Alexander Schmidt Mathematical methods, programming

Just came across this article regarding the balancing of the efforts in the software development, seems like worth reading.

http://architects.dzone.com/articles/balancing-software

http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/02/agile-is-not-enough 

Checkout chapter 1 from Professional WCF 4–Windows Communication Foundation with .NET 4.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd997796.aspx and updated MSF (Microsoft Solutions Framework) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd380647.aspx

1.     ICCES 2011, being held in Nanjing, China, during 17-21 April 2011 (www.icces.org). Abstract (or full-length) submission is to be by 15 February 2011, at: http://submission.techscience.com/icces11

2.     ICCESMM 2011, being held in Zonguldak, Turkey, during 6-9 September 2011 (www.iccesmeshless.org). Abstract (or full-length) submission is to be by 1 August 2011, at: http://submission.techscience.com/icml

It's being an interesting trend where heterogeneous services were exposed and now can be consumed by a variety of consumers, say, publishers with PDFs, online content with Netflix. The underlying standards are called OData which details can be found at http://www.odata.org Today, many sites expose their data in OData-compatible format, see here. If you're developing a new application, consider exposing your data in that format. Also, watch out the extended integration throughout the Microsoft products for examples of using it at MIX'11.

I like phylosophy because it makes one to think.  The thinking is the special process that can be done to make a decision and the following paper from Harvard Working Knowledge represents a quantitative measure which can be applied to the daily processes: Thinking Too Little to Thinking Too Much: A Continuum of Decision Making. Worth reading.

Parallel Programming Guidelines for .NET 4.0

Azure Security

Azure Design Guidelines

Forrester conducted a research regarding current offering from Microsoft for the Cloud, Microsoft Azure, which basically, goes down to that while it's advanced, there are still things it should go through to mature. Read on.

If you're looking for xml documentation generated for .NET Framework 4.0 assemblies, starting from 3.0 you have to have Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 or .NET Framework SDK installed and those are located at:

Windows 64, .NET 4.0: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.0"
Windows 32, .NET 4.0: "C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.0"
Windows 64, .NET 3.5: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v3.5"
Windows 64, .NET 3.5: "C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.0"

 More info about 3.0 can be found at

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msbuild/archive/2007/04/12/new-reference-assemblies-location.aspx

Today, my iPhone 4 rejected voice mail password with the modal messagebox asking for a new password. After trying to reset password using AT&T web-site, I called AT&T support and guy asked me to turn off the device. But, the problem was, that I couldn't! Crappy iPhone was showing the power off slider behind the reset password message box. Ok, then, calling Apple support. The guy, apparently from India who was constantly asking me to repeat everything I was saying and saying that I'm cutting off (Apple, please invest some penny into reliable VoIP!). Oh, well, then, the guy continues with even more interesting stuff. He started to tell me that I can choice from one of the following - either buy 29.99 for one-accident support, or 79.99 for two-year support. Guys, I couldn't understand why I have to pay something to Steve Jobs for the problem with his device I counldn't workaround. After some thinking on another end, guy offered me an exception and one-time support without charge. Cool. How to reset the device without power slider? Easy, press both, power button on the top and one button for 10 seconds and device will reset. That was easy. Why I have to pay for that 30 bucks? Just another prove of the crappiness of some companies.