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BlackBerry’s stock got a nice respite Thursday from the prolonged drubbing it has been been suffering through on news that Lenovo is considering making a bid for the troubled smartphone pioneer. If they buy it, we'll throw in their choice of Justin Bieber or Celine Dion (OK, both)
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As more software projects adopt a continuous delivery cycle, testing threatens to be the bottleneck in the process. Agile development frequently revisits each part of the source code, but every change requires a re-test of the product. While the skills of the manual tester are vital, purely manual testing can't keep up. Visual Studio 2012 provides many features that remove roadblocks in the testing and debugging process and also help speed up and automate re-testing. Daily builds are sooooo last century
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Microsoft is providing a new way for iOS and Android users to access their Windows PCs today. A new Remote Desktop app is now available for both operating systems, letting you simply connect to a Windows PC and control it. While a number of third-party solutions have existed previously, including Citrix and others, Microsoft's native support is the latest in its continued push to provide apps across Windows, Android, and iOS. Now you can phone in a day's work
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Pencil is built for the purpose of providing a free and open-source GUI prototyping tool that people can easily install and use to create mockups in popular desktop platforms. All you need for prototyping is a pencil (or is that a Pencil?)
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Windows 8.1 is a solid update for Windows 8 users, but does little to solve the multiple-personality problem of this operating system. Start Button! Desktop! IE11! And ooooh so much more!
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Canonical has launched the latest and great version of the world’s most popular free and open-source desktop operating system, Ubuntu 13.10 “Saucy Salamander”. It’s more of an incremental update from Raring Ringtail with big changes under the hood, but there are a few improvements in the interface too. Oh look! An operating system was released today
That saucy, saucy salamander!
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I’m excited to announce that the final releases of Visual Studio 2013, .NET 4.5.1, and Team Foundation Server 2013 are now available for download! MSDN subscribers can download from the MSDN Subscriber Downloads page. Go on, you're going to like it more than that other thing launching today
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I bet VS 2010 is still better.
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I bet I'll have to wait a year before convincing my bean counters to buy me a ReSharper upgrade to use with VS2013.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Having reviewed the "What's New" for VS2013 I plan on immediately and without regret staying on VS2010!
VS2013 provides absolutely nothing that I want that I don't already have with VS2010 and a few free add-ons but does bring with it a bunch of baggage I don't need, for example:
Quote: When you start Visual Studio 2013 for the first time, you’ll be asked to sign in using your Microsoft account
...is particularly worrying.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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That's for an (AFAIK) optional feature to store your VS config in their cloud so after you spend 11 jillion hours configuring and laying it out just how you want the first time, when you install VS on a second computer all your settings will come with it.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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No it's not. But this one should be 2012 sp1.
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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There's Wi-Fi on the International Space Station, so why not at the bottom of the ocean? The problem: Radio waves, which carry wireless signals, are sluggish in water. Good news for all twittering SCUBA divers
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The most sought-after employers based on billions of
interactions from LinkedIn's 238M+ members Where do you want to be today?
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Microsoft steps closer to delivering in-memory performance with a second beta release of Microsoft SQL Server 2014. Here's a peek at what's coming. "With so many light years to go and things to be found I'm sure that we'll all miss her so"
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According to Alex Kantrowitz at AdAge, Microsoft's Google-bashing Scroogled ads work. As much as I detest Google's (possibly actionable) insistence on scanning every inbound and outbound Gmail message for ad-triggering keywords, Microsoft has just as many skeletons -- albeit in different closets -- and the Microsoft transgressions are getting worse, not better. The view from behind
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The new major-version release of Apache Hadoop will enable apps to directly connect to stored data. "I'll be a big noise with all the big boys"
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Microsoft's Windows 8.1 will be commercially available starting this week. What will Microsoft do for an encore on the Windows front? Windows 2014 RT CE RTFM IX, Ultraviolet Edition
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Excellent, I attempted to login to comment, and got a wonderful message:
"You are already logged in, please logout to login or register as another user"
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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WaitToo or Whine?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Oracle has a love-hate relationship with open source technologies. In a whitepaper (PDF) for the Department of Defense, Oracle claims that TCO (total cost of ownership) goes up with the use of open source. Great, coming from the company that owns MySQL and Java
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So look sharp, may MySQL and Java Programming Language vanishing from open source palette...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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Why did they acquire mySQL and Java?
That is the kind of thing to worry about...
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Because the anti-trust regulators were convinced not to force them to divest them when they bought Sun.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Microsoft is ending all support for Windows XP in April 2014, and doing its best to move users to newer versions of its desktop operating system. But Google isn’t letting go so easily. Well, I know what you should be doing with the Internet Explorer running on XP
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