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Hour of Code offers coding tutorials from Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, etc

8-Dec-13 9:48

MSDN Blogs[^]:
Rx 2.2 is now available via the Rx CodePlex project and includes more support for Windows Phone 8, various bug fixes and contributions from the community.

Now with even more reactivity

Kent Sharkey8-Dec-13 9:31

Microsoft ends Windows 7 retail sales

8-Dec-13 9:31

Life Hacker[^]:
In advance of Computer Science Education Week, which kicks off on Monday, Code.org has brought together some of the biggest names in the tech industry to teach everyone to code. All it takes is an hour to start learning.

Happy Computer Science Education Week

Kent Sharkey8-Dec-13 7:32

8-Dec-13 7:32

Computerworld[^]:
Microsoft has quietly ended retail sales of Windows 7, according to a notice on its website.

I miss it already

ledtech38-Dec-13 7:55

ledtech3

8-Dec-13 7:55

I knew I needed to stockpile Win 7versions.

PIEBALDconsult8-Dec-13 9:24

PIEBALDconsult

8-Dec-13 9:24

Ew, so the price will go up? Sigh | :sigh:

My wife bought a laptop (Lenovo Yoga thingie) with Win 8.1 yesterday. I didn't know she knew some of the words coming out of her mouth.

LloydA1118-Dec-13 10:03

LloydA111

8-Dec-13 10:03

Looks like sales of that program to put a real start menu back in will be going up!

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5 Ways you can make and mine Bitcoin currency

wout de zeeuw9-Dec-13 5:19

wout de zeeuw

9-Dec-13 5:19

You never get compliments? Laugh | :laugh:

Wout

Kent Sharkey8-Dec-13 7:28

Re: 5 Ways you can make and mine Bitcoin currency

8-Dec-13 7:28

Make Use Of[^]:
Have you heard of Bitcoins — the digital currency that has recently experienced a dramatic increase in value? Now estimated at over $1,200 per Bitcoin, the revolutionary and controversial method of payment has been making headlines around the world. There are plenty of reasons why you might want to start performing transactions using Bitcoins, but before you can even do that you’ll have to find a way to collect Bitcoins!

"Money often costs too much."

ledtech38-Dec-13 8:18

ledtech3

8-Dec-13 8:18

Just wait for the Bitcoin Crash.

Announcing TypeScript 0.9.5

Kent Sharkey8-Dec-13 7:17

8-Dec-13 7:17

MSDN Blogs[^]:
This release focuses on addressing feedback from the community around quality and stability. In this release, we've fixed over 100 issues related to memory leaks, CPU usage, crashes, and compiler correctness. This has helped the TypeScript experience for developing large-scale JavaScript applications become a more robust and more reliable experience.

The asymptote edition

Day 1: Spider Database Navigator
Unit Testing Succinctly

Marc Clifton8-Dec-13 11:47

Marc Clifton

8-Dec-13 11:47

What's TypeScript? Unsure | :~

Marc

Brisingr Aerowing8-Dec-13 13:05

Brisingr Aerowing

8-Dec-13 13:05

Type-Safe JavaScript with a C#-ish syntax.

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

- Mitchell Kapor

Day 1: Spider Database Navigator
Unit Testing Succinctly

Marc Clifton8-Dec-13 14:13

Marc Clifton

8-Dec-13 14:13

Brisingr Aerowing wrote:
Type-Safe JavaScript with a C#-ish syntax.

Ah. Should I care about another layer of confusion? Smile | :)

Marc

wout de zeeuw9-Dec-13 0:06

wout de zeeuw

9-Dec-13 0:06

From what I've seen from it almost a year ago it's very nice. You have decent compiler time checking and intellisense, while it doesn't keep you from doing the true dynamic stuff.

Wout

Kevin McFarlane9-Dec-13 2:30

Kevin McFarlane

9-Dec-13 2:30

Plus you can just write regular JavaScript and leverage TypeScript for the "compile" checking. That's what Monaco does from what I can tell.

Kevin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TypeScript[^]

LloydA1118-Dec-13 13:33

LloydA111

8-Dec-13 13:33

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Day 1: Spider Database Navigator
Unit Testing Succinctly

Marc Clifton8-Dec-13 14:12

Marc Clifton

8-Dec-13 14:12

Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TypeScript[^]

I know I could have looked it up. I was making a "statement".

Marc

What to Use on the Microsoft Stack

Wonde Tadesse7-Dec-13 7:14

Wonde Tadesse

7-Dec-13 7:14

Jonathan Allen wrote:
Try to Leave Silverlight and Flash Soon

While even old .NET staples like WinForms and Web Forms have found a place, RIA containers such as Silverlight and Flash are definitely out. As you can see in figure 5-15 (below), Microsoft doesn't want to wait around for Silverlight 5's planned 10 year lifecycle. They intend to squeeze out RIA containers by the end of 2015.

Try to adopt more on SPA, MVC, WebForm, Web API, WCF, SignalR, Cloud... Full list and download can be found here[^]

Wonde Tadesse

PIEBALDconsult7-Dec-13 8:19

PIEBALDconsult

7-Dec-13 8:19

What to Use on the Microsoft Stack ?

A flamethrower.

Wonde Tadesse7-Dec-13 8:44

Wonde Tadesse

7-Dec-13 8:44

Sorry Microsoft don't have it.

Wonde Tadesse

PIEBALDconsult7-Dec-13 10:49

PIEBALDconsult

7-Dec-13 10:49

But they can buy a company that does.

image processing toolkits | batch image processing

C^hris L^osinger7-Dec-13 11:00

C^hris L^osinger

7-Dec-13 11:00

and people look at me funny when i say there's no point in learning every new framework MS throws over the wall.

Wonde Tadesse7-Dec-13 13:44

Wonde Tadesse

7-Dec-13 13:44

You have a point. This is also what happen to Asp.net web service(ASMX).It's replaced by WCF. I have gut feeling WCF might be replaced by Web API soon.

Wonde Tadesse

devvvy7-Dec-13 22:03

devvvy

7-Dec-13 22:03

M$ should give some thoughts to developers and stop screwing them by throw them new API's that dont really offer new capability

dev