Microsoft Visual Mashup Creator Express, May 2007 Community Tech Preview Internet Edition

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 …

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 …

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 …