Guy Barrette

I’ve watched the threads around the Open Cloud Manifesto from the sides.  When It first read the manifesto, my first reaction was to think that it what somewhat strange for a document like that to demand that the Cloud be open and at the same time, doesn’t provide a definition to open.  What should be open?  Oh, open meaning that customers should be able to take their cloud app from one vendor to the other and expect it to run?  Can you do that today with Web apps?  Let’s say…can you take your J2EE app running on WebShere and connected to an Oracle database and switch to a PHP hoster running MySQL?

After many years of complaints from the VB6 developers around the world, Microsoft has finally agreed to re release VB6, not as a full product, but as a full featured, not crippled free Open Source product with source code on CodePlex.

If you couldn’t attend Mix09 like me, don’t despair because almost all the sessions are available online for free.  Nice!

When Sasha Krsmanovic and Stephen Forte took the stage at the MVP Summit party, I couldn’t capture their glorious performance because the battery in my camera went dead moments before.  However, D’Arcy Lussier recorded it.

I started using Windows Live Writer a couple of months ago and I think that it is a fantastic tool.  One benefit is its easy extensibility via easy to write plug-ins in .NET.

JR just announced a deal for DevTeach Vancouver 2009: Register 2 people, get a 3rd free.  More info at www.devteach.com