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Richard Turner has published a white paper on Developing Distributed Services Today . It hit home. I have a customer that has traditionally used other platforms to build web applications (they went the RPC - CORBA - J2EE - EJB - JSP - RMI - route)...

Wally is at it again , and starting up our old rivalry a bit early this year. This song goes out to Wally... GO GEORGIA BULLDOGS!

Yeah, I am late in posting this, but I just now got down time (relatively speaking). I missed Scoble's Atlanta Nerd Dinner on Saturday night, but for good reason. On Saturday night, there was an MGB party at Six Flags where they rented out the entire...

I am dying to send a box of these to a guy who recently joined Microsoft as an Architect Evangelist...

at the closing keynote, and they bring out Mario Andretti! awesome. his quote... when you get the taste of victory, and you savor it... the alternative sucks.

I am at MGB 2005 today, and playing with Windows Vista! It is running on an HP Pavillion zd8000. It's going to be hard to get out of the habit of saying "Longhorn", I can tell already. You can see a video of when the name announcement was made at...

Frequently, when I show Microsoft technology to Java developers, they ask "is this kind of like Jxxxxxx in Java?" A good link for trying to keep up with the myriad of JThings: http://java.sun.com/jugs/pointers.html

My phone ran out of juice yesterday, so I didn't get a chance to post this. Man... the general session day was a LONG day, it ran over by 2 hours. We were supposed to be out by 6:00 pm, and I think Ballmer took the stage at 7:00 pm, going until just...

sitting in MGB in the Georgia Dome, I got to hear Bill Gates and see a demo of the future of computing. Just like last year's sneak peak into what R&D has been up to, there were audible gasps and statements like "Holy $%@!!!" Then, we got to see a...

An internal email I read discussed the proper means to compare a System.Uri in .NET 2.0. When comparing Uri's, should you use Ordinal comparison or should you use InvariantCulture? I paused while reading... Ordinal? What is that? The first time...

Randy Miller is a program manager in the Visual Studio 2005 Team System group. He has been at the forefront of work on MSF Agile, which is (in Randy’s words) “a scenario-driven, context-based, agile software development process that utilizes many of the...

Maxim Karpov is putting together a free code camp targeted at portal development . Visit his blog for details, the event is August 20th at Microsoft's office in Charlotte, NC.

LibCheck allows you to compare two versions of an assembly, and determine the differences. The tool reports the differences as a combination of 'removed' and 'added' APIs. The tool is limited to looking only at APIs (i.e., it can't check for behavioral...