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Antarctica: Eclipse Comes In From the Cold
Josh Reed discusses the Antarctic Geologic Drilling Program, and the important role that open source tools played.

Software Glitch Implicated in Mars Global Surveyor Failure
NASA Watch reports that NASA's Mars Global Surveyor stopped responding to commands a few months ago due to improperly coded software.

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The Tour de Converter
Hosts Mark Baker and Nik Hemdal take a whirlwind tour of the issues with converting between VB.NET and C# with Dave Doknjas of Tangible Software Solutions touching on C# to VB.NET challenges like case-sensitivity in symbols and special considerations with ASP.NET page translation. (MP3, 14:40 mins.)

Challenges in .NET Functional Equivalence
Hosts Mark Baker and Nik Hemdal chat with Dave Doknjas of Tangible Software Solutions about how automatic translation software can achieve the goal of functional equivalence and how syntactic peculiarities of VB.NET and C# can complicate this goal. (MP3, 15:05 mins.)

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Back to the Future with AJAX
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License to Code: Indemnifying Your Business against Open Source Licensing Liabilities
Many businesses widely use open source in commercial projects, but are blind to whats at stake when they distribute software that includes open source code. Read on and learn how to both protect your business and capitalize on opportunities when traversing the legal landscape of open source.

20 Years of LABVIEW Innovation
Learn the trends and evolution of an intuitive graphical programming language designed to remove time consuming programming tasks. Develop applications more efficiently and achieve reliable, real-time performance on multi-core processors.

Dataflow Programming for Multicore Systems
Implementing parallel applications can result in faster test measurements or improved loop rates in control applications. With dataflow programming, developers can write inherently parallel applications that map to parallel hardware for optimal per...

Automating Excel Reports: Five Java-based Approaches
Automating Excel Reports: Five Java-based Approaches

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