thoughts

Net Sourcing

Scott Hanselman has a post talking about how his cousin's company ran into some difficulty recently, that Scott believes could be resolved by "net sourcing" certain functionality.

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It’s a sad day

Indefinite Hiatus

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nHibernate performance concerns

I have been investigating nHibernate recently.  I am writing some web service interfaces to our ERP product and I would like some painless way of talking to the database.

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Open Source Java

Eric has entry on the future of Java now that Sun's new leader is talking about letting go. I have always felt that if Sun hadn't stopped Microsoft innovating their JVM that we would all be Java programmers by now and the language debate would be mute.

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MSN search still sucks!

Here's another classic example of why MSN search sucks... Search for "ADAM tutorial Active Directory" in MSN and then do the same in Google.

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Open source dreams

Frank linked to an article by the creator of sourceforge about how open source can save enterprise software companies a big chunk of their sales and marketing budget.

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Move to WordPress

I decided to move my blog. Blogger has been hosting it for the last year or so, but I was getting annoyed with the workarounds needed to support trackbacks etc. Anyway, I chose Wordpress because of Scoble, the fact that it is free and I have a web host that only supports PHP and MySQL. I would love to have a host that supports .Net, but I just have found one that's cheap enough yet.

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