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We hardly put up some updated bits and samples for ASP.NET Active Data… I advance you to plump foot them up and allow us experience what you intend…

Some coolheaded newfangled stuff in this release:

1. Ocular Studio Integration is much uncontaminating
2. Right away sustains "pretty" URLs
   http://products/details/1 rather of http://products/details.aspx?id=123
3. Full documentation
4. Extra support for 3rd party control vendors and O/R Mappers (more details making out before long)

Scott Hunter of late did a HanselMinutes podcast that you should discipline out..

ScottGu did a post of late that arrives at the high-pitched points of Active Data… 

Hold them a try, we’five hundred love to have your feedback!

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/dynamicdata

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Coherent Algorithms , Harald Ganzinger and David McAllester. ICALP 2002.

It is wide taken that many algorithms can be briefly and clear verbalised as ordered inference rules. Nevertheless, logic programming has been out or keeping for the study of the campaigning time of algorithms because there has not been a clear-cut and accurate model of the run time of a logic program. We lay out a logic programming model of computation appropriate for the study of the run time of a wide of the mark variety of algorithms.

Thusly, there are two independent styles in logic programming. The first is Prolog-style goal-placed, or rearwards, search. The idea is that you have a set of rules, and a goal, and you nondeterministically take rules that might have demonstrated that goal, straining to regain a sequence of deductions that could have shown this goal. It’s sent for backward look since you are straining to reason out backward from the goal towards a good proof.

The other style is, course, sent for frontward search (bewilderingly, this is as well sent for the reverse method in theorem testing). The idea is that you have a goal, and some rules, and a geting going set of facts. You and then hold the rules to the facts you have, lucubrating your database of facts and enabling more deductions. You maintain coming this until either you observe the goal you were stressing to prove in the database of facts, or the database impregnates (ie, no more deductions are demonstrable) and the goal is unprovable. The idea is that your database is an inexplicit data structure, which you update as part of the search. This makes believe frontward look for a particularly lifelike method when you’re proving to cipher closures — graph algorithms, dataflow analyses, that kind of thing.

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Aaron Wall has an fantabulous explanation of why a click costs so much more on Google on medium than a click for the accurate same term on Yahoo. As he explicates, it rattling comes up down to the quality of the syndication partners Yahoo has partnered up with to display ads:

How Click Arbitrage & Foul Ad Syndication Killed Yahoo! Search Commercializing

Frame another way, a Yahoo! click for mortgage is deserving the same $15 that it costs on Google, but it gos for less than $5 because Yahoo! squeezes advertisers to eat on junk traffic as well. If Yahoo! almost wiped out off their syndication partnerships (at least all but the cleanest ones) their forgetful term revenue might diminish, but their click values & click prices would precipitously increase.

A usual misperception is that a click for a thrown term should be nearly adequate across all search sites. If someone is looking for a mortgage, is shouldn’t work much difference whether they bechance to start out their mortgage searches by typewriting the term into Google or Yahoo’s search box. And this is straight for the most part, alfresco of some demographic differences between search sites.

What’s killing Yahoo’s cost per click is their syndication partners. An ad placed into Yahoo’s search commercializing program looks not merely on Yahoo (where you’d ask it to) but as well on over 1000 extra sites through syndication relationships Yahoo has built over time. Yahoo cleaves the value of each click with the syndication partners. Unluckily, traffic from syndication partners – on average – performs big than traffic on Yahoo itself. How much risky? Enough to draw the value of a click on Yahoo 1/3 of what it might be on Google for the same term.

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Be measured – these aren’t the same thing.

• LoadFrom() works through Fusion and can be redirected to another assembly at a dissimilar path but with that same identity if one is already loaded in the LoadFrom context.
• LoadFile() doesn’t bind through Fusion at all – the loader simply operates in front and loads just* what the caller called for. It doesn’t use either the Load or the LoadFrom context.

And so, LoadFrom() unremarkably yields you what you asked for, but not needs. LoadFile() is for those who rattling, very desire precisely what is quested. (*All the same, starting in v2, policy will be applied to both LoadFrom() and LoadFile(), so LoadFile() won’t necessarily be exactly what was requested. Also, starting in v2, if an assembly with its identity is in the GAC, the GAC copy will be used instead. Utilize ReflectionOnlyLoadFrom() to charge just what you desire - but, note that assemblies charged that way can’t be put to death.)

LoadFile() has a catch. Since it doesn’t use a obligating context, its dependencies aren’t mechanically found in its directory. If they aren’t uncommitted in the Load context, you would have to take the AssemblyResolve event in order to bind to them.

Indeed, which one should you employ? That bets on which holding context is justly for you and whether it counts that the LoadFrom context may airt the bind. Regarding the latter: Read the rest of this entry »

For Java developers expending the Spring framework, the project late denoted an of import milestone in the form of Web Flow 2.0 which builds upon the MVC module used in Spring apps.

One of
the suggestions for a blog entry was the carryed off memory model.  This is seasonable, because we’ve barely been
retooling our overall approach to this confounding topic.  For the most part, I write on product
decisions that have already been produced and embarked.  In this note, I’m discoursing succeeding
directions.  Be
doubting.

 

Indeed what
is a memory model?  It’s the
abstraction that reachs the reality of today’s alien hardware comprehendible to
software developers.

 

The
reality of hardware is that CPUs are renaming registers, doing bad
and out-of-order execution, and geting up the world during retirement.  Memory state is cached at assorted levels
in the system (L0 thru L3 on mod X86 boxes, presumptively with more levels on
the way).  Some levels of cache are
shared between especial CPUs but not others.  For example, L0 is typically per-CPU but
a hyper-wandered CPU may partake in L0
between the coherent CPUs of a single forcible CPU.  Or an 8-way box may parted the system into two
hemispheres with cache controllers doing an elaborated coherency protocol
between these freestanding hemispheres. 
If you count hoarding effects, at some level all MP (multi-processor)
computers are NUMA (non-unvarying memory access).  But there’s enough magic proceeding that
yet a Unisys 32-way can mostly be counted as UMA by
developers.

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I don’t know if Leanord Shapiro is a blogger or whether his work appears in the Washington Post on a regular basis.
What I do know is that this post about Mixed Martial Arts and CBS is absolutely ridiculous and worthless.

Nor do I have any idea what “ Special to washingtonpost.com” means. Does it mean that this is exclusive to the newspaper’s website ? My guess is that in this case it actually describes Mr Shapiro’s reduced faculties and no one wants to use a pejorative adjective. Hence the use of the word “special”.

What I do know is that Mr Shapiro is hopelessly out of touch, and unquestionably uneducated about Mixed Martial Arts and the athletes that participate when he says “You put two guys (usually heavily tattooed) in a ring enclosed by a cage, surrounded by a howling mob, and just watch the blood flow as they pummel themselves into submission, or occasionally break a bone or three. That’s entertainment?”

The he shows his sexist side with ” Oh yes, women will also fight it out on CBS, yet another revolting development.”

Then to show how little mis-informed he is ” Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is getting involved, promoting MMA matches and also airing them on his HDNet channel on DirecTV. For that alone David Stern ought to fine and suspend him. He probably yells at those refs, too “.

Hey Leanord, HDNet is on every smart cable and satellite provider reaching more than 66mm homes. But if you get us on DirecTV, thats great. Maybe yo Read the rest of this entry »

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I speaking tomorrow at a internal Microsoft event. I’ve spoken at tons of conferences (PDC, TechEd, etc.) and for groups ranging form 1 to 2000. Today I did the rehearsal for one of the demos i’m going and it didn’t really work… I had tomorrow blocked off to run through all the presentations to make sure i’m ready, but sometimes its good to get a little slap in the face to remind me to prepare adequatly… it’s easy to get a little cavalier about these things…

Scott made a good posting about presentations also…

http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/111

My original posts on Finalization and Hosting had some hokey XXXXX markers in place of content, where that content hadn’t already been disclosed in some form.  Now that the Visual Studio 2005 Community Preview is available, I’ve gone back to those two posts and replaced the XXXXX markers with real text.

Also, it’s obviously been a while since my last post.  I started writing something this weekend, but the weather here has been spectacular and I was compelled to go outside and play.  I’ll try to have something in the next couple of weeks.

 

http://blogs.msdn.com/cbrumme/archive/2004/04/26/120609.aspx

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Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, Brian Harry follows up on his recent announcement about Microsoft’s acquisition of of devBiz , developers of TeamPlain Web Access for VSTS. Brian heads up our Visual Studio Team Foundation development team, based in Raleigh, NC. Note that TeamPlain is unrelated to Teamprise , which to quote Jim Newkirk , recently ”announced a complimentary license of the Teamprise client suite for anyone wanting to connect to an open source project on CodePlex.”

If you are an existing devBiz customer, I encourage you to think about and weigh in on the following comment, on Brian’s weblog.

“Another set of feedback we’ve gotten revolves around the devBiz components products – devMail, devDns and others.  We have removed these products from the market and are unsure what our future plans for them are.  I’ve seen requests that we open source them among other things.  We are considering many options ranging from including them in other products to making the source available in some form – either to existing customers, publicly or otherwise.  We want to make sure that customers feel that they have a good path forward.  We hope to reach a conclusion on a plan in the next few weeks on this issue as well.”

If the VSTS team decides to release some of the products Brian mentions as open source projects, I hope and wouldn’t be

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surprised to see them posted on CodePlex , which runs on Visual Studio Team System.

http://blogs.msdn.com/korbyp/archive/2007/04/02/web-access-for-visual-studio-team-system.aspx