I guess one of the telltale signs of the advancing creep of age is the passage of one's pop culture heroes into obscurity - another sign is the tendency to begin or end one's sentences with the phrase "back in the day." So rather than attempt to forestall...

When I first tried to get my mind around LDAP via the ADSI libraries in Windows NT 4.0, I quickly convinced myself that "L" in LDAP (which of course stands for "lightweight") was an ironic joke. Then I heard about X.500, and not a programming day has...

Hi, Here's a strategy hint for dealing with software vendors (and I work for a very large one.) As a customer, if a vendor is asking you to make a small investment in an upgrade (hardware and/or software) to support their latest release, by all means...

Hi, My name is John Pelak, and I'm a Development Evangelist serving the Independent Software Vendor community in the New York Metropolitan Area. I've been working with the Microsoft technology stack for the last 15 years, and while I won't attempt...