Well, TechEd was good this year – the largest crowd I remember! I was very interested in the cloud talks/discussions and the social media sessions. We are building such large stores of data – I really […]

I’m getting pretty excited about attending TechEd this year. The last event I attended was last year’s DevConnections – and that was good. This year, though, has some pretty fundamental changes coming. Windows 8 is a major […]

I had used the Windows 8 Developer Preview since it was released. A few days ago I downloaded and installed the Windows 8 Community Preview. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, but after installing […]

Ok – so yesterday Amazon announced their new tablet, the Fire. I heard all day long how this was Amazon’s iPad killer, or this was the best competition for the iPad yet, yadda, yadda, yadda… […]

Ok, so I’m a traditional programmer, with 30 years of application development experience, in a whole new world of tablets, smart phones, html5, flash, silverlight, ajax, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. In other words, I’m an old […]

One of my favorite sessions was titled, “Technical Debt”. It was particularly interesting to me because I’m directly involved in decisions about building vs. buying technology. It’s been my experience that any good IT manager […]