Reader ROI Readers of this post will find a "case study" that allowed this author to directly compare Feature Driven Development to the traditional WBS when performing project planning. This information is useful if you would like to improve your software...

Next week, I am heading out to the financial services developer conference to deliver a SQL Server 2005 presentation. The toughest part of delivering a talk on SQL Server 2005 is to find a way to fit it all into a 90 minute slot. You can talk about individual...

Ali Pasha has a nice story on System Definition Model (SDM), Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) and their relation to Visual Studio Team System's designers. "Microsoft is making an effort to automate much of the work that is required to create, deploy...

Bertrand Le Roy , one of the rock-star developers on the Web Platform and Tools team has been doing a lot of work lately using the new out of band postback features of ASP.NET 2.0 -- you've probably heard of AJAX at this point and this blog begins...

安装SPS2003/WSS是一件非常简单的事情，创建一个SPS2003/WSS的站点更是容易，所以SPS2003/WSS是一个老少皆宜，普遍受欢迎的产品。 但是，你能保证你的SPS2003/WSS的运行状态就是正常的吗？很可能什么时候出了严重的问题，你才会意识到：要是早知道这里有问题，就可以采取行动，避免这些问题了。 可是，我怎么知道SPS2003/WSS是否运行正常呢？这就是一名SPS的支持工程师应该知道的事情。呵呵，开玩笑的，SPS工程师也��是SPS的蛔虫，还是要借助一些工具的。其中，有一个不错的工具...

The World Wide Web is a library. Internet-ready devices continue to plummet in price. Access to the Internet is expensive, worldwide. I believe that we have an awesome and compelling opportunity and civic duty to ensure that this library is--like the...

I have created a workspace on GotDotNet for this plug-in. The code that is up there is pretty much just a proof of concept code. While it works there is no plug-in documentation or code documentation. I do plan to update this later in the week, but for...

IT Conversations has an audio recording of Clay Shirky's entertaining and thought provoking presentation (update: text version here ) he gave at O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in March this year, 'Ontology is Overrated'. Chris May has a useful...

While t h ere has been a lot of talk about DSI and SDM, I feel that there is a need to clarify how they fit into the SOA designers. What is DSI? What is SDM? “The Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) is an industry effort led by Microsoft to enhance...

i'm getting ready to be offline for the next 10 days due to my upcoming hospital visit I’ve installed an app by Kevin Daly which lets me post from my xda ii. I found it at http://kevdaly.aspxconnection.com/PocketBlogWriter.aspx . Feels like a simple app...

OK so I'm working on quite a fun project; it's a proof of concept for a near-real-time, pub-sub, server to client push type communicaton subsystem. Phew. Essentially it's a big fat wrapper around a few candidate technologies including SIP, a.k.a. our...

http://www.lastdeveloper.com/ Every two weeks, for 16 weeks, you'll have the opportunity to strut your stuff while learning about Microsoft Visual Basic development system or Microsoft Visual C# development tool. It's a great opportunity for you to...