Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’

Windows Phone 7 Series Videos

Here you go! Promotional videos of Windows Phone 7 Series.
Demo: Phones for a “Life in Motion”
See how Windows® Phone 7 Series reorganizes the phone, Web and applications to deliver a mobile experience that will help make the most of customers’ busy lives.

Partner Support for Windows Phone 7 Series
See what Microsoft partners are saying about Windows [...]

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Most Ridiculous Windows 7 Bug

I have some time to sneak in while waiting for my flight at the airport in Singapore, so I decided to post the most ridiculous bug I’ve ever come across.
The Welcome screen may be displayed for 30 seconds during the logon process after you set a solid color as the desktop background in Windows 7 [...]

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C9 Lectures: Functional Programming Fundamentals

Finally, all 13 chapters are done. Now I can compile them into 1 big post with all the videos. I highly recommend every developer to watch these videos even though you’ll not be writing Functional code.
Edit: I totally forgot to link back all the chapters. Click on the links on each chapter for the original [...]

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Creating Beautiful Code with Functional Languages

I encourage everyone who is still sitting on the fence about whether to learn a functional language to read this Beautiful Code – The Manifesto article written by Lau B. Jensen.
To summarize, his point of writing beautiful code essentially avoids a lot of the pitfalls you get from Imperative languages.
Beautiful Code is…

Concise – Free from [...]

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CTU 2009v2 Presentation Slides and Demo

Finished my presentation on “What’s new with .NET Framework 4.0″ last Saturday at CTU 2009v2. I hope everyone enjoyed the talk. Here are the slides and demo available for you.
CTU2009v2 – What’s new with NET Framework 4.zip

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The current state of the Microsoft community in Singapore

Disclaimer: What I write in this post does not represent my company, the community, Microsoft, or its employees. These are my independent thoughts of the current state of the Microsoft community in Singapore ONLY based on my own observations.
Where do I even start? How about last week when I was speaking at the recent event at [...]

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Community Technology Update (CTU) 2009 II

I’ll be speaking at the Community Technology Update (CTU) 2009 II event on “What’s new in .NET Framework 4.0“. I’ll be covering the following:
This talk give an overview and cover as many changes in the .NET Framework 4.0 as possible in the time allocated, from the BCL (Base Class Library) to various interesting additions like [...]

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Virtual Router – WiFi Hotspot for Windows 7

I just mentioned about Connectify a few posts ago. Here’s a free application, Virtual Router, that makes use of the same Virtual WiFi technology on Windows 7 to create a Virtual Router out of your laptop or PC. As pointed out by various people, it only supports WPA2 which it seems to be a limitation (or [...]

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Software Engineering Empirical Discoveries

A few days ago, Microsoft Research released a news article, “Exploding Software-Engineering Myths“, debunking several software engineering myths and discovered/confirmed a few beliefs using actual empirical data.
The biggest problem for several researchers and software engineers were  a lot of their hypothesis and conjectures are based on anecdotal and personal experience. These were seen to be true throughout [...]

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Channel 5.5: Video from MVP Summit 2008

It’s always interesting to see what I’ve done in the past, especially on video. Take a look. I talked about C# 4.0, and SharePoint development. Looking back, I wonder if I would have said the same thing now.

Channel 5.5: Justin Lee at the MVP Summit 2008 from Rob Windsor on Vimeo.

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