Bradley L. Jones

Tuesday June 30, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Going Parallel with the Task Parallel Library and PLINQ VIDEO: Working with Property Grids Using Team Build to Build Database Projects Hottest Discussions New Articles on Developer.com Performance Improvement: Understanding Browser Compatibility Development Guide Java […]

Tuesday June 23, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru RESTing with the Microsoft REST Starter Kit TIP: Utilizing Solutions and Projects in VS 2005 Overcomes owner window flicker when implementing dragging functionility. A Case study on MFC Hardware’s […]

In the New York Times article, “U.S. Steps Gingerly Into Tumult in Iran – NYTimes.com” you can see the impact that social networking is having. What happened in Iran? SImply put, people are using social networking to report what is happening around them. They are getting around government blockage and media filtering and putting out […]

Tuesday June 16, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Hardware’s Dirty Little Secret, or Why Software Can be Mass Produced Parallel Lint [Updated] TIP: Using Unions for Manipulating Bits BOOST Multi-Index Container and Transaction Storage Hottest Discussions New […]

Tuesday June 9, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru TIP: Using Unions for Manipulating Bits Code Contracts in .NET Intro to the Microsoft REST Starter Kit State Management : Native Parallel Programming for Visual C++ Saving Bandwidth Using UpdatePanel Triggers Hottest Discussions New Articles […]

I’m listening to a presentation by David Chappell from Tech Ed. I’m sure it will result in a few blog posts or comments on the forums! Coincidentally, over the past few weeks we’ve been talking strategy and long term focus for a number of Internet.com sites including Codeguru. As such, it is interesting to hear […]

If this is the future of controllers, then all I can say is, “Wow”. The next thing you should be asking yourself as a developer is… If this is the controller interface for gaming, what can we do with the interface to a computer?

Tuesday June 2, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru A Personal Virtual Keyboard for (nearly) Every Keyboard Visual Modeling of Complex Reactive Systems Basic Concepts for Working with LINQ [Updated] std::sort Comparison Function Introduction to DirectWrite Hottest Discussions New Articles on Developer.com Getting Along […]

It looks like October 22nd is the day you’ll be able to buy Windows 7, but it was announced that it should release to manufacturing (RTM) in late July. Generally when a Microsoft RTMs, it is also released to their MSDN and other subscribers. The October 22nd date fits with the rumors we had heard […]

While last month was Microsoft and Tech Ed, this month is Sun and JavaOne. While last month Microsoft didn’t have much to say at TechEd, it seems that there is a little bit of developer news at JavaOne. Of course, some of the key pieces of news at JavaOne were the release of JavaFX 1.2 […]

Microsoft gives out more information on their upcoming search engine now called Bing. Dubbed as a “decision engine,” Microsoft categorizes results as well as has integrated additional information into results page for various types of searches. You’ll be able to shop, find hotels, look for travel options, and do much more in a way that […]

Microsoft is cranking out Silverlight and trying to get to the “magical” third version that seems to be a turning point in adoption for many of their products. Today I was invited to a launch event for Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 that is taking place on July 10th. Seems like a launch party […]