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A Disappointment with PPTPlex

I did a presentation this afternoon on some of the basic functions of WCF. I had put a slide deck together using a new Microsoft Office add-in called PPTPlex . You can see demos of what this add-in does in the provided link, but basically is allows for Read More...

Writing is done, so back to the blogging

The two or three of you who follow my blog with regularity will have noticed that I was dark for most of the summer. The reason was that I was in the process of writing a book. Co-writing, would be more accurate, but still long hours were spent pounding Read More...

More Ways to Avoid the Second System Effect

Dare Obasanjo had an interesting post yesterday on the Second System Effect in software development. For those who are unaware, the second system effect is a term first coined by Frederick Brooks in The Mythical Man Month . It deals with (in general) Read More...

SQL CLR Configuration - A Head Slapping Moment

This post is basically a reminder to a future me. The client I'm working with right now (basically an ISV) is using SQL Express as part of their project. And included in their database are a number of CLR stored procedures. In other words, the stored Read More...

A New Recruiting Drive

ObjectSharp has been growing quite steadily for the past little while. But winning a couple of recent contracts have begun to strain our seemingly unending supply of high-end talent. For this reason (and to get some fresh blood and ideas into the company), Read More...

The Cost of Migrating from VB6

Recently, a question regarding the cost associated with migrating from VB6 to VB.NET was asked by one of our clients. Since that is a question whose answer has a broader appeal than just to the asker, I thought I would replicate my response here. It should Read More...

Steve Ballmer Keynote - 2

Continuing from the previous post Guy commented on how Microsoft is different. Responsive, helpful and a change from what Microsoft's image has been historically. Some questions from the audience On Adobe They are a big competitor in some areas. Specifically Read More...

Steve Ballmer Keynote - 1

The keynote is actually an interview between Guy Kawasaki (as interviewer) and Steve (as interviewee). A number of interesting points. Regarding competing with Google Of the four areas in which Microsoft is focused, Google is really only present in one Read More...

Ray Ozzie Keynote - 2

The idea behind the concept of connected devices is to create software to provide a personal device mesh using the Internet as a hub. By having a central personal data store, complete with synchronization, the devices will become much more a part of 'you'. Read More...

Ray Ozzie's Keynote - 1

If you want to know why Microsoft made the play for Yahoo, look no further than one of the three main focuses that Ray Ozzie sees for the near future. He expects on-line ad revenues to double to $80B annually over the next two years. And to not make such Read More...
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