I think CrunchBase is a really nice resource. For those of us bemused by the silly throwing around of money that is going on at present, this database is a nice way to search. So I can easily look up any company (eg Jaiku) and find out what hell people are attracted to it for, and even some financial data if any is available (eg here's a new company you may not have heard of :-). Michael...
And also great to see the Microsoft share price jumping up following the recent news on revenue.
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Great to see Microsoft earnings up again. Vista, Windows Server, SQL Server, SharePoint and games were all important contributors.
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Interesting to read what Computerworld thinks Gartner thinks are the top 10 strategic technologies for 2008. The usual woffle abounds with Green IT and 'the Web platform' (I kid you not) getting trotted out. And look out for number 10 – Social software – my goodness they are prescient. The problem with these kinds of reports, is firstly, this is Computerworld's take...
Q: Is it worth going to community events like SQL Code Camp? A: Yes – read on for explanation… SQL Code Camp 13-14 October 2007 When considering any developer event these days it is important to calculate whether you are getting good value. With so much content available online, we need to evaluate the costs (financial, comfort, time and otherwise) involved in traveling to a venue to...
Microsoft is adding F# to its list of support languages in Visual Studio. So reports Mary Jo. And no, F# is not the .net version of FoxPro :-)
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Following on from my Unified Communications post from last week, here is the Australian portal.
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Aleks at work sent this one around today – a demo on how to use the mouse. All you need to do is work out how to navigate through the web site and make it to the link and activate the link – all without using your mouse of course – in order to see the demo. Classic. Someone, somewhere is approving budget requests with the eagle-eyed financial scrutiny of the pointy haired...
My good friend Scott Scovell is back in the blogosphere, and creating quite a storm in the BizTalk world. Scott and I used to work together at Talman, but he's now with Mick Badran at Breeze (and I'm at Elcom as I'm sure you all well know :-) Check out these beauties from Scott: BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Download Installing BizTalk RFID DLP Design DSPI Provider fails to register in...
Chad takes a look at why many projects fail when attempting the big rewrite. Written late last year (yikes! that's an eternity ago) the article is a series of insights in to common project failings. I especially relate to the Wishlist point (ie scope creep) which is the main issue that I've seen affecting projects of any type… 'Can we get some Web 2.0 experiences into this new...