Brenton House

Congrats to the Boston Red Sox!

Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox for breaking the "curse" and winning the World Series last night! 

It's been a very long time coming and a well deserved win!

OnTime 2004 Defect Tracking

For those of you who are familiar with Axosoft's defect tracking software, OnTime 2004, you might want to get your copies in the next couple of days before the price increase goes into effect on November 1st. 

OnTime 2004 is a SQL-Based Defect and Feature Management system.  It is designed from the ground up using .NET technology.  It's available as a web or windows application or as a hosted service.  The single-user version is free!

They also have a Visual Studio Add-On, PowerTrack, which allows developers to focus on product development instead of project management.  In addition they provide a free SDK with allows you to integrate OnTime 2004 with any .NET application.

Note:  The single-user (non-trial) version of OnTime 2004 is free!

Endangered species: US programmers

Yahoo! News - Endangered species: US programmers

Say goodbye to the American software programmer. Once the symbols of hope as the nation shifted from manufacturing to service jobs, programmers today are an endangered species. They face a challenge similar to that which shrank the ranks of steelworkers and autoworkers a quarter century ago: competition from foreigners.

Some experts think they'll become extinct within the next few years, forced into unemployment or new careers by a combination of offshoring of their work to India and other low-wage countries and the arrival of skilled immigrants taking their jobs.

[Continue at Yahoo! News]