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Time to Define "Platform as a Service" (or PaaS)

Before joining Bungee Labs last year, I knew they were on to something big. I mean, really big. A big idea, an ambitious vision: to provide developers with end-to-end development, testing, deployment and hosting of sophisticated web applications as a service delivered purely in the cloud. Since we announced...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-19-2008
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 since Ozzie took over the role as Chief Software...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-27-2007
Dr. Peter Chen - the ER Model and ADO.NET Entity Framework - Podcast

A couple of weeks ago Dr Peter Chen , inventor of the Entity-Relationship model (ER model), visited the Microsoft Campus to provide a lecture sharing his thoughts on the ADO.NET Entity Framework . As we were planning his visit, he was very keen to make sure that his views could be shared with a wider...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-20-2007
Astrophysicist-turned-Programming-Language-Designer

In my first week with the Data Programmability team, my new manager suggested I set up a bunch of introductory meetings with some of the team members. One of the very first of these meetings was with Software Architect Brian Beckman . I spent an hour with him and was totally blown away. This is Brian...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by admin on 09-03-2006
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 .

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-02-2006
Sir Tim: Calm Down 2.0

This is what The Register said Sir TBL said about Web 2.0: "You should thank Tim Berners-Lee. Not just for giving us the web, but for articulating what's gone wrong in the lexicon and thinking of Silicon Valley. Hopefully, his standing in the web community will serve as a rallying cry for right-thinking...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-31-2006
I've not met Frank, but I know about his shirt.

I've not met Frank Arrigo in person, but I know about his shirt. In the latest episode of the 'Frank and His Shirt' reality show series, the hunt is on for an apparent posuer . The background to this rather potracted saga is a story unto itself, even getting press coverage in the local IT rags (local...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-30-2006
Top 10 Ways to Light Up Your Windows Vista Apps

Somasega introduces the ' Top 10 Ways to Light Up Your Windows Vista Apps ' 1. Follow the Windows Vista style guidelines 2. Enrich the user experience 3. Enable users to visualize, organize, and search 4. Run securely 5. Design for reliability and manageability 6. Establish a customer feedback loop 7...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-26-2006
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 these as a blogroll is to use Grazr . Below...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-26-2006
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 stealth project that we're now ready to Beta -- Windows...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-25-2006

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