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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 of my own to add to the story: 1. I was reading...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-20-2008
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
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 of 'market share': "Microsoft-IIS...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-02-2007
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 education and outreach. The goal is...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-30-2007
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 for transforming data model instances (XML and...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-24-2007
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. Here the highlights for me...The following...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-17-2007
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, emerging out of the frustration with the...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-10-2007
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 USD at today's exchange rate). After a stint...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 12-13-2006
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 (my new host - they know CS inside out, so *perfect...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by admin on 09-02-2006
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

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