Hi... the new release of WAI supports now PHP and mySQL applications, too. See: www.codeplex.com/wai Background: This package enables to build fast and easily packages for web applications to be distributed on Windows web servers. Thanks Bernhard and...

Hi... maybe you have already seen the sample project that the German MS Sub did for Visual Studio 2005. It is called Adventure Works Cinema (see here http://www.microsoft.com/germany/msdn/library/vs2005/samples/default.mspx?mfr=true ) There is an interesting...

Hi... at least there are still creative guys in our industry...

Hi... Do you know HD-Photo aka Windows Media Photo?? Anyway, it will change its name again to JPEG XR. Wow, JPEG?? Yes, JPEG. I like this story because it shows the "new Microsoft", a Microsoft which is unknown (and almost unbelievable) to some guys out...

Hi... the XTOPIA Keynote is now online here http://player.xtopia.de.axprod.net/Default.html?PresentationCode=T1_MI_1000&Title=%20&speakers=%20&source=Track_1_MI_1000.wmv CU 0xff

Hi... Bernhard Frank just launched our little shared / open source project ( I think I am not enough of a lawyer to distinguish what is what and to be honest in this case I don't care, too ;-) It is a part of a project which Bernhard did it together with...

Hi... due to a current incident I was just pointed again on this statement: "Does IT matter?" The background is a current project around a Software as a Service based solution. Don't get me wrong: There are lots of applications where SaaS totally makes...

Hi... I just saw this posting by ScuttGu http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/14/asp-net-mvc-framework.aspx Why it catch my interest is that Ruby on Rails is a framework designed around the idea of MVC. Seeing this done within Visual Studio...

Hi... I just learned that there is a small country where Google does not own search. Remarkable that small country is China ;-) http://www.baidu.cn/ is the market leader in China. We can discuss if this is only a "China copies everything" bla-bla but...

Hi... if you ever wanted to get an introduction to Team Foundation Server within 3 hours (and I mean THREE hours) there is an offering here in Germany. I just saw the agenda and I know the speakers and - Baby - this will be tough but worth every minute...

Hi... let me tell you about my last week. It started on Monday morning - say - on 3:45 am. I got up that early because I had to take a plane to Frankfurt very early. So far everything went well until we stood on the runway for hours waiting for the Frankfurt...

Hi... if you are like me and always interested in how things work under the hood and why it came that way.... See this nice article here on LINQ http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/06/CSharp30/ CU 0xff

HI... if you are working with .net in any way you certainly heard about this announcement ScottGu just did (see http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx ) On the one hand this is...

HI... as usual I am listening audio books when jogging through the woods. One model really struck me (I nearly bumped into a tree while thinking about it): Think about most animals or robots: There is a direct reaction to a stimulus. Think about humans...

Hi... in my last posting I was bit harsh to Apple because of the security of its iPhone. OK, now I learned that they even block out 3rd party software. If you try to mess around with it, it will simply block itself for ever. Anyway, this is not on me...