This is our statement in response to the two most common questions sent to us by journalists following our disclosure to Virgin Media of a breach on 28th of February. This included personal information corresponding to approximately nine hundred thousand UK re…
March 6, 2020
I have been curious about data compression and the Zip file format in particular for a long time. At some point I decided to address that by learning how it works and writing my own Zip program. The implementation turned into an exciting programming exercise; …
There are three ways to create variables in a JavaScript application: using var, using let, or using const. This will not be a post trying to convince you which one you should use, or arguing about what is best. It’s just good to know about the differences and…
While the drug is known to increase focus, alertness and motor skills, its effect on creative thinking had not been studied previously.
renderman (RenderMan) is now on Keybase, an open source app for encryption and cryptography.
This blog post was co-authored by Nikisha Reyes-Grange, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure Marketing. Introducing Azure Cosmos DB Free Tier Looking to build a new app, develop and test, or run small production workloads with Azure Cosmos DB? Our new Free …
Microsoft has asked its employees who can work from home to do so due to the impact of COVID-19. Despite this meaning a reduced need for many of the hourly workers vital to our daily operations, we’ve decided that Microsoft will continue to pay their regular p…
Facebook has an interesting feature. It will let you see which companies have associated your off-Facebook activity with your Facebook account. If you visit: you’ll see what companies are sni…
Deep Learning (DL) algorithms are the central focus of modern machine learning systems. As data volumes keep growing, it has become customary to train large neural networks with hundreds of millions of parameters to maintain enough capacity to memorize these v…
I recently accepted a new role at Microsoft as Senior Program Manager for .NET Data. This post explains the history behind the decision, what I'll be doing and how you can help.
I haven't tried a new search engine since I tried Bing in 2009. It was time to find out how good DuckDuckGo is in 2020. What was the biggest difference that I found?
pCP is a high quality audio player via Squeezelite. The use of a DAC will greatly improve sound quality (up to to 384 kHz /24 bit). The player can be controlled via touch screen, phone, tablet, iPad, computer or IR/USB remote control. If you add more players y…
The extensible music server
What would it take these days to build a prototype of a new language and operating system built on top of it, just for fun? This idea started to emerge during the 2018 winter holidays:...
This is the first part of the blog post series about The Odyssey of Stark and Melody and more specifically, about the development of the syntax of the Stark language and its front-end compiler, based...
Krisp is a superior noise cancelling app that mutes background noise in real time calls. With one click it removes all extraneous noises for incoming and outgoing calls.
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Should you eager or lazy load navigation properties in your Aggregate Root? The answer is neither by using queries without Repositories or Aggregate Roots.
Explore how C# 8 lets us express whether a variable shouldn’t be null, and when it can be null.
In this time of the Corona Virus and COVID-19, Microsoft has taken the unprecedented move of shutting down their ...
Millions of tiny databases, Brooker et al., NSDI’20 This paper is a real joy to read. It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of …
We are excited to announce that we have released a major update to the PowerShell extension for Visual Studio Code. This release contains months of architectural work that first shipped in our PowerShell Preview extension in November of 2019, along with increm…
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> “Command line interfaces. Once that was all we had. Then they disappeared, replaced by what we thought was a great advance: GUIs. GUIs…
The software as a service—or SaaS—market is going gangbusters.