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A schizophrenic development platform

By dlambert ⋅ August 4, 2010 ⋅ View Comments

It’s an occupational hazard, I guess.  The .Net development platform is moving at an absolutely dizzying pace these days, and there’s no end in sight.  Ordinarily, you might think that this is great news for Microsoft‘s customers, because we’re getting more innovation than we can swallow.  That’s good, right? Umm… Image via Wikipedia Aside from [...]

Visual Studio locked up?

By dlambert ⋅ July 27, 2010 ⋅ View Comments

I could have kicked myself last week.  I was running Visual Studio 2010 in a VMWare VM, and it kept locking up – it was driving me batty.  The problem started out as one of those “once every four of five hours” kind of lock ups, but it eventually got to the point where I’d [...]

Yikes!

By dlambert ⋅ March 2, 2010 ⋅ View Comments

I’ll just grab a cup of coffee, ok? Tweet This Post

More on “HTML is dead”

By dlambert ⋅ February 24, 2010 ⋅ View Comments

Microsoft‘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 [...]

Is your Enterprise too big to fail?

By dlambert ⋅ November 6, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

We have met the enemy, and it is Complexity. About a year ago, the media was flooded with debate about financial institutions that were deemed “too big to fail” by industry analysts, financial experts, and government representatives.  A failure by one of these institutions, these experts told us, would have catastrophic effects on our economy, [...]

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