"We kick off C9 Lectures with a journey into the world of Functional Programming with functional language purist and high priest of the lambda calculus, Dr. Erik Meijer "
Explore this Preview of the Visual Basic Developer Center to get an an early look at the new experience coming to MSDN... How do you like the new user experience? We want to hear from you. Post your questions, concerns, feedback, ideas or compliments on the MSDN Feedback Forum.
"ooc is a modern, object-oriented, functional-ish, high-level, low-level, sexy programming language. it's translated to pure C with a source-to-source compiler. it strives to be powerful, modular, extensible, portable, yet simple and fast. "
"TimeTag is an open source time series database for Windows PowerShell and the .NET framework. A time series database is useful for capturing and compressing time series data into a fixed size container."
Among the many new features in MindTouch Deki "Lyons" are also some important improvements to DekiScript, the built-in end-user scripting language for creating dynamic content, mashups, and collaborative applications...
Telerik's community software page includes links to their free software, and "community" versions of some of their commercial products (like Sitefinity).
"Bling is a C#-based library for easily programming images, animations, interactions, and visualizations on Microsoft's WPF/.NET. Bling is oriented towards design technologists, i.e., designers who sometimes program, to aid in the rapid prototyping of rich UI design ideas. "
"MiniFuzz is a very simple fuzzer designed to ease adoption of fuzz testing by non-security people who are unfamiliar with file fuzzing tools or have never used them in their current software development processes. "
"BinScope is a Microsoft verification tool that analyzes binaries on a project-wide level to ensure that they have been built in compliance with Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) requirements and recommendations."
An analysis of the results and implications of some research conducted by the Creative Commons into people's understanding of the term "non-commercial."
"You may want to give it a second look. Not just at distributed version control systems, but at the real role of version control in your creative toolkit. In this article, I'm going to introduce you to Git, my favorite DVCS, and hopefully show you why it is not only a better version control system than Subversion, but also a revolutionary way to think about how you get your work done."
The Platform Update is a set of runtime libraries which bring Vista largely up to par with Windows 7 in terms of the: Windows Ribbon control; Automation Manager Library; DirectX updates for hardware acceleration; DirectCompute for hardware-accelerated parallel computing support; the XPS printing library; the Windows Automation API; and the Windows Portable Devices Platform, which standardizes data transfers across apps and portable devices.