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Most Popular Blogs Visual Basic or C#? 11389 Views Cool Visual Basic 2005 Tips: Part 1 Graphics and Icons 7088 Views I find it harder and harder to like Microsoft. 3144 Views The Big Pink Button 2353 Views Why I Hunt 675 Views Most Recent Blogs My Take on SaaS (Software as a Service) 11/18/2008 8:15:28 AM Don’t Fall for Software Snake Oil Salesmen! 8/5/2008 11:38:33 AM Why I Hunt 5/14/2008 9:39:28 AM The Big Pink Button 4/13/2007 4:59:36 PM I find it harder and harder to like Microsoft. 1/2/2007 9:08:34 AM
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James' BLOG
My Take on SaaS (Software as a Service) With SaaS (Software as a Service) stocks taking a beating as bad as or worse than the market, I’ll be very interested to see how SaaS shakes out over the next two years. Personally, I’m not convinced that SaaS is the great model that the media has made it out to be, especially with respect to an application such as ours at Tigerpaw that automates the entire business. SaaS is certainly the current . . . (Read Full Article)
Don’t Fall for Software Snake Oil Salesmen! Promising the future – selling Vaporware Are you familiar with the term vaporware? A quick search of Wikipedia located the following definition of vaporware: …is a software or hardware product which is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge, either with or without a protracted development cycle. The term implies unwarranted optimism, or some. . . (Read Full Article)
Why I Hunt Recently, I received this rather interesting letter from a reader of one of my books: “Im using your book at the mo and I like it. My opinion changed however when I found out you HUNT and seem proud of it. Frankly, killing animals for fun is sick and the people who do it are sick in the head. Did it ever cross your tiny mind that people might be offended looking at some twat proudly . . . (Read Full Article)
The Big Pink Button If you develop software, you’ve probably been frustrated from interacting with “them”. You know who I mean – those pesky end-users ; the consumers of your product. You’ve probably thought (more than once I’m sure) that these users are either: a: nuts b: dumb c: dumb nuts While I’ve seen my share of nut jobs, what I’ve found, more often than not is that when I think like this it’s because I’m t. . . (Read Full Article)
I find it harder and harder to like Microsoft. I used to be a Microsoft Cheerleader. For years I defended them against the harshest of critics, but damn, they keep making it harder and harder for me to like them. Truly, I think their heyday has come and gone, and I'm not sure they'll ever recover. A few cases in point: 1. Visual Studio Visual Studio 2005 isn't what it should be. While the promise of this development platform is HUGE, the del. . . (Read Full Article)
Cool Visual Basic 2005 Tips: Part 1 Graphics and Icons Hi all, At Tigerpaw, we're constantly forced to push a language well beyond what many programmers do. We've got about 12,000 end-users of our current release, and we closely mimic Microsoft's interfaces whenever possible. This means we spend a lot of time on details that otherwise get overlooked in many consulting or in-house projects. We license lots of 3rd party components (Infragistics, Compon. . . (Read Full Article)
Visual Basic or C#? I’m chilling out listening to some Innoway and eating a DQ butterscoth Dilly Bar when I get this email...Hold up, that’s not entirely true. I’m actually hiding out from all the kids in the house (each of mine has a friend spending the night), and I just received an email from a reader of one of my books asking me which .NET language is better: C# or VB.NET. This topic comes up quite . . . (Read Full Article)
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