While there's lots of talk about big data these days (a lot of talk), there currently is no good, authoritative definition of big data, according to Microsoft Regional Director Andrew Brust.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/10/2012
VIM is a text editor with a Visual Studio extension. Its time-saving power is well worth the learning curve.
Scott Hanselman, senior program manager in Microsoft's Developer Division, said that the decision wasn't really about open source: "This is about open development."
- By John K. Waters
- 03/28/2012
Chewie is a domain-specific language that uses PowerShell to tame NuGet installations.
DynamoDB, based on NoSQL, uses solid-state drives to increase speed.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/19/2012
As the market becomes more diffuse, its practitioners and participants must cope and adapt.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 01/01/2012
NSpec is a no-nonsense BDD framework for the .NET Framework, influenced by RSpec and leveraging NUnit assertions.
Chocolatey is a powerful installation program for open-source software.
Build scripts are finally being treated as first-class development citizens, thanks to tools like psake, FAKE, and Rake + Albacore. Ian Davis explores the Ruby-based, open source Albacore DSL.
Late last year Microsoft took IronRuby, IronPython and the Dynamic Language Runtime projects open source. Here's a look at the open source dynamic language resources for Visual Studio.
On occasion I've been surprised that Microsoft has put significant effort into developing features and functionality already available within the developer ecosystem.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 03/01/2011
A survey of 1600 software development professionals shows widespread uptake of open source solutions marred by lack of effective policies and integration.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/17/2011
Microsoft wants Congress to reform the U.S. patent laws by focusing on five issues that intellectual property stakeholders most want, according to the company's legal counsel.
In a manner similar to its growth in the smartphone arena, Google's mobile OS, Android, is gaining ground quickly on Apple's iOS, which powers the iPhone and iPad devices.
A headline-grabbing claim of the discovery of new evidence supporting Oracle's allegation that Google infringed on copyrights related to the Java Platform in its Android mobile operating system sparked a hot debate in the blogosphere over the weekend.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/24/2011