November 2003 - Posts
Craig Mundie : "If you get it right then the whole industry moves forward to another level. And if you get it wrong, you essentially are pretty much guaranteeing that you'll probably cede your leadership to some other company who will come along at some
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After taking a few weeks off from blogging, I got back in the groove on Thanksgiving Eve of all days. So now, I'm signing off again for a few days. Have a great Thanksgiving.
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Eric Sink's new MSDN column is excellent, great for those already working in their own software businesses or interested in starting one up. My favorite line from the article is this: " I'll close this edition of the "Business of Software Cliché
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Dare Obasanjo : "[E]very time we cut some feature because we don't have enough test resources or scrap an idea because we don't have anyone to code it up, I wonder if there's a better way..."
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Where do you do your best work? Home office? Starbucks? Always changing? What about that/those location(s) makes your little gray cells turn better? [ ComputerZen.com ] Scott Hanselman asks a question about where are you most productive? My answer is
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Steve's new article would be creating quite a stir if it were not so quiet due to the Thanksgiving holiday (U.S.) I think. I've commented on it here , but also check out Sam and Drew's comments as well.
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When I teach Yukon , the students quite often ask when to use stored procedures written in T-SQL vs. procedures written using any of the CLR languages. My answer is along the lines; if your procedure is purely data access use T-SQL, if the procedure is
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A few of you have called me out. Basically, I promised Yukon content months ago and was going to start posting after the PDC, yet there has been none. Why is that? Two reasons. First, I hope to have a big announcement by the end of the year on a pretty
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Here's an interesting article on developing WSE applications for the SmartPhone (2003) using the .NET Compact Framework . I'm still just a SmartPhone user at this point, but would like to write some code soon. Anyone else writing code for the platform
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I have a couple of questions regarding managing this weblog and I'd appreciate any input or suggestions. 1. Is there any way to integrate my OPML data with .Text, so I can update my links and sync up with my NewsGator subscriptions data? 2. I use NewsGator
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This recent article outlines Microsoft's research and development efforts around search, and how those tie in to Longhorn and WinFS. Much of this is focused on the future, but I think that Microsoft definitely views search as the next huge breakthrough
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Scott McCollum asks in my comments , where are all the bloggers in the hardware development community? My answer is "I don't know", I only read about 150 sites a day. Maybe someone who reads over 600 a day has an answer to this one?
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In this article on the CRM news site, an analyst from Forrester claims that SQL Server databases of 1TB or greater are implemented in 50 enterprises, up from 10 last year. How can it possibly be that low? A one terabyte database is not really that big
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Clay Shirky : “This is perhaps perhaps the high water mark of presenting trivial problems as worthy of Semantic intervention: a program that can conclude that 102 is greater than 100 is labeled smart. Artificial Intelligence, here we come.”
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Chris Sells posted a great article on how weblogs have fundamentally changed how people get information in the developer community . In his former life, Chris made his living doing just that. Now he's making a major transition. This post really resonated
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I've been running a Yukon alpha/beta instance for a while now, but the PDC bits were newer and therefore better , right?!? Well, not so fast. I uninstalled my previous version of beta one, installed the PDC bits, and misery has ensued. I've had numerous
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