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Interview with Manhattan Associates
23 October 08 10:55 AM | jvast | 1 Comments   

Last week I had the opportunity to spend some time with Sam Addeo and Webb Armentrout of Manhattan Associates.  You may not know Manhattan Associates, but their software is used by companies large and small to manufacture and distribute both real Read More...

Filed under: Interview, Microsoft, Business, .NET, Webb Armentrout, Supply Chain, Sam Addeo

US ISV: Incubation Week in Silicon Valley
25 June 08 10:40 AM | jvast | 1 Comments   

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Last Week's Football Scores
12 September 07 10:37 PM | jvast | 1 Comments   

So in our family we are very sports oriented. Since I have five children we live our lives according to the sport seasons. Right now its football . I've been helping coach my ten year old's team and last year they won the South Puget Sound Super Bowl. Read More...

Coming soon and I want one
27 August 07 02:16 PM | jvast | 1 Comments   

I don't usually put out posts like this one, but I really want a Tesla. I can't afford one, but I think a silent fast car is the pinnacle of sheek. I do see that GM has a more affordable concept car in the works, but 0-60 is around 6 secs. vs the Tesla's Read More...

Jack Gudenkauf on the CLR and Add-In Model for ISVs
15 August 07 12:19 PM | jvast | 1 Comments   

Video: Jack Gudenkauf on the BCL and Add-ins Several weeks back I was able to coax Jack into doing an interview on the CLR targeted at ISVs. Jack talks about the BCL team and how they work within the larger Server and Tools business unit. An inside view Read More...

Filed under: Interview, Microsoft, .NET, Community, CRL, BCL, JackG

The Story of Being: BeOS
19 July 07 01:28 PM | jvast | 2 Comments   

Way back in 1991 a small company created a new Operating System called BeOS. The timeline is similar to Linux and almost as interesting, but it's a story wrought of high hopes and failure. (Ok, not ultimate failure as it has been newly resurrected as Read More...

Filed under: Lunch Topics, Open Source, Community, Operating Systems, BeOS

If its .NET – Kick It
13 July 07 05:48 PM | jvast | 1 Comments   

So this week I came across a cool new site. DotNetKicks.com This last week Gavin Joyce open-sourced the code base and I'd like to help drive traffic to the site. Not because he took the code base Open Source. I like the concept. The concept is similar Read More...

Filed under: Open Source, .NET, Community

Hey, Hey, …. Get Off of my Cloud!
11 July 07 11:03 AM | jvast | 2 Comments   

Yesterday at the Worldwide Partner Conference Steve Ballmer announced that Microsoft will be entering the software services space and launched MSCRM Live. The reaction seems to run the gamut from downright surprise to outright consternation even though Read More...

Filed under: GISV, Microsoft, Business, SaaS

Open Source and Mono Desklets
03 July 07 03:06 PM | jvast | 6 Comments   

I run Ubuntu on my main desktop machine at home and I've been watching Mono for quite a while. I was elated when the Microsoft-Novell agreement was put into place this fall because it meant Mono was getting something like an "official stamp of approval". Read More...

Filed under: GPL3, MoonLight, Open Source, .NET, Mono

Interview: Paul Andrew on WF
02 July 07 11:18 AM | jvast | 3 Comments   

Video Interview: Paul Andrew on Workflow Foundation In this interview I caught a few minutes of Paul's time to talk about Workflow Foundation or WF for short. Paul moved to Redmond from down under to take a role on the Evangelism team covering WF and Read More...

Interview: Dr. Nat Natarajan on GISV Strategy
27 June 07 10:55 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

Video: Nat Natarajan on FY08 Global ISV Strategy I was able to grab a few minutes of Nat's time 2 weeks back. In this interview Nat is all business as I ping him about how Microsoft partners with the largest Independent Software Vendors. We talk about Read More...

Filed under: Interview, GISV, Microsoft, Business

Off Topic: Recipe for Caramel Popcorn
23 June 07 10:08 AM | jvast | 1 Comments   

I'm throwing this up here since I've been asked several times recently for this very simple recipe. Every Friday night at our home is "movie night" where no one has friends over and we all sit around the television watching a child appropriate movie. Read More...

Who do you want me to interview?
15 June 07 11:31 AM | jvast | 1 Comments   

I have a very busy travel schedule, but I want to fit in short 10 minute videos about the technologies and their owners. Next week I'll be posting a video of an interview with Nat Natarajan talking about our FY08 Goals and Strategies. In March I moved Read More...

It’s been a long time….
29 May 07 09:45 AM | jvast | 1 Comments   

So the last year I've learned what it is like to be bullied. It's not fun, I won't go into particulars, but the base idea is that a group of neighborhood women decided to begin bullying my wife and kids two years back. We've been in and out court quite Read More...

Brad Abrams interview on AJAX
22 January 07 08:26 AM | jvast | 1 Comments   

I was able to sit down with the great Brad Abrams two weeks back. It was a very interesting interview where I mauled the word Microsoft and no I didn't fix it in post editing. Brad provides a quick review of his career and answers some hard ISV focused Read More...