For those who want to understand how much dependency there is, watch this Channel9 video. This is a talk with Joe Pamer (F# compiler team) & Rich Hickey (Clojure creator). Following is a snapshot from that video – do you see anything odd? Link to this post!
Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate – First Impression
I am a long time user of Visual Studio (2003/2005 and now 2008), as it ends up mostly as the primary development IDE in my day job. Even for developing Kernel drivers, I use VS as the IDE (with Visual AssistX) and switch to CMD shell for the good old “bcz” (I don’t like the [...]
HowTo: Enable Aero mode in Windows server 2008 R2
I recently was setting up a build server and chose Windows Server 2008 R2 to be the OS. Since I was also looking for something like a centralized deployment server for my development team to quickly reflash their testbeds, I was very h appy to see the 2008 R2 server’s “Deployment server” role…but, wait, this [...]
Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo!
Today Microsoft has made a proposal to buy Yahoo!. All the outstanding stocks sum up to a whooping amount of $4.4bn ($31/share). This is an amazing offer and if the deal goes through, Microsoft will get a good holding to take Google heads on. The news just popped up, I am sure before I hit [...]
How to use Windows Vista for more than 30 days?
There is a nice method posted by Ed Bott of Zdnet on extending the Vista’s trial period to 120 days (~4 months). I stumbled on this only recently, while seriously contemplating installing Vista ultimate in a Core2 Duo + 965GF combo. Nice trick, if you need more time to become comfortable with Vista before taking [...]
Xbox 360 damages discs – Be very careful!
If you own a Xbox 360 you surely would have come across the famous “Disc not readable” problem. Whenever it happens, you are forced to take out the disc, clean it, sometimes reboot Xbox 360 to get the disc to play again. I was so scared the first time my Gears of War refused to [...]
Xbox 360 to support Windows Live Messenger
Spring update to Xbox 360 is going to be rolled out starting May 7th. Some notable features are: H.264 video support: Up to 15 Mbps, Baseline, Main, and High (up to level 4.1) Profiles with 2 channel AAC LC and Main Profiles. Added MPEG-4 Part 2 video support: Up to 8 Mbps, Simple Profile with [...]
Performance appraisals – Should they be so complex?
We went through the performance appraisal phase in my company last quarter. As we had come to expect, it was one of the stressful periods, so much that we literally threw a party when 360degree feedbacks were prepared and sent (ok, am just kidding. But, you get the point!). We call this process FOCAL; when [...]
Windows Beginner Developer Learning Center – Gr8 idea!
Microsoft has come up with a website totally dedicated to getting the programming newbies up and running (Of course, using MS technologies! :p ) BDLC covers both web and desktop applications. The best part is, it doesn’t assume any prior programming knowledge. I am pretty sure this is a great resource and is gonna boost [...]
My first gaming console!
I bought my first gaming console, Xbox 360, two months back. Though I am not a big gamer, I always loved to design levels and develop simple games (no Unreal or Doom4 from me!). I bought the Xbox360 from Kempfort (now called Kempkids) in Airport road. I got the premium pack. There was a huge [...]
