Congratulations to Paula Seling and Ovi who won the 3rd place in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. I linked the winning song too, but I think we could have actually won this year. The good things is that unlike previous years, the best songs ended at the top, even if the preferences order differs from person to person.
Hits for this post: 1206 .I am currently in Oslo for Visma Developer Days 2010, a conference for developers and QAs within Visma R&D and partners, which ended today. There were about 300 people here from five countries. I’ve attended very interesting keynotes on open software, HTML5, Silverlight 4, DITA and Documentation 2.0 and presentation on various topics, ranging from deployment, automated tests or writing sustainable APIs, to SQL Server profiler, meta programming with T4, and other related to company specific products or processes. I also delivered a short presentation on concurrency with a focus on the new parallel libraries and tools from Visual Studio 2010.
Here are some pictures from Oslo.
National day, celebrated on May 17, draws lots of people dressed in national costumes.
Paula Seling and Ovidiu Cernauteanu, Romanian contestants for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, rehearsing in front of the City Hall.
On board of Fram, the famous ship that made three trips to the Artic and Antarctic regions under Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup, and Roald Amundsen.
Today Microsoft release officially Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0, with five major release events and many others across the globe. You can download it from MSDN. Those that don’t have an MSDN subscription can try the evaluation versions available here. Express editions are still available for free and can be downloaded from here.
During past months I have wrote various posts about the changes and new features for Visual C++. A summary of these articles are available here.
An important change in Visual Studio 2010 is that F#, now at version 2.0, is bundled in the IDE, just as the other languages, C++, C# and VB.NET. After 7 years in development it had become a first class language with today’s release.
More information about the release can be found here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2010/04/11/announcing-visual-studio-2010-and-net-framework-4.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2010/04/12/f-2-0-released-as-part-of-visual-studio-2010.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2010/04/12/ship-it-visual-studio-2010-net-framework-4-now-available.aspx
Windows 7 RTM and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM are now available for download on MSDN for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Currently, the only available bits are in English. The other languages will become available on October 1st. Volume License customers with an existing Software Assurance license will be able to download the bits starting tomorrow.
For more information on these releases check the Windows Team Blog.
Update: Windows Server 2008 R2 is not yet available.
Hits for this post: 6388 .Romanians won two of the nine awards at the 2009 Imagine Cup in Cairo: Software Design, the most important category, won by Sytech team, Adrian Buzgar, Calin Juravle, Andreas Resios, and IT Challenge, won by Cosmin Ilie.
This year’s theme was “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the world’s toughest problems.” About 300.000 students from 142 countries took part in the 2009 competition.
I want to congratulate Adrian, Calin, Andreas and Cosmin for their achievement, but also all the other winners and finalists.
Update: Here is Somasegar talking about Imagine Cup 2009.
Hits for this post: 2541 .I am please to announce the launch of Sharparena.com, a developer community focused on the .NET framework and the # languages, C#, F# and J#.
This is an English site where you can ask questions about C#, F#, J# and the .NET framework in general, publish articles and stay up to date with news about the development on the .NET framework.
Here are some links:
On the main site you’ll find a series of FAQs about using the site. Consider reading the following for registering and publishing:
See you there!
Hits for this post: 4581 .In perioada 6-8 aprilie va avea loc la Bucuresti la sediul Uzinexport un training de Introducere in .NET, sponsorizat de Microsoft Romania. Dupa cum explica Zoli pe blogul sau, acest training este
dedicat programatorilor începatori, juniorilor din firmele de software, programatorilor de FoxPro, Visual Basic, Java, dar si programatorilor care nu au reusit sa treaca de primele versiuni de .NET (1.0, 1.1…). Sunt bineveniti si programatorii de aplicatii web, care dezvolta în PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl etc, si care vor sa se familiarizeze in ASP.NET, Silverlight si restul platformei Microsoft.
Subiectele tratate in curs vor fi:
Cursul fiind sponsorizat de Microsoft Romania, taxa de participare este de doar 150lei (lei noi, include TVA).
Informatii detaliate despre acest eveniment gasiti pe blog-ul lui Zoli.
Hits for this post: 7008 .On March 28, turn off lights for one hour starting at 20:30. This way you can tell the world leaders they have to take real action against the global warming and climate changes.
This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming. For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming. WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH and reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009. This meeting will determine official government policies to take action against global warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol. It is the chance for the people of the world to make their voice heard.
You can find all the details about this campaign at www.voteearth2009.org and www.earthhour.org.
Earth Hour 2009 by WWF – Sign up for Earth Hour!
Be one of the one billion people to turn off lights on March 28!
Hits for this post: 3732 .The MVP Global Summit 2009 is talking place between 1 -4 March in Seattle and Redmond. Its going to be over 700 sessions during these 4 days. Last two years it was really good and it will probably be the same this time too. I’ll be mostly focused on sessions with the Visual C++ team about the new features in Visual Studio 2010.
We are seven MVPs from Romania. Here is a picture from yesterday dinner.
Urmatoarea conferinta europeana PASS (Professional Association of SQL Server) va avea loc intre 22-24 Aprilie 2009 la Neuss in Germania. AXTI a obtinut un promo-code pentru membrii RONUA si DboDev (RO16F6). Cei interesati de a participa si a beneficia de aceasta reducere, vizitati blog-ul lui Aurelian, unde puteti afla mai multe informatii.
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