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In this article, I'll describe how the Microsoft Hadoop on Windows Azure project eases big data analytics for data-oriented developers and provide brief summaries of free SaaS previews that aid ...

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In-Depth Visual Studio 2010: Enabling ALM Visual Studio 2010 seriously raised the bar for application lifecycle management. From test and debug to team-based collaboration and project management, here ...

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I'll show you some templates for WinForms applications and how to use threads to solve some common issues. I'll also address some of the problems multiple threads can give you believe me, the world of ...

Benefits of Web-based apps include a lower cost of ownership due to central deployment and maintenance, as well as client/operating system independence. At the same time, Web interfaces are becoming ...

When working with priority queues, you must be careful to be consistent with the interpretation of the meaning of the priority values. In this example, and in the majority of algorithms that use ...

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The Data Science Lab Principal Component Analysis (PCA) from Scratch Using the Classical Technique with C# Transforming a dataset into one with fewer columns is more complicated than it might seem, ...