The beta version of Windows Live Writer dropped this past Friday, and today we bring you a walkthrough with the man in charge, J.J. Alaire. This latest Microsoft tool for bloggers has lit a fire over at Techmeme, and we're certainly very excited to start using it at 10.Live Writer is being built to…

Mobility is a necessary attribute of information technology solutions for healthcare workers. Doctors, nurses and other clinicians are always on the move. They really cannot be tied to a desktop PC. They need solutions at the point of care and everywhere in between, often including their home and…

As a compact, stack-based programming language, Forth was popular in the 1980s as a lower-level alternative to BASIC for microcomputers and is still used in many commercial environments. When Valer Bocan discovered .NET in 2001, he decided to try writing his first compiler, and Forth.NET was the…

The computer science department at Georgia Tech has done a fairly radical re-work of its curriculum to try to change the field's reputation and attract more students to the program. A key part of the new program is to emphasize "threads"  that let people choose a set of courses…

Last month the Department of Education released a new report  trying to determine if there was a substantial difference between private and public schools in terms of the quality of learning.Here's the abstract of the report:This study compares mean 2003 National Assessment of Educational…

In what has quickly become as hotly contested an issue as abortion, stem cell research is an area where it never hurts to go over the facts. Dr. Chuck Murry from UW Medicine handed out the latex gloves and layed out the stem cell crash course.We here at 10 are always looking for ways to enhance…

This episode features the co-inventor of COM, software architect, Tony Williams. In his eighteen years at Microsoft, Tony has worked on the Windows team, in Microsoft Research, and on Office. His contributions benefit not just Microsoft's applications, but the fundamental way that all Windows…

Tom Peters had some interesting comments about student testing on his blog. In his comments he debunks the idea that high test scores among Asian students really indicates higher academic performance. In fact he quotes a Thai teacher who claims that many of their students barely know how to read but…

In this episode, David shows you how you can build a simple set of Windows PowerShell cmdlts to access the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). http://www.amazon.com/s3 The Cmdlets show how to implement parameters; support pipeline operations; support confirm, whatif, debug and…

Sure Windows Workflow Foundation is a very cool part of .NET Framework 3.0 but there is something else that I find very compelling and that is the great work that the Office 2007 team has done to add support for Workflow in Sharepoint 2007. On this episode of ARCast we are going to be speaking…