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PCs and Tablets: The Convergence is Happening Now
The new iPad? Meh. I'm running Visual Studio 11 on Windows 8 (64-bit) on my tablet. Yes, my tablet.
Microsoft's New Simple Database
Microsoft finally delivers a usable, no-admin, small-footprint database that can power real apps.
Windows Phone:
Surprisingly Easy to Develop For
Dino Esposito states that, compared with writing iOS and Android applications, developing applications for Windows Phone is much easier. If you're coming to Windows Phone with a .NET background, you will feel right at home
PLINQ: Parallel Queries in .NET
LINQ queries execute when you iterate over results, and they execute sequentially. With PLINQ, the iterations are performed in parallel, as tasks are scheduled on threads running in the .NET Framework 4 thread pool
Creating a Custom Output Cache Provider in ASP.NET 4
ASP.NET 4 provides support for cache extensibility through a provider model that you can write yourself. The primary benefit of this approach is that you can cache objects outside of the ASP.NET Worker Process. Getting the performance benefits of this customized cache control requires a few basic steps, presented here
.NET News
Xeround Engineers Cloud Data for .NET and PHP
Potential answer to "increasing demand" for developing MySQL apps on multiple cloud platforms
Amazon: New Managed Services for Windows Developers
Amazon Relational Database Service for SQL Server and ASP.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk
NSA-Grade Fixmo Mobile Security SDK On Offer
Defense-grade data encryption for iOS and Android devices
Syncfusion: How To Build An "Awesome" Information Portal
Essential Studio 2012 Volume 2 with project wizard for ASP.NET MVC
Microsoft Tunes Up Visual Studio 11
Release candidate UI updates boost visual energy and contrast to tackle grayness
Infragistics "Fostering" Designer/Developer Love
Company announces NetAdvantage Ultimate 2012 Volume 1
Some Android Apps "Prefer" Native
Android 8 NDK supports MIPS architectures for native code
Microsoft Open Technologies Updates Redis
Open source, advanced key-value store on GitHub
MS Open Tech Releases Open Source Metro Theme for jQuery Mobile
HTML5 automatically adapts to Metro on Windows Phone 7.5 devices
Visual Prototype iPad and Android Emulator
iRise 8.10 visualization software now extended to iPads and Android phones
Events of Interest
May 29-31, San Francisco, CA. Fluent 2012: JavaScript and Beyond
June 4-6, Nashville, Tennessee.Magic Software Users Conference
June 11-14, Bellevue, WA. AMD Fusion12 Developer Summit
June 11-14, Orlando, FL. Microsoft Tech-Ed
June 18-20, New York, NY. QCon New York
June 26-29, Boston, MA. 2012 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World
June 27-29, San Francisco, CA. Goole I/O Conference
July 9-12, San Francisco, CA. JAX Conference - Java, Cloud, Android, Agile
July 16-20, Portland, OR. OSCON
August 6-10, Redmond, WA. Visual Studio Live
August 20-24, Munich, Germany. DrupalCon Europe
August 27-30, San Francisco, CA. VMworld 2012
September 11-13, San Francisco, CA. Intel Developer Forum (IDF 2012)
September 23-25, St Louis, MO. StrangeLoop
September 29-30, San Francisco, CA. MySQL Connect Conference
September 30-October 4, San Francisco, CA. JavaOne
October 22-24, San Francisco, CA. Windows Phone DevCon
October 23-25, Ludwigsburg, Germany. EclipseCon Europe 2012
October 24-25, New York City. The Strata Conference
November 7-9, San Francisco, CA. QCon
December 10-14, Orlando, FL. Visual Studio Live
Best of the Web
What the New iPad and iOS 5.1 Mean for Developers
The new display is gorgeous. But local storage for HMTL5 is currently broken on the new iPad and performance of some apps is slower. Here's a deep dive into the issues, including benchmarks and analysis.
Triple Buffering as A Concurrency Mechanism
Triple Buffering is a way of passing data between a producer and a consumer running at different rates. It ensures that the consumer sees only complete data with minimal lag.
Embedding GDB Breakpoints in C Source Code
Have you ever wanted to embed GDB breakpoints in C source code? Something like this:
printf("Hello,\n");
EMBED_BREAKPOINT;
printf("world!\n");
Writing Kernel Exploits
Why attack the kernel? Because it has a huge attack surface with potential for very interesting bugs. This presentation (pdf) takes a code-level dive into recently reported Linux-kernel exploits.
