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Notepad++ is replacement for the original Notepad. It is:1) Very fast to load2) Adapts to a variety of programming languages by ... Notepad 6.3++ now available 0 0 0 APress Deal of the Day 25/Feb/2013 - Pro Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Development TATWORTH, February 25, 2013 Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 DevelopmentPro Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Development shows users how to get the ... APress Deal of the Day 25/Feb/2013 - Pro Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Development 0 0 0 Get the new Sample Browser for Windows 8 BizTalk Visionary, February 25, 2013 Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework team has just released the new Sample Browser for Windows 8. It’s available for download in the Windows Store now! Go and get it and get access to over 5000 pieces of ... Get the new Sample Browser for Windows 8 0 0 0 Syncfusion: Succinctly Series of Books BizTalk Visionary, February 25, 2013 MVC4 Mobile Book Review Introduction I recently came across a free series of eBooks published by Syncfusion covering a number of Microsoft Technical topics. These are concise technical books of between 50 and a 100 pages written ... Syncfusion: Succinctly Series of Books 0 0 0 MVC4 Mobile Book Review Syncfusion: Succinctly Series of Books BizTalk Visionary, February 25, 2013 Introduction I recently came across a free series of eBooks published by Syncfusion covering a number of Microsoft Technical topics. These are concise technical books of between 50 and a 100 pages written ... Syncfusion: Succinctly Series of Books 0 0 0 MVP Summit 2013 Recap Dylan Smith, February 24, 2013 Just sitting in the Seattle airport finally returning home from my first MVP Summit (well in truth I’m flying directly to my next client, no home till next weekend). 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That darn WinSXS black hole! 0 0 0 winsxs windows service pack vps hosting Create IIS App Pool and Site With Windows Powershell Adam Pooler, February 24, 2013 Here’s a simple code snippet which shows how to create a new app pool and site in IIS via a Powershell script. It also checks for app pool and site existence before trying to create new items. It’s quite ... Create IIS App Pool and Site With Windows Powershell 0 0 2 New set of Visio stencils for Exchange, Lync and SharePoint 2013 Enrique Lima, February 23, 2013 Misc Lync SharePoint Tools As versions of the server products have changed, and a more “modern” interface and cleaner display is about. Well, so are the Visio stencils we should be using when designing our infrastructure or enterprise ... New set of Visio stencils for Exchange, Lync and SharePoint 2013 0 0 0 Misc Lync SharePoint Tools MCSD - Web Applications (.NET 4.5) deepakpuri, February 23, 2013 Certifications Dot Net IT Professionals working in Web Applications Dot Net can gain their MCSD: Web Applications certification by following this post. I passed these 3 exams in Feb 2013.I) Exam 70-480: Programming in HTML5 ... MCSD - Web Applications (.NET 4.5) 0 0 4 Certifications Dot Net What is Database Cardinality Saqib Ullah, February 22, 2013 General I have found very nice definition of Cardinality and its types.DefinitionIn SQL (Structured Query Language), the term cardinality refers to the uniqueness of data values contained in a particular column ... What is Database Cardinality 0 0 5 General Continuous Integration-Automated Deployments And Release Management Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], February 23, 2013 ReleaseManagement Tfs2012 ALM A customer I am working with is interested in an ‘automated deployment and release management’ solution for their 160 applications scaling across 350 servers. There is a mix of Microsoft and Non Microsoft ... Continuous Integration-Automated Deployments And Release Management 0 0 0 ReleaseManagement Tfs2012 ALM Book Review of Under the Hood of .Net Memory Management Nick Harrison, February 22, 2013 Book Reviews I don’t really like to toot my own horn, but I am not above shining the light on someone doing it for me. Ein Gedanke has written a wonderful review of the book that I co wrote.http://blog.fabse.net... ... Book Review of Under the Hood of .Net Memory Management 0 0 0 Book Reviews Exchange 2010, Simplified OAB distribution Kay Sellenrode, February 22, 2013 I think many of you have strugled or are now struggling on how to get the Offline Address Book distributed to all CAS servers.When you try to add a new server to the OAB and you already have a large number ... Exchange 2010, Simplified OAB distribution 0 0 0 Speaking At The 2013 Chicago Code Camp Tim Murphy, February 22, 2013 Chicago Code Camp Speaking It has been a couple of years since I last spoke at the Chicago Code Camp. Not for lack of trying. Our community has so many top quality speakers and subjects the team that runs the conference has a tough ... Speaking At The 2013 Chicago Code Camp 0 0 0 Chicago Code Camp Speaking Virtual Launch Event for the new Office 365 for business! Compudicted, February 21, 2013 Virtual Launch Event for the new Office 365for business!Date Wednesday, February 27th 8 am PDT and 5 pm PDTWhy Attend? • Learn how the new Office 365 can help people do their best work in a world of devices ... Virtual Launch Event for the new Office 365 for business! 0 0 0 TFS GIT pull "changes in the current working directory" Josh Tenenbaum, February 21, 2013 If you are trying the new Visual Studio 2012 TFS Git source control and are trying to pull from master and get the error that "There are changes in the current working directory." You should add the ".gitignore" ... TFS GIT pull "changes in the current working directory" 0 0 2 MCSD: Windows Store Apps using HTML5 deepakpuri, February 22, 2013 Focus groups & Engagements Dot Net Certifications Last October Microsoft Technical Evangelists Jeremy Foster and Michael Palermo and delivered two of the most popular Jump Starts ever produced. 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Great app for learning code on Windows 8! 0 0 0 Topics on Steroids TechnicalWriting, February 21, 2013 topic-based help mobile Ektron product documentation puts a new twist on topic-based information, creating a streamlined, single-sourced, multi-formatted, topic-based information delivery system.Traditional topic-based documentation ... Topics on Steroids 0 0 0 topic-based help mobile Sharing Code Between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Steve Michelotti, February 20, 2013 Windows 8 I just posted an article on my company’s blog on Sharing Code Between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. It covers portable class libraries, view model patterns, linking source files, and more. Check it out ... Sharing Code Between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 0 0 0 Windows 8 Improved Keyboard Buffer for Windows Store Apps Chris Gardner, February 20, 2013 .NET C# Win8 WinRT Last night, I was playing around with my port. I was having a bit of a problem getting the mouse click to behave as I expected. 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Platform Religion Leads To Bad Business Decisions 0 0 2 Misc Rant Arguments to DTO Parser for Console Applications Jon Canning, February 20, 2013 public static class ArgumentParser<T> where T : class, new() { delegate bool TryParseFunc<TProperty&g... input, out TProperty output); public static T Parse(string[] args, params Expression<Func<T, ... Arguments to DTO Parser for Console Applications 0 0 0 SkyDrive for South Florida Code Camp! Dave Noderer, February 20, 2013 We held out 9th annual South Florida Code Camp on 2/9/2013. Unlike past years, instead of stuffing bags with brochures and papers from the vendors, we bought 700 2gb USB keys and had all the vendors send ... 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Pixel Perfect Collision Sample - Improved! 0 0 2 C++ directx February 2013 Chicago IT Architect Group Summary Tim Murphy, February 19, 2013 Chicago Information Technology Architects Group Architecture 2013 continues to roll on. This month our meeting landed on one of the coldest day of this winter. We were lucky enough to have our co-founder Carl Franklin presenting on Google Cloud Platform. We are ... February 2013 Chicago IT Architect Group Summary 0 0 0 Chicago Information Technology Architects Group Architecture Developer training, where to go? Dennis Vroegop, February 20, 2013 Quite often people come to me and ask me: how do you manage to keep up with what's going on in your field? Whenever this happens my first reaction is always (in my head) "so, they do believe I keep up ... Developer training, where to go? 0 0 0 Microsoft Surface Pro Dennis Vroegop, February 20, 2013 I admit it. I am one lucky guy. 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SQL Server Identity Quirks Jesse Taber, February 25, 2013 sql server If you’ve worked with SQL Server for any length of time odds are that you’ve used the IDENTITY property to create a surrogate key for a table. These auto-incrementing primary keys can be very handy, but ... SQL Server Identity Quirks 0 0 0 sql server
Teach Your Kid to Code – BaltoMSDN Steve Michelotti, February 25, 2013 This Wednesday my son and I will be presenting “Teach Your Kid to Code” at BaltoMSDN. We did this presentation in November at CMAP and had a great turnout! We hope to see you (and your child!) on Wednesday ... Teach Your Kid to Code – BaltoMSDN 0 0 0
MVP Summit 2013 D'Arcy Lussier, February 25, 2013 I got back on Thursday last week from the Microsoft MVP Summit in the Seattle area. MVPs are tech community leaders who are awarded annually by Microsoft based on their contributions and leadership. They ... MVP Summit 2013 0 0 1
Step-by-Step: Deploying Windows 8 Apps with System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 KeithMayer, February 25, 2013 Among a whole host of new management features, Service Pack 1 for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager adds the ability to now deploy and manage Windows 8 apps for enterprises. These Windows 8 apps ... Step-by-Step: Deploying Windows 8 Apps with System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 0 0 0
New Windows Azure Mobile Services iOS Samples Available Clint Edmonson, February 25, 2013 I'm excited to share the news that we have released a number of new iOS samples for Windows Azure Mobile Services. These samples demonstrate common scenarios that developers will run into when using Mobile ... New Windows Azure Mobile Services iOS Samples Available 0 0 0
Sample Pricing Comparison: On-Premise vs. Private Hosting vs. Cloud Computing Herve Roggero, February 25, 2013 Azure Last week I blogged about some of the basic pricing differences between Amazon AWS and Microsoft’s Windows Azure (http://wblo.gs/da7) and concluded that while there was a price difference, it was important ... Sample Pricing Comparison: On-Premise vs. Private Hosting vs. Cloud Computing 0 0 0 Azure
Reviewing Syncfusion: jQuery Succinctly Nick Harrison, February 25, 2013 Book Reviews jQuery The nice folks at Syncfusion reached out to me last week to tell me a little bit about their Succinctly series of books. As they describe the concept, their goal is take 500+ pages of content and distill ... Reviewing Syncfusion: jQuery Succinctly 0 0 0 Book Reviews jQuery
Notepad 6.3++ now available TATWORTH, February 25, 2013 Earlier this month, the Notepad++ developers released their version 6.3. Notepad++ is replacement for the original Notepad. It is:1) Very fast to load2) Adapts to a variety of programming languages by ... Notepad 6.3++ now available 0 0 0
APress Deal of the Day 25/Feb/2013 - Pro Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Development TATWORTH, February 25, 2013 Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 DevelopmentPro Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Development shows users how to get the ... APress Deal of the Day 25/Feb/2013 - Pro Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Development 0 0 0
Get the new Sample Browser for Windows 8 BizTalk Visionary, February 25, 2013 Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework team has just released the new Sample Browser for Windows 8. It’s available for download in the Windows Store now! Go and get it and get access to over 5000 pieces of ... Get the new Sample Browser for Windows 8 0 0 0
Syncfusion: Succinctly Series of Books BizTalk Visionary, February 25, 2013 MVC4 Mobile Book Review Introduction I recently came across a free series of eBooks published by Syncfusion covering a number of Microsoft Technical topics. These are concise technical books of between 50 and a 100 pages written ... Syncfusion: Succinctly Series of Books 0 0 0 MVC4 Mobile Book Review
Syncfusion: Succinctly Series of Books BizTalk Visionary, February 25, 2013 Introduction I recently came across a free series of eBooks published by Syncfusion covering a number of Microsoft Technical topics. These are concise technical books of between 50 and a 100 pages written ... Syncfusion: Succinctly Series of Books 0 0 0
MVP Summit 2013 Recap Dylan Smith, February 24, 2013 Just sitting in the Seattle airport finally returning home from my first MVP Summit (well in truth I’m flying directly to my next client, no home till next weekend). As I said this was my first time attending ... MVP Summit 2013 Recap 0 0 2
2013 MVP Global Summit - The Experience! Vincent Maverick Durano, February 25, 2013 ASP.NET As I've mentioned in my previous blog post, this was my first time attending the Summit and yes it was a blast! Aside from the interesting session contents and cool stuffs presented at the summit, I was ... 2013 MVP Global Summit - The Experience! 0 0 0 ASP.NET
That darn WinSXS black hole! Eric Newton, February 24, 2013 winsxs windows service pack vps hosting As you may know, every Windows installation starting with Vista has a winsxs directory that takes up a lot of space... not a problem when you have a 500GB volume... but a big problem when you have a VPS ... That darn WinSXS black hole! 0 0 0 winsxs windows service pack vps hosting
Create IIS App Pool and Site With Windows Powershell Adam Pooler, February 24, 2013 Here’s a simple code snippet which shows how to create a new app pool and site in IIS via a Powershell script. It also checks for app pool and site existence before trying to create new items. It’s quite ... Create IIS App Pool and Site With Windows Powershell 0 0 2
New set of Visio stencils for Exchange, Lync and SharePoint 2013 Enrique Lima, February 23, 2013 Misc Lync SharePoint Tools As versions of the server products have changed, and a more “modern” interface and cleaner display is about. Well, so are the Visio stencils we should be using when designing our infrastructure or enterprise ... New set of Visio stencils for Exchange, Lync and SharePoint 2013 0 0 0 Misc Lync SharePoint Tools
MCSD - Web Applications (.NET 4.5) deepakpuri, February 23, 2013 Certifications Dot Net IT Professionals working in Web Applications Dot Net can gain their MCSD: Web Applications certification by following this post. I passed these 3 exams in Feb 2013.I) Exam 70-480: Programming in HTML5 ... MCSD - Web Applications (.NET 4.5) 0 0 4 Certifications Dot Net
What is Database Cardinality Saqib Ullah, February 22, 2013 General I have found very nice definition of Cardinality and its types.DefinitionIn SQL (Structured Query Language), the term cardinality refers to the uniqueness of data values contained in a particular column ... What is Database Cardinality 0 0 5 General
Continuous Integration-Automated Deployments And Release Management Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], February 23, 2013 ReleaseManagement Tfs2012 ALM A customer I am working with is interested in an ‘automated deployment and release management’ solution for their 160 applications scaling across 350 servers. There is a mix of Microsoft and Non Microsoft ... Continuous Integration-Automated Deployments And Release Management 0 0 0 ReleaseManagement Tfs2012 ALM
Book Review of Under the Hood of .Net Memory Management Nick Harrison, February 22, 2013 Book Reviews I don’t really like to toot my own horn, but I am not above shining the light on someone doing it for me. Ein Gedanke has written a wonderful review of the book that I co wrote.http://blog.fabse.net... ... Book Review of Under the Hood of .Net Memory Management 0 0 0 Book Reviews
Exchange 2010, Simplified OAB distribution Kay Sellenrode, February 22, 2013 I think many of you have strugled or are now struggling on how to get the Offline Address Book distributed to all CAS servers.When you try to add a new server to the OAB and you already have a large number ... Exchange 2010, Simplified OAB distribution 0 0 0
Speaking At The 2013 Chicago Code Camp Tim Murphy, February 22, 2013 Chicago Code Camp Speaking It has been a couple of years since I last spoke at the Chicago Code Camp. Not for lack of trying. Our community has so many top quality speakers and subjects the team that runs the conference has a tough ... Speaking At The 2013 Chicago Code Camp 0 0 0 Chicago Code Camp Speaking
Virtual Launch Event for the new Office 365 for business! Compudicted, February 21, 2013 Virtual Launch Event for the new Office 365for business!Date Wednesday, February 27th 8 am PDT and 5 pm PDTWhy Attend? • Learn how the new Office 365 can help people do their best work in a world of devices ... Virtual Launch Event for the new Office 365 for business! 0 0 0
TFS GIT pull "changes in the current working directory" Josh Tenenbaum, February 21, 2013 If you are trying the new Visual Studio 2012 TFS Git source control and are trying to pull from master and get the error that "There are changes in the current working directory." You should add the ".gitignore" ... TFS GIT pull "changes in the current working directory" 0 0 2
MCSD: Windows Store Apps using HTML5 deepakpuri, February 22, 2013 Focus groups & Engagements Dot Net Certifications Last October Microsoft Technical Evangelists Jeremy Foster and Michael Palermo and delivered two of the most popular Jump Starts ever produced. These accelerated courses were aimed at experienced developers ... MCSD: Windows Store Apps using HTML5 0 0 0 Focus groups & Engagements Dot Net Certifications
SCCM 2012 SP1 – How to deploy SCCM agents using GPO Waclaw Chrabaszcz, February 21, 2013 SCCM 2012 The question is …. Where the (…) is this ccmsetup.msi. File has been moved into C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\bin\i386. But if you are thinking that you know everything you need … you ... SCCM 2012 SP1 – How to deploy SCCM agents using GPO 0 0 0 SCCM 2012
Great app for learning code on Windows 8! Jialiang, February 22, 2013 Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework team has just released the new Sample Browser for Windows 8. It’s available for download in the Windows Store from today! You can search code samples; learn code samples ... Great app for learning code on Windows 8! 0 0 0
Topics on Steroids TechnicalWriting, February 21, 2013 topic-based help mobile Ektron product documentation puts a new twist on topic-based information, creating a streamlined, single-sourced, multi-formatted, topic-based information delivery system.Traditional topic-based documentation ... Topics on Steroids 0 0 0 topic-based help mobile
Sharing Code Between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Steve Michelotti, February 20, 2013 Windows 8 I just posted an article on my company’s blog on Sharing Code Between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. It covers portable class libraries, view model patterns, linking source files, and more. Check it out ... Sharing Code Between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 0 0 0 Windows 8
Improved Keyboard Buffer for Windows Store Apps Chris Gardner, February 20, 2013 .NET C# Win8 WinRT Last night, I was playing around with my port. I was having a bit of a problem getting the mouse click to behave as I expected. In a fit of inspiration, I solved that problem in such a way that it allowed ... Improved Keyboard Buffer for Windows Store Apps 0 0 0 .NET C# Win8 WinRT
Microsoft’s MVP Program–Evolving, not Dying D'Arcy Lussier, February 20, 2013 Thomas Larock blogged about the impending uncertainty/doom of the MVP summit; the topic isn’t new, as all of us as MVPs can remember the various glory days of only a few years ago compared to today. For ... Microsoft’s MVP Program–Evolving, not Dying 0 0 4
Platform Religion Leads To Bad Business Decisions Tim Murphy, February 20, 2013 Misc Rant I have been accused of being a Microsoft fanboy which has probably become more true as the years go by. Of course this is due in great part to the fact that developing for Microsoft technologies allows ... Platform Religion Leads To Bad Business Decisions 0 0 2 Misc Rant
Arguments to DTO Parser for Console Applications Jon Canning, February 20, 2013 public static class ArgumentParser<T> where T : class, new() { delegate bool TryParseFunc<TProperty&g... input, out TProperty output); public static T Parse(string[] args, params Expression<Func<T, ... Arguments to DTO Parser for Console Applications 0 0 0
SkyDrive for South Florida Code Camp! Dave Noderer, February 20, 2013 We held out 9th annual South Florida Code Camp on 2/9/2013. Unlike past years, instead of stuffing bags with brochures and papers from the vendors, we bought 700 2gb USB keys and had all the vendors send ... SkyDrive for South Florida Code Camp! 0 0 0
Freelance C# .NET and Web Developer in Cambridge Jon Canning, February 20, 2013 It's time to start looking for the next gig; please get in touch if there's anything I can help you withhttp://about.me/joncanning Freelance C# .NET and Web Developer in Cambridge 0 0 1
The magic of touch Dennis Vroegop, February 20, 2013 Surface Win8 Tell me something. Why do people love the iPad but fail to recognize Microsoft was the first one out there with a touch device? Why do people stand in line for an iPhone while there are other better offerings ... The magic of touch 0 0 0 Surface Win8
Pixel Perfect Collision Sample - Improved! Michael B. McLaughlin, February 20, 2013 C++ directx One part I wasn’t quite satisfied with in the original pixel perfect collision sample was the need to render the image in order to extract its data. Shawn Hargreaves suggested that I skip the middle man ... Pixel Perfect Collision Sample - Improved! 0 0 2 C++ directx
February 2013 Chicago IT Architect Group Summary Tim Murphy, February 19, 2013 Chicago Information Technology Architects Group Architecture 2013 continues to roll on. This month our meeting landed on one of the coldest day of this winter. We were lucky enough to have our co-founder Carl Franklin presenting on Google Cloud Platform. We are ... February 2013 Chicago IT Architect Group Summary 0 0 0 Chicago Information Technology Architects Group Architecture
Developer training, where to go? Dennis Vroegop, February 20, 2013 Quite often people come to me and ask me: how do you manage to keep up with what's going on in your field? Whenever this happens my first reaction is always (in my head) "so, they do believe I keep up ... Developer training, where to go? 0 0 0
Microsoft Surface Pro Dennis Vroegop, February 20, 2013 I admit it. I am one lucky guy. Figure this: Microsoft just came out with the Surface Pro, a nice machine that has caught the imagination of a lot of people. Still, since the other Surface (the RT version) ... Microsoft Surface Pro 0 0 0
Don't get time to study for Certifications? deepakpuri, February 20, 2013 Certifications For the real busy individuals who do not get enough time to study a particular technology that they want to for workor you want to get a certification and not have enough time to study for it though having ... Don't get time to study for Certifications? 0 0 7 Certifications
Windows Server 2012 - What's New. deepakpuri, February 20, 2013 Focus groups & Engagements SharePoint Windows Server A What's new discussion on Windows Server 2012 for DBA's and Systems Administrators..When - 03/01/2013 From 09:00AM To 12:00PMWhere - Saxons Training Facilities Level 8 500 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia.(Opposite ... Windows Server 2012 - What's New. 0 0 0 Focus groups & Engagements SharePoint Windows Server
Get You Some DZone Refcardz Tim Murphy, February 19, 2013 Reviews DZone is a great technology site and their Refcardz are a great way to kick start your understanding of new topics. Refcards are about the length of a book chapter packed with great details to quickly ... Get You Some DZone Refcardz 0 0 0 Reviews
ALM Mag – Harnessing the cloud for Performance Testing Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], February 19, 2013 ALM Load Testing Recently my blog post ‘Leveraging the cloud for Performance Testing’ got featured in the ALM Mag Vol. 1 Issue 1 – January 2013. Figure 1 – Visual Studio Load Testing using Windows Azure – featured in ALM ... ALM Mag – Harnessing the cloud for Performance Testing 0 0 0 ALM Load Testing
Paul Preiss visiting the IASA South Florida Chapter 02/20/2012 Rainer Habermann, February 19, 2013 IASA SE Florida Chapter Event - Enterprise Architecture in TransformationDate/Time: February 20th, 2013 @ 6:00 PMLocation: Citrix-Systems - Town Center Meeting Area, 6363 NW 6th Way, Fort Lauderdale, FLSign ... Paul Preiss visiting the IASA South Florida Chapter 02/20/2012 0 0 0
TryParse Extensions Jon Canning, February 19, 2013 public static class TryParseExtensions { delegate bool TryParseFunc<T>(string input, out T output); static readonly ConcurrentDictionary<Type, Delegate> Delegates = new ConcurrentDictionary<Type, ... TryParse Extensions 0 0 0
Manufacturing a MongoDB ObjectId for the past Nuri Halperin, February 19, 2013 MongoDB's ObjectId() has some nice sequential properties. One of the interesting ones is the fact that the most significant 4 bytes are a timestamp with seconds granularity. Suppose you want to query your ... Manufacturing a MongoDB ObjectId for the past 0 0 0
Be Honest With Product Reviews Tim Murphy, February 18, 2013 Misc Rant As you gain attention in the technology community you will get asked to review books and products from time to time. In doing so you are going to find that not everything that you are asked to review will ... Be Honest With Product Reviews 0 0 0 Misc Rant
Azure Office Hours are back! Mike Benkovich, February 18, 2013 We’re back! Scott Klein (http://www.scottlklein.com) and I are kicking off a new series of weekly Office Hours to help developers find answers to tough questions. Similar to what we did over the last couple ... Azure Office Hours are back! 0 0 1