VSLive in Vegas Has “SmartClient Live”

The Las Vegas edition of VSLive (May 8-11, 2005) will include smart client coverage: “SmartClient Live! - Pragmatic and practical advice on smart...

Service Contracts in Indigo

the basics of specifying a service contract in Indigo...

Airing The Dirty Laundry

I was sitting at Jim Blizzard’s going away party the other night when my phone rang. This was the side of the conversation that the Portland nerds...

Experimenting with Windows Alternatives

When I used to teach COM, we would brag about its cross-platform-ness, i.e. it worked across Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4, etc. So, when I’m...

i-mate SP3 Smartphone: How do I love thee?

Let me count the ways: Pocket-sized and no bigger than my old dumb phone and tons smaller than tricorder-sized PDAs Synchronized calendar, contacts...

Local Boy Does Good

Microsoft’s own Robert Scoble has broken his way into the secular press, with an article in both Fortune (Why There’s No Escaping the Blog) and The...

Project Manager Leavers Suicide PPT Presentation

HereScott Hanselman IM’d me this Onion piece and I just had to share it. I don’t want to spoil it with quotes; just read it and tell me if you don’t...

Smart Client Patterns & Practices Survey

“The Smart Client Team at Microsoft patterns & practices needs your feedback to evaluate the need of guidance for devices based Smart Clients...