Port 25 - Communications from the open source community at Microsoft

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Real Mission Critical

by Mark Stone on June 01, 2009

The 1.0 release of WinBioinfTools might seem like a modest event; as of this writing, the project has 44 downloads. High Performance Computing (HPC) is a small community, granted, and the number of HPC applications for bioinformatics is a small subset... more

• Monday, June 01, 2009
• in: Community
• Mark Stone

Announcing the PHP SDK for Windows Azure

by Peter Galli on May 12, 2009

Vijay Rajagopalan, a Principal Architect here at Microsoft, is at TechEd India, where he will demo later this week a new set of interoperability projects related to PHP. These projects include the PHP SDK for Windows Azure , an open source effort for... more

• Tuesday, May 12, 2009
• in: Community
• Peter Galli

Better Windows Development Environments - One project at a Time

by Mark Stone on April 10, 2009

Discussions of the PC market usually break down into "desktop" vs. "server", as if these are the only platform categories. However, the developer's dev box -- call it a "workstation" to distinguish it from desktop -- is really a separate platform. Remember... more

• Friday, April 10, 2009
• in: Community
• Mark Stone

Brazilian Students Set Their Own Course

by Mark Stone on March 16, 2009

I’m going to tell a story that starts in Indiana, but really it’s about Brazil. Once upon a time “scientific computing” was nearly synonymous with “Fortran”. Today, though, just about any high level language can be used to write High Performance Computing... more

• Monday, March 16, 2009
• in: Community
• Mark Stone