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"This is the first of a two-part series that will tell the long story of the C# memory model. The first part explains the guarantees the C# memory model makes and shows the code patterns that motivate the guarantees; the second part will detail how the guarantees are achieved on different hardware architectures in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5."

Presentatie van Johan Krebbers, Chief Architect van Shell, over het Enterprise Data Model wat in ontwikkeling is bij Shell (SmartSolutions/SmartApps), en wat een trend is binnen vele grote multinationals in het kader van Big Data & Data Analysis.

"The EF 4.1 DbContext API works with Code First, Database First, and Model First and provides a simplified, productive environment for building all types of data-backed applications"

Some time ago, the development team at my firm staged a revolt against the sales team and senior management: our demand was that no Statement of Work was to be sent to a customer without first being reviewed by a member of the development team. [..] Today I would like to explore an important aspect of any Statement of Work: the pricing model.

Git is the source code version control system that is rapidly becoming the standard for open source projects. It has a powerful distributed model which allows advanced users to do tricky things with branches, and rewriting history. What a pity that it's so hard to learn, has such an unpleasant command line interface, and treats its users with such utter contempt.