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May 2010 - Posts

Assuming Ballmer is at WWDC …

Posted Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:15 AM by loufranco
I saw this report about Steve Ballmer having some time at the WWDC keynote via DaringFireball . 7 minutes of the June 7 keynote by Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been blocked off for a presentation by Microsoft (MSFT) to talk about Visual Studio 2010 This is Read More...
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You don’t need anyone’s permission to get work experience in software

Posted Tuesday, May 25, 2010 8:55 AM by loufranco
Yesterday, I attended GCC’s Computer Science Day where they hosted a couple of hundred high school students and invited software professionals and colleges to speak to them. There were sessions for both the students and their teachers. As part of the Read More...
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Diaspora is solving the wrong problem

Posted Monday, May 17, 2010 1:08 PM by loufranco
I’ve been having a hard time understanding why Diaspora would be better than Facebook. For the uninitiated, this NY Times report has the basic info: As they describe it, the Diaspora* software will let users set up their own personal servers, called seeds, Read More...
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Can F# Displace C# on .NET?

Posted Friday, May 14, 2010 4:41 PM by loufranco
I just read How to Design a Popular Programming Language , which is very similar to Paul Graham’s Being Popular essay from 2001 about language popularity. Both make the point that languages become popular because they become the default way to program Read More...
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Being sold to

Posted Thursday, May 13, 2010 2:24 PM by loufranco
At the Business of Software conference in 2008, Paul Kenny gave a Sales 101 presentation that opened with 3 questions: Agree or Disagree: I love to sell Agree or Disagree: When I put my mind to it, I can be great at selling Agree or Disagree: I love being Read More...
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What I saw at AIIM 2010

Posted Tuesday, May 04, 2010 4:38 PM by loufranco
The 2010 AIIM conference was a few weeks ago, and Atalasoft exhibited as usual. This is what I noticed: SharePoint : Last year, SharePoint was important at AIIM, this year it was dominant. There was some kind of SharePoint tie-in at nearly every booth. Read More...
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