Social business has massive potential to change how your organisation operates. As with many social based work however, the failure rate remains unduly high. IBM have released a new report that aims to change that by sharing some of the things that the best organisations do.

Here's a 45-minute presentation on Polyglot Persistence from NoSQL Matters presented by Ralf Engelschall.

Sharding is generally done for one or both of two reasons: To increase I/O bandwidth, and to partition in-memory data for more efficient usage of distributed caching

New modernising features for the enterprise framework arrive in Milestone 1.

The #CloudFirst trend is spreading, with Government Minister Francis Maudefinally committing the UK to the approachearlier this month

The deployment regions are paired for geo-redundancy and in Australia are located in the New South Wales and Victoria sub-regions.

My hybrid cloud news ticker is starting to go off every day with yet another “hybrid cloud” announcement. How many of them are really about seamless integration of data centers and clouds?

Hi everyone, just a quick post to let you know that NuoDB 1.1 is now available on the AWS Marketplace.

Today, we are excited to welcome Cloudera officially to the VMware family. VMware and Cloudera have entered into a partnership agreement that is meant to help users of Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution, CDH4, to run in the cloud. As part of this announcement, VMware has tested and certified Cloudera’s Enterprise Big Data software to run on vSphere 5.1 and that Cloudera is now part of the VMware Ready and Technical Alliances Partner (TAP) program.

Echoes is a media player based on youtube search service with emphasis on media player UX. Overall, it's a sample web application that is based on Backbone.js, Underscore & RequireJS libraries.

Many of our users use Visual Studio to speed up development and help organize their code. It’s a flexible development platform, and version 2012 adds tools that improves agile development and helps testing in Windows 8. All Aspose .NET and SQL Server Reporting Services products can be used with Visual Studio 2012. Developers can now use Visual Studio 2012 to work with Microsoft Word and other word processing formats from inside their own applications for creating, manipulating and converting documents independently of Microsoft Office Automation using Aspose.Words for .NET. They can also work with Microsoft Excel and other spreadsheet file formats in their own applications and can create, manipulate and convert documents without needing Microsoft Office Automation using Aspose.Cells for .NET. Aspose.Cells for .NET lets you automate reports and work with external data sources, create and export charts and work with formula. Developer can also work with Adobe Acrobat PDF files without relying on Adobe Automation. Aspose.Pdf for .NET lets you create and modify PDF files: concatenate or split files, add digital signatures, save pages to image format and more.

No matter what device you're bringing to TechEd this year, be sure to bring the Ch9 Events app with you!

SFML provides a simple interface to the various components of your PC, to ease the development of games and multimedia applications. It is composed of five modules: system, window, graphics, audio and network.

MacroPy is an implementation of Syntactic Macros in the Python Programming Language. MacroPy provides a mechanism for user-defined functions (macros) to perform transformations on the abstract syntax tree (AST) of a Python program at import time.

In this post, I'm going to implement a simple markup language including a parser and type checker. The language's syntax will be based on Haskell's syntax, and the type system will look a little bit like System F.

Modern GPU is code and commentary intended to promote new and productive ways of thinking about GPU computing.

Among the thousands of file formats that exist in modern computing, the GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, has attained celebrity status in a sea of lesser-known BMPs, RIPs, FIGs and MIFFs. It was honored as a “word of the year” in 2012, and Tuesday night, its inventor, Steve Wilhite, will be accepting a lifetime achievement award at The Webby Awards.

Here’s a fact I don’t think a lot of people know. Or rather they do know, but haven’t thought about:

Microsoft has revealed its new Xbox, the successor to the Xbox 360. It’s a next-generation console, with plenty of power under the hood, but it’s also clearly about consolidating your digital entertainment and operate as much more of a lifestyle device.

It's being reported Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion. You may recall Instagram was profiled on HighScalability and they were also bought by Facebook for a ton of money. A coincidence? You be the judge.

Note: some of the presentations exceed GitHub's blob size limit of about 10MB. These presentations have been split into multiple parts. If you clone or download the repo, however, you can get access to the original unsplit file.

As part of our ongoing commitment to add value to the education community we serve, we are thrilled to be working with Janet to provide additional support and services to their user base.

As part of our on-going commitment to add value to the education community we serve, we are thrilled to be working with JaNET to provide additional support and services to their user base.

In a previous post I showed how to unit test an ASP.NET WebAPI Controller. But with a REST service there is both a client and a service component. Assuming for a moment the client part is also written in C# we should test that as well.

For testing Heterogeneous and mobile environments we have relied on world class partners. SeeTest from Experitest now enables Microsoft developers test mobile applications inc WIndowsPhone8, iOS, Android and Blackberry.