Mike James

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United Kingdom , joined 08 Oct 2008

Latest articles

• Deep C# - avoiding race conditions

  by Mike James

  Mike James explores the perils of multi-threading and explores ways of staying safe in a multi-core environment.

• Documentation made easy with C# and XML

  by Mike James

  Of course you want to document your code, but how many of us do? Mike James thinks that coding and documenting can go hand-in-hand.

• Pointers on pointers

  by Mike James

  Mike James discusses pointers, and concludes that they are often unsafe and generally best avoided.

• Regular expressions in C# - the director's cut

  by Mike James

  If you think regular expressions are trivial and boring, Mike James reveals that in .NET they are amazing powerful and not to be missed.

• LINQ-ing to XML

  by Mike James

  XML, which is all about tree structures, and LINQ, which is all about querying collections, might not seem to fit together, but Mike James explains that they work together just fine.

• Introducing Python for .NET - IronPython

  by Mike James

  Is it a dead parrot or does it fly? Mike James looks at IronPython and asks if it really is something completely different.

• Take Exception to everything

  by Mike James

  Mike James delves deep into the topic of exception handling.

• IronRuby - portrait of a dynamic language

  by Mike James

  Ruby and IronRuby are fashionable at the moment, which raises the question of what makes them so interesting. Mike James paints a picture of the essential Ruby.

• Full BlackBerry Java

  by Mike James

  If you need to create an application that fully exploits the facilities of a BlackBerry handheld device you need to move to creating Java ME applications from scratch. Mike James describes just how easy it can be.

• The RAD route to BlackBerry applications

  by Mike James

  How easy can it be to create an application for a handheld device? With the BlackBerry RAD approach you don't have to trade power for simplicity.

Latest news

• IASA launches certification programme

  Published 10 years ago by Mike James

  The UK chapter of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) has launched a certification programme for IT architects.

• Azure pay-as-you-go

  Published 11 years ago by Mike James

  Microsoft has announced pay-as-you-go and contract payment models for its Windows Azure cloud computing service.

• Multimedia visualisation for SCM

  Published 11 years ago by Mike James

  The 2009.1 release of Perforce's Software Configuration Management (SCM) system has support for previewing web pages and multimedia files.

• Proof of Life? Azure does Mars

  Published 11 years ago by Mike James

  Anyone with a Web browser can become a Martian explorer courtesy of Azure and NASA.

• New AppFabric

  Published 11 years ago by Mike James

  Cloud computing continues to develop with additions to Azure announced at PDC 2009.

• Silverlight 4 beta

  Published 11 years ago by Mike James

  Silverlight 4 beta, announced at PDC, is hot on the heels of Silverlight 3 released only four months ago.

• Office 2010 and companions reach public beta

  Published 11 years ago by Mike James

  Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, Project 2010, Office Mobile 2010 and Office Web Apps for business customers have all been released as public betas.

• New controls for DXperience

  Published 11 years ago by Mike James

  DXGrid is just one of the new WPF controls in Developer Express' second major product update this year.

• New BlackBerry web developer tools

  Published 11 years ago by Mike James

  Research In Motion has some new and enhanced tools for developing web applications for BlackBerry.

• Silverlight update

  Published 11 years ago by Mike James

  Microsoft has launched Silverlight 3 and Expression 3, introducing several features that it claims will enable development teams to create RIAs and media applications with capabilities not offered by competitors.