Kirk Evans Blog

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Nokia and Metrowerks Agree on Transfer of Application Development Technology to Nokia . A friend of mine pointed this out to me today, asking how this plays against Microsoft's SmartPhone and PocketPC Phone strategy. I am not a strategy insider or anything...

Just recently posted to GotDotNet.com, version 2.0 of the Plumtree Portal Server and Microsoft Content Management Server Integration Pack. I was lucky enough to see part of this constructed. If you are using Plumtree and want a clean way to enable the...

The Middleware Company performed a massive study on IBM J2EE versus .NET in terms of developer productivity, manageability, reliability, and application performance. Get the report here. I think this is exactly the type of research that technical decision...

Kevin Hammond is blogging about his experience in trying to use Eclipse . I found this quote interesting: There's too many cooks in the pot. I had to go to Sun to get my JDK. I had to go to apache.org to get Tomcat. I had to go to Eclipse to get my editor...

I opened up my aggregator and immediately saw multiple posts about SOAP over UDP . I was just about to ponder how long it would be before someone implements soap.udp for WSE, but it looks like HerveyW already did .

I saw this question in a mailing list recently: You are creating a sports betting application, where you choose between 2 teams that are playing on a given day. A user picks one of the teams, you have to validate that the team they chose is actually playing...

No, this is not a nostalgic look back at one of my 4 interview experiences spanning 18 months (maybe I will blog on that one day). Yesterday, I was able to participate in the interview process for the first time in the role of interviewer. In the field...

The word is out, there is a new MSDN library site that is serving up the Visual Studio 2005 BETA documentation, and that is http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library . [via Sean Gephardt ] And the coolest thing about MSDN2... "Tip: Our system supports URLs of...