Maarten88

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   by Maarten88 13y ago

   You program "Apps" for it that work very much like Facebook Apps. It's all web standards: get an oath token with sufficient scope from the user and then use the new _api to get data in and out. .net, Azure and javascript are
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   by Maarten88 13y ago

   It is probably a wise move for them to move to Linux, having many other systems running Linux too. But Windows security is a poor argument imo. If they had upgraded to Vista in 2008 (which was working quite well by then), or had better mana
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   by Maarten88 13y ago

   Clearly Microsoft has started this trend toward flat design and away from skeuomorphic design. Mcrosoft calls this authenticly digital" in their talks and documentation on the metro design language [1]. It's funny that blogs and articles ab
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   by Maarten88 13y ago

   Please hold the disk in front of your Kinect controller... Activation code found. Activating your game... Done!
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   by Maarten88 13y ago

   > Does Microsoft have an open messaging protocol that I don't know of? Even better, they support an standard called SIP. [1] > Or an open source operating system? Or an open source browser? They believe in open standards more than o
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   by Maarten88 13y ago

   Lync's native protocol is SIP, a standard that Google could also have adopted years ago, but they went with the more modern and 'better' competing XMPP standard. Microsoft went through a lot of problems implementing SIP it for Lync and its
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   by Maarten88 14y ago

   Azure Mobile Services - http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/
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   by Maarten88 14y ago

   Second that. The recently updated Visual Studio Tools come with new MVC templates for single page apps using Durandal, which is based on Knockout and Sammy. There is also a node.js package and skeleton of Durandal. Durandal adds the missing
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   by Maarten88 14y ago

   I was reading it on a Surface tablet using Metro-IE10 and thought the design and navigation were very slick. It works very well on it, every page starts with a fullscreen image, scrolling down the text appears while the image fades, at the
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    by Maarten88 14y ago

    Azure Websites also offer Node.js hosting [1], and they have a free plan for small (development) sites. Paid plans there seem more expensive. [1] http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/nodejs/
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    by Maarten88 14y ago

    I ran it too and came to the same conclusion: problem in the original comparison is that CPU usage of the node version never gets over 40% on my laptop, while the .NET version uses 100%. Using Array.sort() makes little difference. Adding th
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    by Maarten88 14y ago

    I'm quite happy with my Surface RT. I use it every day, mostly for browsing and watching video. I agree with the article that Metro-IE10 is very very good on the Surface in tablet mode. Good apps are coming slowly. But Word, Excel and even
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    by Maarten88 14y ago

    System.Transactions refers to support by RavenDB of the Distributed Transaction Coordinator service on Windows. This makes it possible to enlist transactions in multiple systems (MSSQL, MSMQ, RavenDB, NServiceBus) in one single transaction
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    by Maarten88 14y ago

    That remark seems a bit unfair. That document is two years old, from long before version 1.0. RavenDB is now at version 2.0. It was also built with transaction support from the start. The default setting for TransactionMode is Safe ( http:/