What would it take for your organization to move to all the
latest-and-greatest Microsoft tools - Visual Studio 2005, Team System, etc.?
This is a question that I have been more interested in since my move from
being principal consultant at Magenic Technologies, a premier provider of
Microsoft platform software-development consulting, to associate director of
Information Technology at Bear Stearns, a leading global investment banking,
securities trading, and brokerage firm.
At Magenic - and the company I worked at prior to Magenic, Expand Beyond -
the choice of technology for any given task was always a no-brainer: whatever
the newest, best technology Microsoft offered for a task was always what got
used. This was a nice aspect of working for a Microsoft partner, in the eyes
of a Microsoft fanatic like me.
Now that I'm working in the big, corporate world, I've encou... (more)
(August 7, 2002) - There has been a lot of hype in the media recently about
the alleged vulnerabilities of wireless "Wi-Fi" networks that are improperly
configured. As the chief technology evangelist for Expand Beyond Corporation,
a Chicago-based wireless enterprise software company, I want to point out
that wireless is a safe medium for transmitting mission-critical information
as long as businesses and consumers deploy accepted industry standard
security measures. The two basic rules today: make sure if you are utilizing
a "Wi-Fi" network that it is properly configured, and cho... (more)
I have staunchly advocated what I like to call "pragmatic unit testing" at
every client I have been at for the past year. I differentiate pragmatic unit
testing from the two alternate approaches to unit testing that I have seen at
organizations. The first "alternate approach," which I have seen at 95
percent of .NET organizations, is best referred to as "no time for quality."
The other approach, which I have mainly seen at J2EE organizations, can be
labeled "quality, even if it puts us out of business."
Between these two extremes, I have tried to follow a path where I use unit
te... (more)
SYS-CON Radio interviews Michele Leroux Bustamante, Associate of IDesign Inc.
about the importance of planning design, architecture and infrastructure and
service level agreements to build reliable, scalable and secure 24x7 hosted
Web services environment.
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SYS-CON Radio interviews Stephen Forte, CTO of Corzen about SQL Server, .NET
Framework, RegEx, CF, SQL Server CE.
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Derek Ferguson, founding editor and editor-in-chief of .Net Developer's Journal, is a noted technology expert and former Microsoft MVP.
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Cathy Lopez
Shaul Efraim
Terence Martin Breslin
Cory Marchand
David Hughes
James Carlini
John Iffert
Dan Stolts
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