You gotta love that some at Microsoft actually have a sense of humor! From the PopFly FAQ (emphasis mine): Why did you call it Popfly? Well, left to our own devices we would have called it "Microsoft Visual Mashup Creator Express, May 2007 Community Tech Preview Internet Edition," but instead we asked some folks for …
Mike Gunderloy gets fed up with Microsoft
A Fresh Cup Ok, for those who have been keeping up with Mike Gunderloy this is old news but I just ran across it. Mike is one of the most prolific writer/developers I know and one of those rare breed that can evidently learn new technologies in no time flat. Mike has been working with …
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ASPnix adds ISAPI Rewrite – Finally!
Back in July of 2006 someone asked on the forum for ASPnix, the web host that specializes in CommunityServer, to add ISAPI Rewrite to their servers so that customers can clean up their URLs. Seven people including myself chimed in asked for it. Over the past eight months, little was said by ASPnix except by …
Another Missed Ball: No .NET Application Container
David Laribee just referenced my IIS 7.0: Too Little, Too Late? post and he made an interesting comment that I hadn’t previously pondered but that is very relevent: It’s a major bummer that there’s no such thing as a virtualized “.NET Application Container” for the new scalable grid computing and provisioning services coming out (Amazon …
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IIS 7.0: Too Little, Too Late?
Back in January 2006, I blogged about how much I wanted an IIS 7.0 that handles extensionless URL rewriting. Well this week I just got my March 2007 copy of Microsoft’s MSDN Magazine in which they ran a detailed technical preview of the features and functionality of Internet Information Server 7.0. Reading through it, I …
About “Five Not-So-Easy Steps to Save Microsoft”
While I’m not in the habit of link blogging, Jason Kolb blogged a similar take to my recent themes about Microsoft entitled Five Not-So-Easy Steps to Save Microsoft. Jason starts with: Let me stick a disclaimer on the front of this post: I cut my teeth on Microsoft technology and have been a big supporter …
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Windows Home Server; I guess Microsoft listened!
In October 2005 I blogged about the need for a Server for End Users. I guess Microsoft was listening. ;-) From Larry Dignan over on ZDNet.
Enthusiasm for Microformats Premature
Earlier this year I raved about Microformats here on my blog. When Tantek Çelik gave his presentation at the Future of Web Apps Conference I had numerous epiphanies. As I am want to do, I projected my ideas and envisioned how Microformats could solve several problems on the web and I came away completely enthused. …
Will Microsoft Meet Occupational Programmer’s Needs?
Contents Defining “Occupational Programmer“ Professionals need Industrial Strength Hobbyists need to Learn Occupational Programmers need Productivity Occupational Programmers need Discovery Occupational Programmers need to Experiment Occupational Programmers need Progressive Disclosure Occupational Programmers need their Skills Grown But Don’t Sandbox Occupational Programmers Focus on Languages and Frameworks, not GUI Tools Not Hard to Serve this HUGE …
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Microsoft’s Obsolete Process and Release Cycle
I made two posts recently that muddled serveral issues so I am creating a seperate post here to isolate them and provide a location for comments specific to this issue: Microsoft is loosing the battle with its open-source competition in languages and web frameworks because of their obsolete processes and release cycles In summary, it’s …
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