Alexander Schmidt Mathematical methods, programming

Microsoft has decided to remove this feature from IE 9.0, but it can be accessed via:

http://www.ieaddons.com/en/createsearch.aspx

It will be different:

* Tiles and focus on Hubs

* Hardware acceleration and running on APM processors

* More...

Will be interesting to see how's experience with upgrading the system will be comparable or not with Apple's one.

http://blogs.forrester.com/james_staten/10-11-15-cloud_predictions_for_2011_gains_from_early_experiences_come_alive

Just came across this article regarding the balancing of the efforts in the software development, seems like worth reading.

http://architects.dzone.com/articles/balancing-software

http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/02/agile-is-not-enough 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd997796.aspx and updated MSF (Microsoft Solutions Framework) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd380647.aspx

It's being an interesting trend where heterogeneous services were exposed and now can be consumed by a variety of consumers, say, publishers with PDFs, online content with Netflix. The underlying standards are called OData which details can be found at http://www.odata.org Today, many sites expose their data in OData-compatible format, see here. If you're developing a new application, consider exposing your data in that format. Also, watch out the extended integration throughout the Microsoft products for examples of using it at MIX'11.

Parallel Programming Guidelines for .NET 4.0

Azure Security

Azure Design Guidelines

If you're looking for xml documentation generated for .NET Framework 4.0 assemblies, starting from 3.0 you have to have Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 or .NET Framework SDK installed and those are located at:

Windows 64, .NET 4.0: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.0"
Windows 32, .NET 4.0: "C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.0"
Windows 64, .NET 3.5: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v3.5"
Windows 64, .NET 3.5: "C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.0"

 More info about 3.0 can be found at

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msbuild/archive/2007/04/12/new-reference-assemblies-location.aspx

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

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