Jackie Goldstein's Weblog
Microsoft, .NET, and other stuff...
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Innovation = Execution
I recently listened to a podcast with Guy Kawasaki, where he talked about successful companies and innovation. His position is that successful innovation is not necessarily revolutionary breakthroughs – but rather, the execution of new/improved ideas.
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A Different View of Twitter
If you are tired of being abused by your friends and neighbors for not Twittering enough (or at all), you can send you tormentors the link to the video below.
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Just Released – Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for PrismV2 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight)
The Microsoft Patterns and Practices group just Released a set of Quick Starts and How-To documents for using Prism in Visual Basic - Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for PrismV2 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight)
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Giving Presentations – From 1 Hour Down to 2 Minutes
As someone who has been been on the developer conference speaking circuit for over 10 years, the standard session time of an hour and a quarter (75 minutes), including time for Q&A, is pretty much ingrained in me. Even VSLive conferences, who for many years held on to their 60-minute session format, switched over to the 75-minute format a few years ago.
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The Official Release Version of ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is Now Available
The official version of ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is now available for download here.
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Everything's amazing, nobody's happy
This is a great video clip from comedian Louis CK’s appearance on the Conan Show.
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Renaissance to Sponsor Internet & Mobile Boot Camp
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 16th 2009, in Tel Aviv.
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Free Scott Guthrie ASP.NET MVC chapter download
If you want an amazing hands-on look at the new ASP.NET MVC framework, you must download this free 184-page book chapter Scott's NerdDinner.com chapter.
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March 2009 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group
This month we take a look at design and architecture, rather than specific technologies.
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Software Development Flight to Quality
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 world’s outsourcing market and emerging trends likely to shape that market over the next twelve months. There are a lot of interesting ideas in the report, which can be found at http://www.mofo.com/news/updates/bulletins/15129.html. However, one point in particular really caught my attention: