I’ve recently been reading a few articles about the future of application development and IT infrastructure management. I believe that one of the main issues that face most IT pros is that we get caught up in the buzz word factory. Today’s latest: Cloud computing, Web 3.0, etc. What we fail to realize when we speak about the future of our architecture is the changing dynamic of our end users.

I have 5 invites for the highly hyped Google Wave and I am giving them away to my fellow readers!

When a new website is to be designed, designers often try to use the latest technology to create something spectacular. But sometimes its nice to go back to basics and this is exactly what these designers have done.

There was some activity on the JSR 294 mailing list this morning. The Jigsaw team came down from the mountains and has informed us that…

A petition to bring a Microsoft Store retail outlet to the mall in King of Prussia, PA.

Dag König talks with Julia Lerman, the Entity Framwork guru and author of the book Programming Entity Framework.

Dag König talks with Scott Hanselman. In this interview we will at last hear how many hour Scott sleeps. That's a real mystery.

Have an argument. Once you start an argument, not a discussion, you've already lost. Think about it: have you ever changed your mind because someone online started yelling at you? They might get you to shut up, but it's unlikely they've actually changed your opinion.

Here is an interesting problem that I am facing. I have a pretty good working knowledge of computing, and while I can usually manage to get the gist of a new technology in a short amount of time, that is only useful for talking about it, not actually applying that. I am currently trying to figure out the parts where I am missing, and plug the holes. And I am running into a bit of a problem here.

This past week was a busy one – with lots of announcements and cool releases happening at this year’s PDC conference. All of the PDC keynotes and breakout sessions are now posted online for anyone to watch for free. You can find sessions to watch here.

"There’s not really enough space on a business card to explain yourself in any detail so I thought I’d extend it using augmented reality."

A story in Sunday’s Financial Times is reporting that Microsoft and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. have been holding preliminary talks to pull News Corp. content from Google, and for Bing to then pay a premium for that content. There’s quite a debate around the web on what such a deal would mean for Google, or Bing, for that matter.

This post is a summary of my lessons learned from leading distributed teams. I've managed distributed project teams since 2001, spanning the UK, Argentina, India, and other parts of the world. While I preferred having everybody together on site around a whiteboard to simplify and improves communication, flexibility with distributed teams gave me access to the right talent, wherever it may be.

As you know, Chris and I are in the middle of our Fall/Winter 2009 Northeast Roadshow, with four more stops scheduled for early December:

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HTML5 this, HTML5 that! There’s been plenty of HTML5 talk around the blogging world recently. It’s no longer a tiny spec on the horizon, it’s due to arrive soon! Some have already embraced it and are using it on their latest sites. Want to join in on all the fun? Check out this collection of some of the best resources from various blogs and websites in the industry. Each one gives an interesting insight into what’s in store with detailed write-ups, tutorials and handy cheat sheets to help you along your way.