You can use the DynamicMethod class to generate and execute a method at run time, without having to generate a dynamic assembly and a dynamic type to contain the method. The executable code created by the just-in-time (JIT) compiler is reclaimed when the DynamicMethod object is reclaimed. Dynamic methods are the most efficient way to generate and execute small amounts of code.

A dynamic method can be anonymously hosted, or it can be logically associated with a module or with a type.

Source: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.reflection.emit.dynamicmethod.aspx

.NET version: 2.0,3.0,3.5

Google is beginning to ramp up its information indexing efforts to the point where nothing and no-one is safe. In addition to making some headway into indexing the Deep Web, Googlebots are now also indexing whois domain information. For webmasters, whois needs no introduction. For those of you who don’t own a website, an introduction will be necessary.

Source: http://www.googletutor.com/2008/04/19/google-starts-indexing-whois-domain-information/

"Ranger" Supercomputer Marks New Era for Petascale Science NSF, TACC dedicate most powerful supercomputer for open science 2008-02-22     Faith Singer-Villalobos AUSTIN, Texas -- Ranger, the most powerful supercomputing system in the world for open science research, today will be dedicated by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. This first-of-its-kind system entered full production on Feb. 4. Ranger’s deployment marks the beginning of the Petascale Era in high-performance computing (HPC) where systems will approach a thousand trillion floating point operations per second and manage a thousand trillion bytes of data. Ranger is the largest HPC computing resource on the NSF TeraGrid, a nationwide network of academic HPC centers that provides scientists and researchers access to large-scale computing power and resources. Ranger will provide more than 500 million processor hours of computing time to the science community, performing more than 200,000 years of computational work over its four-year lifetime.  "Ranger is the first of the new 'Path to Petascale' systems that NSF provides to open science. It is out in front on the pathway to sustained petascale performance," said Daniel Atkins, director of the NSF's Office of Cyberinfrastructure. "This system and others to come underscore NSF's commitment to world-class, high-performance computing ensuring that the U.S. is a leader in computational science. No longer used by a handful of elite researchers in a few research communities on select problems, advanced computing has become essential to the way science and engineering research and education are accomplished."

 

 

Soruce: http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/ta/ta_display.php?ta_id=100379

One of my colleague who is in ASP.NET, mortgage application testing asked me "i am want to move to C++ application testing, how its different from .NET application testing and do i need to know the language, or does it metters at all?"

It took me infinite time to come up with an answer. I didn’t had an answer so give her an example "When i was working on Mac OS X C++ Client-Server application the tester use to pull out the network cable while document changes being transferred from client to server."

So i came up with answer, yes it is different. But after putting a lot of though i believe i was wrong.

there is no different between .NET and C++. .NET is no magic, we might still have network errors. Only difference is handling and processing of these errors are inside the .NET library. passionate people at MS has alrady tested and validate that piece of code and we need not to test it again.


A Product!
Can you come up with a product which will show wot function area one need to test and what not (Testing leads need to business rules to test in that himself) based on language used for product.

For example:
what to test when code is in VB6
what for C++, Mac C++ or cross platform CPP
What when migrating from .NET to JAVA, JAVA to .NET
or even ASP.NET to Silverlight.


Market!

there are a lot of testers and test plans written every day. But since this is going to be a new approach for testing i'd say the market size is Zero
and i'd also say free software fits well in zero size markets

 

Lately i have been in and out of the systems. It feels good to be in : +

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