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2012 54

  1. I just bought a Toyota and all I want to do is tear it apart to figure it out
  2. IE 10 Preview, you should read it! and use it
  3. Free Windows 8 help and software tools
  4. First Prize in Imagine Cup: $50,000
  5. SharePoint workspace shows up after installing Office 15 or Office 2013
  6. Direct2 QuickStart Sample, not for Direct2 with XAML or Win8
  7. Changes in Visual Studio 2012: Deployment or installer has significantly changed
  8. 30 Days to Launch: Got the call from the MSPE
  9. Free Online Hackathon! This is a first
  10. Data Structures using Windows 8 approach to UI: WinRT combined with JavaScript
  11. Data Structures class using Windows 8 Modern UI design
  12. Powerpoint Storyboard Shapes for you!
  13. Possible C++ Interview question: static functions and virtual
  14. Type System in the C++/CX–Windows Metadata or winmd
  15. C++ Security: Security Descriptor
  16. Connecting Power Point to Team Foundation Server using your buddy game
  17. Game Design: Architectural Tools
  18. C++ Security Practices in Visual Studio 2012
  19. Security on Azure: Microsoft® Codename Trust Services Samples
  20. Security on the Web: HoneyMonkey Exploit Detection
  21. 3 Questions for Azure (or other cloud) deployment
  22. 10 Questions to ask when Outsourcing to Azure
  23. FREE! An Amazing Panorama Editor
  24. List of four Kinect Security items
  25. See Windows 8 at the Microsoft Store!
  26. List of 5 Cloud security properties
  27. List of 5 URLs you need to get started with Skydrive on Win8, WP, Android, iOS
  28. Skydrive for the Windows 8 Desktop, read the Skydrive Code of Conduct
  29. C++ and JavaScript, DirectMath, etc.
  30. FreeBSD on Hyper-V? Really!
  31. Microsoft’s support for Open Specifications
  32. List of Top 50 Open Source companies and where they are
  33. Oracle versus Google and Microsoft Open Source promise
  34. Designing a scanner against: Virus, Botnets, Trojans and Worms
  35. So you want to build a botnet, think real hard before you do that…
  36. Functional Reduction: Engineering processes are too complex, and frankly so is most of software
  37. FREE VIP Windows8 Developer Event - 4/23/2012 - Club Nokia @ LA Live... or you can attend the event online if you can’t make it!
  38. Sensor architecture: A call for a common API
  39. Built in antivirus on Windows 8
  40. Scaling to different screens in Windows 8
  41. 5 top links: Security in Windows 8
  42. 5 Links for Securing Silverlight
  43. Free NSA Guidance for Addressing Malicious Code Risk and vocabulary list
  44. Free samples that help you get started with Azure
  45. Developer, Development and Virtualization
  46. Quant? Quant? Kalman Filter and Baynesian for Finance all in one blog post?
  47. Costa Concordia: Modeling ships using FORTRAN in EXCEL? REALLY!
  48. OS Command Injection
  49. Costa Concordia: Control System Synthesis using a submarine as a model
  50. Costa Concordia Series: Ship Design, Software Architecture and the search for the lost FORTRAN
  51. Costa Concordia: Mathematical Model of the Submarine
  52. Costa Concordia: The Goals of Software Architecture
  53. SKYDRIVE designed to use HTML5! Get rid of that thumbdrive
  54. How to add a shared calendar to your MSN/Hotmail Calendar

2011 73

  1. Software Architecture: Many ways for the beginner, only a few for the master
  2. Browser security: Chrome has the most security vulnerabilities
  3. Dennis Ritchie, creator of C programming language, passes away
  4. Team Foundation SERVICES, not server
  5. LightSwitch: Infopath, Browsers and Scalability
  6. I read the articles on MSDN and I can’t get the sample code to work!
  7. Test, Test and test some more testers are needed and the universities don’t produce many
  8. Bing Maps and LightSwitch
  9. LightSwitch: why get started using LightSwitch?
  10. Fundamentals of Desktop Development
  11. Free SDK: Visio SDK
  12. Free SDK: EXCEL programming tools and SDK
  13. Free SDK: Project 2010 SDK
  14. Free SDK: Windows Phone SDK 7.1
  15. Free SDK: Windows SDK
  16. Free SDK from Microsoft: Get the Latest DirectX SDK
  17. Free SDK, Free Hosting (sort of): Bing Map SDK and hosting by Bing.COM
  18. Free SDK from Microsoft: PHP Azure SDK
  19. Free SDK from Microsoft: Facebook C# SDK
  20. Free SDK from Microsoft: Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office
  21. Finding out stuff at the Imagine Cup: Make sure to uninstall Windows Phone Tools before installing Mango
  22. People’s choice award at the Imagine Cup: Vote early! Vote often!
  23. Setting Security in ClickOnce applications
  24. LightSwitch: Database building for everyone, except for admins, team explorer
  25. Secure Deployment using ClickOnce
  26. Hierarchical Views and other confusing thingies
  27. DropBox security hack on June 19, 2011, quickly fixed, consider encrypting files before using DropBox
  28. Free Team Foundation Training tools
  29. Free, get ready for that interview: WPF with Data
  30. A review of Windows 7 Security
  31. Interactive and Fault-tolerant Data Analytics in the Cloud, with Free Azure pass
  32. Free: Azure 30 day pass, please sign up, if you signed up using the other number, do it again with the new one. Free
  33. Job Opportunity and you need to get up to speed with Sharepoint!
  34. Free tool for the static security analysis of .NET code
  35. Cellular computation, but not the kind you think it is.
  36. As a system developer BIG opportunities for developing in Office 365
  37. A gallery of system oriented apps?
  38. Why take computer science? Save lives and the world
  39. Getting prepared for the next thing
  40. Microsoft Endorses White House Cybersecurity Plan
  41. Free guide describing the Microsoft SQL Azure Database
  42. Empirical Studies of Software Engineering
  43. What do Visual Basic, the Windows Phone 7 and XNA development have in common?
  44. Free XBox if you buy a Windows 7 Laptop?
  45. Entity Framework 4.1: Install,
  46. What is a VSIX file? Visual Studio Integration SDK
  47. HTML 5 in Expression 4 Web
  48. PowerPivot: What is it? Architecture? 这是什么？体系结构，以支持它是什么样子？
  49. Hybrid Deployment of Microsoft Office 365 Messaging
  50. Free Silverlight Integration Pack for Enterprise Libraries, just released
  51. Free Sharepoint Server?! Free? No way!
  52. I got a bunch of apps that I need to move to the cloud: Azure VM the solution
  53. Google Docs, OpenOffice versus Office 365
  54. SCRUM: Guidelines from the SCRUM org and short form from Microsoft
  55. Free learning kit for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0
  56. When you develop projects you need to stick with it: NASA Gravity Probe B, 52 years in the making!
  57. Microsoft software development tool released for direct use on Linux and Mac (Apple)
  58. The Osama Bin Laden picture virus: make sure that everyone you know has the latest patches
  59. Free Power Tools for Team Foundation Server
  60. Malware attack specifically targets Mac users, NIST reports 379 vulnerabilities over past 3 months, get your free anti-virus from Microsoft!
  61. Software Architecture: Using Team Project and Team Collection in TFS
  62. Microsoft’s TTS and Speech Recognition Technology
  63. HTML 5: Specification news! Latest specifications released!
  64. Coolness: 3D scanning using your PHONE!
  65. Pex4Fun: Create your own Coding Duel
  66. Artificial Intelligence: F# versus other languages, am I contradicting myself? And will the royal couple consider AI during the wedding?
  67. F#: Edited articles with code
  68. F#: With a few lines of code entered into the powershell and analyze gigabytes of cloud data!
  69. Azure Cloud Outage caused by network error, egg on my face
  70. Software Engineering: Success or no success, generally the schools aren’t going to be helpful
  71. Windows 7 Milestone! 350 million licenses sold!
  72. Artificial Intelligence Tutorial: Video Games and Artificial Intelligence
  73. What is Lync? How does it benefit you? And a mention of artificial intelligence

2010 3

  1. Rip it with Visual Studio Ultimate: UML, Part 1 of few, several, or many
  2. As a Student why should I give a rip about Visual Studio Ultimate
  3. My USB FAT32 Drive won't format

2009 2

  1. Checking out the Microsoft Speech Server
  2. Building a Microsoft Speech Server using a VPC

2008 4

  1. Conclusion (10/10)
  2. Security (9/10)
  3. Testing, Analysis, QA, Reviews 8/10
  4. Metrics and Reliability Assessment 7/10

2007 6

  1. Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) Risk Assessments and Reuse 6/10
  2. Design in Software Engineering 5/10
  3. Selecting a programming language 4/10
  4. Requirements and Specification: Software Engineering 3/10
  5. Life Cycle Models: Introduction to Software Engineering part 2/10
  6. Software Engineering: Introduction to Software Engineering Part 1/10