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The desktop is dead (really, for real this time) by mrdecav

Time and time again noise builds around the (re)introduction of thin client computing, the death of the desktop OS and the emergence of a single, large networked computer that we all work on. A super mainframe that is omnipresent across all devices and...
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Tracking moved files: An interesting tidbit on file references in OS X by mrdecav

Today I had to help someone with a problem with iTunes on Windows. For those of you that have not had the pleasure of using iTunes on Windows, it sucks, like most software written by Apple for Windows. That being said, this problem really had nothing...
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The Browser Love Affair, RIA and JavaScript as the 'new byte code' by mrdecav

Jump to a section of this article: Why do consumers love the browser? Who is winning the war in RIA (Flex, Silverlight, HTML+JavaScript)? JavaScript as Byte Code - C#, Java, etc to JavaScript Compilers and Cross-Compilers Why do consumers love the browser...
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Introducing PowerShell Pages - Script Style HTML Rendering by mrdecav

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...
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Gatsb.com Now Open Source (A Case Study in Geotagging, Workflow Foundation, SMS/MMS Parsing) by mrdecav

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...
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PowerShell: Repeat Yourself with the Command "Scratch Pad" by mrdecav

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...
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Invoking PowerShell Scripts from An Application by mrdecav

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...
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Solution: "Unknown error", LDAP connection strings and System.DirectoryServices by mrdecav

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...
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Cluster Primitives: MPI, MPI.NET, Large Data, and Passing Classes by mrdecav

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...
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Ruby, From The Eyes of a C# .NET Developer by mrdecav

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...
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WPF Compute Cluster Monitor Demo - Using 3D, Transparency and Styles by mrdecav

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...
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Distributed/Grid Computing with Silverlight by mrdecav

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...
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Windows Compute Cluster (HPC) Basics: Running Map/Reduce Models on CCS 2003 by mrdecav

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...
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WTF: "Problems" with Anonymous Delegates, LINQ, Lambdas within "foreach" or "for" Loops by mrdecav

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...
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Tricky Generics: "New" Keyword and Generics by mrdecav

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>...
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