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• Software Development Predictions for 2008

  Happy New Year! Not too long ago, I was asked for my predictions for the IT-Technology in 2008... You can find the full article here, but I thought I'd include my thoughts on my blog. Where's i-Technology Headed in 2008? I'd love to hear your thoughts and comments 1. User Experience Reaches the Enterprise. In 2008 we will see several major enterprises start efforts to build UX centric applications that increase worker productivity, reduced transaction costs and increase pull through as the UX meme of the consumer facing world leaks into the enterprise. The days of the battleship gray, forms of data application as the king of the enterprise are numbered because of an imperative towards richer visualization of complex and interconnected data.... Posted Dec 31 2007, 11:06 AM by Brad Abrams : AJAX Filed under: ASP.NET, Ajax, WPF, Software Development, Silverlight, .NET Framework, MVC

• Good Response from AjaxWorld keynote

  We got some good feedback from my AjaxWorld keynote ... If you were there, I'd love to hear your feedback, thoughts... please comment here or drop me a line ... Microsoft Not a Cathedral; Open Source Not a Bazaar NEW YORK -- It's not every day that you see a Microsoft employee demonstrating Microsoft software running natively on Linux. Yet that's exactly what happened at AJAXWorld here, as Brad Abrams, group program manager at Microsoft for ASP.NET AJAX (codenamed Atlas) did today. (Note, as Patrick says, I do over generalize the Cathedral and Bazaar concept slightly to make a point... Thanks Patrick...) "What Does AJAX Bring to the Client-Server Balance?" Asks AJAXWorld Keynoter, Microsoft's Brad Abrams Abrams came out of the gate fast, demoing... Posted Mar 22 2007, 12:20 AM by Brad Abrams : AJAX Filed under: Ajax, Microsoft AJAX Library, Software Development, AjaxWorld

• NextGenUG PodCast

  It was my good luck to run into Dave McMahon and Richard Costall from NxtGenUG today at the MVP Summit here at Microsoft… We had such a great time chatting they wanted to do a quick little interview for their podcast… Show #30 - The One With The Maracas ... [ list ] You can catch me at about 25:40 We start off talking about the Framework Design Guidelines book and how it is “required reading” at many companies… I am pleased to hear it and I am very happy that the book can be saving so much time for folks so they can void the arguments and just get to work… We also talked a little about WPFE, Longhorn Server, ASP.NET futures, the Design world and, of course, Mix and more! Love to hear what you think! Read More... Posted Mar 16 2007, 02:30 AM by Brad Abrams : AJAX Filed under: Ajax, Framework Design Guidelines, Software Development