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  Microsoft Azure as a driver for efficient programming Microsoft announced Azure at the PDC yesterday, and it's got me thinking in all kinds of directions. I've been an occasional visitor to StackOverflow.com since it launched a while ago. I can't say I've been an active participant - my reputation is... 10-28-2008, 4:58 AM by martin to Martin Parry

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  Some Thoughts on Software Performance In recent years I've done quite a bit of performance and scalability testing of apps on the Microsoft platform.  I know plenty of people who are more knowledgeable about software performance than I am, but at the same time a little knowledge about... 10-27-2008, 12:17 PM by martin to Martin Parry

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  Mac vs. PC I have a Mac.  Nothing fancy, just a small MacBook.  I don't think it was a reaction to leaving Microsoft.  In fact, I dual-boot it with Windows Vista.  I need Vista because I am a Windows developer, after all.  Having said that,... 10-14-2008, 2:04 PM by martin to Martin Parry

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  Microsoft's Bad TV Advertising I just saw one of the latest batch of Microsoft TV adverts (I'm in the UK by the way).  As usual, it's banal, and leaves me wondering what the heck it was trying to say.  For such a wealthy company, Microsoft has some shockingly-bad TV commercials. ... 10-14-2008, 1:59 PM by martin to Martin Parry

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  Source Code Management Changes I currently spend a lot of time working on a development project with a client, and on that project we recently changed our source control system.  We were originally using ClearCase, and it's hard to be too critical of ClearCase.  I mean, it's... 09-25-2008, 5:24 AM by martin to Martin Parry