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The Four Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Programming and Their Relevance in Distributed Systems

I believe that a thorough understanding of the four pillars of object-oriented programming is essential for any developer working on modern distribute... [More]

Abstraction and Future-Proofing in Complex Componentized Systems: Contracts, Bulk Dataset Exchange, and RESTful APIs

AbstractAs software systems become increasingly complex and componentized, it becomes more important to design them with the principle of abstraction ... [More]

Kinect for Windows SDK Beta

MS has released the Kinect for Windows SDK beta…nice!  Go here http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/ Also, there’s ... [More]

Quickie : Named pipes and SQL User Instance

In case anyone else ever needs this… System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(@\\.\pipe\) will return an array of named pipes. and… the named pipes for SQL use... [More]

Windows Azure SDK and Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (November 2010)

Windows Azure SDK and Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (November 2010) available for download    http://www.microsoft.co... [More]