My formerly trusty Casio Exilim EX-Z1000 camera went berserk one night in September. The zoom lens wedged open and nothing I did would persuade it to retract into the case or take more photos. The zoom had grown a little tempermental in the preceding month, but I didn't expect catastrophic failure. The...

Fabrice Barbin ( Groove MVP ) has developed an extraordinary tool with Groove and Silverlight. It is a 'Nabazgame' that can be played amongst members in a Groove space. This is very promising - it opens up the ability to use Silverlight to develop Groove applications. (Click image below for Fabrice's...

Here is a driving direction sample from "Driving Directions from Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bangalore, Bengalūru, Karnataka, India to Electronic city, Bengalūru, Karnataka, India".This is something exciting news for Indian traveler. "Driving Directions from Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bangalore, Bengalūru...

Amigos, Quiero recomendarles dar un vistazo al Visual Studio Gallery , en donde podrán encontrar una diversidad de add-ins para Visual Studio, encontrarán herramientas tanto pagadas como totalmente gratis. Existe una diversidad de herramientas gratuitas que son muy buenas y vale la pena tenerlas en su...

When looking back at my World of Warcraft experience, I came to the conclusion that when added up, I've been playing this game for over 3 years already. I've even participated in the very first beta ;) Over time, a lot has changed , I took a few breaks , leveled plenty of classes to the max level , had...

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...

A few weeks ago I received an email (from a form on my blog) from Amy at blogged.com: Our editors recently reviewed your blog and have given it an 8.0 score out of (10) in the Technology/Computers category of Blogged.com. This is quite an achievement! http://www.blogged.com/directory/technology/computers...

Recently (and quite randomly I might add), I had an error dialog popup continuously, every 5-10 minutes which read: " MSFeeds Synchronization has stopped working (2054)" It was driving me crazy and was unsure how to resolve. There is actually not that much on the net about but this post got me going...

Event register: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=130355 A CodeCamp is a FREE, community-driven, all-day event for developers. Speakers are local or regional developers. Topics are based on community interest. Sessions are original and feature a heavy technical focus (no marketing fluff). This event is...