Programming and politics

This past week was Microsoft's MIX conference. I almost went to it, and I would have gone if it was not the same week as my oldest son...

As promised yesterday , I did the JS benchmarks again on a Windows machine so I could include Google Chrome. I tried to be pretty inclusive,...

Funny post by @al3x about Twitter architecture. Oh wait it wasn't supposed to be funny, oops. The fact is that he should totally expect...

No Twitter running off the Rails discussion tonight. One reason I write about Twitter is because I really value the service.  It was particu...

This is a big year. Both IE and Firefox will release new versions this year. That hasn't happened ... ever? IE8 had its first beta, whe...

A few weeks ago, I watched Guy Kawasaki's interview of Steve Ballmer at MIX . Kawasaki gave Ballmer a hard time about Vista. It made me ...

Ever since details of Silverlight 2.0 came out, I planned on re-doing my stocks app using it. This is an app that I first wrote for a GWT t...

Even after I heard the rumors , I still never thought I'd see it with my own eyes: My enthusiasm was quickly curbed when I tried to use ...

I got Office 2008 for my MacBook, and I have to say, I love it so far. Actually, I should say that I love PowerPoint and Entourage, as those...

    Several years ago I worked in consulting. My company was hired by larger companies to build web applications. We worked on internal web ...

I attended an MSDN talk this week on Silverlight. It was given by Microsoft evangelist Anand Iyer . If you've been to any Microsoft deve...

I was reading this post by Jeremy Zawodny , and it reminded me of my recent Mac Office 2004 meltdown . I went down a similar path. I had an ...

Lots has been written about the lack of an SDK for the iPhone: Valleywag had a pretty good aggregation of opinions . This included a great w...

I'm starting to write the Stocks application with Silverlight. I installed Visual Studio Orcas. That took forever. I installed the Silve...

Interesting news on Adobe open sourcing some of the Flex platform. Here is a cool video from the Scoble Show on the architecture . For the p...

There's an open call for Vista questions on MSDN Channel 9 . This was posted by Microsoft programmer/Technical Evangelist Charles, so t...

I went to a Microsoft Vista/Office launch event last week. I really wanted to hear about XAML support in Vista/Office. I got to hear a littl...

Remember back when the news was filled with stories of some new computer virus or worm that was wreaking havoc with corporate networks and h...

This past weekend was Raymond's first birthday party . One of the things I did for Michael's first party was make a slideshow video...