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Sensor architecture: A call for a common API
Smartphones can have around 18 or so sensors. Using Bluetooth you could other sensors. ...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/19/2012
Built in antivirus on Windows 8
If you don’t have an antivirus on your Windows 8 machine, then the free security essentials will be...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 04/16/2012
Scaling to different screens in Windows 8
Just finished reading one of the B8 blogs on how Windows 8 will scale to different screen...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/22/2012
5 top links: Security in Windows 8
Wow, Security in Windows 8 is going to move the needle. Here are 5 of the links I Protecting you...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 03/19/2012
5 Links for Securing Silverlight
When my page views are extremely positive, it is time to discuss security, why? Because security is...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/27/2012
Free NSA Guidance for Addressing Malicious Code Risk and vocabulary list
Yep, that’s NSA as in National Security Agency, and you don’t have to burn it after reading! ...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/23/2012
Free samples that help you get started with Azure
[This blog should be viewed from https://blogs.msdn.com/socal-sam] If you want to be a Software...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/22/2012
Developer, Development and Virtualization
In my blog: Virtualization is virtually important for your developer virtual skills, really I...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/14/2012
Quant? Quant? Kalman Filter and Baynesian for Finance all in one blog post?
What is a Quant? A Quant or sometimes Rocket Scientists is an information specialist who is...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/10/2012
Costa Concordia: Modeling ships using FORTRAN in EXCEL? REALLY!
The tragedy of the Costa Concordia really got me to thinking about models and simulations. ...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/09/2012
OS Command Injection
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') See this...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 02/08/2012
Costa Concordia: Control System Synthesis using a submarine as a model
In my previous blog about Software Engineering/Architecture/Vaguely Organized...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/25/2012
Costa Concordia Series: Ship Design, Software Architecture and the search for the lost FORTRAN
Wow, it’s the fountain of youth! I just compiled my first FORTRAN Program in this...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/23/2012
Costa Concordia: Mathematical Model of the Submarine
Hopefully the Costa Concordia won’t become a submarine, but the only ready control system...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/23/2012
Costa Concordia: The Goals of Software Architecture
With the tragedy of the Costa Concordia, design with the human in the control loop comes to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/20/2012
SKYDRIVE designed to use HTML5! Get rid of that thumbdrive
The SkyDrive interface takes advantage of HTML5 browser support to speed up the processing of ...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/20/2012
How to add a shared calendar to your MSN/Hotmail Calendar
If you need a quick instructions on how to add a calendar that someone sent to you: If you haven’t...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 01/19/2012
Software Architecture: Many ways for the beginner, only a few for the master
Check out this video about Software Architecture, it is 28 minutes, but gives a good overview of...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/26/2011
Browser security: Chrome has the most security vulnerabilities
Well, I did my occasional checking up on browser security over the past three months with the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/24/2011
Dennis Ritchie, creator of C programming language, passes away
Wow, I remember wearing out a few of the K&R books, and for the old people like me you know what...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 10/17/2011
Team Foundation SERVICES, not server
Oh thank you demi-gods of program management, Team Foundation Server being offered as a...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 09/20/2011
LightSwitch: Infopath, Browsers and Scalability
One of my friends, who doesn’t normally read this blog, as the following questions of a thread that...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/29/2011
I read the articles on MSDN and I can’t get the sample code to work!
Yep. Did you know that you are suppose to know where to go to find the samples? The...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/24/2011
Test, Test and test some more testers are needed and the universities don’t produce many
Even the Universities leadership admits that getting the knowledge about significant test...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/19/2011
Bing Maps and LightSwitch
Can you use Bing Maps with LightSwitch? Here is a entry (which I only read and didn’t test, so...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/17/2011
LightSwitch: why get started using LightSwitch?
Getting Started With LightSwitch, using your data has never been easier. Yeah...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/15/2011
Fundamentals of Desktop Development
You might be thinking that sometimes this blog gets a little complicated and you need to get up to...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 08/11/2011
Free SDK: Visio SDK
Wow, is there a more ignored Office product than Visio? Yes there is, Publisher. But Visio is really...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/31/2011
Free SDK: EXCEL programming tools and SDK
Head over to the Excel Developer Center and find out how to utilize the SDK to expand and simplify...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/30/2011
Free SDK: Project 2010 SDK
MS Project is an important management tool that has only a small number of developers, so the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/29/2011
Free SDK: Windows Phone SDK 7.1
Link>>> Installing the Windows Phone SDK Really do you need anything else? Just follow the...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/28/2011
Free SDK: Windows SDK
If you download any SDK this summer this is the one you should definitely download!...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/27/2011
Free SDK from Microsoft: Get the Latest DirectX SDK
If you want to learn how to program graphics, prepare for work in the game industry, or just learn...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/25/2011
Free SDK, Free Hosting (sort of): Bing Map SDK and hosting by Bing.COM
Is there a bigger secret than the Bing Map SDK? Even when you talk to people inside of...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/22/2011
Free SDK from Microsoft: PHP Azure SDK
WOW! Use your knowledge of PHP with Azure by downloading this “fresh” (as of May 26, 2011) SDK....
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/20/2011
Free SDK from Microsoft: Facebook C# SDK
The Facebook SDK needed updating for sometime and it is freshly updated as of 7/11/2011. ...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/18/2011
Free SDK from Microsoft: Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office
Blah Blah from site: Open XML is an open ECMA 376 standard and is also approved as the ISO/IEC 29500...
Author: Surf4Fun Date: 07/16/2011