Willy Tay sent me a link to this Hug a Developer video as an interesting tangent to my post on software development outsourcing and failures. As you watch the video you will laugh at the humorous portrayal of sad situations, that we have all lived through at one time or another.

This post is excerpting / paraphrasing a section that appeared in our July 2008 newsletter . I'd really love to hear your thoughts on this. Over the past months, I have been approached by several different companies to help them clean up someone else’s mess (actually, disaster). Some of these companies...

The July 2008 edition of the Renaissance Computer Systems Ltd. newsletter is now available at http://www.renaissance.co.il/newsletters/NewsJuly08.pdf This newsletter discusses one of the projects we've just completed and discusses a recurring phenomenon I've been noticing.

OK - I am not really a Rich-Client bigot and these are not really confessions. However, until recently, my default choice for an applications UI was a rich-client (i.e. WinForms) interface. Of course, we had many cases where a client's requirements quickly changed my mind so that the right choice was...

I'm completing final preparations for my trip to Barcelona next week for the annual Microsoft TechEd (EMEA) event. I'll be there from Sunday through Thursday and am giving the following presentation Mashups and Windows Live - Not Just for Browsers (WIN203) 6 November 2007 Start: 15:15 Finish: 16:30 Although...

So, this New York Times article claims that mashups are about to go mainstream - do you agree ? Have you been playing with mashups? Have you build a "real" or at least really usefull mashup application? Previous posts of mine on mashups: http://weblogs.asp.net/jackieg/archive/2007/05/30/mashups-for-the...

Although it has been around since this past TechEd US, The Region has now moved to ists permanent home at http://www.theregion.com/ The Region is basically the public global center for the 140 Microsoft Regional Directors around the world. It is a single view into the blogs of all of these technical...

I just got back from my annual appearance at VSLive! San Francisco (it seems that I have been speaking at one or more VSLive events since February 2000) This year's event, the first under the new management, had a good turnout and was well-run. For me personally, it was a rather short, intense, jet-lagged...

Microsoft has released the source code for the built-in ASP.NET 2.0 Providers (Membership, Role Management, Profiles, Web Parts, Site Navigation, etc, etc). You can read all about it here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/04/13/442772.aspx There is also 130+ pages of whitepapers that walk...

J.D. Meier's (from the MS Patters Practices PAG team) blog entry points to some short and useful security videos given by Keith Brown. You should definitely add J.D.'s blog to your list of RSS subscriptions - I recently had the opportunity to spend some time with him and see some of the things that he...