Was ist eigentlich ein Denkpanzer? (Oder was bedeutet eigentlich "Think Tank"?...) Anyway ... es gibt eine neue " MSDN Experten "-Seite auf Microsofts deutscher Homepage, wo sich in Zukunft das geballte Wissen bekannter und berüchtigter Sprecher und Autoren...

MacWorld: Alles redet über den Mac mini, aber der wirkliche Hit ist recht unbemerkt geblieben: iMer . (Danke, Roberto !)

There will be a PDC in 2005: see here . Now go and sign up. :-)

One important ingredient to the software factories concept is the ability to quickly & easily build your own domain specific language (DSL) + accompanying tools, designers, etc. Microsoft now releases the first technology preview of a tool (for VS2005...

Just came across this explanation of why Greenfield et al. chose the name "software factory" for their new approach to the industrialization of software production. Should clear up some confusion around that term.

Meine hochgeschätzten Kollegen Dirk und Uwe waren kürzlich bei GIGA TV zu Besuch und auch live im Fernsehen zu bestaunen. Anlaß war der GIGA Homepage Award . Natürlich hat unser Oberkameramann und Sharepoint-Guru Frank Fischer ein Video daraus gebastelt...

Here is an announcement from our EMEA evangelism team for those who want to learn how to use .NET for building mobile applications (in case you did not attend one of my presentations during my recent TechTalk tour ;-) Looking to build applications for...

Just finished the first in a series of talks about mobile development ("TechTalk") here in Germany, and again I noticed that one of the things which fascinate people most is a small little tool called "Remote Display Control" that I use for demos and...

Gute Nachrichten: Unser Windows Mobile Marketing Team läßt sich nicht lumpen und sponsort für meinen TechTalk einen T-Mobile SDA (techn. Daten hier ). Das wahrscheinlich coolste aktuelle Smartphone mit Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition könnte also vielleicht...

Hallo liebe Freunde des gepflegten TechTalks, hier ein Hinweis in eigener Sache: Im Rahmen des neu aufgelegten TechTalks werde ich im Oktober in 10 deutschen Städten in Sachen Mobilität unterwegs sein. Thema: Neue Mobilität - Das .NET Compact Framework...

Oops - I've been cited (somewhat incompletely) by eWeek in this article about the VS2005 Beta 1 Refresh release (what a product name! :-) Meanwhile, my colleague and infrastructure guru Frank Fischer here at MS Germany has managed to really get the 3...

I'm currently in Bellevue, WA, attending a Microsoft event for us developer evangelists, and I'm just back into my hotel room from a meeting with Jim Allchin who gave us an update on the Longhorn roadmap - you can read the official press release here...

Rick LaPlante announces that the next Community Technology Preview of VS2005 (called “Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Refresh with the Team System”) is ready and will be available for download very soon. The exciting thing: it contains Team Foundation , the...

Have a look at IronPython if you're programming Python & .NET.

Some time ago I wrote about a new feature that's coming in VS 2005: projects that contain source files in different languages (C++, C#, VB.NET, ...), which are combined into a single assembly. (That is really new & exciting because today you can only...

Cool article on, among other things, the new open culture at MS, here at Wired News.

See this press release .

Just learned that VS 2005 (in its current beta stage) got "A+" certification for the Chinese encoding standard GB18030 . So good news for you if you write apps for the Chinese market.

Freemail von Web.de teilt heute mit, daß es ab sofort für Club-Mitglieder (5 € pro Monat) statt 100 MB satte 2 GB Speicherplatz gibt: " Als Club-Mitglied stehen Ihnen seit dem 14. Juli nicht mehr 100 MB, sondern 2.000 MB Speicherplatz...

German news service heise online reports that id Software has finished the long anticipated ego shooter Doom 3 . It will be available from Aug 5 in the U.S., and from Aug 13 in Europe. Minimum GPU requirement is a Geforce 4 MX or Radeon 8500, 2 GHz CPU...

Well, if you're planning to give all your personal info to Google (i.e., store all your emails in GMail and have them indexed by Google), think again: the first user information disclosure vuln. has been found while this is still in the Beta. OTOH...

For the first time in history (well, I may exaggerate a little bit here :), you have the opportunity to give your feedback, suggestions, and bug reports relating to the development tools & technologies, directly to the product teams, through the new...

After having attended some pretty impressive presentations on CF 2.0 and SQL Mobile (SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition, i.e. :-), the successor of SQLCE 2.0, at TechEd Europe, I am playing with the VS2005 Beta 1 and a pre-Beta 2 build of SQL2005. What can...

Here comes a service pack that mainly fixes some nasty bugs. See http://blogs.msdn.com/onoj/articles/178293.aspx for details.

Lots of people here at TechEd Europe, interesting talks (incl. Herb Sutter's C++/.NET talks and the three-part Visual Studio 2005 Team System intro by Prashant Sridharan). Yesterday I visited the Windows Mobile area and had a chance to play with the...