Python News: PyGotham Deadline for Proposals

The deadline for proposals for PyGotham II, June 8-9 is May 30. Please submit proposals to the pygotham.org site.

Python News: Portable Python 2.7.3.1 relased

Portable Python 2.7.3.1 has been released based on Python 2.7.3 with the biggest set of included libraries in the history of Portable Python.

MSDN Magazine RSS Feed: Talk Back: Voice Response Workflows with Speech Server 2007

April 2008

Speech Server 2007 lets you create sophisticated voice-response applications with Microsoft .NET Framework and Visual Studio tool integration. Here’s how.

MSDN Magazine RSS Feed: Performance: Scaling Strategies for ASP.NET Applications

April 2008

Performance problems can creep into your Web app as it scales up, and when they do, you need to find the causes and the best strategies to address them.

MSDN Magazine RSS Feed: Silverlight: Building Advanced 3D Animations with Silverlight 2.0

April 2008

Animating with Silverlight is easier than you think. Here we create a 3D app that folds a polyhedron using XAML, C#, and by emulating the DirectX math libraries.

MSDN Magazine RSS Feed: Interview++: Bjarne Stroustrup on the Evolution of Languages

April 2008

Howard Dierking talks to the inventor of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup, about language zealots, the evolution of programming, and what’s in the future of programming.

MSDN Magazine RSS Feed: Office Development: Manage Metadata with Document Information Panels

April 2008

Here the author uses Document Information Panels in the Microsoft 2007 Office system to manipulate metadata from Office docs for better discovery and management.

MSDN Magazine RSS Feed: Editor's Note: A Service-Oriented Editor's Note

April 2008

Here is what Howard Dierking has to say about the differences between services and distributed applications and how he has approached services in his projects.

MSDN Magazine RSS Feed: Toolbox: Logging Web App Errors, Learning LINQ, and More

April 2008

See how to log Web application errors for better health monitoring, what to read if you’re thinking about LINQ, and which blog Scott recommends reading this month.

MSDN Magazine RSS Feed: Sustainable Computing: Imagine Cup 2008: Competing for Change

April 2008

For the 2008 Imagine Cup, students have been challenged to use technology to enable a sustainable environment. Finalists in the U.S. competition recently presented their solutions in Los Angeles, and MSDN Magazine was there to see the innovative ideas participants have come up with.

MSDN Magazine RSS Feed: CLR Inside Out: Measure Early and Often for Performance, Part 1

April 2008

In this month’s column, get the inside scoop on how to build performance into your apps from the start, rather than dealing with the fallout after you deploy them.

MSDN Magazine RSS Feed: Basic Instincts: My Namespace Extensions with My Extensibility

April 2008

In this month’s column, learn how to integrate your own My Namespace extension into the Visual Basic development environment using the My Extensibility feature.

MSDN Magazine RSS Feed: Cutting Edge: ListView Tips and Tricks

April 2008

This month, use nested ListView controls to create hierarchical views of data and extend the eventing model of the ListView by deriving a custom ListView class.

MSDN Magazine RSS Feed: Foundations: Code Access Security in WCF, Part 1

April 2008

Here we discuss code-access security in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and present a solution for enabling partially trusted clients for WCF services.

MSDN Magazine RSS Feed: Test Run: Testing SQL Stored Procedures Using LINQ

April 2008

Language Integrated Query makes lots of things easier. Here we put LINQ, or more specifically the LINQ to SQL provider, to use testing SQL stored procedures.

MSDN Magazine RSS Feed: Service Station: Building a WCF Router, Part 1

April 2008

Here we take a look at WCF clients and services, and explain how to tweak the addressing and message filtering behaviors so you can route services between them.

MSDN Magazine RSS Feed: Windows with C++: Windows Imaging Component Basics

April 2008

Windows Imaging Component (WIC) is an extensible framework for encoding, decoding, and manipulating images. See how to use WIC to encode and decode different image formats.

MSDN Magazine RSS Feed: Going Places: Provisioning Mobile Devices

April 2008

Learn how you can set up every mobile device in your company with a few lines of code and some XML--thanks to the provisioning APIs in the Windows Mobile SDK.

MSDN Magazine RSS Feed: { End Bracket }: The Magic of Software

April 2008

Are the transparent computer screens in the movie Minority Report or the flashy fingerprint analysis software programs used on CSI closer than we think? Maybe so.

Google Open Source Blog: Macedonia Google Summer of Code meetups are a success

Congratulations to everyone who was accepted for Google Summer of Code 2012! I hope we have a great summer, and write some free, clean, reusable code.

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