Today, Google announced the launch of its latest application, Google Sites. Google Sites is an application designed to make it easier for those who are not technically savvy to…
First off, Resharper 3.1 (R#) is not a stand alone application, instead its integrated into Visual Studio (VS) 2005. I recently installed VS2005 on a new laptop, soon I…
It is a well-known marketing maxim that if a vendor can raise the barrier to exit for a customer, then the vendor can charge incrementally higher costs. If buyers…
Normally Id buy a laptop online or snipe one off eBay. But I needed one quick. So off to Best Buy with Scott Stults. A quick evaluation reveals a…
Since I am posting this on Valentines Day, its appropriate that Ive chosen to discuss one of a developers great loves: Documentation. Okay, so the truth is most developers…
As part of some research for a potential project involving podcasting, Id like to know what your favorite podcasts are. Do you have certain podcasts you regularly listen to?…
For those of you who have griped about a long line for screening at an airport, or, alternatively, have been pleasantly surprised at the swift passage through the screening…
Since I started with OpenSource Connections in July 2007, I have seen what an uphill battle it can be to get the various federal agencies to even consider an…
When we presented at the AFEI DoD Open conference in November, we noticed that there was a lot of talk about the Department of Defense adopting open source technologies….
Bob Sutor, Vice President of Open Source and Standards at IBM, issued a challenge to the open source community for 2008. One of his ten challenges to the community…
On January 16, Sun announced the pending purchase of MySQL AB, the company which owns the MySQL database. While MySQL is quite popular among developers, it has yet to…
My partner Eric Pugh recently spoke at the Association For Enterprise Integrations 3rd Department of Defense Open Conference. He and Matt Jenks from SAIC covered the topic “Best Practices…
