Alexander Schmidt Mathematical methods, programming

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.

My posts lately are rather short, but I want to keep 'em informative and would like to move closer to the technology track that I'm working on. Here is the Windows Azure Guidance document, which represents the holystic view on the Microsoft Cloud's vision and the architecture decisions behind the cloud-based applications - http://wag.codeplex.com/releases/view/45438

Without further adeu, Hotmail goes into social world of networking, keeping up with our contacts and sharing information. More on Windows Live site here. Interesting trend which shows that nowadays the systems are more like hybrid connected and information organizing systems.

If you're developing for Microsoft Cloud Services, this might be of interest for the evaluation of the performance and Best Practices concerning running applications in the Cloud:

http://azurescope.cloudapp.net/Default.aspx