a completely .NET shop, discovered a weakness in developing Web services and SOA applications: the ability to monitor and track transactions to locate system failures. In solving its technology problem, the IT team also improved communication between operations and development. And isn't that a happy story?

Developers Rate Satisfaction with Their IDEs

Thu, 29 May 2008 03:20:18 GMT

Programmers spend a huge amount of time in the integrated development environment, where they write, debug and optimize their applications. A new Evans Data report identifies the IDEs that make developers say, "Boy, do I love this tool!" The top-ranked IDE is IBM's Rational Application Developer. Visual Studio is towards the top, though.

New MCPD certification track for Visual Studio 2008

Thu, 29 May 2008 02:01:38 GMT

Microsoft has released some more details of the certification for Developers on the .Net 3.5 platform

The changing definition of "rock star"

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:04:47 GMT

"Rock star," at least in IT and programming circles, used to mean "master of this domain." But is it coming to mean, "We want a miracle worker, because we have no idea what we're doing?

Silverlight Bringing Streaming Video to the Olympics

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:15:27 GMT

Lights, camera... LOTS of action! Microsoft's Silverlight is powering the live video coverage of the Beijing Olympics, so you'll soon be able to watch your favorite sport competitions live on the web. Here's how some of the pieces all fit together -- for both web developers and project managers.

IE8 Promises Better Standards Compliance (and lots more)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:33:01 GMT

Developer release lauded as "sweet!" but puts the focus on security, interoperability and better programming features rather than the user experience.

MIX'08 Session Recordings Now Available Online

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:01:02 GMT

The MIX'08 Session Recordings are now available online. So far, its just the recordings from yesterday, but all the recordings for the entire event should be up by Monday. This is really awesome, you can almost attend the event for free online. Go check it out.

Database Developers Users' Choice: Oracle

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:35:21 GMT

In a satisfaction survey comparing features from Oracle, IBM DB2, Informix Dynamic Server, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Sybase Adaptive Server, 1,400 developers were most satisfied by Oracle.

MIX08 (Streams!) for Non-Attendees

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:01:02 GMT

At last, the mad rush is over. . .

Getting Clueful: 7 Things CIOs Should Know About Agile Development

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:41:35 GMT

Agile methodologies for software projects can help organizations create better software faster. Yeah, yeah, you've heard that before. Here, experienced programmers explain the key ingredients to make those goals achievable.

You used JavaScript to Write WHAT?

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:18:33 GMT

The key to understanding when (and when not) to deploy JavaScript has as much to do with the intent of the target application as it does JavaScript itself, says the author of Head First JavaScript.

The Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet: Top 100 Lists of Web Development Cheat Sh

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:27:20 GMT

With the vast array of web development knowledge available on the Internet, there's certainly no shortage of cheat sheets to be found. However, finding a way to wrangle them all into one place isn't quite as easy. This is one heck of a list.

More Numbers on Vista Adoption

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:50:06 GMT

Is Windows Vista finally gaining traction? A CDW survey found 35 percent of enterprises are in some stage of Vista migration.