October 2006 - Posts

Changing IP Trends
25 October 06 08:33 AM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So recent news has IBM suing Amazon over certain patent infringements. How does this bode for the industry overall? Not very well. If many haven't noticed, IBM has been collecting a war chest of patents in the last 10 years. How as this strategy been Read More...

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XNA GAME Studio Express Beta 2
24 October 06 08:49 AM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So one of the latest new developments coming out of Redmond for the last year has been XNA . XNA is a managed SDK for building games across our client product platforms. What is so exciting is that this will be revolutionary to the game development process Read More...

Welcome John Lam to MS
23 October 06 12:07 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

John Lam comes to dine at the table of the big house. This is exciting news as MS opens up the CLR for Dynamic Languages like Python and Ruby. Now I just have to find some free time to come up to speed on Ruby... John gives a better take on the move and Read More...

Malevolent Self Promotion Alert
20 October 06 01:28 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So I've started helping InfoQ as the .NET Editor. In this way, I can actually put to use the time I spend every day browsing for new and cool stuff happening on the Internet. It's been a baptism by fire with all the recent happenings in the .NET world. Read More...

ScottGu and Co release ASP.NET AJAX Beta1
20 October 06 09:15 AM | jvast | 0 Comments   

Well, very early this morning as the East Coast was just waking up, the ASP.NET crew was cleaning up the finishing touches for the beta release of ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1 . Over on Scott's blog you can read more about the changes in Beta1 from the previously Read More...

Microsoft and Open Source, the journey begins
18 October 06 03:50 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So the rumblings have been going on for some time. And in September we delivered a license promise, (an almost license, think of it as a bill , but not a law), covering work related to WS-*. Today I visited the site and found that Virtual Hard Disk, VHD, Read More...

VMs and future potential
18 October 06 01:30 PM | jvast | 1 Comments   

Déjà vu again. Last night as I'm lying there in bed trying to find sleep. My mind is wandering about my own futuristic wish list again. Now, fast forward to today. I see an article on News.com about MS opening up its virtualization format. I had been Read More...

First solid state flash disk certified for Vista
17 October 06 08:33 AM | jvast | 1 Comments   

Woot! Forget about 2020 like I was postulating in a recent post, solid state flash disks with high performance and low heat output are here today . This feels like an "ask and you shall receive" scenario that causes chills to run up and down your spine. Read More...

Online Gaming, not what you think
10 October 06 10:16 AM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So I work in the other gaming industry. You know, the one with roots in Atlantic City and Las Vegas. When I say work, I mean I work with ISVs that sell product into this industry. I've been focusing on this sub-sector of Hospitality for almost 3 years Read More...

What will 2020 look like in computing?
06 October 06 01:03 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So Greg Papadopoulos posted a very interesting blog entry back on September 12 th . I've always enjoyed his rambling style of writing and it has prompted me to add my thoughts, but on not on as a grand scale. I think I'll just postulate what I think 2020 Read More...