Good news: WCF programmers no longer need to suffer REST envy in relation to their brethren in the wider development world. .NET developers will now be able to easily achieve both RPC and REST type services in WCF. Let's clear up some of those acronyms:   WCF, for the uninitiated, stands for Windows Communication Foundation, a feature of .NET that simplifies much of the mechanics and "plumbing" of programming service-oriented interfaces, particularly web services. The default WCF ...

Digg is looking to take its approach currently used for stories to how it displays ads. Users will be able to vote ads up and down just as it does stories.    AdAge talked with Digg founder Kevin Rose about how he sees acceptance of commercial content from the fickle Digg users. Other Web 2.0 sites have tried and failed when trying to bring explicit advertising to its sandbox. Will be interesting to see if Digg can succeed, but here is some of the back and forth:   Ad Age: So, what m ...

In this series of blog posts I will be dusting off long forgotten software development and computer science tomes to uncover gems of wisdom that apply to the software work we are doing today. Please enjoy this first installment, which comes from a landmark software book that was first published in 1971, The Psychology of Computer Programming, by Gerald Weinberg (1971, Reinhold).   Of all the requirements that we might place on a program, first and foremost is that it be correct. In other ...

...but you HAVE to touch! With the release of Windows 7 later this year, Microsoft is introducing Windows Touch, a platform designed to provide an enriched multi-touch experience, bringing Windows to the Surface. By empowering developers with the ability to provide touchscreen applications utilizing the power of the PC, Windows 7 will open up all kinds of possibilities. From Windows Media Center mounted on your basement wall to custom GPS routing applications in your delivery van, Windows T ...

Okay, so this is a bit off topic, but as Microsoft partners, we get a lot of news from them without even needing to look and most recently got hit with some of the new Xbox stuff. Take that wii, no controller required!  http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/ ...

We often get asked by clients about what percentage of the market various browsers have when we start to develop cross-browser test plans. For many clients with analytic tools, we can see specific to their users what browsers people are using. In the general sense though, this is a good resource to just get a sense of how things are standing. It is updated monthly so is a great resource: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp ...

Our 14th Fortune 500 to be headquartered here bringing with it 2,100-jobs. The metro Atlanta area continues to attract top talent and companies which is good for the overall business community and Georgia economy. Atlanta Business Chronicle:  NCR moving HQ to Duluth, to bring 2,100-plus jobs to Georgia   ...

Okay, I couldn’t help go back to a golden oldie in the Microsoft advertising annals. Back around 1995, this was the first global campaign for Microsoft…looking back using their new search engine Bing, I found a Wikipedia entry and another article talking about how people started answering the question literally by calling in and naming various places. http://www.denounce.com/mswhere.html So I digress, the start of this post was to be about Bing. I just figured it appropriate to search for s ...