The Microsoft Tech-Ed 2011 keynote is now available. It is worth viewing. Just authenticate with your Windows Live credentials and you’ll have access to the keynotes, news stories, “The Taste of Tech-Ed” and more. Here’s Microsoft’s spin: Join Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Server and Tools Marketing, Robert Wahbe and Corporate Vice President, Visual Studio, Jason [...]
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New Refcardz on Azure
May 4, 2011
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This morning I was looking for a quick summary of Windows Azure Storage queues to pass to a colleague. I ran across a great new Refcardz by Brian H. Prince, an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft. Here’s the summary: This DZone Refcard on Cloud Computing with WIndows Azure Platform will introduce you to the platform and [...]
Read more Architecting Facebook
May 2, 2011
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As a technologist, I find myself wondering “how exactly do they do that?” a lot. This is especially true for large software systems. Even more so for large, successful software systems. So, what about Facebook? What’s their architecture? Ask and you shall find… A very knowledgeable gentleman, Michaël Figuière, Software Engineer at Xebia, did all [...]
Read more Dendrogram Plots
April 26, 2011
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I recently attended the Wolfram Seminar, “Statistics and Data Analysis with Mathematica“. The discussion on Hierarchical Clustering was especially interesting to me. They showed a dendrogram plot for some sample text data. A dendrogram is defined here as: A dendrogram (from Greek dendron “tree”, -gramma “drawing”) is a tree diagram frequently used to illustrate the [...]
Read more Making S.T.U.P.I.D. Users S.M.A.R.T.
April 21, 2011
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Whenever I need a full-strength dose of Usability Reality, I wander over to Boxes and Arrows, one of the best peer-written websites on design, user interaction, and information architecture. An article was posted yesterday that is brimming with brilliance: “Are your users S.T.U.P.I.D.? How good design can make users effective“. Please take the time to [...]
Read more MySQL Query Cache
April 17, 2011
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First, for the uninitiated, here’s a little background: There are three primary MySQL caching techniques: file-based, application, and the built-in query cache. There’s a good overview of the techniques here. In the simplest sense, the MySQL Query Cache stores the text of the query and the result of the query in memory. The Query Cache [...]
Read more LINQ to the Rescue
April 15, 2011
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A friend needed a quick way to query an existing XML file for certain values from within a .NET project. So, I suggested he use LINQ (Language Integrated Query). It’s simple enough. Though LINQ has been around for awhile, many developers still believe it is only useful to query SQL databases. LINQ can query SQL, [...]
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