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Janne Mattila has a great article on how to speed up computing by using parallel execution. I uses the CTP version of parallel extensions, which has been a topic of many Anders Hejlsberg's talks over the recent years. Taking advantage of parallel operations Read More

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In search of a solution to how LINQ to SQL should be used in an N-tier application architecture with a smart client and WCF distribution I have come across the following links: Ian Cooper: http://codebetter.com/blogs/ian_cooper/default.aspx, especially Read More

I have wondered a few times with Ahti what is the next big thing that happens after .NET. After all, .NET was introduced to the general public in Orlando PDC 2000. And, if you listened carefully, essentials were already talked a few years earlier. This Read More

Apple seems to have released a beta of Photoshop Express, a lightweight version of Photoshop. Many news sites tout it as a browser-based application and amaze how far browser apps have come over the years. Well, it is a flash-based application (and I Read More

Nokia has announced at Cebit that it wil support Silverlight in its devices. The press release does not mention which version and precisely which devices, but maybe we'll know more at the MIX08 keynote tomorrow where it is supposed to be demoed. This Read More

As Scott writes, 1.1 does not really give credit to all the new features that goes into the next Silverlight version, so it has been renamed to 2.0 that it deserves. Read More

Last few days have been release days at Redmond: Visual Studio 2008 & .NET 3.5 Visual Studio 2008 SDK Visual Studio 2008 Shell Read More