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After the discussion on client configurations betraying your infrastructure choices, my talk with Sim Pul Simon (my corrected spelling) turned to other server examples.

Planning a User Group or community gathering for developers? Community Megaphone, built by Microsoft Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie aka @devhammer, provides a simple way to share and discover all kinds of events relating to software development.

One of my programs crashed the other day in a very unexpected place. A call to System.Threading.ConcurrentQueue.TryDequeue (from the Parallel Extensions to .NET) resulted in an OverflowException being thrown. Investigation revealed a pretty serious bug in the System.Random constructor.

In the last blog in this series, Traenk relates his first experiences with computers and with coding. But now, some years have passed. . .

Traenk relates his past experience with Operating Systems that goes back 25 years, ok, more than that but he ain't tellin'

Cloud computing provides a mechanism for companies to affordably scale their applications to support user demands. Amazon's EC2 is a cloud computing solution and with the announcement of reserved instances, Amazon has significantly reduced the cost.