Mea Culpa, Dell

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 …

Where do you buy your .NET Components and other Programming Tools?

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 …