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Yes, Update 3 is likely the last of the updates to the VS 2012 line. Of course, we'll still continue to fix any critical issues people find but we are winding it down and focusing on VS V.Next. I'd like to think many of the issues you refer to will get addressed there and, if not, I hope we'll get to them in the V.Next update train. Referring to the above - Update 3 is the update where we slow down the churn, address remaining high impact customer issues and any regressions introduced in Update 2. Insider thinking about bug fixes, updates and moving forward with Visual Studio.
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Following the cupholder principle, GPUs began to evolve to allow easier to access APIs from more common programming languages becoming General Purpose GPU or GPGPUs. Several systems researchers at Georgia Tech and elsewhere are now redesigning chip layouts to make the best most efficient uses of CPUs and GPGPUs. The theory community hasn't seem to catch on yet. There should be some nice theoretical model that captures the vector and other operations of a GPGPU and then we should search for algorithms that make the best use of the hardware. How are you using GPU processing in your code?
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As a fair warning to the reader, these primers are a bit more terse than what you’d find in your average textbook. I only introduce the bare minimum required to understand the main content posts, so there are carefully chosen gaps whose exclusion is necessary for time’s sake. If the reader is confused about something, or wants a deeper explanation of a concept we deliberately leave out, feel free to leave a comment asking about it and we will do our best to fill in the gaps. My initial reaction was big-O notation.
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In this episode Nick Harris and Nathan Totten are joined by Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of Windows Azure, who introduces us to the new Windows Azure SDK 2.0. Scott shows off a few of the many new features in SDK 2.0 including the new Table Explorer and Query Builder. He demonstrates several of the new diagnostics features for Cloud Services and Web Sites, and he deploys a Cloud Service using the new parallel upgrade. Red shirt alert: Windows Azure goes warp speed... and nobody dies.
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Unveiled in 2005, Arduino boards don't have the CPU horsepower of a Raspberry Pi. They don't run a full PC operating system either. Arduino isn't obsolete, though—in fact, its plethora of connectivity options makes it the better choice for many electronics projects.... Last December, we featured 10 of the most amazing Raspberry Pi projects, including arcade cabinets, robotics, and a wearable computer. This one goes to 11—as in, we'll show you 11 awesome things hackers and electronics enthusiasts have created with the Arduino. What have you built with Arduino?
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Discover the Ouya: "a new kind of game console." This Android-powered system is the first of its kind. It's specifically designed to be open to professional and amateur game designers alike, with free software development tools included with every console. Full disclosure: The folks at Ouya tout this to be "the first totally open video game console." They have so much confidence in the Ouya, in fact, that they sent us a retail unit to take apart. Game on, folks. Final score: this gadget has enough repairability to earn extra lives.
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Repair? It's $99 new. If it breaks just crush it under foot like a beer can and buy another.
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After discovering that at least one account had been compromised, we sent a company-wide email to change email passwords immediately. The attacker used their access to a different, undiscovered compromised account to send a duplicate email which included a link to the phishing page disguised as a password-reset link. This dupe email was not sent to any member of the tech or IT teams, so it went undetected. This third and final phishing attack compromised at least 2 more accounts. One of these accounts was used to continue owning our Twitter account. This is not a joke. Repeat: this is not a joke. If this were a joke you would be advised to...
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Microsoft, which already has a stake in Barnes & Noble’s Nook and college bookstore businesses, is offering to buy them outright for $1 billion, according to a report in TechCrunch, based on leaked internal documents. The documents also reportedly say that Barnes & Noble plans to discontinue its line of Nook tablets by the end of fiscal year 2014, while letting the e-readers stick around for awhile longer. A nook can’t read so a nook can’t cook, SO... a Surface with Nook might be a good hook.
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On May 9, we invite you to participate in Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The purpose of the day is to get people talking, thinking and learning about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) accessibility and users with different disabilities. The target audience of GAAD is the design, development, usability, and related communities who build, shape, fund and influence technology and its use. While people may be interested in the topic of making technology accessible and usable by persons with disabilities, the reality is that they often do not know how or where to start. Take an hour out of your day to experience digital accessibility first-hand.
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Welcome to our continuing series of Code Project interviews in which we talk to developers about their backgrounds, projects, interests and pet peeves. In this installment we talk to Dave Auld, a CodeProject star that continues to shine brighter. Learn more about our own Dave Auld, whose day job is a bit more adventurous than coding.
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A couple of days ago I wrote about Why I am the world’s greatest lover (and other worthless security claims) and it really seemed to resonate with people. In short, whacking a seal on your website that talks about security awesomeness in no way causes security awesomeness.... So let’s check out exactly what’s going on here and you really need video to understand the fatal flaw in the logic of SSL logos coming down over HTTPS. An SSL logo on an unprotected page is as good as worthless.
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I’ve struggled with the challenge of work/life balance because I’m interested in so many things. I’ve learned to go through life in seasons and focus on a few things at a time, but it hasn’t always been that way. I don’t have it all figured out, but I thought it was worth sharing my thoughts with the hope that it helps someone that is struggling with balance or someone interested in finding out more about what life is like at Microsoft. Sometimes the work is too much. Sometimes the work is too interesting to stop.
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Wish I had more reason for work life balance. Long romantic strolls to the refridgerator just don't make it.
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Jon Gallant wrote: The first thing you need to realize is that Microsoft is like a thousand little companies - each with its own modus operandi which affects how each team looks at work/life balance.
Pretty much that. There are not many things, good or bad, you can say about Microsoft as a whole.
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Today, ECMAScript 6 is in the process of being finalized. ECMAScript is the foundation of JavaScript and, hence, exploring the proposed features today also means that we get a sneak peak at how we will be writing JavaScript in the near future! In this article, we’ll explore ten new features, with a significant focus on tools, browsers and transpilers. Everything you wanted to know about JavaScript... and then some.
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Wow. It’s finally happened. The CSS Zen Garden is 10 years old today. The web has come a long way in the past decade. CSS3, HTML5, responsive web design, web fonts, a version of Internet Explorer that doesn’t make you want to commit seppuku every time you debug, and any other progress that we already take for granted. (You can get a sense of just how far we’ve come by reading the original cringe-worthy requirements.) The CSS Zen garden enlightened me. What about you?
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One of the really powerful features that TypeScript brings to the JavaScript world is some Static Typing, even if it is only at code/compile time. With TypeScript I can say that an object is of a certain type which implies there are only a limited set of properties/methods available to me. This is great, but it does limit the core power of JavaScript and dynamic languages in general.... Long story shot is that even though TypeScript tries to impose Static typing, which is AWESOME in most cases, you can still force it back to dynamic if you want. You say static. I say dynamic. Let's call the whole thing off and write it in C.
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At the 2013 Game Developers’ Conference, Alon and I from Mozilla and Josh Adams from Epic Games presented a talk called “Fast and Awesome HTML5 Games”. We surprised people by showing off Unreal Engine 3 running in Firefox — compiled from C++ source with Emscripten, running smoothly and efficiently. Today, Epic is making the Epic Citadel demo available, so that you can try it out for yourself. That's right: The Unreal engine, compiled to JavaScript, running in your browser.
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Has anyone managed to get it working?
I tried with Firefox 23 nightly like they recommended, but it just hangs with the message "preparing javascript" forever.
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Epic Games Wait
after 15 minutes Firefox 20.0 threw a wobbly.
It looks like the PC hardware used by games developers is a tad more powerful than an average home pc. Seems they need to reign in those expectations a bit.
"How about a nice game of chess?.."
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Worked for me on FF version 20.0.1. Did require an approval for storing data larger than 50MB but otherwise no problems, loaded in about 2 minutes (game controls are horrible though...)
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I certainly gave it more than 2 minutes... maybe it doesn't work with AMD cards
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Fine for me on Chrome + AMD
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Same for me; works fine in Firefox, but not anything else.
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