Development Ideas and Ramblings
I have lost interest in blogging. Consequently there are a lot less posts on my site. It seems the .NET dev landscape has changed. When I started blogging, every day brought some new adventure in .NET land. Lately the code that has been coming out of MS has left me a little cold. Take [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
“…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 [...]
I went to pick up a present this morning – in Beverly Hills. Had not been down Rodeo Dr. in a while. Its not my kind of place. Tourists like it though.
So there I was walking along Via Rodeo, with a gaggle of tourists from all over the world, seemingly the only people [...]
Just a quick link to Eilon Liptons Generic ASP.NET control. She asks ” Did you ever want to have a Repeater<Customer> control on your page? And its events were all strongly typed to recognize that each row was bound to a Customer object?”
Oren Eini has a post that doesn’t pull any punches. All I can say is ditto! At the same time I am so impressed with the direction Scott Guthrie has taken. Don’t know how he manages not to run into the same bureaucratic hassles but it seems that his team is making some good choices. [...]
A friend of mine sent a link for an MS KB – What to do when your computer starts to play classical music.