My thoughts on software development
ShareMicrosoft’s S. Somasegar (“Soma”), who heads the Developer Division, posted on his blog yesterday about “Key Software Development Trends“.
I was pleased to see him include “Proliferation of Devices” among the top trends in development, but there was obviously an acute case of tunnel vision at work here, because Soma completely neglected all the non-Microsoft devices that people seem [...]
ShareNow that Azure’s pricing model is starting to take shape, we’re starting to see what Microsoft meant when they said Azure would be priced “competitively”. This week, Oakleaf Systems compared Azure to Amazon’s cloud offerings, highlighting costs for developers to gets started on these platforms (Amazon Undercuts Windows Azure Table and SQL Azure Costs with [...]
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“Release early, release often.” This is the Web 2.0 mantra, and it’s also a major guiding principle behind agile development proceses.
In product development, conventional wisdom has it that first-to-market- or first-mover advantage is hugely important. But for software products, this can kill you by painting your product into a corner from which it [...]
ShareI’m a few days into working with the Azure July CTP, using Steve Marx’s excellent PDC presentation as a bit of a primer. I’m following along with Steve’s presentation, and it was working just fine for a while. I had a working Azure app, using an MVC front-end, and I was reading and writing images [...]
ShareBack in February, amidst the news about Microsoft’s new Azure platform, I asked why the concept of Private Clouds seemed to be either dismissed or ignored as a viable Enterprise strategy (see also “PDC Reactions” and “Could Azure be self-hosted?“).
Yesterday, I learned that there’s hope, after all.
I happened to be in the office for one [...]
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