Monday, September 29, 2008

Google - 10 Years Old

Google is celebrating its 10th Birthday this September. We can find the History of Google here. It has the information starting from 'When Larry met Sergey' (Google's Founders) in 1995 to 'New Picasa release' in September 2008. The one that attracted me is the Academic Paper presentation prepared by Sergey and Lawrence which explains the whole Anatomy of Backrub (now called Google).

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Software Freedom Day 2008

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is the worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to educate the public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, government, home, business etc.

September 20, 2008 is the SFD for year 2008.

This event is coordinated by Software Freedom International through volunteer teams all over the world.

Software Freedom International: A non-profit company based in US whose main function is to coordinate SFD all over the world.

Source: http://softwarefreedomday.org/Home

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

BSCoE.NET Framework

Recently, I was going through a .NET Opening, in which one of the Required skillset was 'Knowledge of BSCoE .NET Framework'. I was eager to find what BSCoE .NET is. Here is what I found.

BSCoE - Business Solutions Center of Excellence

BSCoE is an instituition established in 2004 by the Office of Information Technology under Pennsylvania Governor's Office of Administration to create a set of reusable assets consisting of standards, processes, and application components. To be simple, it is to standardize the industry best practices.

BSCoE's facilities are:
  • BSCoE Software Engineering Process
  • Pennsylvania Enterprise Asset Repository
  • .NET Technologies
  • Java Technologies

BSCoE.NET Framework:
It is the framework developed to ease the .NET development by BSCoE team

But now this BSCoE .NET Framework is not supported by BSCoE team and they are advising to migrate to Microsoft Enterprise Library.

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Source: http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=3559&&level=1&css=L1&mode=2&in_hi_userid=2&cached=true

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Yammer

Yammer! Yeah - Yammer! This is the top-prize winner of TechCrunch50 Expo.



The Video

Monday, September 1, 2008

F# .NET

When I was reading the Codeproject newsletter, I came across an article named 'F#.NET'. I was wondering what was it. I followed the links

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/fsharp/default.aspx
http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp/fsharp.aspx

F# is a functional programming language for the .NET Framework. It combines the succinct, expressive, and compositional style of functional programming with the runtime, libraries, interoperability, and object model of .NET.


A new and interesting thing to know, at least for me...

Other links:
http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/08/29/the-f-september-2008-ctp-is-now-available.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_Sharp_programming_language

http://cs.hubfs.net/

http://blogs.msdn.com/chrsmith/archive/2008/05/02/f-in-20-minutes-part-i.aspx

http://www.ffconsultancy.com/dotnet/fsharp/

http://www.codeplex.com/fsharpsamples

http://www.strangelights.com/fsharp/wiki/