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The bulk of the feedback we have received over the last year on the videotaping of our meetings has been that the sound quality is very poor. To address this issue, the club would like to purchase a new video camera that …
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November 21st, 2012 — TouchDevelop: Tips and Types for Programming via Touch — Tom Ball
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TouchDevelop brings a modern programming experience to devices where touch is the primary input mechanism, such as smartphones and tablets. The TouchDevelop environment does this through an interlocking set of features, including:
- a …
October 17th, 2012 — Casablanca: C++ in the Cloud — Steve Gates
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In this talk, I’ll introduce the Microsoft incubation project Casablanca, the aim of which is to help C++ developers productively take advantage of cloud-based computing without sacrificing performance. Through a series of …
September 19th, 2012 — Functional Patterns in C++ — Bartosz Milewski
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We are familiar with at least some of the GoF patterns like Visitor or Factory. Less known are some very powerful abstract patterns used primarily in functional languages. I will show you how …
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read moreJune 20th, 2012 — LKRhash: The design of a scalable hashtable — George V. Reilly
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LKRhash is a hashtable that scales to multiple processors and millions of items. LKRhash was invented at Microsoft in 1997 by Paul Larson, Murali Krishnan, and George Reilly, and has been used in …
May 16th, 2012 — An Introduction to Microsoft’s C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism – Don McCrady
Come at 6:45 for pizza sponsored by Randstad Technologies.
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Microsoft’s C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism) is a C++ programming model and language extension that allows any C++ developer to take advantage of the massive parallelism available in today’s GPU’s. It offers a developer-friendly, lightweight, and …
April 18th, 2012 — Essential Skills for the Agile Developer – Alan Shalloway
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Many developers have been suddenly thrown into developing code in stages whereas they used to be able to do bigger designs up front. Many people tell them to do test-driven development and emergent design while ignoring the fact that their work with legacy systems may prevent such actions. In …
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