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IT Conversations Business Model

Doug Kaye of IT Conversations asked for some feedback on a business model for his site. Here's a copy of my suggestions: I personally find the variety of conferences available throughout the world...

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November 29, 2004
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VB.NET Refactoring Cut

Sam Gentile is not happy about the cutting of most of the refactoring functionality out of VS.NET 2005. I tend to stay on the C# side of the fence - just because that's the syntax I'm most familiar...

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November 5, 2004
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RBAC Patents

Following on from my previous post, I was searching for how other developers handled the definition of what roles are allowed to perform which tasks in a declarative programming model.

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September 16, 2004
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Longhorn Transparency

The great benefit of Microsoft's new development direction transparency is that it reduces the probability of real lemons (i.e. products that no one wants) since there is very early feedback.

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August 18, 2004
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Java Annotations

Check out the new functionality in the Java "Tiger" release. Looks like the major .NET languages and Java language oriented functionality are going to be walking lockstep for the forseeable future.

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July 30, 2004
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Microsoft Developer Target Profiles

Microsoft just made available Beta-1 of the Visual Studio Express range of software developer tools. For some reason the C++ guy in particular made me think of the marketing/web people that created...

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June 30, 2004
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