Microsoft has released to manufacturing (RTM) its Visual Studio 2008 software development platform and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5, meaning these technologies are available for download on MSDN to subscribers today. Among other things, Visual Studio 2008 is Microsoft’s development platform geared to building Windows Vista applications. More…
Dustin Diaz shares some cool tips [http://www.dustindiaz.com/faster-ajax/] on making Async JavaScript (Ajax) work faster on the client-side using the Lazy Function Definition Design Pattern.…
The Microsoft .NET team will be releasing the source code [http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx] for the .NET Framework libraries starting with v3.5 and VS 2008. Being able to step through and review the source should provide much better insight into how the…
Yahoo! launched its own social networking app called Mash [http://mash.yahoo.com], which is in an invitation-only beta as of now. If anyone needs an invite to Mash then drop me a comment message (below). It’s too early to say whether Mash will claim a market share among…
Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge weekly newsletter had an interesting article, authored by marketing professor John Quelch about how you can take advantage of what he calls the “Scarcity Illusion Strategy [http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5776.html]” when you’re getting ready to introduce your new product or…
Imagine a global marketplace with: * roughly 34 million potential customers just a click away, * a user growth rate of 3% week over week, * over 47,000 college, high-school, employee, and regional networks, * no distribution costs involved, * no investment required (except time-to-build), * no marketing costs involved to jump-start, * minimal time-to-delivery, * no…
So I’ve been unwell for the past 3-4 days, and it feels like I’m under house arrest. There’s the Twenty20 Cricket [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty20] World Cup (which btw is becoming more like baseball in terms of ambience) on TV, but besides that I’ve…
Gian-Carlo Rota shares 10 Lessons of an MIT Education [http://www.math.tamu.edu/~cyan/Rota/mitless.html]. A must read, even if you don’t know what MIT [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology] is! My favorite of the lot: By and large, “knowing how” matters…