One of the fun demos that I did in my session on the Windows Live SDK at VSLive Dallas earlier this month, was to do a live demo of adding Windows Live Instant Messaging to a live web site in real-time. I generally think (at least) twice about doing such live demos - especially on a production web site...

January’s meeting will be a joint meeting for IVBUG, IVCUG, and .NET Architects User Groups, so that we can all take advantage of a special guest speaker – Juval Lowy from IDesign. Juval is a world-famous expert on WCF and Connected Systems and will be sharing his expertise with us in this session: Introducing...

What I will discuss here is not a sales pitch for my company - it is relevant and true for any outsourcing company (the success of a project will depend on the particular company involved). Moreover, it is relevant to the outsourcing of almost anything, not just software. An economic recession, such...

The SQL Server 2008 team has released a document (at 490 pages, we should probably call it a book!)  that covers the essential phases and steps to upgrade existing instances of SQL Server 2000 and 2005 to SQL Server 2008.  It can be downloaded from here . Here is the overview from the download...

The January 2009 edition of the Renaissance Computer Systems Ltd. newsletter is now available at http://www.renaissance.co.il/newsletters/NewsJan09.pdf In this Newsletter: Hello 2009, Goodbye 2008 Now is the Time to Outsource Tools, Technologies, and Techniques – OnTime by Axosoft On the Lighter Side

This month we return to take a look at some of the web development technologies from Microsoft - Dynamic Data Controls (DDC) and Model View Controller (MVC). The new technology of ASP.NET DDC (Dynamic Data Controls) help us to build a presentation layer based on a data scheme in just a few minutes, and...

This month we take a look at design and architecture, rather than specific technologies. Konstantin Triger, a Senior Consultant at Sela, will take a look at the deadly sins of performance, particularly from the design perspective.  It is important to remember that low-level implementation details...

My company, Renaissance Computer Systems , just posted a press release announcing that we are sponsoring a special event for startup companies next week – the Internet & Mobile Boot Camp , being run by Boot Camp Ventures on March 16 th 2009, in Tel Aviv. At the Internet & Mobile Boot Camp , a...

The Microsoft Patterns and Practices group just Released a set of Quick Starts and How-To documents for using Prism in Visual Basic - Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for PrismV2 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight) This release is provided to help Visual Basic developers...

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, Technologies, and Techniques – Visual Studio...