101 Dumbest Moments in Business

October 3, 2007 — Business 2.0, a publication of CNN has a list of the 101 Dumbest Moments in Business which detail the year’s biggest boors, buffoons, and blunderers. A few of my favorites: #14 – Vonage This is a painful one considering they lost a patent lawsuit to Sprint this week which is going to cost them somewhere…

.NET Framework Source Code Available

October 3, 2007 — With the release of Visual Studio 2008 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, Microsoft will also be releasing the source code for the framework. The initial release will only only the base class libraries, and more classes will be made available in the future. Scott Guthrie, a GM at Microsoft,  has posted more details on…

MSDN Nuggets

October 2, 2007 — Don’t have the time to read a 10-page how-to article or watch a full length webcast? Try an MSDN nugget, a webcast that takes you step-by-step to discovering new functionality or exploring a hot developer topic, all in 10-15 minutes. View them online now or download for later reference. Check it out here.

Old School Commercial

September 30, 2007 — This is a classic…

Vista Gadget Development & JavaScript

September 27, 2007 — One of the first things that I noticed when learning how to develop sidebar gadgets was that the code behind them was a combination of HTML and JavaScript. The biggest problem is that it was JavaScript, something that I am not well versed in. I looked through several samples and tried some different samples and…