What's the next step for .Net ? this might just be it ...

AspSoft  is preparing a big surprise for TechEd 2005. be there!

3/3/2005 11:18:46 AM UTC    Comments [0] 

Not counting home, Me and Goksin just realized we have been on 4 continents this month... and we've been there together too... does this call for a new club?

2/26/2005 3:11:03 PM UTC    Comments [0] 

It still takes you too much time to build your Business entities and manage their persitence?  Check out what Serena is doing with paladin.

I will be talking in more details about it next week (as I am just finishing the last details of Atlantis bank, and finally getting ready to be out of the tunnel).

2/24/2005 2:39:52 AM UTC    Comments [20] 

I have been looking at bug tracking for a Mozilla (Firefox) bug related to tooltips.

I was surprized by quite a few things. Here are some :

• 5 years to fix a bug ?
• Opened: 2000-07-13 06:28 PST
• Status : ASSIGNED        Priority : P3
• Last modified: 2005-02-11 15:01 PST
• Threads that take up days to end up marked as duplicates
• an incredible offer :

I'm interested in attempting to fix this bug...  I'm a competent C/C++
programmer with no experience with the Mozilla code base, so I'd appreciate it
if someone could point me to the part of the code (file and lines) where
tooltips are handled, and I'll take a look.

• Even comments like this :

The problem, as I understand it, is that the bug blocking this one depends on a
person who is no longer working on Mozilla doing some work, or another person
doing a huge amount of work.  If anyone would like to fix it, many people would
appreciate it.

You still like to use OSS in your critical systems? good luck...

2/19/2005 9:02:29 AM UTC    Comments [6] 

Check this... The best love letter ever written!

2/16/2005 6:38:38 AM UTC    Comments [13] 

   This year, I had a great time (again) in Cairo. I had to do 7 presentations at the conference!!! but I still could manage to spend some time with my friends. 4 out of 5 of the anti-suckiness club were there : Kimberly Tripp, Steven Forte, Goksin Bakir and I. We had some very good moments. Patrick Hynds was accompagnied by his wife Sabina and his partner Bruce Bacca. We had arranged to stay for two extra-days, and we did some tourism together. It was very fun and Sabina and Bruce are very nice to hang out with.

   Lara Martini was there too, and I had some good time talking to her. She made me remember writing (which I have not done for quite a while) as she wrote poetry and short stories as well.

   All in all, I got to meet quite a few new people, to do some productive speaking, and to hang out with friend. It was a blast.

2/5/2005 1:48:33 AM UTC    Comments [0] 

     The initiative lead by Julia Lerman and Stephen Forte, the .Net "Celebrity" Auction for the benefit of Tsunami victims of Banda Aceh will start this afternoon (2pm GMT time) on e-bay . Your bid will buy you an hour of consulting from one of the top experts, and all the money will go to the tsunami victims.

    Stephen Forte has the complete list with bios on his blog.

    Thanks to Thinktecture (and fellow .Net celebrities Christian Nagel, Christian Weyers, Ingo Rammer and Ralf Westphal from Thinktecture) who, being unable to get on board because they did not get the info on time (Travel and busy schedules play tricks on all of us sometimes) they have decided to help by picking up all the e-bay fees.

   You can click on the above link to the e-bay auction or go here : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5552696499

   Some people seem to dislike the term "Celebrity" that Julia used to discribe us. I don't usually like to be discribed with such words, and I'm sure many on the list have the same feelings. but I have a few remarks on the subject : If not every single person on the list is a worldwide celebrity (I definitely don't think I am one), these are definitely people that would be seen as celebrities at least in their respective geographies. Also, the term celebrity only means that they are known and liked by a big number of people, which doesn't say the same as "top notch experts", which does apply to most people on the list (I would qualify as such everyone escept myself, and I know some would disagree with the exclusion)... Anyway, even if the celebrity status was not appropriate in other circumstances (and I know many of us have been called things that go beyond the term "celebrity" in the past, like "Software Legends", "Rock Stars", "Over Achievers", and many other things), it is completely appropriate as marketing for such a noble cause.

    Celebrity or not, these are people that will gie you more than your money's worth in consulting and advice.

    For my part, I intend to give a rather "long hour", and to deliver without much delay (notwithstanding my busy agenda).

1/23/2005 1:06:57 PM UTC    Comments [10] 

     The .Net "Celebrity" Auction for the benefit of Tsunami victims of Banda Aceh will start this afternoon (GMT time) at e-bay . Your bid will buy you an hour of consulting from one of the top experts, and all the money will go to the tsunami victims.

    Stephen Forte has the complete list with bios on his blog.

    Thanks to Thinktecture (and fellow .Net celebrities Christian Nagel, Christian Weyers, Ingo Rammer and Ralf Westphal from Thinktecture) who, being unable to get on board because they did not get the info on time (Travel and busy schedules play tricks on all of us sometimes) they have decided to help by picking up all the e-bay fees.

   You can click on the above link to the e-bay auction or go here : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5552696499

   For my part, I intend to give a rather "long hour", and to deliver without much delay (notwithstanding my busy agenda).

1/23/2005 12:28:42 PM UTC    Comments [10]