How did they get their names?

Where did some of the most heard and renowned computer software & hardware companies get their names from? Here’s [http://scott.yang.id.au/archives/000177.php] an interesting look at the origin of corporate brands from Adobe to 3M: http://scott.yang.id.au/archives/000177.php…

Free ASP.NET Training

Free ASP.NET training [http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/hosteronsites/] sessions are scheduled in the month of October and November 2003 in New York, Florida and Virginia. A great offer indeed! I just wish such events were also held (atleast occasionally) in Europe and Asia – where there’s a growing…

Joel on Developers and Exceptions

In his latest article [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2003/10/17.html], Joel Spolsky [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/] refers to the Empower Program for ISVs [http://members.microsoft.com/partner/isv/empower/default.aspx]: “If you’re a software company willing to commit to developing software for any variant…

.NET News (Portal?!?!)

Mama Mia! [http://www.woodster.com/jumpstart/dotnet.aspx]?by Michael?Woodruff [http://woodster.typepad.com/] The General News [http://www.woodster.com/jumpstart/default.aspx] one is sooo cool, kind of geeky?with so much on a single page 🙂…

Longhorn Bits

On October 27 2003, the day after the PDC starts, Microsoft will launch the “Longhorn” Developer Center [http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/] on MSDN. The actual product is expected sometime in 2005?but all the buzz?reminds me of the hype that was before Windows 95 was launched. Ofcourse, this…

Yahoo Groups blocked in India

Lately, I haven’t been able to access the Yahoo Groups (groups.yahoo.com) from back here in India. There are tons of .NET-related groups which I browse once in a while to respond to queries, get answers to my own questions and share custom code snippets. Unfortunately, following an…

Extreme Programming (Intro)

Just to add a quick preface to Roy’s [http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/] post on Engineering Notebook: An Extreme Programming Episode [http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/posts/29546.aspx], for those who might wonder what extreme programming (XP) actually?is, a good starting point is ExtremeProgramming.org [http://www.…