Archive for May, 2010

Google Chrome v5: Mac and Linux Support!

How a product goes from first release in September 2008 supporting Microsoft Windows to version 5 supporting Mac, Linux, and Windows in a little more than one year tastes like marketing to me. Not the release, but the version number.
Regardless, Google shipped its first stable version of Chrome to support Mac and Linux. New features like support for browser settings [...]


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Enterprise Alternatives to MS SharePoint?

Read Robert Scobles’ post questioning whether Enterprise social software packages are being bundled strategicially to box-in MS SharePoint. He discusses a number of software companies and applications in the marketplace that seek to provide similar features as SharePoint, like SocialWok, Box.net, OffiSync, Yammer, SocialCast, SocialText, Jive, Zoho, and SalesForce Chatter. Read more…


BizTalk 2010 Beta and AppFabric RC

Microsoft recently did a community release event around the BizTalk 2010 Beta and Windows Server AppFabric Release Candidate. Read the overview of BizTalk 2010 features (PowerPoint). See the Introduction to Windows Server AppFabric Whitepaper (Word document) or watch the Application Server Technologies - Past/Present/Future presentation (PowerPoint).


Play Google Pacman! Costs Google $12,942 in Productivity Lost

Update 2010-05-24: The RescueTime Blog posted a more detailed analysis of these numbers which was featured on Gizmodo.
If you haven’t already, Play Pacman using the Google Logo for the next 48 hours! Google is publically celebrating the Pacman 30 year anniversary.
My conservative guesstimates suggest a company with 1,000 employees will lose nearly 33 hours of productivity in their company due [...]


A Note to Scott Guthrie: Microsoft’s Corporate VP of Development

For the 7th year in a row, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s Corporate VP of the Developer Division, took time out from his busy schedule to visit Arizona in Scottsdale for a technical presentation around the Microsoft 2010 product releases for developers. The event had an all-star cast including Scott Hanselman, Jeffrey Palermo, and local celebrity Tim Heuer presenting [...]


RFC: What to do with Telerik Premium?

I won the $1,299 Telerik Premium package at the AzGroups AZ.net 7th Annual Scott Guthrie Day of .NET on Monday. Admittedly I was excited to see the red shirt, but was more keen on seeing Scott Hanselman whom I have listened to on his HanselMinutes podcast for a number of years.
Any ideas of what to build?!
The Telerik toolkit includes [...]