Jackie Goldstein's Weblog
Microsoft, .NET, and other stuff...
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Outsourcing R&D as a Strategy to Grow Your Business
Included below is an article regarding strategic outsourcing of R&D that I recently came across. I’d be very interested in hearing your thoughts and/or plans in this area.
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Creating a Profitable Startup Company
If you are involved, or considering starting, your own technology business, I strongly recommend you invest half an hour to watch this video by David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Ruby on Rails framework and Partner at 37Signals.
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Top 10 Tips Working Developers Should Know about Windows 7
Check out all of the details on Scott Hanselman’s blog
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Windows 7 Training Kit For Developers
The Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos designed to help you learn how to build applications that are compatible with and shine on Windows 7.
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I’m a VB !
Check out the growing set of video and text interviews with leading VB developers at the I’m A VB site. You can find my interview at Jackie VB.
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How Clients Negotiate with Software Vendors
I came cross this video on Antonio Chagoury.
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Using Speech Recognition to Program in Microsoft Visual Studio
We have just posted a very cool video showing off some of the work we have been doing with Voice Recognition.
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Meetings, Version 2.0, at Microsoft
A very interesting interview with Steve Balmer in yesterday’s New York Times. Particularly good advice on how he now likes to run meetings, which is applicable to technical meetings as well.
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Renaissance April 2009 Newsletter now available
The April 2009 edition of the Renaissance Computer Systems Ltd. newsletter is now available at http://www.renaissance.co.il/newsletters/NewsApr09.pdf
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Word Mail Merge with Attachment
UPDATE #2: Thanks to the comment by Tony, making 2 simple changes to the code eliminates the need for step (3) below.