I just had an epiphany! (So everyone, go ahead and send me 50 links that I personally have yet to run across where others have already suggested this. :) I’ve always wanted to review key numbers related to my company’s permformance on a periodic basis; i.e. each day, each week, and each month, etc. I …
D-I-Y Steadycam
I noticed Richard S. Tallent, II referenced a do-it-yourself steadcam project by Johnny Chung Lee of Carnegie Melon University, which was ironic for me as I went looking at digital camcorders today. At first I thought Johnny was making a joke, but after reading the page it looks real (great video clips shown using it.) Maybe …
Lhotka: SOA a Big Train Wreck Just Waiting to Derail
Rocky Lhotka has some sobering things to say about the hype surrounding Service Oriented Architectures, or SOA. He says SOA is about crossing trust boundaries but thinks (consultants will counsel) people to use it within apps and replace their tiers with SOA concepts. This he says will cause huge problems: SOA is going to cost …
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Scoble’s Corporate Blogger Manifesto
Another item for my favorite’s list is Robert Scoble’s Corporate Weblog Manifesto.
RSS Version History
I found that Don Box referenced a couple of great RSS version histories at Harvard and Microsoft. I’m blogging about them so I personally can find them next time I want to read them. :)
A Couple of my Favorite Utilities
My favorite Blog Reader: SharpReader, of course. :) It turned one year old this month. My favorite Windows Utility (possibly of all time): FinePrint Much more than just a utility for printing two-up on a page; it is print driver that provides a full print preview and print management utility. Microsoft should pay them tons of money and …
A Microprocessor that runs .NET IL?
I just saw this at CNET: IBM speeds Java on mainframes. The first line of the article reads: The zSeries Application Assist Processor (zAAP) is essentially a dedicated processor for Java applications. Made me think: Hmm. Wouldn’t a microprocessor that runs .NET IL be cool? I would assume it would be possible. I wonder if …
What Should ComponentOne Have Done?
At this point, because of my posts here, here, here, here, and here, and the fact my company is a reseller of components at VBxtras and Xtras.Net, you probably think me to be a shill for the component industry. Unfortunately, I’m far too idealistic for that to be true. :-) I think ComponentOne was …
Be Careful or you Will Become what you Most Despise
I have been reading Robert McLaws and commenting about his posts for a few days. I was generally commenting about his ComponentOne post and about how from his many posts and his company website how he appears to be a champion for lower prices components. And in many ways I am in agreement with him. …
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Different Component Vendors for Different Developers?
When I started VBxtras in 1994, it was partly because I felt component software was too expensive and I wanted to do something about it. Why? If I couldn’t afford to use it as an independent developer, it was too expensive. I sense Robert McLaws has similar views to the ones I had in 94 …
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