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Why OData Matters (IMHO)

Earlier this week I was in the MIX10 crowd as Douglas Purdy announced the Open Data Protocol (it was a great presentation - summarized here ). I want to share with you why I think OData could be a very big deal…But before we go there...let's start with the basics... What is OData? Where Did OData Come...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-19-2010
Connecting Clouds: Intuit Partner Platform and Windows Azure

How about I break my blogging “hiatus” by sharing some cool stuff the Intuit Partner Platform team has been working on for a little while that involves Windows Azure? OK, then… :-) This morning, Intuit and Microsoft have announced very cool news for Intuit and Microsoft developers and for Small Businesses...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-20-2010
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 of my own to add to the story: 1. I was reading...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-20-2008
Classic Raymond Chen

Here's some classic Raymond Chen: "Apparently I've been promoted by mistake all these years".

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-07-2008
Chris Anderson: Charlie Rose interview discussing FREE

I spent some time this morning watching the Charlie Rose interview with Wired's editor, Chris Anderson , discussing FREE . The interview covers the economics and ideas driving the Internet's current (and future) state: the Gift Economy ; the Attention Economy ; and the Reputation Economy . Rose leads...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-03-2008
So...what?

About four years ago I wrote a post ( on my old blog ) about some of the verbal tics and language use I encountered at Microsoft (memetic habits I inevitably picked up myself). My observations centered around the use of the word "so", example: " So, here’s the thing: do I use the word ‘so’ a little to...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-27-2008
Microsoft conf call - the jig

I suspect this video has done the rounds inside Microsoft (it's a year old, but I haven't seen it before). Background: this is the same conf call service Microsoft uses. In my five years I spent way too much listening to the very same track. Ah, memories. Thanks to Sean Alexander for the link .

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-02-2008
Windows Live Flickr?

Holy testacular Friday. Microsoft has announced in an official press release its proposal to acquire Yahoo! for $44.6 billion in cash and stock, offering $31 a share - a 62% premium over the current trading price. Ray Ozzie, chief software architect at Microsoft: "Our lives, our businesses, and even...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-01-2008
Geek Juice

Yup, I've definitely been missing my feedreader (and now FeedDemon is free I really have no excuses to catch up). So much good stuff out there, so little time! Here's a sample of the good stuff I've been running into... MVC, I know what you're thinking... Haacked shares his MVC joke - " So A Model, A...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-29-2008
Among the dynamos, My Data and advice for startups.

SaaS / DaaS / WaaS (Whatever As a Service) and Mashups Nick Carr quotes Henry Adams in Among the dynamos “One lingered long among the dynamos,” he wrote, “for they were new, and they gave to history a new phase. Pointing to SaaS Platforms trends , Clive Keyte write about " SaaS Management Platforms ...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-24-2008

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