Event processing means more than 'speeding up' existing systems
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:43:45 -0800
The essentials of complex event processing can be boiled down to three 'Ps' and three 'Cs' -- and even an AEIOU mnemonic by Joe McKendrick
Billing system testing behind Microsoft's SQL Azure outage this week
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:51:24 -0800
Testers of Microsoft's SQL Azure service experienced a three-plus hour unplanned outage this week -- just a couple of weeks before Microsoft is set to remove the beta tag from its Azure cloud service. by Mary Jo Foley
Mozilla goes back to the beta with Firefox 3.6
Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:43:00 -0800
If you have ever thought to yourself, "gee, I'm not a programmer, and I can barely afford my daily bread, how can I help an open source project," here is your answer. Download this buggy code and report on what's wrong so it can be made right. by Dana Blankenhorn
Pre-Halloween scare-off: Bing middle school jingle vs. VS 2010 bug killer
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:59:22 -0700
Which is more frightening -- Microsoft convincing a bunch of middle school students to sing the Bing jingle or the antics of sleep-depraved developers trying to stomp the remaining bugs out of Visual Studio 2010? by Mary Jo Foley
Microsoft adds more choices for developers targeting its Azure cloud
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:05:15 -0700
Microsoft is getting its Azure ducks before it removes the beta tag from its cloud service in mid-November. On October 28, the company announced plans for more development tools aimed at programmers who want to use PHP, Java and the Eclipse IDE to create and modify Web applications for Azure....
Microsoft partners to allow Eclipse interop on Win7, WinServer 2008 R2, Azure
Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:50:46 -0700
Microsoft has made another play at interoperability with a key open source software offering. At Eclipse Summit Europe on Wednesday, the Redmond, Wash. software giant announced that it is working on four open source projects with two open source companies -- Tasktop Technologies and Soyatec -- to...
