It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything related to the Mono project [http://www.mono-project.com/], the open source (and cross-platform) implementation of Microsoft’s .NET. But something really interesting came up today. Mono has been ported to the iPhone [http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Mar-10.…
As I’ve been using C# 3.0 with VS.NET 2008 at work on a production project, I thought it would make sense to mention the great tutorials [http://michaelsync.net/2008/02/29/c-30-tutorials-with-visual-studio-2008-for-beginners] posted by Michael Sync on the subject. One of the most appealing aspects of…
A recent article at Forbes titled “The Coming Death Of Indian Outsourcing [http://www.forbes.com/home/enterprisetech/2008/02/29/mitra-india-outsourcing-tech-enter-cx_sm_0229outsource.html] ” reads: > Information technology and IT-enabled services will employ 4 million people in 2008 and account for 7% of gross domestic product and 33% of…
Vishal Sharma announced a carnival event for Aussie startups [http://startups.sharmavishal.com/2008/02/why-this-startups-carnival.html] a few weeks ago. Unfortunately the registration is closed by the time I’m writing about it, but more information about the event (including the participating startups and sponsors) is available on Vishal’…
Chris Anderson has written a great article on the future of business [http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?currentPage=all] — moving to freeconomics, a freemium [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemium_business_model] business model. A must read! > The rise of “freeconomics” is being driven…
He was the creator [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1761] of Yahoo Store, the first web-based application. Paul Graham [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham], who now runs YCombinator – a seed funding for tech startups, released [http://www.paulgraham.com/arc0.html] the Arc programming language [http://arclanguage.…
A presentation from HTC Starting, a web-based business seminar, highlights the top trends in 2008 [http://www.slideshare.net/startuphouston/2008-web-based-trends?src=embed] for web-based startups. With the iPhone (and similar smartphones) in the wide, the mobile space looks quite bright.…
The project I’m working on at work is gaining momentum, and we are nearly starting with the proof-of-concept architecture solution. While I’ve used ORM [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping]‘s for data objects and domain persistence in the past, we have been playing with NHibernate [http:…