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Blog Marketing

Today I did my usual reading through the blogs I've subscribed to within Newsgator on the web. Two posts (by Jeremy Allaire and Eric Mack) referred to commercial ventures that were new and...

blogging rss business-analysis
February 28, 2005
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MPAA

Got this link via neowin.net. To me it smacks of arrogance and heavy-handedness. I can just imagine the people who are really into content/video piracy getting a feeling of justification that they...

licensing industry-trends disruption
February 13, 2005
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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...

business-analysis podcasts conferences community
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...

vb-net visual-studio refactoring microsoft development-tools
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.

patents security licensing programming design-patterns
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.

microsoft longhorn data-binding industry-trends dotnet
August 18, 2004
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