IIS7 introduces a great number of features which are greatly appreciated.  (Yes I know Apache already had them - but I'm not going there).  My favorite thing about IIS7 is the module based architecture.  Its extensibility is allowing the IIS team and the community to drum up some real... [More]

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Posted on June 13, 2008 01:44 by Ryan Turner
Really wanted to shed some light on a tool we recently discovered.  Its free, its well written and so far I have yet to break it.  ( a skill I normally possess) LINQPad Here is why you should stop reading this and download it already. Its Free Query DB's using LINQ without SQL Ma... [More]

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Web Deployment Tool It slices, it dices, it synchs and snapshots - the IIS team has released a tool which eases the pain of site migration. Benefits: Simplify web farm deployments Migrate sites or entire servers Snapshot sites or entire servers for backups or versioning Determine t... [More]

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Microsoft and Intel Launch Parallel Computing Research Centers to Accelerate Benefits to Consumers, Businesses  To give you the skinny.  Microsoft and Intel are partnering to develop edu programs and further research in an effort to make parallel computing easier and bring it to th... [More]

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Ok.  So while the other guys are ripping out long entries on how the latest technologies can impact your enterprise, I come up with something rather inconsequential to your company's success.   However - I still had a person pep rally in my cube when I discovered this scientific breakthr... [More]

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Yesterday Luis Villegas and Sean Shypula gave an exciting talk at the Game Developer Conference (in Sanfran) I'll tell ya what...  I'm personally stoked to hear anything about Bungie development in general.  First and foremost I'm a huge Bungie fan from a company and game perspective.... [More]

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Scott Gu (love his blog btw) announced the official release of the .NET Framework source library. Though this is only about a month old - I had thought this would have picked up more buzz.  The consensus may be that either only uber geeks or hackers really want / care about the source.&n... [More]

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I have another tool of the trade for you. Technorati Tags: remote desktop,windows management Unfortunately I cannot take credit for finding it - as Robert showed me about it.  Fortunately he hasn't blogged about it yet - so I'll hopefully steal his thunder :P Any time you need to remote desk... [More]

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I just wanted to spread some link juice back to Eric Nelson - who took the time to put together a great blog post on Windows High Performance Computing.  If you haven't stumbled upon his blog or aren't savvy on HPC.  Check it out. Topics generally include: .NET 3.0 / Vista, AIC, Visual Stu... [More]

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Posted on February 7, 2008 21:53 by Ryan Turner
Came across a freebie tool that is really proving invaluable to me and I wanted to share the love.  Whether you write Windows services or just have a vague idea of what they are you need to read further. Its called Service Studio and manages Windows Services (Services MMC replacement) from an ... [More]

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