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Derek Ferguson

Derek Ferguson is an associate director in the Information Technology Group at Bear Stearns, a leading global investment banking, securities, trading, and brokerage firm.
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SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Craig Neable By Derek Ferguson; Jon Box SYS-CON Radio interviews
Craig Neable, .NET
Compact Framework
Evangelist of Microsoft
about what's new in the
Compact Framework v1.2. Oct. 29, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 5,925 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Ted Neward By Derek Ferguson; Jon Box SYS-CON Radio interviews
Ted Neward, Instructor,
Author of DevelopMentor
about Rotor, J2EE/.NET
interoperability, '.NET
and Java' (without the
politics) Oct. 29, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 7,181 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Ingo Rammer By Derek Ferguson; Jon Box SYS-CON Radio interviews
Ingo Rammer, Principal
Consultant of Ingo Rammer
Technology Consulting and
Microsoft Regional
Director for Austria
about .NET Remoting. Oct. 29, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 5,541 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
InstallShield Software
Corp By Derek Ferguson; Jon Box SYS-CON Radio interviews
Steve Schmidt, Director
of Product Management of
InstallShield Software
Corp about creating all
types of Windows
installations (MSI,
script-based, smart
device) with one solution
and building
installations from within
the Visual S Oct. 29, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 5,340 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Kevin Schuler By Derek Ferguson; Jon Box SYS-CON Radio interviews
Kevin Schuler, President
of InDepth Technology/PDC
Bloggers about the PDC
Bloggers site. Oct. 29, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 5,741 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Paul Sheriff By Derek Ferguson; Jon Box SYS-CON Radio interviews
Paul D. Sheriff,
President of PDSA, Inc.
about Architecting IT
Solutions and .NET
Security Tips. Oct. 29, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 4,705 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Steven Smith By Derek Ferguson; Jon Box SYS-CON Radio interviews
Steven Smith, President
of ASPAlliance LLC about
ASP.NET 2.0. Oct. 29, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 4,904 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Terry Weiss By Derek Ferguson; Jon Box SYS-CON Radio interviews
Terry Weiss, Chief
Technical Officer of
Mentis Solutions, LLC Oct. 29, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 4,454 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Andy Wigley By Derek Ferguson; Jon Box SYS-CON Radio interviews
Andy Wigley, Principal
Technologist of Content
Master about the key
design features of a
successful mobile
application. Oct. 29, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 4,321 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Jim Wilson By Derek Ferguson; Jon Box Derek Ferguson and Jon
Box interview Jim Wilson,
President of JW Hedgehog,
Inc. and DevelopMentor's
.NET Compact Framework
expert. Oct. 29, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 4,708 | Gates: Whidbey, Yukon,
and Longhorn Geared
Toward ROI* Live from the
Microsoft Professional
Developers Conference * By Derek Ferguson (October 28, 2003) -Bill
Gates kicked off the
first official day of
sessions at Microsoft's
Professional Developers
Conference 2003 by
telling the audience that
his talk would be geared
toward helping them to
'catch the next wave' of
software development. He
said ... Oct. 28, 2003 11:26 AM Reads: 6,483 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Jeff Prosise By Derek Ferguson; Jon Box SYS-CON Radio interviews
Jeff Prosise, Principal
of Wintellect about
ASP.NET. Oct. 28, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 6,790 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Wise Owl Consulting, Inc. By Derek Ferguson; Jon Box SYS-CON Radio interviews
Brent Rector, President
of Wise Owl Consulting,
Inc. Oct. 28, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 6,265 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Mujtaba Syed By Derek Ferguson; Jon Box SYS-CON Radio interviews
Mujtaba Syed, Software
Architect of Marlabs Inc.
about Pointers on how to
start learning .NET. -
What tools to use? - What
books to read? - What
authors to follow? - What
sites to visit? Also,
discuss the support for
Web, X Oct. 28, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 6,670 | PDC 2003 Off to Strong
Start Despite Effect of
California Wildfires*
Live from the Microsoft
Professional Developers
Conference* By Derek Ferguson (October 27, 2003) -
Microsoft's Professional
Developers Conference
2003 started off with six
preconference educational
sessions. Most notable
among these were Jeff
Richter's (of Wintellect
fame) session on CLR
internals, Chris Sells
and Rocky Lhotka's
session on ... Oct. 27, 2003 10:49 AM Reads: 7,115 | PDC 2003 Off to Strong
Start Despite Effect of
California Wildfires*
Live from the Microsoft
Professional Developers
Conference By Derek Ferguson (October 27, 2003) -
Microsoft's Professional
Developers Conference
2003 started off with six
preconference educational
sessions. Most notable
among these were Jeff
Richter's (of Wintellect
fame) session on CLR
internals, Chris Sells
and Rocky Lhotka's
session on ... Oct. 27, 2003 10:31 AM Reads: 5,548 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Mike Amundsen By Derek Ferguson; Jon Box SYS-CON Radio interviews
Mike Amundsen, President
of EraServer.NET about
the EraDentity
authentication Web
Service and EraBlog.NET
online blogging Web
Service. Oct. 27, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 6,471 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Dan Appleman By Derek Ferguson; Jon Box SYS-CON Radio interviews
Dan Appleman, Founder of
Desaware and Apress. Oct. 27, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 4,615 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
LogicLibrary, Inc. By Derek Ferguson; Jon Box SYS-CON Radio interviews
Brent Carlson, VP of
Technology of
LogicLibrary, Inc. about
Logidex for .NET, the new
product LogicLibrary has
released this week. Oct. 27, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 6,427 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
G. Andrew Duthie By Derek Ferguson; Jon Box SYS-CON Radio interviews
G. Andrew Duthie,
President of Graymad
Enterprises, Inc. about
writing projects related
to Whidbey and ASP.NET. Oct. 27, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 5,796 | SYS-CON Radio Interviews
Brian Noyes By Derek Ferguson; Jon Box SYS-CON Radio interviews
Brian Noyes, Associate of
IDesign, Inc. about New
deployment features in
Whidbey, new data access
models in Whidbey, and
Microsoft Application
Blocks for .NET. Oct. 27, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 5,693 | Book Reviews By Derek Ferguson I began reading Shared
Source CLI Essentials
with a rather high set
of expectations. I knew
that one of the authors,
David Stutz, was an
ex-Microsoft employee who
had recently gone on
record criticizing
Redmond's attitude toward
open source. Oct. 7, 2003 12:42 PM Reads: 12,098 | Components and
Architecture By Derek Ferguson Juval Löwy is a Microsoft
'Software Legend' and RD,
and architect for
IDesign, a consulting and
architectural services
company. In an exclusive
interview with .NET
Developer's Journal
editor-in-chief Derek
Ferguson, Löwy discusses
the need for an
inherently ext... Oct. 7, 2003 11:12 AM Reads: 15,054 | PDC 2003 Isn't .NET
Wonderful? By Derek Ferguson The Microsoft
Professional Developers
Conference (http://msdn.
microsoft.com/events/pdc)
is a 'must-attend' for
anyone interested in the
future of software
development! It showcases
the future of the
greatest development
platform on Earth - .NET! Oct. 7, 2003 11:07 AM Reads: 10,420 | Day 1 - A Brilliant
Keynote and Enlightening
.NET Sesssions By Derek Ferguson (October 1, 2003) - The
first day of the .NET
track at Web Services
Edge 2003 got off to a
great start today with an
hour-long session - given
by Empowered Solutions
John Bristowe -- on Web
Service Enhancements 2.0.
Web Service Enhancements
- or WSE as it is
com... Oct. 1, 2003 09:28 AM Reads: 7,978 | InstallShield Developer
8.0 By Derek Ferguson I am in love! Of all the
products I have had the
pleasure to review as
editor-in-chief of .NET
Developers Journal,
InstallShield Developer
has gone the furthest
toward reaffirming my
faith in the software
development industry. Sep. 11, 2003 02:17 PM Reads: 11,619 Replies: 1 | Perspectives on Past,
Present, and Future By Derek Ferguson As we approach the
one-year anniversary of
.NETDJ's preview issue,
it seems like a good time
to consider the recent
past, present, and near
future of our platform,
our magazine - and your
humble editor! Sep. 11, 2003 01:38 PM Reads: 9,454 | Parasoft .TEST By Derek Ferguson Parasoft's .TEST product
aims to automate the
creation and execution of
testing for quality
assurance of .NET code.
Specifically, it can
produce four kinds of
tests: white box, black
box, regression, and
static analysis. Aug. 11, 2003 03:09 PM Reads: 10,759 | On Being Someone Else By Derek Ferguson Sometimes I like to
pretend that I'm someone
else particularly when
I'm writing an ASP.NET
application. No, I'm not
confessing any sort of
deep psychological
disturbance (although
that is where extensive
ASP.NET coding may
eventually lead).
Instead, I'm musing o... Aug. 11, 2003 02:22 PM Reads: 9,172 Replies: 1 | Developer Against 'The
Machine' By Derek Ferguson Last night, I solved a
problem over the phone in
three minutes that had
been plaguing a fellow
developer for three days.
Moments like that are
what I live for as a
developer. Boatloads of
money are all fine and
good, but the ego boost
of defeating 'The
Machine' is... Jul. 7, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 7,472 | Where Do You Want to Go
With Licensing Today? By Derek Ferguson I have a very demanding
boss - well, in terms of
product purchases at
least. This fact was most
recently brought home to
me as we planned the
rollout of Visual Studio
.NET 2003 to our entire
development staff at
Expand Beyond where I
work. May. 28, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 7,762 | 'CLI Day' Shines at
Conference By Derek Ferguson In March I had the honor
and privilege to serve as
.NET Track Chair for
SYS-CON Events' Web
Services Edge East
Conference & Expo in
Boston. It is no
exaggeration to say that
it was simply the best
conference I have
attended in several
years. The technical
conten... Apr. 28, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 12,371 Replies: 2 | Real-World .NET By Derek Ferguson .NET Developer's Journal
editor-in-chief Derek
Ferguson recently had the
opportunity to chat with
a few of the major
players - Microsoft aside
- in the .NET space. In
this exclusive interview,
high-profile executives
from Computer Associates,
Borland, Infragistics, ... Apr. 28, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 11,241 | MS Stance on CLR Patent
Raises Thorny Questions By Derek Ferguson Everyone knows I love
Microsoft. And as hard as
it may be to believe, in
the whole world, there is
only one little thing
that rubs me the wrong
way about our friends in
Redmond. Mar. 27, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 9,960 Replies: 2 | The Next Generation of
CLI By Derek Ferguson The issue of this
magazine that you now
hold in your hands
represents a landmark of
truly historic
proportions. Never before
in the realm of .NET
media has any magazine
dared to focus an entire
issue on the topic of
non-Windows CLI
implementations. For many
of y... Feb. 26, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 10,395 | The Continuing Evolution
of ASP.NET: An Interview
with Scott Guthrie,
co-creator of ASP.NET By Derek Ferguson .NETDJ: How did you come
to your current role at
Microsoft? SG: I run our
Web Platforms and Tools
team, which includes
ASP.NET as well as Visual
Studio .NET. I cofounded
the ASP.NET team with
Mark Anders in November
of '97, right after we
shipped IIS 4. Mark and I
... Feb. 26, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 15,251 | Two Views of Development By Derek Ferguson I hate religion. Not any
one religion in
particular, mind you -
just the entire idea that
there is anything in life
that should be placed
beyond question. Even
worse than this, in my
humble opinion, is
uncontrolled idealism. Jan. 30, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 9,978 Replies: 7 | Mobile .NET Web Services
Part IIA step-by-step
guide to invoking Web
services from virtually
any mobile device By Derek Ferguson At the end of my last
article (WSJ, Vol. 1,
issue 4), I promised that
in this article I'd show
you an even better way to
invoke .NET Web services
from Pocket PCs. In
addition, before this
month's article is
finished, you'll learn
how to invoke .NET Web
services... Feb. 1, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 10,811 | Invoking .NET Web
Services from Mobile
Devices Part 1 of
2Pocket PCs put .NET Web
Services at Your
Fingertips By Derek Ferguson In May 2000 I was invited
to Microsoft's corporate
headquarters in Redmond
for a special 'technology
experts' summit. At this
summit, the forty or so
of us in attendance were
given a special sneak
preview of a technology
upon which Microsoft
planned to 'bet the
fa... Jan. 11, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 9,241 | How To Retrofit Your
Organization's Apps for
the Wireless Internet By Derek Ferguson By 2003, more Internet
connections will be made
by wireless devices than
by standard PCs. This
revolution in data
connectivity will
facilitate the creation
of entirely new kinds of
software applications.
Unless you work for an
accounting firm that's so
conservativ... Mar. 16, 2001 12:01 PM Reads: 9,630 |
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