Month: January, 2008

Audi R8 - Wow

26 January, 2008 (20:27) | General |

My neighbor who writes for car magazines had this Audi R8 in his driveway. That is one sweet car.
420HP , 0-60 in 4.6 seconds. Base Price in the US about $110K - which is actually not bad for that sort of car. And it even looks pretty just sitting there. Audi really has […]

East German Restaurant in SF

22 January, 2008 (17:37) | General |

Most people who read this blog are familiar with my “other” claim to fame. Well it turns out that even though as they say “you can’t go back again” - meaning you cannot turn back time and revisit past points in your life, there are ways to have the next best thing. Here is a […]

The Microsoft Missing-In-Action Pack

22 January, 2008 (15:48) | General |

I can see why more and more developers refuse to deal with Microsoft and turn to open source tools. Today I had a first rate experience with MS corporate nonsense. As you may know, for almost a year I have been back in the world of software consulting. We have done really well in this […]

Yes Alice… WCF is fast

7 January, 2008 (19:16) | General |

Forgive the Honeymooners reference. I came across some statistics by Steve Maine that are quite noteworthy.
Now even if you take these numbers with a grain of salt, it looks like WCF is darn quick in comparison to Websphere. Actually its quick in comparison to ASMX web services as well. Something like 30%-50% faster. Nice. […]

Its good to know .NET

4 January, 2008 (17:01) | General |

“…Late last month, Info-Tech Research Group said its survey of 1,850 businesses found .Net the choice over Java among businesses of all sizes and industries, thanks to its promotion via Visual Studio and SharePoint. Microsoft is driving uptake of the .Net platform at the expense of Java,” says George Goodall, a senior research analyst at […]