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BillG - last full day at Microsoft has come and gone...

The chances are you've already seen the video below - "Bill Gates Last Day at Microsoft". If not, it's worth a watch. I was still at Microsoft when Mr G announced his retirement and was present at his announcement to employees in Redmond. It felt like a big deal at the time... to misquote Vinnie Jones...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-17-2008
8 Trends in Software as a Service Platforms

To kick off the new year, I presented to around 40 or 50 members of Utah Technology Council ( UTC ) last week. The title of the topic they asked me to speak about was "Trends in Software as a Service Platforms". I searched around for some ideas and came across two recent posts predicting trends in SaaS...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-13-2008
Outing dirty laundry

It's Jay Bazuzi's last day at Microsoft to become a stay-at-home dad . At one point Jay was development lead for the C# editor in VS. We've not met, and I'm sure he's a lovely chap and all that, but I did catch his parting wave on his MSDN blog, where he's provided some "tips" on software development...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 11-09-2007
Synctoy 2.0 beta

Well, thanks goodness for that. Synctoy 2.0 beta has been released, so I can at last start re-using this very useful utility with a 64bit Vista laptop. Have played around with it today and its working just great for me. Still no interface within Synctoy for automated scheduling in this release, but it...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 11-08-2007
SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP

Who woulda thunk it ? The CTP for the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP will be available October 11 : "The SQL Server Driver for PHP is designed to enable reliable, scalable integration with SQL Server for PHP applications deployed on the Windows platform. The Driver for PHP is a PHP 5 extension that allows...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 10-09-2007
Podcast with John Musser of ProgrammableWeb.com

A couple of weeks back John Musser of ProgrammableWeb.com joined me and Ted for a chat to discuss the state of web APIs and the API trends as he sees them. We've now recorded the conversation and published as the first of a newly launched Bungee Line podcast series. Topic covered include Facebook APIs...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-19-2007
ADO.NET Entity Framework video- 1 year later

Some old Data Programmability teammates of mine, Britt Johnston, Pablo Castro and Mike Pizzo (well, Mike's not that old), are interviewed by Charles Torre in this Channel 9 video to discuss their progress, challenges and customer feedback in the last year since announcing the first ADO.NET Entity Framework...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-30-2007
Microsoft missing out on Community talents

Todd Bishop at Seattle Post-Intelligencer has picked up on the fact that Korby Parnell , ex-product manager for some of Microsoft's most successful developer community-related projects (e.g. Codeplex, Gotdotnet and Claimspace - but that's another story ) has been nabbed by Yahoo's Seattle office ( Chad...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-30-2007
So what is an Enthusiast Evangelist?

Brian Johnson just landed a cool job as an "Enthusiast Evangelist" (EE) on Microsoft's DPE (Developer and Platform Evangelism) team. I worked with Brian in my MSDN / TechNet days where he then moved to the Mac Business Unit. He recently moved his family over to Florida - but instead of Microsoft letting...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-28-2007
Weird. Even Mini-Microsoft has a Facebook profile

Weird. Even Mini-Microsoft has a Facebook profile .

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-27-2007

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