Mommy!? Why can’t I be on Facebook? If I had a dollar for every time I heard that coming out of my 9 year olds mouth… I know a million good reasons why she shouldn’t be on Facebook, only about a hundred or so of them am I willing to share with her in any [...] http://www.heavenofdreams.com/archives/3574

The new products will play music and other media files, received by wireless from your mobile phone or even tablet. A special application installed on your tablet or phone with Android operating system will provide remote control functionality, which can control any nearby compatible devices. Google adds new line of audio systems to an already range [...] http://www.heavenofdreams.com/archives/3572

Microsoft's next OS is loaded with features like eight-second boot times and better file management that could make it the best version of Windows since XP--if the company can pull it off.

Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix based on Ubuntu 11.10 is now available for corporate and government institutions evaluating Ubuntu as a desktop solution.

Today I was recalling good days of language C and got tempted to play around POINTERS, STRUCTURE, and DATA STRUCTURE etc. I started to write some C code and as soon as I started, the first hurdle came that where to write code? I was running on 64 bit Windows 7 machine with Visual Studio 2010. I binged and found much suggestion to download this and install that etc. However being fan and loyal user of Visual Studio, I was more desired to use rich IDE of Visual studio for my C program. To my surprise it is quite possible to use Visual Studio 2010 to write and compile code in C language.

This is very problematic code, from my point of view, for several reasons. Look at how it allocate responsibilities. IApplicationEvents is supposed to execute the actual event, but deciding when to execute the event is left for the caller. I said several reasons, but this is the main one, all other flows from it.

This is a big post – over 12200 words – and so I’ve decided to make it available as a PDF download, which you can get here:

We’re pleased to announce the release of Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1. Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) is an open-source plug-in for Visual Studio which supports programming with the Python programming language.

This post is in reply to Hadi’s post. Please go ahead and read it. Done? Great, so let me try to respond, this time, from the point of view of someone who regularly asks for patches / pull requests.

I spoke last week at a user group in the Boston area, the fourth time I've done so since the Windows 8 Developer Preview was released last fall. And not coincidentally, this was the fourth time in a row I spoke exclusively about Windows 8: People are fascinated by--and scared by--Microsoft's next operating system in ways they haven't been since Longhorn or, perhaps, Windows 95. It's something that I even I need to keep in the back of my mind since of course I have my own doubts, most of which are directly related to Microsoft's refusal to speak clearly about its plans.

In my previous post, I spoke about ISP and how we can replace the following code with something that is easier to follow:

Henry Lee's tutorial on creating smoke for a Windows Phone application breaks down the Smoke's behaviors and how to handle them in Windows Phone, as well as instructions for creating "per-frame smoke" and how to change the smoke properties for each frame.

Speech recognition using the Java binding of OpenNI and CloudGarden's TalkingJava SDK, recording with the PC's microphone rather than the Kinect's.

Time for Part 2 of the Unified Ad for Windows Phone series. Also read part 1 for the introduction of the Unified Ad for Windows Phone. We covered the reason why we want the Unified ad for Windows Phone control and also registered for a couple of Ad Providers. Let’s start with implementing the Unified ad control in our application.

I am pleased to be able to say that TeamCitySharp is now supports mono. In order to get the project supported I had to change a few parts of the system.

NOTE: if you’re not familiar with SOS (a WinDbg extension for managed code) and leak detection with !gcroot, start by reading an introductory post on the subject.

When we started KAYAK in 2004, we issued BlackBerries to the entire engineering team so we could communicate instantly 24/7. Today we've all switched, and it seems our users are doing the same. Our audience of BlackBerry users has been declining precipitously, and we can't justify the cost any longer.

How to leverage PowerShell to find Active Directory users and computers.

Choosing appropriate identifiers for the constructs in your code provides better readability and maintainability. With the latest build of Telerik JustCode you can now easily set naming conventions for all your code elements.