All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Automatic Reconfiguration in Autonet. By Werner Vogels on 12 October 2012 06:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I wrote this post last week but didnt get around to publishing it. I am heading to Europe this weekend for, among other things, Structure Europe and the AWS Summit in Tel Aviv.

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Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Maximiliano Firtman has done an excellent job providing an overview of what to expect from IE10 in Windows 8 , but I wanted to dig just a little deeper on one feature in particular. In Windows 8, there are two “modes” of use: Metro mode and classic mode. Metro mode sports the spiffy new UI while classic is the same old boring Windows of yore.

Design 75

Design Media Internet Internet 75

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2012

How we contract for software services has a big impact on how successful a software team will be. There are three common ways of buying development and related services: we can contract for bodies, experts or a solution. Contracting for Bodies The simplest way to contract for services is a body shop or staff-augmentation contract. We're developing software in Java, we need Java developers, so we ring up a staff-aug firm and we rent Java developers.

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Sutter's Mill

OCTOBER 31, 2012

A few hours ago I sat down to give a short teaser for my webcast talk this Friday. Here it is. Feel free to forward. (I don’t think they believed me when I said I could keep it to under two minutes.).

C++ 40

C++ Development Software Software 40

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. “Responsive design is bad for performance.”. “User agent detection is bad. Don’t segment the web.”. “Hybrid apps don’t work as well as native apps.”. “CSS preprocessors shouldn’t be used because they create bloated CSS.”. If you create for the web you’ve no doubt heard at least a couple of these statements. They’re flung around with alarming frequency.

Servers 62

Servers Design Technology Technology 62

Sutter's Mill

OCTOBER 29, 2012

In my talk on Friday, there will be announcements of broad interest to C++ developers on all compilers and platforms. Please help spread the word. The Future of C++. Friday, November 2, 2012. 12:45pm (U.S. Pacific Time). This talk will give an update on recent progress and near-future directions for C++, both at Microsoft and across the industry, with some announcements of interest in both areas.

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C++ Tuning Availability Development 40

Tim Kadlec

OCTOBER 1, 2012

It wasn’t what I was expecting, but it ended up being just what I needed. When one of the people who attended Breaking Development in Dallas , told me that on the last day of the event, I couldn’t help but smile. Single-track events are awesome, but they’re always a little nerve-wrecking as well. How do you balance code and design, pragmatic and conceptual?

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