Paul Mooney

SearchTogether

paul — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:38:00 GMT

SearchTogether

SearchTogether is an IE7 plug-in that allows groups of people to collaborate on Web searches.

SearchTogether can benefit a group of people interested in investigating a topic together, such as students working on a report, colleagues working on a project, or just friends planning social activities. SearchTogether supports both synchronous and asynchronous collaboration styles.

I've been blogging about software development on the Microsoft stack for about five years and Google is my Uncle while Windows Live Search has yet to discovered me.

YouTube Live Stream

paul — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:29:00 GMT

YouTube Live

I watched in HD, just me and half the people on the planet. This EVENT is a moment in Web history.

Akamai handled the live video stream around the world and they did a great job, the quality on my system was fantastic.

Windows Azure Cloud Computing User Group

paul — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:41:00 GMT

Windows Azure Cloud Computing User Group New York City Chapter

Windows Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform. At this meeting, you'll hear about Microsoft's vision of Software + Services and what it can mean for you. As part of this presentation, you'll see a demo of how a cloud application is developed and deployed.

Cloud computing has huge implications for both developers and business people. This is your chance to get in on the ground floor and be part of the community that helps pioneer this exciting new area.

Data Access Smackdown

paul — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:10:00 GMT

Tonights meeting of NYCDOTNETDEV

Microsoft introduced several new data access technologies in .NET 3.5 SP1. Which one should you use? Entity Framework? Dynamic Data? ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria)? Linq? POADN? (Plain old ADO .NET) What about ORMs? Has Microsoft lost its mind? Join Stephen in a discussion on Data Access Methodologies for the 21st Century, including a discussion of ATOM over REST. Note: This will require some audience participation.

Singularity RDK 2.0 Initial Release

paul — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:25:00 GMT

Singularity OS

Microsoft Research has been building an operating system prototype extending programming languages while developing new techniques with tools for specifying and verifying program behavior.
Singularity RDK 2.0 Initial Release

Jaguar Supercomputer

paul — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:16:00 GMT

Cray XT5 Jaguar Supercomputer

The new petaflops machine will make it possible to address some of the most challenging scientific problems in areas such as climate modeling, renewable energy, materials science, fusion and combustion.

With more than three times the memory and bandwidth the Jaguar is powered by the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor as the first supercomputer to uses the X86 instruction set with all it's applications, compilers, and tools. Jaguar has hundreds of applications that have been ported and run on the Cray XT system, many of which have been scaled up to run on 25,000 to 150,000 AMD Opteron cores.

Nehalem Arrives

paul — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:43:00 GMT

Intel Core i7

Intel is launching a new desktop microprocessor today containing 731 million transistors spread among four cores. The Core i7 is the most powerful chip Intel has ever produced and it's also the most power efficient, when running a program with two threads only two cores will perform the task as integrated power switches turn cores on or off. Zero power for inactive cores corresponds to billions of dollars in energy savings after all the Pentium 4 chips are replaced around the world.

Windows 2008 URL Rewrite Module

paul — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:07:00 GMT

Announcing Windows 2008 URL Rewrite Module

The URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7 can be useful for your Project Server and SharePoint Server deployment:
URL Rewriter for IIS 7.0 enables Web administrators to create powerful rules to implement URLs that are easier for users to remember and easier for search engines to find. By using rule templates, rewrite maps and other functionality integrated into IIS Manager, administrators can easily set up rules to define URL rewriting behavior based on HTTP headers and server variables, or to perform redirects, send custom responses, or stop HTTP requests based on the logic expressed in the rewrite rules.

URL Rewriter RTW and More IIS Extension Updates

AMD Opteron

paul — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:58:00 GMT

Quad-Core AMD Opteron

Today AMD is announcing it's first 45 nanometer Quad-Core Opteron Server processor, it will require a third less power then the previous generation Opteron and with a larger cache enabling advanced virtualzation capabilities.

The Quad-Core Opteron is optimized for high speed DDR2 memory creating more efficiency with less power in the Data Center for a welcomed decrease in the overall cost of cooling.

Partners HP, IBM, SUN and Cray are shipping servers today with the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron. AMD is the processor provider for Windows Azure cloud services.

Presentation Technology Matrix

paul — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:38:00 GMT

Cheat Sheet: Presentation Technology Matrix

Our friends at Patterns and Practices have put together chart to help us understand our technology choices for the presentation layer. Your choice of presentation technology will be related to both the application type you are developing and the type of user experience you plan to deliver. Use the Presentation Layer Technology Summary to review each technology and its description. Use the Benefits and Considerations Matrix to make an informed choice of presentation technology based on the advantages and considerations of each one. Use the Common Scenarios and Solutions to map your application scenario to common presentation technology solutions.

MSDN Architecture Center

paul — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:13:00 GMT

The MSDN Architecture Center has information and examples about the latest techniques and trends, demonstrating how technology aligns to your current business needs. Learn what others are doing and how challenges are being addressed, but also share your ideas and participate in the forums.

Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0 for .NET

paul — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:08:00 GMT

How to Use the Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0 for .NET

The Facebook Developer Toolkit on CodePlex has been a popular project to help make it easier to do Facebook development using .NET. Bill Konrad has put together an awesome article on how you can get started.

neuronspark inspiring innovation

Podcasting Kit for SharePoint

paul — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:14:00 GMT

How the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint Helps Tackle Corporate Communications and Training

If you are using SharePoint, the Podcasting Kit provides another set of capabilities that will help you bring real value to your organization.
There is a webcast on Thursday, November 13, about the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint.
For live viewing details, see Mike Gannotti’s post about the webcast.

SharePoint Guidance

paul — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:58:00 GMT

This guidance helps architects and developers build SharePoint intranet applications. The guidance contains a reference implementation (RI) that demonstrates solutions to common architectural, development, and lifecycle management challenges

Download: SharePoint Guidance – November 2008

Sitecore Xpress

paul — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:01:00 GMT

Sitecore's Content Management System let's you create and maintain up-to-date dynamic ASP.Net Web sites that can scale. You can sign-up and join the Sitecore Developer Network and get all the bits you need to build a personal site. I've just joined and can see there's an extensible developer community already.

Download a free copy of Sitecore Xpress The open structure of Sitecore Xpress and the .NET programming languages create amazing possibilities.