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 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

The MSDN team over in the UK has put together a huge collection (279 at the time of this post) of short screencasts for .NET developers.  Each video is only about 10-15 minutes long, but packs a lot of useful information.  Here is the full List of Screencasts . From the home page: Don't have...

Soon after yesterday’s post with a link to our new case studies, I came across a very informative report that I must share with you.  At the start of every year, the law firm Morrison & Foerster, which tracks the global outsourcing industry, conducts a survey regarding the current state of the...

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 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...

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("MAPI")               ...

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 projects. This speech application is the result...

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 with these tactics on a regular basis?  How...