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Microsoft Confirmed Phasing Out of XNA But DirectX is OK

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Microsoft have already confirmed that they have already phased out their Direct X Programs but clarifies that XNA is up and running. According to Promit Roy, the technical lead at the Action Equals Equation Labs, the man who made the first email public announcing that Microsoft Phases our XNA and DirectX. Rumors have already spread among the developers that the DirectX is no longer evolving a

How Algorithms Changed the World (Infographic)

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An infographic prepared and posted by the College Degree Search, shows the impact of programming to the human civilization. The infographic "How Algorithms Change the World" was designed to generate some enthusiasm among students to study the most important subject of all, that is, programming. There's an indisputable argument that software has touched most things in the modern world, but you

Hadoop Tutorials Launched by Hortonworks

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Hortonworks announced a sandbox environment for Hadoop which aimed at giving new users and easy way to learn how to use Hadoop. The Hortonworks Sandox is designed to be an easy-to-use environment for learning Apache Hadoop. The program is a free download for a complete, self contained virtual machine with Apache Hadoop pre-configured. With the Hortonworks Sandbox you can also get a Web interface

Convert MyISAM to InnoDB

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MyISAM and InnoDB is a storage engine of MySQL. If you have large databases and have lots of traffic on your website, you will probably encounter a CPU load problem due to table locking features of MyISAM. I created this article to share my problem on several website that I owned including sourcecodester.com. Almost every day I am worried about the load that MySQL is generating on my server’s CPU

Google Advanced Power Searching Course Announced

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The Advanced Power Searching is the follow-up course by Google after the success of Power Searching Course conducted by the technology giant company. Google Search Researcher, Dan Russell will be back in front of the video camera for a further set of sessions in which participants will be asked to compete twelve challenges. According to the data from previous course, almost 99 percent of those who

Windows 8 OS Sold More than 60 Million Licenses

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The hottest operating system (OS) from tech giant Microsoft, the Windows 8 OS have already sold more than 60 Million Licenses. The announcement was made during the 11th Annual J.P. Morgan Tech Forum at CES 2013 on January 8, 2013 (ET). According to Windows Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer Tami Reller, the 60 Million figures represents cumulative sales of Windows 8 including both

Santiago Gonzales: 14-year-old Programmer Next Steve Jobs (Video)

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A fourteen-year-old programmer, named Santiago Gonzales, made some media buzz after he was featured in Prodigies, a YouTube video series by ThinkrTV. Prodigies is a bi-weekly series showcasing the youngest and brightest as they challenge themselves to reach new heights and the stories behind them. Santiago Gonzales is a 14-year-old programmer and software developer who was seen by many experts to

C# vs Visual Basic .NET

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This article will explain about the two well-known languages that exist today – C# and VB.NET. Though I am a Visual Basic fanatic, I don’t want to recommend that VB is better than C#. Some of the C/C++ programmer would argue that C# is the best language compare to VB.NET. Well, if we go back 10 years ago, this notion is sometimes correct. But of course it would defend on the application that you

Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer is Back

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Microsoft announced the latest set of Microsoft Developer certifications. MCSD stands for Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer can be earned in three specialisms. As developers, you may be familiar with Microsoft accreditation over the years, MCSD covered the earlier version of Visual Studio. For the Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 Microsoft which introduced a twin-tier certification track -

HTML5.0 Complete Definition Published by W3C

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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has finally published the complete definition of HTML5 and Canvas 2D specifications. Although the definitions are not considered as W3C Standards but the specifications are feature complete. It represents a degree of stability that will help all concerned web designers and developers community worldwide. For the past few years the lack of standard definition for