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Running the Ocean Simulation AMP sample on the NVidia GeForce GTX 550Ti
As mentioned earlier, I upgraded my home machine GPU to a NVidia GeForce GTX 550Ti recently. I setup a USB hard disk with Win8 and Windows To Go (WTG) and took time today to test AMP performance on...
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Game Design: Brainstorming a game with block diagrams part 2
Today I met with 12 very bright high school students who are part of the College Bound program. Bright and energetic, sadly none of them were going into Computer Science. But we worked through what...
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Canada Does Windows Azure: Frozen Mountain
I believe that the best way to learn is to learn from each other, so I’m always on the search for stories of Canadian developers who have either built new applications using Windows Azure services or...
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Reason for the mismatch between...
A PFE colleague presented the following scenario and asked for the justification of what seemed to be, a priori, something inexplicable. The story was like this: When I check the memory allocation...
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C++ Security: Security Descriptor
What is a security descriptor? A security descriptor is a structure and associated data that contains the security information for a securable object. A security descriptor identifies the object's...
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Adjusting the maximum number of worker threads per SQL Server Agent’s...
Inside MSDB, there exists a system table named dbo.subsystems which is populated the first time SQL Server Agent services runs. Every time SQL Server Agent starts up, among the several things it does,...
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TFSPreview : Hosted Source Control and Build engine Service in the cloud
One of the things that has been taking up my time over the past few months has been the availability of a source control repository for the samples I am authoring for my book. My requirements were...
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GetDataSourceContents will always return null for the Password member of the...
Even though current and past versions of the documentation have never explicitly said so, for obvious reasons the password is no returned . In fact there is no public SSRS API that can return passwords...
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Time Management Tips #2 - Add Creative Hours
Are you a night owl or an early bird? When are you at your creative best? For me, I found that I tend to be my most productive in the mornings, but most creative at night. I also found that some of...
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How To Get Your Groove Back On
One of the simplest ways to get your groove back on, is to do things differently. "Do the opposite" is a great strategy. For example, if you've been staying up late, try getting up early. (Getting up...
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How to make a library portable and data binding friendly at the same time?
Here is the challenge. Create a portable library that could be used by almost anything including Console Apps, Windows Phone, ASP.NET, Xbox 360 Make it data binding friendly for targets like WPF,...
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The Book that Changes Lives
Getting Results the Agile Way, is “The Book that Changes Lives.” You can also think of it as “Agile for Life.” It’s the book that changes lives because people have used it to build high-performing...
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My Site Default Quota Template
We recently encountered a subtle issue setting the quota used when creating My Sites; that is, My Content personal sites. The default quota template MUST be named “personal site” or sites are created...
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Founder Showcase Only Three Days Away -- Meet Windows 8
If you are sitting hunched over your laptop trying to disrupt, you are probably not only puzzling out coding problems, but from a business angle you are trying to figure out how to crack the funding...
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Connecting SkyDrive with Office 365 for education
As schools and other education customers move to Office 365 for education in Australia (more info here), it provides another piece in the jigsaw puzzle of your technology infrastructure. Office 365 for...
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'Because even if the new standard is perfect, most people don't like things...
The question came in the other day from one of our field engineers from Israel who had been dogfooding both Windows 8 and Office 15: Running Windows 8 build 8400 (64-bit) with Office 2010 Pro Plus...
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ISV Video: Windows Azure Performance Management, Monitoring Using AppDynamics
AppDynamics' automatic instrumentation and configuration make it a perfect fit for managing cloud environments with a high rate of change. In addition, AppDynamics' auto-scaling feature allows Windows...
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Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming
I recently saw this post with ten tips on how to be a better developer. It made me think of the Viking Laws again. The Viking Laws covers a few more aspects than the Ten Commandments which essentially...
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The case of the software that broke: VS2012 & Office 15
It always seems to happen. Software that worked just yesterday no longer works and you have a big deadline or deliverable due that hinges on that software. That’s what happened to me on Thursday...
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Curious who won the World Imagine Cup 2012 Software Design?
Who won the worldwide student competition to solve the world’s problems using technology? When 76 countries send their best teams to compete at the World Wide Finals in Software Design you know the...
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