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F#: Edited articles with code
Don’t know about you, but I enjoy reading edited articles. Oops. This isn’t an edited...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/26/2011
F#: With a few lines of code entered into the powershell and analyze gigabytes of cloud data!
In the article: Parsing Log Files with F#, MapReduce and Windows Azure, Noah Gift discusses how to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/26/2011
Azure Cloud Outage caused by network error, egg on my face
Oh don’t you hate it when you are all smug and think you are right. Walk into the room...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/25/2011
Software Engineering: Success or no success, generally the schools aren’t going to be helpful
Hadar Ziv, at UC Irvine, in my opinion, is the teacher you want to get to know. His specialty is...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/25/2011
Windows 7 Milestone! 350 million licenses sold!
This does not include the MSDNAA versions with are often (but not always) given away to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/25/2011
Artificial Intelligence Tutorial: Video Games and Artificial Intelligence
This is an interesting tutorial, although it more like a reading and viewing of a slide deck and not...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/25/2011
What is Lync? How does it benefit you? And a mention of artificial intelligence
Inside of Microsoft we use a system called Lync for our phone, IM and collaboration. Take a...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/25/2011
Rip it with Visual Studio Ultimate: UML, Part 1 of few, several, or many
Ok, over the next few, several, or many blog entries, I hope to demonstrate how to use the UML tools...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/31/2010
As a Student why should I give a rip about Visual Studio Ultimate
First, off, if you are a student taking Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM), and...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/30/2010
My USB FAT32 Drive won't format
All right, I just spent 30 minutes trying to figure out why my USB drive won't format. It was...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 06/23/2010
Checking out the Microsoft Speech Server
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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/30/2009
Building a Microsoft Speech Server using a VPC
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Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/30/2009
Conclusion (10/10)
Conclusion With over 60 references to a multitude of webcasts, guidance and virtual hands on labs,...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/16/2008
Security (9/10)
Security Security for the software engineering, like safety for the civil engineer, is the most...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/12/2008
Testing, Analysis, QA, Reviews 8/10
Testing, Analysis, QA, Reviews Build and test, then review the results of the software builds;...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/08/2008
Metrics and Reliability Assessment 7/10
Metrics and Reliability Assessment Measuring the process of building, installation and...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/01/2008
Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) Risk Assessments and Reuse 6/10
COTS Risk Assessments and Reuse Risk assessments End-users often benefit in cost and time to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/29/2007
Design in Software Engineering 5/10
Apologies It has been quite awhile since I last posted to this blog, but I have completed the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 12/26/2007
Selecting a programming language 4/10
In selecting a programming language, a software engineer will need to consider the following: Is it...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/27/2007
Requirements and Specification: Software Engineering 3/10
Requirements and Specification Creation and generation of requirements and specifications, students,...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/30/2007
Life Cycle Models: Introduction to Software Engineering part 2/10
Life Cycle Models The typical development life cycle involves Envisioning planning, developing,...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/27/2007
Software Engineering: Introduction to Software Engineering Part 1/10
Introduction: Software engineering is the application of many tools, systems and software to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/24/2007