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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • I'll be at MIX07

    I'll be heading down to MIX07 tomorrow. Let me know if you want to hook up (ping me at ) There will be a torrent of Microsoft product announcements over the next few days - Sam Sethi has made a number of predictions on what some of these will be. One of the sessions I'll be looking forward to...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-28-2007

  • 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

  • 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
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