Development by Davis: “Call for speakers: NYC Open Tech Conference” plus 6 more |
- Call for speakers: NYC Open Tech Conference
- My new book "Visual Basic 2012 Unleashed" is available
- Open source initiatives can strengthen cities’ downtown revitalization
- Git now fully supported and integrated into Team Foundation Service
- Git now fully supported and integrated into Team Foundation Service
- Git now fully supported and integrated into Team Foundation Service
- AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000 Server Achieves Certification for Rackspace Private Cloud, Validated for OpenStack
| Call for speakers: NYC Open Tech Conference Posted: 31 Jan 2013 01:00 AM PST  Join us as we celebrate innovation in technology at New York City's open source conference: NYC Open Tech Conference. It will bring together members of the community across a variety of disciplines to learn and exchange ideas, where we hope to explore the connection between open source and the growth of the tech scene in NYC. |
| My new book "Visual Basic 2012 Unleashed" is available Posted: 28 Jan 2013 12:43 PM PST I'm pleased and proud to announce that my new book "Visual Basic 2012 Unleashed" is available, both paperback and digital edition! This time I had the honor of featuring Lucian Wischik, the VB Specification Lead at Microsoft, as the author of a great foreword. As usual, it has really been a hard work, but fortunately working with a great team (including Matthew Kleinwaks as the tech editor) makes things easier. The book has been fully updated to target the .NET Framework 4.5 and the new features in the Visual Basic programming Language, such as the Async/Await pattern, new tools in the IDE, Windows Phone development, new keywords and implementations such as the Global namespaces, iterators and the Yield keyword. Also, the book is not limited to the Language, but it also shows how to use Visual Basic with the most recent Technologies and platforms from Microsoft, including Windows Azure, Silverlight 5, WPF 4.5. A good part of the book guides you through special tools that will help you write high-quality code. As in the past, I always try to add tips & tricks coming from my real-world experience with Visual Basic and the .NET Framework. You can download the table of contents and a sample chapter from the book site, including the source code which is available as a free download. I hope you will have a look and that you will find it useful. Enjoy! Alessandro This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Open source initiatives can strengthen cities’ downtown revitalization Posted: 30 Jan 2013 11:00 PM PST  The open government movement in the United States is well underway, though still brand new in terms relative to the pace of the workings of government. Change tends to be delivered slowly, as evident during President Obama's re-election campaign this year when many of us had to remind ourselves that though some change has trickled down over the past four years, much of it has yet to come to pass due to the inherent processes of government bodies. And yet, it still astonishes me how quickly 'open' ideas are being accepted, built, and implemented into city governments from east to west coast. |
| Git now fully supported and integrated into Team Foundation Service Posted: 30 Jan 2013 03:23 AM PST Here is great news for open source developers: Brian Harry announced today at the Microsoft's ALM Summit that Git is now fully integrated into Visual Studio as well as the Team Foundation Service, Microsoft's cloud-powered Application Lifecycle Management tool. Here at Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., we are excited to hear such news as this offers more choice and flexibility to development teams. We happen to work on a daily basis with developers on Git in the context of projects such as Node, Dash, Redis or Solr so we totally get the goodness of this news. The Visual Studio Tools for Git work great against Git repositories locally, in Team Foundation Service, on GitHub, CodePlex, BitBucket etc. That's all because they are using Git as the distributed source control solution and they talk to Git repositories via the open source library LibGit2. LibGit2 is a portable C library that runs on many different platforms including Linux and Mac. Microsoft engineers in Brian's team have been contributing to LibGit2 for a number of months now as they worked with the community to add Git support in Visual Studio – some of them earning committer rights on this popular and very active open source project. Even better as the team started testing the integration, all the bug fixes and security fixes that they found also have been contributed back to the project. Therefore not only is Brian's announcement good news for developers in Visual Studio wanting to use Git to contribute to open source projects, it's also great news for others building on top of the LibGit2 library on any platform. The Visual Studio Tools for Git are provided as an extension for Visual Studio 2012 but Brian also says that they should be included in the box with all editions of Visual Studio in a future release – including the Express editions. I can tell you MS Open Tech engineers can't wait to take full advantage of the Visual Studio Tools for Git in their daily interaction and collaboration with the open source developers' community. |
| Git now fully supported and integrated into Team Foundation Service Posted: 30 Jan 2013 03:23 AM PST Here is great news for open source developers: Brian Harry announced today at the Microsoft's ALM Summit that Git is now fully integrated into Visual Studio as well as the Team Foundation Service, Microsoft's cloud-powered Application Lifecycle Management tool. Here at Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., we are excited to hear such news as this offers more choice and flexibility to development teams. We happen to work on a daily basis with developers on Git in the context of projects such as Node, Dash, Redis or Solr so we totally get the goodness of this news. The Visual Studio Tools for Git work great against Git repositories locally, in Team Foundation Service, on GitHub, CodePlex, BitBucket etc. That's all because they are using Git as the distributed source control solution and they talk to Git repositories via the open source library LibGit2. LibGit2 is a portable C library that runs on many different platforms including Linux and Mac. Microsoft engineers in Brian's team have been contributing to LibGit2 for a number of months now as they worked with the community to add Git support in Visual Studio – some of them earning committer rights on this popular and very active open source project. Even better as the team started testing the integration, all the bug fixes and security fixes that they found also have been contributed back to the project. Therefore not only is Brian's announcement good news for developers in Visual Studio wanting to use Git to contribute to open source projects, it's also great news for others building on top of the LibGit2 library on any platform. The Visual Studio Tools for Git are provided as an extension for Visual Studio 2012 but Brian also says that they should be included in the box with all editions of Visual Studio in a future release – including the Express editions. I can tell you MS Open Tech engineers can't wait to take full advantage of the Visual Studio Tools for Git in their daily interaction and collaboration with the open source developers' community. |
| Git now fully supported and integrated into Team Foundation Service Posted: 30 Jan 2013 03:23 AM PST Here is great news for open source developers: Brian Harry announced today at the Microsoft's ALM Summit that Git is now fully integrated into Visual Studio as well as the Team Foundation Service, Microsoft's cloud-powered Application Lifecycle Management tool. Here at Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., we are excited to hear such news as this offers more choice and flexibility to development teams. We happen to work on a daily basis with developers on Git in the context of projects such as Node, Dash, Redis or Solr so we totally get the goodness of this news. The Visual Studio Tools for Git work great against Git repositories locally, in Team Foundation Service, on GitHub, CodePlex, BitBucket etc. That's all because they are using Git as the distributed source control solution and they talk to Git repositories via the open source library LibGit2. LibGit2 is a portable C library that runs on many different platforms including Linux and Mac. Microsoft engineers in Brian's team have been contributing to LibGit2 for a number of months now as they worked with the community to add Git support in Visual Studio – some of them earning committer rights on this popular and very active open source project. Even better as the team started testing the integration, all the bug fixes and security fixes that they found also have been contributed back to the project. Therefore not only is Brian's announcement good news for developers in Visual Studio wanting to use Git to contribute to open source projects, it's also great news for others building on top of the LibGit2 library on any platform. The Visual Studio Tools for Git are provided as an extension for Visual Studio 2012 but Brian also says that they should be included in the box with all editions of Visual Studio in a future release – including the Express editions. I can tell you MS Open Tech engineers can't wait to take full advantage of the Visual Studio Tools for Git in their daily interaction and collaboration with the open source developers' community. |
| Posted: 30 Jan 2013 12:00 AM PST AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that its SeaMicro SM15000™ server is certified for the Rackspace® Private Cloud. "Nova in a Box" and "Swift in a Rack" are respectively the most efficient compute and highest storage capacity solutions validated for OpenStack®. The |
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