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 Peter Yared wrote recently a BusinessWeek guest blog post called “Failure of Commercial Open Source Software.” Not surprisingly his post caused a lot of angry replies from people who work for COSS companies. “The emperor is not naked” they argued.
I believe tha...Nov. 17, 2009 08:45 PM EST Reads: 4,024 |
This post summarizes my online publications looking at how Microsoft products mesh with third party software. Well, you may also call this the work of a Virtual Microsoft Evangelist. I am using virtual evangelist in the sense of not being connected with or paid for by Microsoft in any ... Jul. 18, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,922 |
 The mantra heard most often in business these days is "Do More With Less." For many businesses, cutting costs while trying to grow—or even sustain their place in the market—is easier said than done. What could help many businesses is gaining access to some of that $787 Billion in Feder...Jul. 16, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,254 |
 I always thought that non-initialized variable declarations were fine in .NET, but the V2 compiler is forcing me to change my mind. Programming theory suggests that initialized variable declaration is a good practice and this was impressed upon me from my C++ days. But I thought that h...Aug. 25, 2005 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 12,592 |
Loved the article! I'm a fellow Chicagoan (former city gal, now in the suburbs) who also works at home. I've been working from home for over five years now (ever since CA bought PLATINUM and I just couldn't work for CA.) I've been both a consultant and an employee for companies based... Mar. 22, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 16,365 |
Jeffrey Chapinsky writes: The most important thing mentioned is postulates 1-3, which I think is really only one. Once these off-shore projects are done and put into production there will always be the need for a local serviceperson type of trade. The analogy here is someone may buy a ... Feb. 9, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,553 |
I was a dBASE II programmer, then dBASE III, then Clipper (by Nantucket), and then I built an interface between an existing Foxpro application and an Electronic Data Interchange translator. Still, I missed dBASE II. I missed being able to get good results QUICKLY. Jan. 12, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 14,231 Replies: 1 |
One glaring omission I noticed in your editorial is that the internet stock bubble you were riding to gain a ridiculous pay increase of 283% over four years happened on Clinton's watch. It also happens that the bubble burst in '99, before Bush took office, also on Clinton's watch. Dec. 7, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 14,396 |
In May of 2003 Microsoft asked me to do a keynote-like session at the Visual Studio.NET launch event in Oslo, a trip I just couldn't pass up. The problem was that I had no idea what a smart client application was. I had to quickly get smart on smart client applications. Before I go thr... Nov. 8, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 14,852 |
Microsoft has released a new paper comparing .NET Web service performance to that of J2EE. The paper shows that .NET outperforms Java in hosting Web services. Released exclusively on TheServerSide.NET (www.theserverside.net) community site, the paper comes as a response to Sun Microsy... Aug. 10, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 16,723 |
By way of introduction, the discussion continued below began in our May 2004 issue with an editorial Derek Ferguson wrote entitled 'On Partners and Points.' In that editorial, Ferguson questioned the validity of the new points-based system that Microsoft has recently introduced for its... Jul. 6, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 15,546 |
In his blog (http://weblogs.asp.net/jeff), .NET guru Jeff Putz weighs in on the culture and experience gap he sees in the .NET community. In the March issue of .NET Developer's Journal (Vol. 2, issue 3) Miguel de Icaza and Rhys Weatherley offered their thoughts on the purpose of open s... Apr. 6, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 15,150 Replies: 1 |
Neil Davidson's commentary - 'Mono and dotGNU: what's the point?' - questioned the value of these two open source projects and argued that they in fact strengthen Microsoft's position. Here Miguel de Icaza and Rhys Weatherley, the forces behind Mono and Portable .NET respectively, resp... Mar. 11, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 24,076 Replies: 2 |
'We looked at the request,' reports Sun's EVP of Software Jonathan Schwartz, referring to last week's Open Letter from IBM about collaborating on the open-sourcing of Java, 'and our first question was, 'That seems a little bonky. Could you explain what it means?'' He was speaking in S... Mar. 4, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 47,108 Replies: 2 |
Guy Smith-Ferrier's article, 'SqlClient Connection Pooling Exposed', Vol. 1, issue 12, generated a question from reader Angel Saenz-Badillos. Feb. 13, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,237 |
Although a number of readers took Editor-in-Chief Derek Ferguson to task for his November editorial titled 'Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Penguin (.NETDJ, Vol. 1, issue 11)?,' John Sharp - a member of the .NETDJ Editorial Board - handled it with the most style - and a touch of irony. Jan. 12, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,818 |
Scott Hanselman's coverage of Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2003, 'Avalon: Yes, the Picture's Changing,' generated a debate over whether Avalon is 'revolutionary' or 'evolutionary.' Dec. 10, 2003 09:15 AM EST Reads: 14,412 |
Laura Barker's commentary, 'Not Performing Due Diligence Has Companies and .NET Paying the Price,' on the .NET Developer's Journal Web site was echoed by a number of developers. See her article and all of the responses at (www.sys-con.com/dotnet/article.cfm?id=389). Nov. 11, 2003 08:00 AM EST Reads: 11,761 Replies: 3 |
Scott Hanselman's article on 'The Myth of .NET Purity' (articlenews.cfm?id=356) struck a chord (with even .NETDJ editor-in-chief Derek Ferguson jumping into the discussion). Sep. 11, 2003 01:42 PM EDT Reads: 14,953 |
In their June column, 'Have PDA, Will Travel [.NETDJ, Vol. 1, issue 6],' Jon Box and Dan Fox discussed using SQL Server with the .NET Compact Framework. A couple of readers responded that they would prefer to see information on Palm development. Aug. 11, 2003 02:26 PM EDT Reads: 12,989 Replies: 2 |
A recent query on http://developer.sys-con.com seeking advice on whether to use .NET or Java technology to implement a Web-based accounting system elicited a great deal of comment. Jul. 7, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,688 |
In his April editorial, 'MS Stance on CLR Patent Raises Thorny Questions,' .NETDJ editor-in-chief Derek Ferguson questioned whether Microsoft's CLR patent will ultimately be used to prevent the implementation of fully CLR-compatible CLIs on other platforms. Readers respond: May. 28, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,800 |
This month readers sound off about .NETDJ - and offer one more response to editor-in-chief Derek Ferguson's February editorial, 'Two Views of Development,' which contrasted Java and .NET developers. Apr. 28, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,755 |
Editor-in-Chief Derek Ferguson's February editorial, 'Two Views of Development,' which contrasted Java and .NET developers, stirred some heartfelt responses: Mar. 27, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 12,012 |
Hurrah for the generics and iterators inclusions in C# by Anders Hejlsberg [Vol. 1, issue 1]. We propose similar features for the Eiffel language. See 'Collections and Iterators in Eiffel,' Journal of Object Oriented Programming, Vol. 6, issue 7, Nov/Dec 1993, USA. Feb. 26, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 12,934 Replies: 1 |
.NET Developer's Journal Editorial Advisory Board member Peter Drayton views C# as a meaningful evolution of the Java programming language, just as Java was a meaningful evolution of C++, and C++ was a meaningful evolution of C, and so on. Here he offers a few responses to the Ars Tech... Jan. 1, 2000 12:00 AM EST Reads: 7,111 |
