The .NET Addict's Blog

The Evolution of the Cloud - Then and Now

With all of the hype surrounding Cloud computing, Microsoft's upcoming Cloud OS and current efforts around Live Mesh, I thought I would take a trip on the WABAC machine to look at where it all started

Posted: Oct. 6, 2008 08:34 AM

Microsoft's Lofty Direction

With the PDC coming up shortly and Microsoft's trickled announcements of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0, what is Microsoft's direction, and will it work for them?

Posted: Oct. 5, 2008 10:30 AM

Apple drops the iPhone NDA for Released Software

In case you hadn't yet heard, Apple has dropped the NDA for the iPhone which allows us to now discuss openly all aspects of iPhone programming for released versions of the SDK

Posted: Oct. 1, 2008 11:54 AM

Choosing the right Mobile SDK and Platform for your Application

Lately the decision as to which mobile devices to target and which mobile SDK to use for building your application has become much less clear. This blog post takes a look at some of the current options for building mobile apps; their pros and cons

Posted: Sep. 28, 2008 01:46 PM

Cappuccino, Objective-J, and You

This blog post takes a look at Cappuccino, Objective-J, and what they might mean to you as a web application developer

Posted: Sep. 10, 2008 02:14 PM

Microsoft promises to extend ASP.NET to Apache and .NET to other OS's... in 2002

I found a ZDnet article from 2002 that outlined Microsoft's plans to extend ASP.NET to run on Apache, .NET to run on non-MS Operating Systems, and .NET to connect to Oracle.

Posted: Sep. 8, 2008 08:45 AM

The Really, Really Odd Couple Debuts - Seinfeld and Gates during the Giants Game

The Really, Really Odd Couple - Gates and Seinfeld - debuted last night and you can find the video online everywhere. In this post are my thoughts on the advertisement.

Posted: Sep. 5, 2008 06:40 AM

Google releases Chrome... and there was much rejoicing. yay.

Google hath descended from the mountaintop and hath delivered unto us the Chrome browser. Wow, just what I wanted... yet another browser.

Posted: Sep. 3, 2008 08:09 AM

Enterprise Web Services Manifesto - Wire Formats

In this blog post in the series I am going to cover some points about wire formats and which formats I like and which formats I dislike, and why.

Posted: Sep. 2, 2008 09:43 AM

Can't we all just get along? Is Vista really the pile of suck people think it is?

In this post, I take a fairly objective look at Vista to date, in light of recent efforts to clean up Vista's image by Microsoft including Seinfeld and Mojave.

Posted: Aug. 29, 2008 08:09 AM