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Autonomous Driving Is A Pipe Dream
We have come a long way since the days of the first DARPA Grand Challenge, now every car manufacturer, technology giant and countless start-ups are creating driverless cars and put them on the road in Nevada, California, Switzerland, Singapore, and, … Continue reading
You say it best, when you say nothing at all
Which is why I’ve been hesitant to utter my dissatisfaction with the mess the development for Microsoft Windows has become. Of course, I’m not alone predicting Windows 8’s demise. But since the new runtime and environment hordes of Windows programmers … Continue reading
All I Ever Wanted To Say
… about the current state of the Personal Computer business, Hal Berenson has already said better. What I would like to add is that probably not only consumers will abandon the PC, but enterprises will too, eventually. Already today a … Continue reading
The End of the World (as we know it)
Big news made waves two weeks ago, when Microsoft somewhat cryptically announced that it is going to end the world for its developer community. Overstating the importance of the decisions to limit Visual Studio Express to “Metro-style apps” development or … Continue reading
Between a rock and hard place, Windows Installer edition
Like most executable binaries on Windows, Windows Installer databases (.msi-files), can be signed with an X.509 certificate to allow verification of origin and integrity. This is particularly nice on Vista-class Windows systems which during installation show the certificate holder as … Continue reading
DotNet “Agile” Rocks
Among the media I try to consume to better understand the trade and affairs of my business are not only the Channel 9 videos, on PDC, and the like, but also the dotnetrocks podcasts. While I’m not listening regularly enough … Continue reading
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A final utterance on Software Engineering?
If I ever want the title of this blog to mean something, I have to link to this (via Jeff Atwood and Ward Bell). Now, for me, although I admire Tom DeMarco for his once clear vision about running software … Continue reading
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Virtually There
The presentations of the Norwegian Developers Conference are online. No, they’re not all in Norwegian. In fact, the magnificent line-up of speakers rivals that of other conferences. Waiting for TechEd content to become freely available may be less reasonable.
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Directory Object Picker
Note to self: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=%22Directory+Object+Picker%22 Represents the "Select User" dialog shown when "Browse" is clicked to specify users for services, COM+ applications or access control lists. It offers all functionality to let the user browse Active Directory for certain objects. … Continue reading
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Utterances on Software Engineering 