Bradley L. Jones

In the technical world, two things are always going to abound – acronyms and new technical terms. As such, you need to always be ready for the newest terms being thrown around. Recent new terms include the over used “cloud computing” that related to prior terms such as “SOA”, “SaaS”, and “S+S”. I came across an […]

An article on news.com.au reported that open-plan offices are bad for your health. Not only do they lead to high stress, but they also increase your risk of illness. Being that most developers that I know work in cubicals, this is interesting news. To quote from the article: “In 90 per cent of the research, […]

Tuesday January 13, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Learn how to implement a simple Standard Deviation function for LINQ (Language Integrated Query) BLOG: Microsoft releases source code under Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) BLOG: Economic Downturn Not Necessarily Bad for Developers Hottest Discussions New […]

Sample source code for SIlverlight 2 runtime and SDK controls is available for download from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=EB83ED4C-AC85-4DE9-8395-285628EE2254&displaylang=en The source code is released under the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL). The download contains the source for the following controls: ButtonBase Button HyperlinkButton CheckBox RadioButton CheckBox ToogleButton RepeatButton RangeBase Slider ScrollBar ProgressBar Calendar DataGrid DatePicker GridSplitter TabControl  Microsoft […]

http://blog.devx.com/2009/01/economic-downturn-and-developers.html Russell Jones at DevX.com comments on why he things the economic downturn isn’t bad for developers. He has some interesting comments that I believe have merit. I know that in the Indianapolis area, many IT layoffs have happened in the past week. Relative to other departments in an organization, the IT layoffs have been […]

http://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/networking/news/article.php/3794926 Windows 7 Beta: Open to All Friday Jan. 9 An official beta of Windows 7 is here for MSDN subscribers and will be available to everyone tomorrow. I’ve been running the pre-beta from PDC and it is more solid than the initial release of Vista was. The beta should only be better. With rumors of […]

Tuesday January 6, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Adding Standard Deviation to LINQ VIDEO: Create Custom Task Lists in SharePoint Designer BLOG: Z2K – The Importance of Quality Assurance and Testing Hottest Discussions New Articles on Developer.com Connecting to IBM FileNet 4.0 Outside […]

In past years, it seems there has been an increased reliance on the public testing of beta products. Companies such as Microsoft have put a much greater effort into public betas, Community Technology Previews (CTPs), and other interim releases of products well before the “final” release actually happens. Not only does this often cause confusion […]

Tuesday December 30, 2008 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Blog: And the Visual Basic Type Is… [Updated] Multi Column Combo Cell for a .NET 2.0 DataGridView Control Compile Time Data Structure Using Template Meta Programming Developing a Smart Application Architecture Hottest Discussions New Articles […]

Continuing on my last very simplistic blog post, I thought I’d show something seemingly even more basic. While the following is simple from our perspective, I imagine the coding done by Microsoft on the back-end to make this simple was much more challenging.   Consider a scaled down version of the Visual Basic 10 listing […]

Wireless communication at the speed of light between a computer’s processor and its memory. That is interesting! It has the potential to speed up computers by avoiding the time cost to send information through the copper wires used today. Additionally, it avoids road blocks related to lots of cores trying to access the memory through […]

Tuesday December 23, 2008 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru [Updated] Shutdown Manager BLOG: Visual Basic 10 Is One Step Closer to Being C# KBSoft IP Locator Building Microsoft Oslo Models Advanced C++/CLI: Type Forwarding, Pointers, and Variable Argument Lists Changing Mouse Settings With VB.NET […]