As I sit here, at the airport waiting for my 2 hour delayed flight home, I finally have time to gather my thoughts on the day 2 keynote. I will withhold my overall judgment for the rest of the conference until another post. The first half of the keynote was all about Azure and web.... Continue Reading →
Here at Build 2013 – Day One
Today is day one of Build 2013. There is big news being announced here. The excitement is palpable. Developers around the world are gathering in San Francisco to hear about Microsoft plans for the next year. The big interest is in Windows 8.1, with the anticipation of the first public preview. Here are highlights from... Continue Reading →
Microsoft’s lack of common sense–debated!
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."- Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review There I was, going about... Continue Reading →
Here we go again……Yet Another New England Give Camp
It is time for the fourth annual New England Give Camp . Give Camp is a weekend long event where technology professional donate their time to help non-profit organizations fill a technology need. This can range from sprucing up a web site, to building out a content management system, to building a donor database. Most... Continue Reading →
Modern Enterprise Applications – Native Application vs. Mobile Web
In my recent post, A Mobile Web Strategy, I covered some of the architectural decisions that go into build a mobile website. I glazed over the process of choosing whether to a mobile web application or build a native application. I wanted to cover the other topic first since it tends to be less controversial. ... Continue Reading →
The Cost of Side-Loading on Windows 8
Recently, Rocky Lhotka wrote a blog post call Cost to enable side-loading on a Windows 8 device. In this post he breaks down the cost to side load a Modern UI Application (formally known as Metro) on to a Windows 8 device. He starts out by showing each SKU’s side-loading capabilities : Domain Joined Non-Domain... Continue Reading →
Modern Enterprise Applications – A Mobile Web Strategy
In my last post, Modern Enterprise Applications, I started to look at what it takes to build a modern enterprise application. Technological advances have added complexities to building enterprise application. The expectations of enterprise users has changed. They expect to be able to use their mobile device to be more productive. They want to have... Continue Reading →
Modern Enterprise Applications
Each day technology advances, along the way the definition of an enterprise application has changed. In the olden days enterprise applications would be installed on a users machine with possibly some backend services for aggregating data. These applications had to be reliable and robust. Not much stock was put into the user experience. There would... Continue Reading →
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 17,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 4 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.
My Thought on Windows 8–A User’s Perspective
Recently there has been a lot of different reviews for Windows 8. Some of them good some of them bad. Dr. Jacob Nielsen, a user experience expert, wrote an article providing his insights into Microsoft’s new operating system. The article is based on feedback provided by 12 experienced Window’s user. In this post I wanted... Continue Reading →
Dave's Two Cents 