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 …
read moreTouchDevelop 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:
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 …
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 moreLKRhash 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 …
Come at 6:45 for pizza sponsored by Randstad Technologies.
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 …
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 …
Please join us at 6:45 for pizza sponsored by Summit Group Solutions.
Implementing code that is fast in a multi-core environment is one of the challenges of modern software engineering.
To meet this challenge, future Automatic Differentiation (AD) software will have to avoid excessive synchronization barriers between threads …
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