Jesse Ezell Blog

"It will be interesting to see what happens with Macromedia whose announced there intention to expand Flash into a full platform for rich client software development. (more details)  Don't be mistaken this is a frontal attack and Microsoft has already registered the potential threat to their platform.  If Macromedia gains any traction watch for the sleeping giant to wake and start f*cking thing up.

Keith thinks VB developers are making a mistake if they switch to C#:

You can find out all about the Architecture Summit on MSDN's latest .NET Show:

So, I'm looking through the patterns stuff on Microsoft's site and I come across the MVC stuff. Man, they do some rediculously lame things when implementing these patterns. The patterns themselves are ok, it is their implementation that is just horrendous. For example:

Ted agrees that Craig Andera is off his rocker, when he suggests that code gen is better than AOP. He promises more discussion to come...

"The point about open source that I believe is really cool is this notion that you have thousands of eyes around the world looking at a similar problem, and obviously when you have more people focused on something, you can solve things better."
[CNET News]

"Both of these come from markpasc.org -- Shareware Amateurs vs. Shareware Professionals by Steve Pavlina -- a nice dissertation on the right and wrong ways to figure out what product to build; and Eric Sink's article on product positioning -- the fundamental point being that marketing begins well before you develop your product, not afterwards; and that you better be able to simply articulate what your product is for."
[A Little Ludwig Goes a Long Way]

"Microsoft said Friday that it is halting development of future Macintosh versions of its Internet Explorer browser, citing competition from Apple's Safari browser."
[CNET News]