TechTalk

by Simon Peyton Jones, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Haskell is now quite widely used, but its most important contributions are the ideas that it embodies. In this talk Simon focuses on one of these ideas, namely type classes, with a few anecdotes and reflections along the way about the…

Dies ist die Aufzeichnung der Parallel Computing TechTalk Tour die zusammen mit Intel(r) durchgeführt wurde. Die komplette Aufzeichnung des Abends findet sich hier. Diese Aufzeichnung stellt nur den Teil rund um Visual Studio 2010 vor. Viel Spaß beim reinschauen, Dariusz

In this talk, Cameron Skinner, Product Unit Manager for Visual Studio Team System, and Zhiming Xue discuss the challenges architects often face and how they may benefit from using Visual Studio 2010.

What are the business considerations of risks and benefits when considering cloud computing options, strategies, and trends? Check out this discussion between Miha Kralj and Zhiming Xue.

When solutions fail, is it too easy to blame a given platform than for those really responsible to take responsibility? It more often has to do with one's level of problem solving skills, planning, and ability to align technology with business strategy. This discussion between Jim Wilt and…

by Simon Peyton Jones, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Today's most widely used technology, by far, for static program verification is the ubiquitous type checker. Alas, static type systems inevitably exclude some good programs; and allow some bad ones.  Thus motivated, Simon describes…

In this half a day event Ken Casada presented two new entries within the Microsoft's Web Stack space: WebMatrix, a small, simple and best of all free tool for building web sites; and Orchard, a free Open Source CMS being developed by Microsoft that uses ASP.NET MVC. In the first part of…