Language is fundamentally metaphoricLanguage is fundamentally metaphoric. While the notion of the literal exists within the framework of language, the metaphorical role of language is not a… Read More
“Michael Jackson and Bubbles” by Jeff Koons
Ever since caveman-times, no doubt, people have tended to huddle around communal fires for warmth, for mutual comfort, for survival.&n… Read More
A common ask from consultants and architects working with SQL Server Reporting Services is about capacity planning and how to validate that the environment proposed will meet the estimated… Read More
Intro. Break Beats with Jazz Sample Wuhan Soundtrack #8 My Mama My Mama Catalog-I Woke Up Like This-not sung-read not heard on the front of a T-Shirt on Luoyo Rd. Wuhan, China sometime in… Read More
China Note #6- The Wuhan Soundtrack Louis Armstrong in ChinaBut for real, for real, the real soundtrack here is the language I don't speak filling the air and swirling around me. I hear it… Read More
Not too long ago, here in Wuhan, on a day whose weather I do not remember, as I passed a short row of grocery stores and restaurants on one of the main drags at the university, I recognized… Read More
In the next few posts I will describe my take on how I would automate the building, testing, and deployment of applications for both Windows and Linux. I have already written all the Python… Read More
Last March I moved from 22 years in SQL Server support to the SQL Server development team, working on SQL Server on Linux project and reporting to Slava Oks. As Slava highlights in his… Read More
1. Toast to Obama From June 2010-Jiangsu, China “Obama,” he says raising the glass to toast. He’s got one hand palm up beneath the glass and two fingers from the other gen… Read More
Centralization. A concept that has been with the human race nearly as long as we have been using tools and fire. While inherently individualis… Read More
After I received a comment on the Free Black Space Blog that described the work as too academic, too wordy, and too long; I went back to my initial contemplation on abstraction, intellectual… Read More
Via a unilateral Directive issued in just his second week in office, President Trump decreed that for any New Regulation to take effect, two or more Existing Public Protections would have to… Read More
Guest post by Thomas Denney Microsoft Student Partner at the University of Oxford.
Over the last few years cloud providers have shifted from offering Infrastructure-as-a-Service to Platform… Read More
We are in the era of cloud computing. Many customers are rushing to accelerate their digital transformation. In the same time the cloud providers are getting better and better by the minute… Read More
Welcome to the C++ Tutorial.
In this first C++ tutorial, you will learn how to write (and run!) your first C++ program, “Hello, World!”. Along the way you will learn a little C++… Read More
Guest blog by Microsoft Student Partner Henry Thompson
I’m an incoming third year studying Computer Science at Cambridge University and a Software Engineer Intern with Microsoft… Read More
Plausible Path To Happily Ever Afterby Jacqueline Lichtenberg A good part of the target readership for Romance (and all its sub-genres) just can not see the Happily Ever After endi… Read More
XGBoost is a popular open-source distributed gradient boosting library used by many companies in production. Azure HDInsight is a fully managed Hadoop and Spark solution where you ca… Read More
This post was authored by guest blogger André Obelink, a Visual Basic MVP, and published by the VBTeam on his behalf.
In this first blog post of a series of two, I explain what depend… Read More
Guest blog by Sebastian-Valentin Burlacu, Microsoft Student Partner
I am in my second year of computer science at University College London. I have been passionate… Read More
At first glimpse, the concept of yoga for cancer cells people going through treatment and also now in survivorship seems evident, a sensible step. What better way to handle anxiousn… Read More
"Shields and Brooks on GOP’s health care uncertainty, Trump’s UN nationalism" PBS NewsHour 9/22/2017ExcerptSUMMARY: Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times col… Read More
Guest post by Simon Jackson MVP Windows Development
With the recent release of the Microsoft Mixed Reality headsets, controllers and the awesome Fall Creators update for Windows 10, it has… Read More
Guest post by Vani Asawa Microsoft Student Partner at Oxford University
About me
Hi! I am Vani Asawa, a second year student at the University of Oxford studying Mathematics. Original… Read More
The C# language is great for developer's productivity and I'm glad for the recent push towards making it more suitable for high-performance applications.
Here is an example: C# 5 introduced… Read More
In case you don't recall the previous post, or just landed here, make sure to skim through it before continue reading.
We left with some very boring theoretical discussions. As promised, we… Read More
Hopefully brief but yet needed introduction
For a long time, when ASP and ASP.NET WebForms were the latest trend, web developers had to rely mainly on synchronous programming. After all, ser… Read More
Today we all give the internet for granted. That is not surprising, considering that over 3.5bln people are connected. Also, that number grows each second, faster and faster. Almost like a r… Read More
The following post was published in April of 2015 on Free Black Space just two months before the publication of Between the World and Me. Part of the Free Black Space approach is to re… Read More
In this post, Senior App Dev Manager Deepak Malik, explains how Partner Center API’s provide extensive management functionalities and enable partner to extend their existing systems.Th… Read More
Empire of Language- Finale-Loving You is Complicated.So build buildagain the newvillages; youmust mix spittlewith dirt, dungto saliva.....Edward Kamau Braithwaite From the ArrivantsPoem… Read More
First, I want to take a look into the Azure Application Architecture Guide (A3G):
http://aka.ms/A3G
This is an Azure architecture guide (like a menu of what to use when) for developers!
To… Read More
In this blog I set out an architecture for a data analytics pipeline that starts with an SQL Server database and ends with a Power BI dashboard. The pipeline can be fully automated so that u… Read More
System.IO.Pipelines is a new library that is designed to make it easier to do high performance IO in .NET. It's a library targeting .NET Standard that works on all .NET implementations.
Pipe… Read More
Blazor 0.5.0 is now available! This release explores scenarios where Blazor is run in a separate process from the rendering process. Specifically, Blazor 0.5.0 enables the option to run Blaz… Read More
What is it?
Open API (alternatively known as Swagger) is a language-agnostic specification for describing REST APIs. The Open API ecosystem has tools that allows for discovering, testing and… Read More
Do you know how many earth like planets have been discovered? According to Kepler space mission almost 40 billion Earth-sized planets orbiting in the habitable zones of Sun… Read More
This week's blog post is by Brian Lui, one of our summer interns on the .NET team, who's been hard at work. Over to Brian:
Hello everyone! This summer I interned in the .NET team, working on… Read More
App Dev Manager Ricardo de Almeida shares insight on helping customers solve problems with software portfolio tracking by using Azure DevOps and TFS in a more interactive way.
The first step… Read More
How should qubits be represented in a quantum programming language?
In the quantum circuit model, a quantum computation is represented as a sequence of operations, sometimes known as gates… Read More
.NET Core 3.0 Preview 2 is now available and it includes a bunch of new updates to ASP.NET Core.
Here's the list of what's new in this preview:
Razor Components
SignalR client-to-server stre… Read More
Committed: Civil Rights and the Struggle for JusticeValerie Sweeney PrinceCivil rights were first constitutionalized in the 13th Amendment. However, the fact of civil rights as a… Read More
Summertime in Ireland is one of the best times to visit the country, with so many exciting events and festival taking place from May to September.
One of the most highly anticipated festival… Read More
Bauhaus Weaving Opened the Door to More than Just a Workshop
In 1919 the Bauhaus opened its door under the Master of Form, Johannes Itten. The Bauhaus school and workshop was known to mix tr… Read More
Carpet Rooms Art by Artist Farid Rasulov: Capturing the Heart of the Azerbaijani People Through Carpets
Artist Farid Rasulov uses his art to pay homage to the traditions and history of his A… Read More
Ireland has a rich creative history. From literature to theatre, from music to art, Ireland’s innovative and imaginative output has had a major impact on the world. Art, in particular… Read More
Worldbuilding From RealityPart 14Ripping A Headline For ThemePrevious entries in Worldbuilding From Reality are indexed here:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2017/05/index-to-worldbui… Read More
Zen 3, AMD’s latest CPU architecture, was revealed in the Ryzen 5000 series CPU’s just yesterday, and from AMD’s address, we have a lot of information on the CPU architectu… Read More
We’ve more-or-less all been coping with the pandemic since early March.
During this time, I’ve seen a lot of people stressed and depressed to their breaking points, usually wh… Read More
Cryptographers and cryptography engineers love to talk about the latest attacks and how to mitigate them. LadderLeak breaks ECDSA with less than 1 bit of nonce leakage? Raccoon attack brings… Read More
People often misunderstand therapy due to some entirely misplaced social stigma around the practice.
Thankfully, in today’s world, therapy is becoming a more widely recognized outle… Read More
React native has emerged as a very promising and effective platform for mobile application development. With many successful companies such as Uber and Facebook adopting it, the language ha… Read More
Introduction
Abstract art is a fascinating and diverse form of artistic expression that has captivated audiences for decades. Its unique ability to evoke emotions and challenge traditiona… Read More