Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN: Testing Asynchronous AJAX calls(www.developerfusion.com)

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Concluding his look at combining MbUnit and Watin to produce clean web integration tests, Yann Trevin looks at testing asynchronous calls read more...

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Using NuGet Packages(www.developerfusion.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 6 months, 24 days ago

NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to pull in libraries, components, and most importantly their configuration into your visual studio project. In this article, based on chapter 5 of ASP.NET MVC 3 in Action, the authors discuss NuGet and show you how to use it to add functionality to a project. read more...

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How power–friendly is your software?(www.developerfusion.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 10 months, 29 days ago

Rising consumer demand for power-efficient products has driven computer manufacturers to develop and build ever-sophisticated power-management technologies into their devices. In the case of PCs, several hardware and software components must function in harmony if significant power savings are to be realised. This article examines the often overlooked and significant role played by application software in reducing PC power usage. read more...

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Can you hack the cloud? Win £1K at free hack day(www.thecloudhack.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 11 months, 21 days ago

There's a free hack day on 11th June in London with access to restricted API's from leading brands (PayPal, Huddle, National Rail & Bing). Plus engineers from Microsoft and our API partners to offer on the spot technical support from the experts and win great prizes all day. read more...

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How to migrate your ASP.NET app to the Azure cloud (www.developerfusion.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 11 months, 26 days ago

Cloud computing is one of the hot topics of 2011 with those willing to make the jump to a cloud-based solution finding financial savings in this new approach as well as, in many cases, better fault tolerance and a more responsive service turnaround in many cases. However, what many developers may not realise is just how straightforward it can be to migrate a web site from a local or hosted server into the cloud. read more...

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Introduction to Windows Azure - What you should know(www.developerfusion.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 1 year ago

Neil Mackenzie looks at where Windows Azure fits among the various cloud computing offerings in the wild today, and also at the four key areas of Azure that new developers will need to be aware of when they start their first project. read more...

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Windows Embedded Compact 7 now available(www.developerfusion.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 1 year, 2 months ago

Brings Silverlight to embedded devices with new release targeted at ARM and embedded architectures read more...

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The Future of the Web: HTML5 (www.developerfusion.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 1 year, 3 months ago

Let’s get this one cleared up in the first sentence, no you don’t have to wait until 2022 to start using HTML 5! None of that really matters to web developers, what should matter to us is when our users’ browsers support a given feature we are interested in utilizing. read more...

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Run "any" language in the Cloud with AzureRunMe(www.developerfusion.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 1 year, 8 months ago

AzureRunMe is an open-source project for Windows Azure that allows you to run code in pretty much any language you like on the Windows Azure Compute platform. The examples on their site include Java, Ruby, Python and Clojure, but if you can compress the entire runtime and application into a single directory and run from there you can probably manage it. read more...

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Web-based management tools for SQL Azure released(www.developerfusion.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 1 year, 9 months ago

Microsoft Project Code-Named "Houston" has been released in its CTP 1 version today. Houston is a web-based database management tool for SQL Azure databases, and is designed to be lightweight and as easy to use as possible. read more...

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H.264 format gets new free license - takes aim at Google and WebM(www.developerfusion.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 1 year, 9 months ago

The growing one-upmanship and debate online around video in HTML 5 has taken a new twist today. MPEG LA, the company behind the patents for the MPEG 2 and MPEG 4 video codecs as well as H.264, has announced that it will offer a royalty-free license of the H.264 codec to sites that offer the video free to web users. read more...

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ANTS Performance Profiler 6(www.developerfusion.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 1 year, 9 months ago

We take an in-depth look at the latest incarnation of Red Gate's ANTS Performance Profiler and test it out on a real world .NET application to see how it fares. read more...

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Critical data loss bug hits CouchDB 1.0(www.developerfusion.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 1 year, 9 months ago

Last month we wrote about Couch DB, the popular “No SQL” alternative database, reaching its production status as version 1.0. Now it’s turned out that the developers have found a critical bug in the application, potentially causing many users to be using a large volume of data. read more...

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Possible proof emerges that P != NP... bit rusty? We explain the basic(www.developerfusion.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 1 year, 9 months ago

Remember the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP)? I hope you’re sitting comfortably. Yesterday news emerged of an HP researcher who has claimed that he has proved that P != NP. The P=NP problem is one considered so fundamental to the future study of computer science that the Clay Mathematics Institute assigned it as one of its Millenium Prize Problems, and anyone who can solve the problem is in line for $1,000,000. read more...

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Are IronRuby and IronPython on their last legs?(www.developerfusion.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 1 year, 9 months ago

A lot has been happening in the past few days in the world of the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime). It all kicked off on Friday, with a blog post by Jimmy Schementi, who ran the small team that put together the Dynamic Language Runtime, IronRuby and IronPython, announcing that he had quit his job at Microsoft over a week ago. In his post, he goes on to describe how the once small but mighty team he headed had achieved so much, such as the DLR, Silverlight and ASP.NET support for the Iron languages, and the beginnings of IDE support for them too. read more...

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.NET heading to Android in the form of MonoDroid(www.developerfusion.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 1 year, 9 months ago

Novell announces upcoming MonoTouch port for Android devices, limited preview open now, full release coming soon. read more...

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