Messages to Bill Gates
As many of you probably know, Bill Gates is stepping down from Microsoft. His last day is this Friday, June 27. I doubt he even knows about this blog, much less read it... Oh wait, that's not true. Bill Gates...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:28 PM/EST
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:31 PM/EST
Is Vista dead? Perspectives from developers
The other day, my colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wrote an opinion piece for eWeek called Microsoft Gives Up on Vista. Right towards the beginning he has the sentence "Vista is dead." I'm curious, however, what the perspective is from the...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:29 PM/EST
Eclipse is *not* competing with .NET and Java
The people over at ZDNet (which is not affiliated with my employer, Ziff Davis Enterprise) send out periodic newsletters. One of them today had a headline that struck me as odd: "Is Eclipse a run-time rival for Java, .NET?" That...
Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:41 PM/EST
F# is only kind of new...
F# is definitely a new language. But it has some roots that go back pretty far....
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 6:44 PM/EST
Ziff Davis Enterprise is not Ziff Davis Media
You may have heard some news reports today about Ziff Davis Media. FYI, that isn't us. We're a completely separate company called Ziff Davis Enterprise that broke away in July, 2007, and no longer have any connection whatsoever with Ziff...
Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:03 PM/EST
AJAX troubles
One of our articles this week is a news item about potential security problems in web browsers, especially pertaining to ActiveX. Over the last couple years I've heard a lot of comments in the news about ActiveX, and it's clear...
Saturday, January 26, 2008 12:31 PM/EST
Where are our downloads?
I've received several emails from readers, and so have many of our authors. Are you looking for our downloads?...
Saturday, January 26, 2008 12:23 PM/EST
Backing up data...
I know DevSource readers don't have to be told this. We're programmers, and we know better. But it's kind of scary to think just how many people out there don't realize the importance of backups. If you work for a...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:55 AM/EST
Looking for Microsoft events (including free ones)?
You might not realize this, but Microsoft puts on events throughout the year all over the planet. No matter where you live, it's quite possible there's a Microsoft event going on sometime in the near future not too far from...
Wednesday, January 09, 2008 3:53 PM/EST
Emacs.NET???
This week on DevSource we ran a news article that somebody at Microsoft is looking at building a .NET version of Emacs. This could potentially replace the Visual Studio IDE. In theory. Maybe?...
