EU Commissioner Karel De Gucht just stated that he will ignore what the democratic elected parliament vote on the ACTA treaty, If you decide for a negative vote before the European Court rules, let me tell you that the Commission Continue reading
In the wake of Facebook’s plummeting stock introduction Microsoft just announced that they are buying the Enterprise equaliant to Facebook, Yammer, for $1.2 Billion. Putting social networks still in the billion dollar industry segments. Is it relevant though? Is this Continue reading
So, the big mystery announcement event is over. The rumors before the event was really spot on, it was a tablet. But not any tablet. They have really gone all out in trying to re-invent what a tablet is. My Continue reading
In a near future, to stay relevant in your on-shore locations, you need to turn into a solution innovator and move away from being a solution developer. If you can’t take on this shift; you WILL be outsourced. Continue reading
So Microsoft bought Skype. Interesting. Looking at the tech that Microsoft is now owning in this space, Live Messenger, Lync and Skype you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see where this can go. Let’s put up a Continue reading
I love to write code. I’ve written code in one form or another for the past 25 years and I’ll probably still write code for the upcoming 25. I love the pure power of creation and freedom to let creativity Continue reading
Very soon Visual Basic 6 will go out of commission, Microsoft will cease all support and will officially bury a language, tool and platform that has been argued to carry their success with their platform penetration through the 90’s. In Continue reading
Today I arrived in Oslo, Norway with a colleague for Norwegian Developer Conference. This is my first visit and the agenda looks very good. I’d hoped for a little more diversity and some more local Norwegian heros, but I’ll chat Continue reading
The last few months there has been a massive amount of voices speaking out against any form of certifications. Today this was actualized in a twitter discussion with a Cornerstone (training company) and Emil Cardell. Emil argued that certifications basically Continue reading
Johan Lindfors, Microsoft and I discussed the growing opinion that software development and .net framework is getting to complex on MSN the other day. He suggested that we write a duoblog about it, an initiative started by Chris Hedgate, don’t Continue reading