VirtualBox 3.1 Adds New Features

I’ve been a fan (and user) of VirtualBox for several years now for desktop virtualization, so it’s great to keep seeing updates with exciting new features added.
The latest version of VirtualBox delivers some compelling new features, including support for live migration and branched snapshots. Migration capabilities reflect VirtualBox's potential for ascending into the enterprise arena.
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Dean Gou and Project Trident – .NET Rocks!

Another excellent podcast in which .NET Rocks! interviews Dean Gou about Project Trident. Project Trident was created for the real/near-time monitoring of thousands of oceanic sensors, in short it helps to crunch large quantities of data.
The boys talk to Dean Gou about Project Trident, a scientific workflow workbench. With Project Trident, you can author workflows [...]

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Wikis in the Workplace: A Practical Introduction

Decent overview of wikis at work, the ways in which they can be used, and an overview of typical concerns before implementing them with rebuttal.
The wiki crops up in many companies’ internal discussions about process improvements and efficient collaboration, but it is often shot down because so few people have exposure to good models of [...]

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Integrating Reporting Services Using SOAP

Want to programmatically access your Sql Server Reporting Services Server? (SSRS) Turns out there’s an app for that! Or more precisely, a SOAP web service.
The Reporting Services SOAP API provides several Web service endpoints for developing custom reporting solutions. The endpoints currently fall into two categories: management and execution. The management functionality is exposed through [...]

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Claims-Based Security Model Overview

While listening to the latest .NET Rocks podcast I came upon a topic which sounded like something I should know but with which I had very little familiarity: claims-based security/authorization. What I found was a security model that addresses many security-related issues that have affected me as a developer. Perhaps I’ll have a chance to [...]

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Implementing Team System and ROI – .NET Rocks!

Caught an even better than average podcast from .NET Rocks!, this time regarding Team System. Steven covered a lot of material, but I found his discussion around the need for deliberate planning to be particularly useful, as well as his outline of why investing time and resources in TFS is worthwhile. At the end of [...]

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SQL Server Reporting Services Hits its Stride – CODE Magazine

I’ve used SSRS multiple times in the past and know of at least one instance where I’ll be using it again in the future so I was quite pleased to stumble upon Paul Litwin’s recent article regarding the current state of SSRS.
We’ve all heard that version 3 of a Microsoft product is when that product [...]

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WebsiteSpark – Free Beer for Developers from Microsoft!

Microsoft just announced a tasty new program that offers quite a bundle of free software to individual and small development companies. Sure it’s a shameless attempt to get people hooked on Microsoft products but I can’t fault them for it, they’ve got some good stuff and this will give more people access to it. Sweet!
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Is Software Development Too Complex? (YAP)

Yet Another Podcast, (YAP) this time about the complexity of software development, the different types of complexity of consider, and an all-around interesting conversation.
Panel: Is Software Development Too Complex?
Recorded live at devLink in Nashville, Tennessee. Billy Hollis, Kathleen Dollard, Jim Holmes, and Josh Holmes (no relation) discuss the issue of the complexity of software development. [...]

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Microsoft OneApp Framework

Framework for seamlessly offloading processing/memory/storage/etc to the cloud for hardware-limited devices? (Phones) Oh, I like! Looks like they’re trying to cram a smartphone experience onto a featurephone, but what about cramming a much richer experience onto a smartphone?
Who said Microsoft’s mobile strategy has to be limited to Windows Mobile? Redmond has just announced OneApp, a [...]

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