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How ADO.NET Data Services came to be (formerly known as Project Astoria)
Pablo Castro has recounted some of his timelined memories about how "Project Astoria" evolved from a lunch time conversation to bits in .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 now known as ADO.NET Data Services Framework ). Nice write up. Three memories...
Ozzie's "Cloud OS" Raises More Questions than Answers
Ray Ozzie's briefing this week provided quite a bit more detail around Microsoft's "Software Plus Services" strategy. It's definitely worth a read (or a look , and if you're feeling too lazy for either you can read Nick Carr's summary ). It's been a year...
IIS sees more gains over Apache
Netcraft's February 2007 Web Server Survey results have been released this morning. The latest data confirms a definite trend that kicked off about year ago: web servers running Microsoft IIS are on the increase and Apache is on the decline in terms...
Posted: Feb 02 2007, 10:40 AM by alexbarnett | with 4 comment(s)
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The Molly and IE story keeps getting better
Molly E. Holzschlag , formerly of the Web Standards Project (WASP) has joined the IE team on a contract basis to work on standards and interoperability issues. "I’m very excited to announce that I will be working to advance standards and interoperability...
Posted: Jan 30 2007, 11:41 PM by alexbarnett | with 2 comment(s)
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Good news for XQuery and XSLT fans
Good news for XQuery and XSLT fans - the W3C has announced the W3C Recommendations for XQuery 1.0 as an XML-aware syntax for querying collections of structured and semi-structured data both locally and over the Web and XSLT Version 2.0 , a specification...
Q406 computer books sales
Tim O'Reilly has posted the second part of the Q406 computer books sales report , comparing Q4 2006 with Q4 2005. This is for top selling computer-related books sales in the US, not just O'Reilly titles. Always interesting as an indicator of trends...
Microsoft - giving back the web?
Quick backgrounder: In October of last year, Tim Berners-Lee called for a renewed effort to progress the HTML standard from its current version (HTML 4.01) ratified by the W3C eight years ago. More recently, the WHAT-WG , an independent group was established...
Posted: Jan 10 2007, 12:55 PM by alexbarnett | with 6 comment(s)
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UK's top entrepreneurs under the age forty
The Daily Telegraph has 'revealed' 2006's most successful entrepreneurs in Britain under the age forty . Number 36 on the list is Ajaz Ahmed, founder of interactive agency AQKA , with a reported personal value of £51m (just shy of $100m...
Posted: Dec 13 2006, 10:20 AM by alexbarnett | with 1 comment(s)
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Why am I moving my blog?
I finally got around to sorting out my new ' Alex Barnett blog ' on alexbarnett.net ! About my new blog I'm using Telligent 's Community Server (the recently released 2.1 version ) and running very nicely thanks to the good folks at ASPnix...
Moving my blog
OK, so I moved my new Alex Barnett blog to here for a number of reasons, explained here at my, er, new blog .
Windows Live QnA service - public beta
Congrats to Betsy and the team : the Windows Live QnA service is now in public beta. I've been on the private beta for a little while and turned to it for help for a couple of things when I got stuck. One example was asking for good seafood restaurants...
RSS feeds, OPMLs and Grazr
Kevin Briody of the Windows Live team has published the RSS feeds he subscribes to as OPML files for your feedreader. Some good feeds worth checking out there, including a bunch of Windows Live individual employee and team blogs. Kevin, one way of displaying...
Windows Live WiFi - beta testers wanted!
Laura John (who I used to work with while we were both at MSDN / TechNet), has blogged about something I've not heard of before...Windows Live WiFi: "We provide dial-up access to a ton of users across the United States but we've also been working on a...
IE7 - RCs, Changes and CSS
As you probably know by now, Dean Hachamovitch announced this morning that Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is ready for download . So what is the difference between a 'Release Candidate' (RC) and a 'Beta'? Here's the short answer from Dean...
On CodePlex, Open Source and Microsoft
Korby on CodePlex : "My take, from the trenches, is that CodePlex is Microsoft doing what it has always done: quietly supporting the needs and expressed wishes of our most important customers: developers developers developers developers, the fine folks...
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