Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 are almost released, one of the new things that ship with this release is Parallel Programming. Since you can't buy a machine anymore with just one core it is time that we developers get intimate with concurrent programming. I decided to play around with this a little today, this is not a real technical post, I mostly show you how you can get started and what new tools are available.

Getting to know Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework 4

The best way to learn about new additions to a framework is to look at some code. There are 22 sam...

I went to a local MS launch event for Visual Studio today, mainly to see what was new with Team Foundation Server, but what really impressed me was some of the new architecture tools they've added. I admittedly haven't read too much about this before today (my needs have been well-served by NDepend) but I'm happy to see some improved architecture tools find their way into Visual Studio. Looking at the version comparison chart, it appears this is only available in ...

I am reading this very good book. It's called Head first Design Patterns by Eric Freeman & Elisabeth Freeman. It covers all the basic design patterns an OO-developer could ever use. Actualy, if you are doing OO programming you might see that you were already using some of these patterns but didn't know it. Alle the patterns are quite well explained in a simple matter. And we all know what Einstein said about explaining things simple. But for those of you who didn't.

I thought I would share a recent question that was raised on LinkedIn, which asked:

Starting the Holy Wars on ESB? Who brings the best package deal to the table i.e IBM, MSFT...... Look at this way " A mid sized cash crunched has to implement ESB what are the options it has" or rather who should it be married to. Any thoughts

Tons of ESB from various players are in the market IBM, MSFT, Oracle , SAP but remember its a cash crunched company which requires the ESB. I can provide more details on the technical side. The idea is to throw ope...

A while ago (asked Sep 18 at 14:34) I asked a question on StackOverflow. I'm pretty sure I could have found the answer via Google myself but it is so much eaasier to ask someone else to do the work for me and perhaps come up with the better answer.

The question was.

Why can’t string be mutable in java and .net

Why is it that they decided ...