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I heard someone saying they were having trouble setting up Smooth Streaming for IIS, so I wanted to try it myself. If you just want to see Smooth Streaming work, visit http://www.smoothhd.com/ for some sample demos. They'll adapt to your bandwidth...
I was working with a friend recently on a side thing they were doing. They wanted to create an "Export" function for some small bit of data and start it from their website. You'd hit a URL after logging in Some data would come out of a database Yo...
This is going to be fun. It’s a bit of LINQ, a bit of academic Computer Science, and a bit of meteorology. Euler Problem 14 concerns a sequence referred to as hailstorm numbers. Hailstorm number sequences are generated by applying one of two func...
While cleaning out my office in preparation for my big move to California, I ran across my Agile Program Manager “cheat sheet.†I had to laugh because as I reviewed the document, i thought to myself “This makes so much sense. How did i never get t...
Fabulous Adventures In Coding
2/4/2010
Large bodies of code written in the C/C++ languages typically divide up the code into “header†files, which are just declarations of methods and types (and definitions of macros). The actual bodies of those methods and types are in completely diff...
I am a 64bit freak. I got Windows 7, Outlook 2010, Conferencing Addin all 64 bit versions to work on a Macbook pro. Those who are thinking about moving to 64bit and hesitating whether something will break, GO AHEAD! Macbook Pro hardware and Micros...
My one-hundred-and-ninety-eighth podcast is up . I sit down with Erik Meijer from the Cloud Programmability Team to hear about the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) . Rx is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observ...
My one-hundred-and-ninety-seventh podcast is up . Scott sits down with Jimmy Schementi to find out what's the scoop with the DLR. Is it baked? What do I need to do to get started? What's the status of IronRuby - is it done? Will IronPython be a fi...
My one-hundred-and-ninety-sixth podcast is up . Jason Olson works (or worked, as you'll hear) for Microsoft in DPE. In this episode he takes Scott a little deeper into some of the new features in .NET 4, including security, CLR changes, C# 4 and V...
My one-hundred-and-ninety-fifth podcast is up . The WiX Project was the first big Open Source project out of Microsoft over 10 years ago! Scott talks to project lead Rob Mensching about how the WiX Installer project got started. How much trouble d...