John Stevenson09/13/10
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The Official Ubuntu Book Review

The book has an eye catching cover that matches the re-branding that Ubuntu went through for this release. Inside, the book covers Ubuntu from all aspects including installation, configuration,...

Gunnar Peipman09/12/10
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Experiment: List<T> internals and performance when adding new elements

Lists and their performance has been hot discussion topic for years. I have seen many examples and read a lot of stories about List class and I made conclusion that there is too much pointless opinions about it. In this posting I will show you how...

Den Delimarsky09/12/10
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Google Weather API on Windows Phone 7

I am not entirely sure how good the default weather application is – the one bundled with the Windows Phone 7 system, but I’ve always wanted to develop my own app that would display the weather my way. For this purpose, I’ve experimented quite a while...

Gunnar Peipman09/01/10
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Adding Twitter authentication support to ASP.NET application

In my last posting I introduced my idea about common membership provider for ASP.NET that is able to support multiple authentication providers. Before writing membership provider we need support for some authentication providers to get an better idea how...

Mitch Pronschinske08/31/10
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Johnson: vFabric Delivers the Promise of VMware's Spring Acquisition

It didn't take VMware's SpringSource division long to integrate and wrap up some of their most recently acquired technologies into a bundling called "vFabric". In reference to today's announcement at VMworld, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson said that...

Mitch Pronschinske08/30/10
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A ZFS Kernel Module for Linux

An Indian company called Knowledge Quest Infotech is building a native ZFS port to Linux. The company says it has an interesting solution to the license incompatibility problems between Linux and ZFS. KQ Infotech specializes in Linux kernel and cluster...

Gunnar Peipman08/29/10
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Managing business object locks on application level

Today I worked out simple application side object locking solution for one server scenario. My motivation came from ASP.NET architecture forum thread How to solve concurrent site issue where one user asks for locking solution that works without changing...

Sasha Goldshtein08/27/10
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PSSCor2: GC Heap Analysis Commands

In our previous trip to PSSCor2-land, we’ve seen some object inspection commands tailored for ADO.NET and ASP.NET applications. This time, let’s take a step back and use some commands that display and analyze the managed heap.

Mitch Pronschinske08/27/10
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Red Hat Makes a Bid for Standard Cloud API

This week, Red Hat announced that it had submitted the Deltacloud API to the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force), a body that oversees standards such as CDM (the Common Diagnostic Model), DASH (the Desktop and Mobile Architecture For System Hardware),...

Sasha Goldshtein08/27/10
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Demonstrating CLR Side-by-Side Execution

Starting from CLR 4.0, multiple versions of the CLR can be loaded into the same process. This doesn’t mean that you can mix the 1.1 and 2.0 runtimes, but you can have CLR 2.0 loaded in the same process with CLR 4.0. This is great news for managed shell...

Mitch Pronschinske08/26/10
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Terracotta's Perspective on the Java GC Problem

Caching is at the core for data management in applications, says Amit Pandey, CEO of Terracotta. Too much time is spent tuning the size of the heap to keep application performance fast and predictable. Garbage collection is to blame for making an...

Christopher Bennage08/25/10
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PowerShell, GAC, and build servers

I’m still a Powershell n00b, so take my advice cum granis salis. No GacUtil Please My situation was that I needed some 3rd party assemblies installed in the GAC on a build server. There was a little bit of churn on the assemblies, so it wasn’t just...

Sasha Goldshtein08/24/10
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PSSCor2: Object Inspection Commands, Part 2

In the previous installment, we’ve seen how PSSCor2 makes it easy to display the contents of a DateTime, of an IPAddress, of an XmlDocument, and of certain collection classes. Now we’ll take a look at some additional commands that inspect heap objects.

Den Delimarsky08/24/10
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Sending tile push notifications on Windows Phone 7

For Windows Phone 7 applications, it is possible to bind it to a web service that will send push notifications. There are two types of notifications that can be sent to the device –toast and tile. Toast notifications pop up on top of the title bar, no...

Mitch Pronschinske08/24/10
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Jonathan Lindo on Agile Architecture, DevOps, and Patents

The software industry is constantly trying to find the next-generation tools and methods that can make development, testing, and production more efficient. It's a core part of the developer's inner drive to try and envision how things could be better. At...