Running Rails 3 on Windows
This is a tutorial about setting up Ruby 1.9.2 and Ruby on Rails 3.0 on Windows. It includes setting up SQLite3 and using it as your... more »
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DateTime.Now in v4.0 Causes Dynamic Memory Allocations
DateTime.Now's new implementation in v4.0 appears to be more memory-consuming than in previous releases. Even though the Int32 boxings... more »
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Climbing the Visual Studio 2010 Team System and Lab Management learning curve � A getting started Guide
Microsoft has this great product that sounds too good to be true. It allows software development and product lifecycle workflows that... more »
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Esent: The Decade-Old Database Engine That Windows (Almost) Always Had
What is Esent, you ask? It’s a database engine. No, not like SQL Server, it doesn’t do the T-SQL language. But it is an ISAM database,... more »
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VS2010 Parallel Stacks - Debugging enhancement in VS2010
Parallel Stacks is one of the debugging enhancements in VS 2010 IDE that helps in debugging parallel programming. When you press F5 for... more »
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Reducing AutoResetEvent's Sycnhronization Overhead
Learn how to dramatically reduce the synchronization overhead involved when using AutoResetEvent.
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Building Java Applications with Windows Azure
Learn how to build large-scale applications in the cloud using Java, taking advantage of new Windows Azure features. This session will... more »
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Writing a StarCraft Bot in F#
Artificial intelligence, programming, and StarCraft. It’s like peanut butter and jelly, only with Zerglets. The day the contest was... more »
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Managing Windows with Ruby (Part 1) or...
I have long been a UNIX guy and have always struggled living in a mixed OS environment. Traditionally Windows based systems have made it... more »
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The Case of Delayed ACKs and Nagle's Algorithm
The performance pitfalls of TCP/IP when combining Nagle's Algorithm and the Delayed ACKs mechanism
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What I learned about Windows Phone 7 from Android
While I have been exceptionally fortunate to get a Windows Phone 7 device, I still am using my Motorola Droid as my primary phone. The... more »
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Seven Best opensource WYSIWYG embedded HTML editor. A must for Web developer.
A Web or CMS developers requires the Embedded HTML editor to get input from the User in a formatted manner. These Editors are based on... more »
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[History] Firefox About To Surpass IE in Europe
August month Web Browser Market share has shown major changes. IE, Firefox and Chrome are ruling the world now and the competition has... more »
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WPF Ribbon: A dream comes true
WPF Ribbon tutorial
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NoSQL on the Microsoft Platform
NoSQL is a trend that is gaining steam primarily in the world of Open Source. There are numerous NoSQL solutions available for all levels... more »
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Windows 7 dinged by new zero-day vulnerability
Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system is vulnerable to a new zero-day vulnerability that exposes users to blue-screen crashes or code... more »
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VS2010 Parallel Tasks - Debugging enhancement in VS2010
VS2010 has new concept for Parallel Programming that is added as part of .NET Framework 4.0. This makes the ability to work in multi-core... more »
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Why does Excel 2007 prompt for repair when opening a document stored in SQL Server 2008 FILESTREAM Column?
This post looks closer into a common problem many people may have faced while storing Microsoft Office documents into the FILESTREAM... more »
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Debugging Tomcat using Eclipse ‘Remote Java Application’
It’s often useful debugging tomcat using eclipse remote java application. Here are instructions for doing so:
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Oracle Demostrates Great Community Support and Fixes Eclipse
Every once in a while I am reminded of the lunacy of the Internet, especially headline writers. On Monday of this week, Oracle released... more »
7 Reasons Why The Windows 7 Phone Is THE iPhone Killer
The sleeping giant is back. With yesterday’s announcement of the new Windows Phone 7 I believe we are seeing the rise of Phone 7 as the... more »
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Sharpdevelop - Opensource IDE for C#, VB.NET, Boo and IronPython
SharpDevelop is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for .NET Framework applications. It supports the development of applications... more »
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Tessnet2 - Opensource .NET OCR engine.
Tesseract is a C++ open source OCR engine. Tessnet2 is .NET assembly built on top of Tesseract.
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Should you care about Windows Phone 7?
Windows Phone 7 may not be available yet, but it is a great talking point. Following the collapsing market share of Window Mobile and the... more »
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Ten Reasons to Dump Windows and Use Linux
Now is a particularly good time to ditch Windows for good, for workstations as well as servers. For instance, now that Microsoft stopped... more »
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