Jack of all trades; Master of one.
If he were a presidential candidate, they’d call him a "flip-flopper." But don’t let that bother you. I tend to respect people who change their opinions when times change and/or when they learn new things. And so it is with Dan Appleman, owner of Desaware, partner in APress, and author of a slew of excellent books …
Continue reading “Things that make you go “Hmmm”, or “Why Dan does blog after all””
As far as I’m concerned, .NET Rocks! (and I’m not talking about Carl Franklin’s radio show.) I’ve programmed on many different platforms and in many different languages and studied many more than that, and as far as I see .NET blows everything else out of the water. Though I’ve never actually used Java or J2EE, …
Continue reading “VARBusiness’ Love Letter to Microsoft’s .NET”
Though my blog has been quiet for several days, it doesn’t mean I haven’t been working on online projects. Since I launched it over a week ago, http://www.dotnetinfluencers.org/ has taken a lot of my time, but it is coming along better than I had hoped for! If you not familiar with what I’m doing over …
Continue reading “My blog’s been quiet, but dotNetInfluencers.org has not been…”
On Monday July 5th, 2004 I blogged about a project on which I was working. That project was a Wiki based on FlexWiki located at www.dotNetInfluencers.org, and it is now live and public on the Internet. Click Purpose and Goals to read what I’m attempting to accomplish with dotNetInfluencers.org. If you are cynical and believe …
Coordinating the Congregation of Co-Equal Cognoscenti for Consorting and Consumption of Comestibles; otherwise known as: www.geekdinner.com :-)
I’m a categorization junkie. I have always been that way. If I’m interested in something I go out and research ad-nauseum, and then create exhaustive categorized and cross-referenced lists. I think that’s why I like databases and XML and data-driven websites. There’s something fundamentally satisfying about having data in a format that it can be …
Continue reading “Announcing my Latest Project! (Well almost…I need some help first)”
Last Wednesday I blogged about how bigger companies, like Dell and Sony, do a poor job of providing a rapid response to online orders and customer concerns. However, I was hasty in my blogging and need to (partially) apologize to Dell (but not Sony in this case.) The computer arrived on Monday, one day after I …
Via Scoble, Mike of HackingNetflix.com blogs about Bloggers & Corporate Public Relations Departments. Seems Mike’s site is a(n oddly naming) tribute site to NetFlix, yet when Mike asked to be on their press list they declined, and when he asked them to support an "Ask Netflix" column on his website they wouldn’t return his calls …
I have a new employee starting on Friday and needed a new computer. Generally I like to buy from Dell because they keep all system info online for future retrieval. So yesterday (Monday, June 21st, 2004) I went online to Dell’s Outlet and selected a pre-built system and requested it to be shipped Fedex Saver …
Continue reading “Often, Big Companies Suck when compared to Smaller Ones”
Disclaimer: I run a company (Xtras.Net) that sells .NET components and other programming tools so this topic significantly affects my own livelihood as well as that of my company. Over the past 10 years, since we launched our first printed VBxtras catalog, the state of Windows-based programming has changed. In those days most Windows programmers wrote …
Continue reading “Where do you buy your .NET Components and other Programming Tools?”