Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
In September, Denny Cherry (MVP) spoke to San Gabriel Valley user group on the topic of SQL Server Indexing for the .NET Developer. We have a great line up of speakers in coming months including Rob Walling (MVP, SoftwarebyRob.com), Daniel Egan (Microsoft) and Volkan Uzun. I encourage you to attend and get the most out…
SoCal Code Camp LA is coming to town again! It's a great opportunity for you, as an active developer community member to volunteer and help register speakers, attendees and assist in general organization, during the Code Camp event days (Saturday/Sunday October 23/24). I am heading up Volunteer Coordination. If you are interested in volunteering, just go to…
AppSec USA 2010 is the premier web application security conference of the year. From IT decision makers and managers to security conscious developers and engineers, AppSec USA will provide answers to a wide variety of questions on application security. Online registration is open till September 3. We have 5 keynote speakers, 2 panel discussions, 6…
Thanks to Lynn Langit, Microsoft's Bart de Smet will be in town to speak to SGV.NET special user group meeting on Thu June 10th at 6:00 PM. Reactive extensions is a new and exciting topic for most of us and Bart, being the expert in functional programming paradigm, will be an excellent speaker to listen…
Are you A) a Scientist/researcher/student/ looking for the right enterprise platform for your next big scientific project? B) a developer/architect who wants to learn cloud computing with windows Azure and would like to go beyond the Hello World Apps? C) an hobbyist interested in Stanford's Folding@home distributed computing project and see it's implementation D)…
There are few upcoming events in Southern California I'd like to share. On Thu, June 10th, Bart De Smet will be speaking to our own San Gabriel Valley .NET developers Group on Rx (Reactive Extensions). Bart is a Software Development Engineer on the SQL Cloud Data Programmability team, an avid blogger and a popular speaker…
Getting started with Mock Objects can be a bit daunting task if you are newly entering the uncharted waters of TLA's i.e. TDD (test driven development). It quickly gets confusing to decide when to use Mock objects, the merit and need to use them and also how do they integrate with your testing strategy. Let…
Here is a short step by step guide on how to get your WCF service to perform Message and Transport level security over SSL with user name and password. I ran into this recently and thought should document it along with source code to provide reference for the rest of us. 1. If your development…
A lot has been said about the FizzBuzz programming test used in interviews. It's a decent litmus test measure of testing a few key capabilities in a developer i.e. (a) knowledge of programming constructs (iterations/conditionals) (b) algorithm / logic and (c) thinking process The problem statement goes as follows. Write a program that prints the…
Abstract: Silverlight 4 enhances the building of business applications, media applications, and applications that reach beyond the browser. New features include printing support, significant enhancements for using forms over data, full support in the Google Chrome web browser, WCF RIA services, modular development with MEF, full support in Visual Studio 2010, bi-directional text, web camera…