You guys took too long so I went ahead and got the Violin myself. I'm still curious what it would take to get something out of this community though. How about this, a project of some sort: using whatever technologies you want be it JavaScript, Silverlight, WPF or just plain ol' web programming. We...

As multi-core CPUs become more and more common, the ability to write quality software that takes advantage of them will become more important. The tools currently available are not adequate to this task. We are seeing a few things emerge to help solve the problem. One good example is the shift back...

I've talked about this before, and I don't want to go over the same issues a second time. However, I recently had a project where I finally spent a few weeks in C#, with no VB work at all. At last, I had a chance to develop a deeper familiarity with C#. Maybe I would learn something new. The result?...