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Tuesday October 20, 2009 in: Dev Center by: saraford

Part 2: Lessons I Learned as a Project Manager Converting to Agile

In my first post for this series, I stated that "Agile is the single greatest things a team could do to significantly improve the user experience and quality of their website" and "not designing the full 100% is a true blessing in disguise." By putting...more

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    Featured Project: Family.Show on Codeplex
    by jcannon on May 27, 2008

    Over the course of the past year, we've highlighted various community and open source projects on Codeplex . This morning, I wanted to do the same with a very cool open source project that I came across over the weekend called Family.Show . Family.Show... more

    Code Parallel or Die, Part 2
    by Frank Chism on April 15, 2008

    It’s multicore time. Do you know where your parallelism is? Do you know where your parallelism is? Well you better find it! This is because you must or your users will not see the doubling of performance that they have seen for the last seven or eight... more

    • Tuesday, April 15, 2008
    • in: Dev Center
    • Frank Chism
    Supernova
    by Sam Ramji on March 19, 2008

    I’m writing this from EclipseCon in Santa Clara, California, where I’m going to announce the beginning of Microsoft’s collaborative work with the Eclipse Foundation. This started about a year ago when I met Mike Milinkovich at an open source event (the... more

    • Wednesday, March 19, 2008
    • in: Dev Center
    • Sam Ramji
    Eclipse Executive Director, Mike Milinkovich, Talks with Sam
    by Sam Ramji on October 18, 2007

    Mike Milinkovich is the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation - an open source community - supported by a non-profit foundation - dedicated to building an open source development environment. In this podcast, Mike joins us to discuss some history around Eclipse, the larger open source community - and his varied background in accounting and computer science. Mike also touches on the architecture... more

    • Thursday, October 18, 2007
    • in: Media
    • Sam Ramji
    Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries
    by jcannon on October 03, 2007

    Some news from Scott Guthrie's blog this morning - "One of the things my team has been working to enable has been the ability for .NET developers to download and browse the source code of the .NET Framework libraries, and to easily enable debugging support in them. Today I'm excited to announce that we'll be providing this with the .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 release later this year...." ... more

    • Wednesday, October 03, 2007
    • in: Community
    • jcannon
    MySQL on Windows: Configuration & Install
    by jcannon on March 16, 2007

    MySQL is an open source relational database management system which is typically used for light-weight web applications. This paper will provide an overview of configuring & intalling this software on Windows. MySQL does not have as many features as PostgreSQL, however, and one would expect it to perform substantially better than PostgreSQL on Windows because of its thread-based architecture (PostgreSQL... more

    HOW-TO: CONNECTING SQL SERVER 2005 JDBC to JBOSS
    by admin on June 14, 2006

    We have been working in the labs on doing some testing and integration of jBoss talking to a SQL server 2005 backend. We have seen some questions on how to connect a SQL Server in the Windows environment to jBoss. So I wrote a little how-to that describes just that...... more

    Featured Project: Family.Show on Codeplex
    by jcannon on May 27, 2008

    Over the course of the past year, we've highlighted various community and open source projects on Codeplex . This morning, I wanted to do the same with a very cool open source project that I came across over the weekend called Family.Show . Family.Show... more

    Python, Java, Ruby, Oh My! Silverlight Alpha 1.1 ships with Dynamic Language Support
    by MichaelF on April 30, 2007

    Mix 07 kicked off today with keynotes from Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie. Amongst announcements regarding media and Silverlight Scott Guthrie announced the release of a cross-platform version of the .NET framework within Silverlight Alpha 1.1. Included is a Dynamic Language Runtime that allows developers to use languages such as Python, Java and Ruby to program in Silverlight...... more

    • Monday, April 30, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    PostgreSQL on Windows: A Primer
    by MichaelF on February 22, 2007

    This paper will cover the installation and initial configuration of PostgreSQL 8.2 on Windows up to a point where a database is created and plpgsql is installed in it. We assume an ability to walk through the install wizard in general, though screens... more

    • Thursday, February 22, 2007
    • in: Dev Center
    • MichaelF
    Expanding the interoperability of eclipse4SL: Mac support comes to the Eclipse for Silverlight project
    by Vijay Rajagopalan on March 18, 2009

    In October 2008 , when Microsoft announced the general availability of Silverlight 2.0, and, as part of Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to interoperability, Microsoft and Soyatec unveiled the Eclipse Tools for Silverlight (Eclipse4SL). Today, Microsoft... more

    • Wednesday, March 18, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Vijay Rajagopalan
    Web Sandbox Source Now Available Under Apache License 2.0
    by Peter Galli on January 26, 2009

    Microsoft has released more source code under an OSI-approved license: this time it has made the source code for the Web Sandbox runtime available under the Apache 2.0 open source license. The Web Sandbox project explores how to advance the web platform... more

    • Monday, January 26, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Update: Stonehenge Incubation Project
    by Peter Galli on January 19, 2009

    As Microsoft continues the drive for interoperability between different implementations on various platforms, the Interoperability Technical Strategy Team is, for the first time, participating as a code contributor to an Apache project: the Stonehenge... more

    • Monday, January 19, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    PHP on Windows
    by hjanssen on March 04, 2008

    I have this really odd feeling of Dejavu. The last blog I wrote ( here ), I started by saying that I have been very delinquent with writing blogs. So what do I do? I continue to be very delinquent with my blogs! If anything, I am consistent! :) So, why... more

    Pilot
    by jcannon on December 19, 2007

    I spend a significant amount of my time crisscrossing Microsoft, looking for (and advocating) interesting ways that our research and development teams are adopting open approaches in their work. It’s not terribly difficult - and, in fact, increasingly easy to find areas where sharing code, participating in community and collaborating with the commercial open source industry are part of what we do every... more

    • Wednesday, December 19, 2007
    • in: Community
    • jcannon
    MySQL on Windows: Configuration & Install
    by jcannon on March 16, 2007

    MySQL is an open source relational database management system which is typically used for light-weight web applications. This paper will provide an overview of configuring & intalling this software on Windows. MySQL does not have as many features as PostgreSQL, however, and one would expect it to perform substantially better than PostgreSQL on Windows because of its thread-based architecture (PostgreSQL... more

    HOW-TO: CONNECTING SQL SERVER 2005 JDBC to JBOSS
    by admin on June 14, 2006

    We have been working in the labs on doing some testing and integration of jBoss talking to a SQL server 2005 backend. We have seen some questions on how to connect a SQL Server in the Windows environment to jBoss. So I wrote a little how-to that describes just that...... more

    Python, Java, Ruby, Oh My! Silverlight Alpha 1.1 ships with Dynamic Language Support
    by MichaelF on April 30, 2007

    Mix 07 kicked off today with keynotes from Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie. Amongst announcements regarding media and Silverlight Scott Guthrie announced the release of a cross-platform version of the .NET framework within Silverlight Alpha 1.1. Included is a Dynamic Language Runtime that allows developers to use languages such as Python, Java and Ruby to program in Silverlight...... more

    • Monday, April 30, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    PostgreSQL on Windows: A Primer
    by MichaelF on February 22, 2007

    This paper will cover the installation and initial configuration of PostgreSQL 8.2 on Windows up to a point where a database is created and plpgsql is installed in it. We assume an ability to walk through the install wizard in general, though screens... more

    • Thursday, February 22, 2007
    • in: Dev Center
    • MichaelF
    Talking Ruby and Dynamic Language Support with John Lam
    by MichaelF on April 30, 2007

    As promised in the first post today, here is the second interview regarding today's announcements regarding Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime and Silverlight...... more

    • Monday, April 30, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    Eclipse Executive Director, Mike Milinkovich, Talks with Sam
    by Sam Ramji on October 18, 2007

    Mike Milinkovich is the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation - an open source community - supported by a non-profit foundation - dedicated to building an open source development environment. In this podcast, Mike joins us to discuss some history around Eclipse, the larger open source community - and his varied background in accounting and computer science. Mike also touches on the architecture... more

    • Thursday, October 18, 2007
    • in: Media
    • Sam Ramji
    Talking Ruby and Dynamic Language Support with John Lam
    by MichaelF on April 30, 2007

    As promised in the first post today, here is the second interview regarding today's announcements regarding Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime and Silverlight...... more

    • Monday, April 30, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    Python, Java, Ruby, Oh My! Silverlight Alpha 1.1 ships with Dynamic Language Support
    by MichaelF on April 30, 2007

    Mix 07 kicked off today with keynotes from Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie. Amongst announcements regarding media and Silverlight Scott Guthrie announced the release of a cross-platform version of the .NET framework within Silverlight Alpha 1.1. Included is a Dynamic Language Runtime that allows developers to use languages such as Python, Java and Ruby to program in Silverlight...... more

    • Monday, April 30, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    Taking the Heavy Lifting out of Game Development
    by MichaelF on April 13, 2007

    Sam sits down with a veteran of the video game industry, Development Manager of the XNA Community Game Platform and Star Trek Deck Plan expert: Frank Savage...... more

    • Friday, April 13, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    Something wonderful has happened... Number Five is alive!
    by jcannon on December 20, 2006

    Last week, Microsoft released the first version of Robotics Studio, an SDK that contains three sets of tools; first, a common runtime architecture that can be used across robot devices; second, a set of programming tools that harness the power of Visual Studio, and a physics engine, to allow programmers to build & test their robots in simulated 3D space; and finally, a set of tutorials and sample code... more

    • Wednesday, December 20, 2006
    • in: Media
    • jcannon
    From Atlas to ASP.NET AJAX: Sam Interviews Brad Abrams
    by MichaelF on November 30, 2006

    Brad Abrams, Group Program Manager for the .NET Framework, sits down with Sam to discuss all things AJAX including: the Open AJAX Alliance, Atlas, the Microsoft AJAX Library and cross browser compatability...... more

    • Thursday, November 30, 2006
    • in: Media
    • MichaelF
    Andi Gutmans on working with Microsoft & Improving PHP Performance on Windows
    by MichaelF on October 31, 2006

    Today at Zendcon Bill Hilf and Andi Gutmans announced a new technical collaboration aimed at improving the performance of PHP on Windows both for IIS 6 as well as in the future including IIS 7 on Longhorn. In this interview Sam and Andi discuss how Zend came to be as well as the details of the announcement. Andi provides his perspective on what this collaboration will mean to the PHP community and... more

    • Tuesday, October 31, 2006
    • in: Media
    • MichaelF
    Java and .NET Interoperability: JNBridge
    by MichaelF on September 19, 2006

    Sam interviews Wayne Citrin to discuss work his company, JNBridge, has done to provide interoperability between .NET and Java...... more

    • Tuesday, September 19, 2006
    • in: Media
    • MichaelF
    Talking Mono with Miguel de Icaza
    by MichaelF on August 11, 2006

    In this, the last of our interviews from the LANG.NET Symposium, Sam sits down with Miguel de Icaza, VP Development Platform at Novell and co-founder of Ximian. Miguel is also responsible for starting two Open Source project you may have heard of: GNOME and Mono. ... more

    • Friday, August 11, 2006
    • in: Media
    • MichaelF
    John Lam and Sam Ramji discuss RubyCLR, Avalon Ruby Editor and Open Source Funding
    by MichaelF on August 10, 2006

    The second person we interviewed during the LANG.NET symposium is John Lam. John is the creator of RubyCLR and most recently he created an Avalon Ruby Editor...... more

    • Thursday, August 10, 2006
    • in: Media
    • MichaelF
    Python, Java, Ruby, Oh My! Silverlight Alpha 1.1 ships with Dynamic Language Support
    by MichaelF on April 30, 2007

    Mix 07 kicked off today with keynotes from Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie. Amongst announcements regarding media and Silverlight Scott Guthrie announced the release of a cross-platform version of the .NET framework within Silverlight Alpha 1.1. Included is a Dynamic Language Runtime that allows developers to use languages such as Python, Java and Ruby to program in Silverlight...... more

    • Monday, April 30, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    John Lam and Sam Ramji discuss RubyCLR, Avalon Ruby Editor and Open Source Funding
    by MichaelF on August 10, 2006

    The second person we interviewed during the LANG.NET symposium is John Lam. John is the creator of RubyCLR and most recently he created an Avalon Ruby Editor...... more

    • Thursday, August 10, 2006
    • in: Media
    • MichaelF
    Talking Ruby and Dynamic Language Support with John Lam
    by MichaelF on April 30, 2007

    As promised in the first post today, here is the second interview regarding today's announcements regarding Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime and Silverlight...... more

    • Monday, April 30, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    Talking Mono with Miguel de Icaza
    by MichaelF on August 11, 2006

    In this, the last of our interviews from the LANG.NET Symposium, Sam sits down with Miguel de Icaza, VP Development Platform at Novell and co-founder of Ximian. Miguel is also responsible for starting two Open Source project you may have heard of: GNOME and Mono. ... more

    • Friday, August 11, 2006
    • in: Media
    • MichaelF
    Java and .NET Interoperability: JNBridge
    by MichaelF on September 19, 2006

    Sam interviews Wayne Citrin to discuss work his company, JNBridge, has done to provide interoperability between .NET and Java...... more

    • Tuesday, September 19, 2006
    • in: Media
    • MichaelF
    Do many eyes make a bug shallow?
    by jcannon on June 30, 2006

    Sam interviews Mike Howard, Senior Security PM at Microsoft around security in the operating system and how we think about & engineer security defenses into an operating system. What are the myths around security - do many eyes make a bug shallow?... more

    • Friday, June 30, 2006
    • in: Media
    • jcannon
    Eclipse Executive Director, Mike Milinkovich, Talks with Sam
    by Sam Ramji on October 18, 2007

    Mike Milinkovich is the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation - an open source community - supported by a non-profit foundation - dedicated to building an open source development environment. In this podcast, Mike joins us to discuss some history around Eclipse, the larger open source community - and his varied background in accounting and computer science. Mike also touches on the architecture... more

    • Thursday, October 18, 2007
    • in: Media
    • Sam Ramji
    IronPython: Python evolves again
    by admin on June 01, 2006

    Meet Jim Huginin creator of Jython and the brains behind IronPython...... more

    • Thursday, June 01, 2006
    • in: Media
    • admin
    Sam Ramji and Professor John Gough talk Virtual Machines, Dynamic Languages, Ruby and .NET (Part 1)
    by MichaelF on August 07, 2006

    In part one of a two part interview Sam talks with John Gough, Professor Emeritus at Queensland University of Technology, about his background in compilers and virtual machines, Dynamic Languages and how he became involved with the .NET project.... more

    • Monday, August 07, 2006
    • in: Media
    • MichaelF
    Taking the Heavy Lifting out of Game Development
    by MichaelF on April 13, 2007

    Sam sits down with a veteran of the video game industry, Development Manager of the XNA Community Game Platform and Star Trek Deck Plan expert: Frank Savage...... more

    • Friday, April 13, 2007
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
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