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Sunday, September 06, 2009 8:52 AM

Workplace socializing is productive?

An interesting article published in the Gallup Management Journal posits that workplace socializing actually increases work productivity. Here’s the sides of the debate: Every March, we hear dire warnings about workplace productivity lost to water cooler...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 11:53 AM

Outsourcing R&D as a Strategy to Grow Your Business

Included below is an article regarding strategic outsourcing of R&D that I recently came across. I’d be very interested in hearing your thoughts and/or plans in this area. Technology companies are increasingly partnering with Offshore R&D providers...
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Monday, August 10, 2009 5:06 AM

Top 10 Tips Working Developers Should Know about Windows 7

Check out all of the details on Scott Hanselman’s blog   Windows 7 includes .NET 3.5SP1 Visual Studio 2008 works great on Windows 7 You can write a single app for XP, Vista and Windows 7 You can code to Windows 7 features today using the .NET Framework...
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Monday, June 29, 2009 10:04 AM

How Clients Negotiate with Software Vendors

I came cross this video on Antonio Chagoury . It is one of those “Very funny, but painfully true” videos that depicts how ridiculous it would be if the same negotiating tactics used with software vendors were used in other scenarios. How many of you deal...
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Monday, June 08, 2009 12:34 AM

Using Speech Recognition to Program in Microsoft Visual Studio

We have just posted a very cool video showing off some of the work we have been doing with Voice Recognition. At Renaissance, we try to allocate time for our developers to explore new tools and technologies that are not necessarily related to their current...
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Monday, May 18, 2009 12:24 PM

Meetings, Version 2.0, at Microsoft

A very interesting interview with Steve Balmer in yesterday’s New York Times.  Particularly good advice on how he now likes to run meetings, which is applicable to technical meetings as well.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 4:45 PM

Renaissance April 2009 Newsletter now available

The April 2009 edition of the Renaissance Computer Systems Ltd. newsletter is now available at  http://www.renaissance.co.il/newsletters/NewsApr09.pdf In this Newsletter: Renaissance sponsors Internet and Mobile Boot Camp Speaking of Startups… Tools...
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Monday, April 06, 2009 10:19 AM

Word Mail Merge with Attachment

UPDATE #2:  Thanks to the comment by Tony, making 2 simple changes to the code eliminates the need for step (3) below. I’ve commented out the line Set oOutlookApp = GetObject(, "Outlook.Application") and changed Set olNS = oOutlookApp.GetNamespace...
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:55 AM

Giving Presentations – From 1 Hour Down to 2 Minutes

As someone who has been been on the developer conference speaking circuit for over 10 years, the standard session time of an hour and a quarter (75 minutes), including time for Q&A, is pretty much ingrained in me.  Even VSLive conferences, who...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 11:20 AM

Everything's amazing, nobody's happy

This is a great video clip from comedian Louis CK’s appearance on the Conan Show. Sometimes we takes things, especially technology, too much for granted…
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