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Biff Gaut is continuing his tradition of mixing humor with some good technical content as he attends the PDC.  Over the past several PDC's, Biff has always been able to sprinkle his dry sense of humor into the mix of his daily reports on what he sees. Check it out here: http://www.biffspdcnewsletter.com/

Before going full blown production with a Solution, there are times that you want to validate technical, functional, acceptance, or even general interest in a solution. I find it helpful to clarify what the terms imply and what the primary focus is of each along with what impact on overall delivery risk it may have. Overall, the ideal path to ...

A timely article appeared in the NY Times today (link) regarding Parallel computing as the next key factor in keeping up with the ever demanding needs of getting things done faster.  As the article points out, the single CPU processor can't address our needs for faster computational capability without literally burning up or melting.  ...

One thing I can say about SharePoint (WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007)development is it sucks.  The tools are weak from creating to debugging.  Something that literally took about 15 minutes in straight ASP.NET took 3+ hours yesterday. So, I'm rethinking my perspective on SharePoint as an Application Platform when the applications are more ...

Bobby Wolf basically points out, which many realists that have worked with ESBs, MOM, Services (SOAP) have already figured out - that an ESB is just a tool and not the answer to having a Mature SOA.  Just as Web Services (SOAP over HTTP) has been viewed incorrectly as SOA on it's own merits, ESB's are also just part of the ...

This is a bit unsettling?  How many other ''Company'' have no idea if the personal information of their clients, users, partners are being taken. The following is taken from an email sent to Monster.com  users in regards to the recent uncovering of what turns out to be a serial issue with their security, quite lax apparently, for the ...

So, I was looking at Google Reader and noticed a link in the upper right -  Offline (new).. What's that?  Turns out, Google has a project called ''Gears'' that provides Javascript hooks that will interface with a few locally running services: Cache, DB, and asynchronous thread pool. This is great, cross platform too.  ...

A little while back Martin sent me a question on some of the examples in Chapter 10 of our book (Pro WCF).  The point of the question was how to dynamically consume a WCF services (late bind) from C++ using COM. The root of the capability lies in the moniker implementation, which is provided for inside of ...

Well yesterday's bad reporting is clarified by the Skype team.  As for the root cause the Skype team squarely assumes the responsibility and doesn't point any fingers at other vendors for issues they just didn't test or code for in the scenario.  From the blog: We don’t blame anyone but ourselves. The Microsoft Update patches ...

This is just bad reporting.  They  blame too many login attempts resulting from windows update causing reboots. Are they kidding?  So, too many users logging on causing Skype to crash is Microsoft's fault now?  Bad reporting with sensationalistic headlines that diverts the cause from the real issue. Windows breaks ...