-
Forgive me for borrowing from an old Clintonian campaign slogan, but it seemed appropriate... Over the past few weeks, more and more information has come out about the direction of Windows 7. Desperate to be cool once again, Windows is adding an OS X...
-
To those that know me well, this post is of no surprise, however given that I haven't been posting for a while, and probably won't for a while more, I thought it was appropriate to post a quick, personal update. As of a week ago, I left my colleagues...
-
Early in the web development world, scripting languages such as ASP or PHP were used to compose pages. Although this proved great for relatively static pages, the dynamic web, filled with rich applications called for a more powerful framework. Thus, frameworks...
-
After hosting Gatsb.com for a year, I have decided to open source the project. I haven't had time to promote it the way I wanted to promote it, and it therefore hasn't caught on with too many users. I've been busy with other projects, other...
-
Heres a useful snippit of code I wrote as a utility and thought I'd post up for everyone. Very often when using a command line, you need to repeat a set of commands. For example, copy several files: copy "c:\blah.txt" "c:\otherPlace...
-
If you want to run your PowerShell scripts from a piece of code you're writing, and would prefer not to use Process.Start , you can easily use the PowerShell runtime classes to run those scripts for you, completely in-process. The code snippit below...
-
If you've been using System.DirectoryServices . DirectoryEntry class, or the newer System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement namespace to access your LDAP or Active Directory server, you may have experienced the following error: COMException: "Unknown...
-
The Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard , and its .NET implementation, MPI.NET have been some of the cornerstones of development on compute clusters. The standard supplies a simple yet primitive way of both sending and receiving data between running...
-
I recently got to playing with Ruby, something that some colleagues in Lab49 have been big fans for some time. I've never been a big fan of scripting languages, but have grown more of an appreciation for functional programming over the past several...
-
Here's a cool demo that Ronald Lintag and I threw together for Lab49. The application is supposed to demo a basic GUI that shows the status of nodes and jobs on a compute cluster. We're showing off the use of WPF 3D and styles to create a cool...
-
Daniel Vaughan has a very cool project up on CodeProject.com. He's built an awesome grid computing "platform" using Silverlight for his compute nodes. Think SETI@Home style. CodeProject article: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight...
-
After not writing anything about HPC or Windows Compute Cluster for a while, I figured its about time I write *something* about it because I've been working with it so much recently! Download the Sample Project (Visual Studio 2008, Beta 2) Windows...
-
Sample code available here that exemplifies this bug (requires Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and SQL Server). So here is an incredibly unintuitive problem I ran into with anonymous delegates (same will happen for lambda expressions ) in C# while using them...
-
Trying to decide how to write some unit test helper classes, I ran into an interesting question. What happens when you use the new keyword along with .NET generics? The example below shows my dilemma: 1: [TestMethod] 2: public void DoBase() 3: { 4: DoT<Base>...
-
I've recently started a project (top secret!) using the new Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), Flex and ActionScript 3.0. Coming from a .NET and WPF world. this has been a step in a very different direction. There are a lot of things I don't really...