An interesting trend in modern computing and UX is that users want to focus on a particular task and employ all the resources on their computing device on that task. In this regard, the power of GPU computing couldn't be underestimated with the availability of Tesla and CUDA programming suplimentary infrastructure. Another interesting prototype from Microsoft supported by a patent called Copenhagen sets up the focus on the user activily.

Periodically, I need to parse a string, which represents an xml file into formatted file with intendation. Here is a simple .Net code which does this and can be compiled into a console application:

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Here is the complete info:http://realfiction.net/go/153. The gist of it is that you create a symbolik link under %WINDIR%\System32 and %WINDIR%\SysWOW64 to point to either 32 or 64-bit oracle client depending on the bitness of a client app.

I'm opening a new series of posts related to performance optimization of software systems, which is my primary area lately. First, and most useful suggestion when it comes to setting up the environment, pay attention to the exact spec of the testing system, namely, CPU, disk, memory, software installed and running etc.

This is the first post from iPhone, so that I should confess that this sleek device attracted my attention and it's really about users and all the features are well-polished and well-organized. For example, it really saves time to listen to a podcast with 2x speed when one wants to cram more into shorted period of time. Although, my current blog engine doesn't play well when it comes to posting, so, I'll continue to look at consolidated blog/photo content management system. If you know one that is open and is based on .Net, drop me a line.

Microsoft just updated their version of a programming language for children, called SmallBasic.

WSJ published an interview with President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703650604575312961393600400.html?mod=WSJEUROPE_hpp_LEADNewsCollection Also Russian president offen criticized for too active or too weak position because of duo with Vladimir Putin, it seems that he presented himself as very mature political figure, who knows what his is talking about. 

Loren Goodman, CTO of my company, presented an excellent topic on Microsoft TechEd conference Getting to the Handshake: Leveraging Business Rule Technology through Architecture, Design and Practice which can  viewed and downloaded at http://www.msteched.com/2010/NorthAmerica/ARC301. It highlights the growing interest in this area in the community since people are into rules more and more as they redesigning existing solutions and engineering new ones and the understanding of the flexibility in the first place is a requirement which is one of the core one. You can find more on the current state of the Rule Engines on my company's site at http://www.inrule.com

Sorry folks, but you should really start thinking about innovations and how to do business.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/hp-cutting-9-000-jobs-during-billion-dollar-enterprise-services/

IT Architect Regional Conference in Minneapolis on November 6-7, 2010 is the one not that far from Chicago, IL to attend. Should be interesting for an Architect to get a sense of the heartbeat of the latest innovations in distributed architectures.