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Derek Ferguson

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SYS-CON Radio interviews Kevin Schuler, President of InDepth Technology/PDC Bloggers about the PDC Bloggers site.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Tim Landgrave, President of eAdvantage, Inc.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Craig Neable, .NET Compact Framework Evangelist of Microsoft about what's new in the Compact Framework v1.2.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Ted Neward, Instructor, Author of DevelopMentor about Rotor, J2EE/.NET interoperability, '.NET and Java' (without the politics)
SYS-CON Radio interviews Ingo Rammer, Principal Consultant of Ingo Rammer Technology Consulting and Microsoft Regional Director for Austria about .NET Remoting.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Steve Schmidt, Director of Product Management of InstallShield Software Corp about creating all types of Windows installations (MSI, script-based, smart device) with one solution and building installations from within the Visual S
SYS-CON Radio interviews Andy Wigley, Principal Technologist of Content Master about the key design features of a successful mobile application.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Simon Guest, Program Manager for .NET Enterprise Architecture team of Microsoft about .NET and J2EE Interoperability.
Derek Ferguson and Jon Box interview Jim Wilson, President of JW Hedgehog, Inc. and DevelopMentor's .NET Compact Framework expert.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Andres Aguiar, Program Manager of DeKlarit.
SYS-CON Radio interviews John Beech, VP of Sales of Software FX, Inc. about using third party components in mission-critical applications.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Paul D. Sheriff, President of PDSA, Inc. about Architecting IT Solutions and .NET Security Tips.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Steven Smith, President of ASPAlliance LLC about ASP.NET 2.0.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Terry Weiss, Chief Technical Officer of Mentis Solutions, LLC
(October 28, 2003) -Bill Gates kicked off the first official day of sessions at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2003 by telling the audience that his talk would be geared toward helping them to 'catch the next wave' of software development. He said that we are no longer ...
SYS-CON Radio interviews Mujtaba Syed, Software Architect of Marlabs Inc. about Pointers on how to start learning .NET. - What tools to use? - What books to read? - What authors to follow? - What sites to visit? Also, discuss the support for Web, X
SYS-CON Radio interviews Brent Rector, President of Wise Owl Consulting, Inc.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Jeff Prosise, Principal of Wintellect about ASP.NET.
(October 27, 2003) - Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2003 started off with six preconference educational sessions. Most notable among these were Jeff Richter's (of Wintellect fame) session on CLR internals, Chris Sells and Rocky Lhotka's session on smart clients, and Tim...
(October 27, 2003) - Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2003 started off with six preconference educational sessions. Most notable among these were Jeff Richter's (of Wintellect fame) session on CLR internals, Chris Sells and Rocky Lhotka's session on smart clients, and Tim...
SYS-CON Radio interviews Dan Appleman, Founder of Desaware and Apress.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Brian Noyes, Associate of IDesign, Inc. about New deployment features in Whidbey, new data access models in Whidbey, and Microsoft Application Blocks for .NET.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Brent Carlson, VP of Technology of LogicLibrary, Inc. about Logidex for .NET, the new product LogicLibrary has released this week.
SYS-CON Radio interviews Mike Amundsen, President of EraServer.NET about the EraDentity authentication Web Service and EraBlog.NET online blogging Web Service.
SYS-CON Radio interviews G. Andrew Duthie, President of Graymad Enterprises, Inc. about writing projects related to Whidbey and ASP.NET.
I began reading Shared Source CLI Essentials with a rather high set of expectations. I knew that one of the authors, David Stutz, was an ex-Microsoft employee who had recently gone on record criticizing Redmond's attitude toward open source.
Juval Löwy is a Microsoft 'Software Legend' and RD, and architect for IDesign, a consulting and architectural services company. In an exclusive interview with .NET Developer's Journal editor-in-chief Derek Ferguson, Löwy discusses the need for an inherently extensible architecture,...
The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc) is a 'must-attend' for anyone interested in the future of software development! It showcases the future of the greatest development platform on Earth - .NET!
(October 1, 2003) - The first day of the .NET track at Web Services Edge 2003 got off to a great start today with an hour-long session - given by Empowered Solutions’ John Bristowe -- on Web Service Enhancements 2.0. Web Service Enhancements - or WSE as it is commonly known - is a Mic...
In a posting over at developer.sys-con.com, the i-Technology discussion site, the question is being asked as to whether the whole SCO episode doesn't just mark the beginning of a wave of similar actions where individuals or corporations seek to enforce patents, justifiably or not.
I am in love! Of all the products I have had the pleasure to review as editor-in-chief of .NET Developers Journal, InstallShield Developer has gone the furthest toward reaffirming my faith in the software development industry.
As we approach the one-year anniversary of .NETDJ's preview issue, it seems like a good time to consider the recent past, present, and near future of our platform, our magazine - and your humble editor!
Parasoft's .TEST product aims to automate the creation and execution of testing for quality assurance of .NET code. Specifically, it can produce four kinds of tests: white box, black box, regression, and static analysis.
Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm someone else ­ particularly when I'm writing an ASP.NET application. No, I'm not confessing any sort of deep psychological disturbance (although that is where extensive ASP.NET coding may eventually lead). Instead, I'm musing over the difficulty of ...
Last night, I solved a problem over the phone in three minutes that had been plaguing a fellow developer for three days. Moments like that are what I live for as a developer. Boatloads of money are all fine and good, but the ego boost of defeating 'The Machine' is what really does it f...
I have a very demanding boss - well, in terms of product purchases at least. This fact was most recently brought home to me as we planned the rollout of Visual Studio .NET 2003 to our entire development staff at Expand Beyond where I work.
In March I had the honor and privilege to serve as .NET Track Chair for SYS-CON Events' Web Services Edge East Conference & Expo in Boston. It is no exaggeration to say that it was simply the best conference I have attended in several years. The technical content was meaty, the opinion...
.NET Developer's Journal editor-in-chief Derek Ferguson recently had the opportunity to chat with a few of the major players - Microsoft aside - in the .NET space. In this exclusive interview, high-profile executives from Computer Associates, Borland, Infragistics, and Unisys discuss w...
Everyone knows I love Microsoft. And as hard as it may be to believe, in the whole world, there is only one little thing that rubs me the wrong way about our friends in Redmond.
.NETDJ: How did you come to your current role at Microsoft? SG: I run our Web Platforms and Tools team, which includes ASP.NET as well as Visual Studio .NET. I cofounded the ASP.NET team with Mark Anders in November of '97, right after we shipped IIS 4. Mark and I started the next gene...