It’s been several weeks since I had the pleasure of visiting Milan, and joining 150 enthusiastic web developers for a day of server-side frameworks and JavaScript. Lucky for me, I keep good notes. Overall the day went smoothly, with some solid logistics and very attentiveorganizerss, and an impressively diverse audience drawn by the fact that … Read more
The voting for sessions has now closed, and sadly only half of the potential sessions could make it through. On the plus side, the sessions that floated to the top look great and, with the votes in, Simone and Ugo have moved right along and created a draft agenda to whet our appetites. Take a … Read more
I’ve had loads of fantastic feedback on the concept and early curation wireframes I posted on the labs, and it’s led to some further thoughts on the topic of voting. More specifically, thoughts about the kinds of behaviour and values a platform encourages in it’s users via the set of available actions. StackOverflow is a … Read more
If you’re a web developer in Europe (or would like an excuse to travel to Europe), you should definitely take a look at the Web.NET event coming in October. It’s being organized by two Italian web maestros (Simone Chiaretta and Ugo Lattanzi) and the session list looks fantastic. The event site pretty much speaks for … Read more
Following on from my previous post, I want to say “thank you” to everyone who has got in touch and got involved – you are pioneers! An update on where we are right now: paper prototypes v1 To be more specific, we’ve picked two of the ideas that seem to have more pros than cons, … Read more
In which I introduce a new project, explain the why and wherefore, and ask for a little help. Some Context – Publishing for Developers The Red Gate .NET team has been having some long and fruitful discussions with the Simple-Talk editorial team, and together we’ve decided that we don’t do enough to educate and inform … Read more
When the age of SaaS dawned, and the first wisps of the cloud started to condense above our heads, much hype was made of the fact that you could put your “stuff” in the cloud, and then never have to worry about it again. Sadly, that’s only half true. You don’t have to worry about … Read more
It has been an impressively brutal month in terms of security breaches, and across a whole range of fronts. The “Cablegate” leaks, courtesy of Wikileaks, appear to be in a league of their own. The “Operation Payback” DDoS attacks against PayPal, MasterCard and Visa (not to mention the less successful attack against Amazon) are equally … Read more
Well. sort of. Clearly, you are using a computer. If you are on this site, you are probably quite familiar with computers as artifacts of our modern society. Hopefully, you are also familiar with the fact that Alan Turing, logician and mathematician extraordinaire, was instrumental in laying down the foundations of modern computer science, and … Read more
“Systems Administrators, I come in peace. You have nothing to fear from me” – Office 365 Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite recently absorbed a few other services and has been rebranded as Office 365, which is currently in private Beta and NDA-d up to the eyeballs. As Microsoft’s (slightly delayed) answer to Google Apps Premier … Read more
The best IT articles and suggestions come from the grizzled front-line veterans, and the best grizzled front-line veterans are the ones who are willing to listen to the suggestions of their peers. Wesley David may not be grizzled, but he is on the proverbial front line, and has recently kicked off a series of articles … Read more
PowerShell 2 is an integral part of Exchange Server 2010, and the latest Windows Server technologies, perhaps on the premise that ubiquity breeds familiarity. Exchange has now reached the point where some operations are only available to PowerShell scripts, leaving no safe but slow GUI alternative for the tentative administrator (although there’s a certain irony … Read more
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