The .NET Sweatshop (v2)"My life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can." - George Bernard ShawThe Death of the Smart Client is Greatly Exaggerated- March 30, 2007 I was watching a great presentation recently from a Berkeley professor who came to speak to a bunch of senior people in my division. He threw out a lot of interesting sayings, but my favorite one may have been "the most dangerous three words in the investment community is 'This time, it's different!'" When I see a lot of what is going on in the industry, I get the same sense of deja vu. Advertising business models. The death of the PC. The idea that XML will change.http://blogs.msdn.com/sandyk/archive/2007/03/30/the-death-of-the-smart-client-is-greatly-e... Thank You Teamprise!- March 21, 2007 While CodePlex has had a pretty good run, we've gotten some flack for having only offering Team Explorer to work with our source control system. Personally, I use it on the internal CodePlex and it has positives and negatives. That said, there's nothing wrong with options, right Well, Jim got to "break" the story, but I think it's worth repeating here: Teamprise announced a complimentary license of the Teamprise client suite for anyone wanting to connect to an open...http://blogs.msdn.com/sandyk/archive/2007/03/21/thank-you-teamprise.aspx Regis Philbin and The Link Between Reality TV and YouTube- March 7, 2007 I spent my December break reading "The World Is Flat" by Thomas Friedman. OK, maybe I was a little late to that book, but better late than never. While I can't say the book told me any specific fact that I didn't know, it's ability to wrap up the last 10-20 years in a tight package and highlight it's influence on where the future is heading is fascinating. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the level playing provided by the Internet open doors for something we couldn't imagine in my youth....http://blogs.msdn.com/sandyk/archive/2007/03/06/regis-philbin-and-the-link-between-reality... |