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I’ve been doing my best to do other things lately and completely missed this terrific news. Opening up the development process of the Entity Framework V2 and the input from these smart guys should guarantee success.
Regardless of whether I agree with Jeffrey Palermo in his answer to the question: How do we ensure the long-term maintainability of our systems in the face of constantly changing infrastructure? Jeffrey first gives his definition of long-term maintainability...
What does it mean to put more of our applications into data and putting less in code? Are WCF and WPF early examples of this thinking in which we put more and more of the application in configuration. It would be interesting to learn more about what Microsoft...
Next week I’ll be travelling to the Microsoft campus in Redmond for the last couple of sessions in the LEAP-program. I’m looking forward to meeting smart guys such as Clemens Vasters, Jack Greenfield and Erik Meijer. Should be great fun to talk about...
I had the pleasure of meeting Charles a few years ago and got infected with the Intentional virus. Please read this interview and be aware that your point of view on software development will never be the same again.
Refactoring it too darn fun. Stop it! I agree (see refactoring is not free ) with the opinion that refactoring, under certain circumstances, is waste. Whether refactoring is a necessary waste depends on how likely it is that a particular piece of code...
That's right. In my enthusiasm I even installed the whole MSDN. Don't you just love new bits. Perhaps this will even halt my ivory tower architectures and help me to get my hands dirty again writing code.
According to Andreas Bitterer, VP Research at Gartner we are at the verge of the great battle between mega vendors and their ecosystems. SAP vs. IBM vs. Microsoft vs. Oracle. I can only see the need for greater synergy between vendors. Are the vendors...
The weekend is great for easy reading so here goes. I am writing this while removing the crapware from my new Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Tablet. This Thursday I placed my order at Bluelink (a Dutch Lenovo (IBM) specialist) and received it the next day. Final...
A while ago I wrote that I was in the market for a MacBook. Now don’t get me wrong, I still am. It is just that I decided to wait for the 12” or 13” LED-backlit MacBook Pro and the rumored ultra thin model. When is that thing hitting the store, anyway...
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