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 …
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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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 Responsibility the Component Vendor? Part 2, or Subscriptions vs. Bugs
Robert McLaws responded to my post from yesterday about the responsibility of component vendors. Robert’s comment reflected his view as a vendor (Robert sells components too, though my company hasn’t currently established a relationship with his company via Xtras.Net for no other reason than I just learned about his products.) Robert states: I believe that …
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Bug-Free Software?
I often read about buggy software and how vendors should be held accountable. Usually it is from someone writing is USA Today or the Wall Street Journal probably quoting a lawyer or policitian who has never programmed a day in their life, but I also hear it when the Linux zealots blast Windows. However what …
What Responsibility the Component Vendor?
I just read a disturbing post over at Robert McLaws‘ blog about ComponentOne. Full disclosure for those of you who are unaware, I run a component reseller that sells ComponentOne’s products as well as many vendors. Our websites are located at Xtras.Net and VBxtras. Robert was upset because he had received a free copy of …
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Why .NET needs the (option of) less strictness
First, I’m honored Paul Vick was willing to read my long-winded essay, and second I’m honored he would blog about it. In this blog post Paul wrote: …Mike also raises the question of strictness. He makes the argument (echoed by Don Box and others) that many programmers would do better with a world that’s more …
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Make MS-Office Programming More Accessible
In a earlier blog I spoke the need for transitionality in development tools. One area of greatest need is in Microsoft Office; Outlook, Word, Excel, et. al. Why Office? Recent versions of Office have provided almost full programmability, a nice object model, a macro recorder, and so on which helps power users automate processes and …
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Optimal Dressing, or A challenge to Eric Lippert
Ah the memories Eric Lippert’s blog post about partial order sorting was, as always, interesting and well written. However, this specific post brought back memories of a project I did for Gateway Foods of Lacrosse Wisconsin back in the early 90’s. (I googled them and they don’t appear to no longer exist.) Though my project …
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Cool Free Tool: WebDeploy for ASP.NET
Matt Hawley of eWorld.UI has posted what appears to be a pretty cool tool called Web Deploy for ASP.NET. Check it out.