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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Facebook and Windows Live Messenger Integration for Outlook

Here is another update regarding Microsoft Office Outlook Social Networking Connectors, now available for Windows Live Messenger and Facebook.

If you’re not familiar with the Microsoft Outlook Social Connector – it’s a free plug-in for Microsoft Outlook 2010 that allows you to keep track of your friends and colleagues activities on Social Networking sites such as LinkedIn and MySpace, from within Outlook itself. There’s a great blog article over at MSDN talking about the benefits of the Outlook Social Connector and how to set it up.
The Facebook connector (available for download here), once installed, adds the ability to see Facebook Status Updates for your contacts directly from within the Microsoft Outlook e-mail pane – you can expand or minimise the “More Information” panel from any e-mail as you like.
Although the installation process is straight and easy, here is a how to where Doug Thomas has the answers to all of your Outlook Social Connector questions! Check out this helpful video on configuring the OSC and if you still have questions afterward head over to the Office blog to post them: http://bit.ly/d4qkXp
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Thursday, August 12, 2010

DevArt's CodeCompare, Code comparison tool

CodeCompare is a totally free tool and an absolutely new way of source code comparison. It offers enhanced Visual Studio Editor, IntelliSense and syntax highlighting, code folding, advanced code comparing and merging functionality, and simple source control system integration - these are the features you were looking for all the time and finally they are at your fingertips!

Devart offers two products for source code comparison:
  • CodeCompare provides basic functionality and solves most of the tasks referred to the source comparing.
  • CodeCompare Pro provides additional features: Structure Comparison and Difference Explorer. Structure Comparison helps you to trace actual changes, even if methods are moved to another location. Difference Explorer helps you to review changes in the code structure and navigate between them.



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Saturday, August 07, 2010

5 Trillion Digits of Pi

A new world record is achieved by Alexander J. Yee & Shigeru Kondo, who calculated value of Pi up to five Trillion digits.

3.
1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 : 50
5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 : 100
2962457053 9070959679 6673211870 6342459769 2128529850 : 999,999,999,950
2976735807 0882130902 2460461146 5810642210 6680122702 : 1,000,000,000,000
9354516713 6069123212 1286195062 3408400370 1793492657 : 1,999,999,999,950
8386341797 9368318191 5708299469 1313121384 3887908330 : 2,000,000,000,000
3840840269 5893047555 2627475826 8598006396 3215856883 : 2,699,999,989,950
9256371619 3901058063 3448436720 6294374587 7597230153 : 2,699,999,990,000
8012497961 5892988915 6174704230 3863302264 3931687863 : 2,699,999,990,050
3126006397 8582637253 6739664083 9716870851 0983536511 : 2,699,999,990,100
5628334110 5221005309 8638608325 4364661745 5833914321 : 2,999,999,999,950
9150024270 6285788691 0228572752 8179710957 7137931530 : 3,000,000,000,000
5209957313 0955102183 1080456596 1489168093 0578494464 : 3,999,999,999,950
3638467628 3610607856 5071920145 5255995193 8577295739 : 4,000,000,000,000
2597691971 6538537682 7963082950 0909387733 3987211875 : 4,999,999,999,950
6399906735 0873400641 7497120374 4023826421 9484283852 : 5,000,000,000,000

The hardware/OS used to calculated such a huge number was:

Hardware: Shigeru Kondo's Desktop
Shigeru Kondo's computer had the following specifications:
Processor
2 x Intel Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 GHz - (12 physical cores, 24 hyperthreaded)
Memory
96 GB DDR3 @ 1066 MHz - (12 x 8 GB - 6 channels) - Samsung (M393B1K70BH1)
Motherboard
Asus Z8PE-D12
Hard Drives
1 TB SATA II (Boot drive) - Hitachi (HDS721010CLA332) 3 x 2 TB SATA II (Store Pi Output) - Seagate (ST32000542AS) 16 x 2 TB SATA II (Computation) - Seagate (ST32000641AS)
Raid Controller
2 x LSI MegaRaid SAS 9260-8i
Operating System
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise x64
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Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Introducing MSVS LightSwitch™

Microsoft is launching Visual Studio® LightSwitch™, the simplest way to build business applications for the desktop and cloud. LightSwitch is a new member of the Visual Studio family focused on making it easy to develop line of business applications. LightSwitch helps you solve specific business needs by enabling you to quickly create professional-quality business applications, regardless of your development skills. 
LightSwitch is optimized to combine data+screens idea by providing developers with tools to not only connect to an existing database, but also create database, tables and associated screens.
Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta will be available on August 23. Come back at that time to download it, plus check back before then for additional LightSwitch videos.
However, a very good preview/introduction is blogged by Jason Zander detailing development using LightSwitch.
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Sunday, August 01, 2010

12 Absolutely and Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers

Jesse Liberty is a Senior Community Program Manager for Microsoft, focused on Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. He has collected 12 Absolutely and Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers and listed them on his blog.

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