Alexander Schmidt Mathematical methods, programming

Really interesting hybrid-cloud discission by IBM CTO Jerry Cuomo:

Cloud goes Mobile for sure, check out http://mobilecloudcomputingforum.com/

Handbook of Business Process Management, described here is a comprehensive review of the leading practices in BPM cycle.

This was reposted a miriad of times, but I seem to can't find it when needed, so here it is, the famous slow query sql:

SELECT TOP 20 SUBSTRING(qt.text, (qs.statement_start_offset/2)+1, 
        ((CASE qs.statement_end_offset
          WHEN -1 THEN DATALENGTH(qt.text)
         ELSE qs.statement_end_offset
         END - qs.statement_start_offset)/2)+1), 
qs.execution_count, 
qs.total_logical_reads, qs.last_logical_reads,
qs.min_logical_reads, qs.max_logical_reads,
qs.total_elapsed_time, qs.last_elapsed_time,
qs.min_elapsed_time, qs.max_elapsed_time,
qs.last_execution_time,
qp.query_plan
FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats qs
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(qs.sql_handle) qt
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_query_plan(qs.plan_handle) qp
WHERE qt.encrypted=0
ORDER BY qs.total_logical_reads DESC

Worth reading,

http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2009/08/22/how-many-secrets-do-net-pdb-files-really-contain.aspx

http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/strings.html

http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/unicode.html

Just came across a new project started by Microsoft called CodePlex Foundation, http://www.codeplex.org/ which supposted to grow with the best gallery of projects from http://codeplex.com Check it out in a few years ;-)

There is an interesting conference called Cloud Computing will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, where the detailed conference agenda can be found at http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ProgramCLOUDCOMPUTING10.html This conference will be devoted to the latest trends in cloud computing and future of this technology. Worth checking out.

It turned out that that IEEE-related conference was bogus and guy wanted to get money from authors. Beware.

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 activity.

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.