Microsoft's Culture of Innovation: An Interview with CIO Tony Scott (cio.com)

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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. read more...

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Exploring Oslo's Modeling Language Promises(cio.com)

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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. read more...

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6 Scripting Languages Your Developers Wish You'd Let Them Use(cio.com)

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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. read more...

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Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2010. Developers Respond.(cio.com)

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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. read more...

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Ballmer Still Searching for an Answer to Google (cio.com)

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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. read more...

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Microsoft to Boost SQL Scale After DATAllegro Buy(cio.com)

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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. read more...

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Working with SOA Design Patterns: Understanding Pattern Relationships(cio.com)

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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. read more...

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The State of the Scripting Universe: Python, PHP, JavaScript etc(cio.com)

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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. read more...

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Five Things the Boss Should Know About Microsoft's LINQ(cio.com)

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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. read more...

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Clear Channel Gets Better IT Integration Between Dev/Ops Depts(cio.com)

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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? read more...

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Developers Rate Satisfaction with Their IDEs(cio.com)

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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. read more...

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The changing definition of "rock star"(advice.cio.com)

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"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? read more...

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Silverlight Bringing Streaming Video to the Olympics(cio.com)

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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. read more...

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IE8 Promises Better Standards Compliance (and lots more)(cio.com)

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

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Database Developers Users' Choice: Oracle (cio.com)

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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. read more...

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Getting Clueful: 7 Things CIOs Should Know About Agile Development(cio.com)

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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. read more...

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