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C# @ The MongoDB Conference!
26 April 10 11:22 PM | mrdecav | 1 comment(s)

I will be speaking at the MongoDB conference in New York City on May 21st. I will cover their .NET/C# Development segment. We have a great demo lined up, and I look forward to seeing you all there. MongoDB is an excellent open-source database which specializes...

Filed under: Web 2.0, .NET/C# Development, On Software, Cluster Computing, MongoDB

The desktop is dead (really, for real this time)
07 May 09 12:48 PM | mrdecav | 6 comment(s)

Time and time again noise builds around the (re)introduction of thin client computing, the death of the desktop OS and the emergence of a single, large networked computer that we all work on. A super mainframe that is omnipresent across all devices and...

Filed under: Web 2.0, On Software

The Browser Love Affair, RIA and JavaScript as the 'new byte code'
12 February 09 06:42 PM | mrdecav | 8 comment(s)

Jump to a section of this article: Why do consumers love the browser? Who is winning the war in RIA (Flex, Silverlight, HTML+JavaScript)? JavaScript as Byte Code - C#, Java, etc to JavaScript Compilers and Cross-Compilers Why do consumers love the browser...

Filed under: Web 2.0, On Software, ActionScript, Adobe AIR, Flex, Silverlight, HTML/JavaScript, GWT

Introducing PowerShell Pages - Script Style HTML Rendering
05 July 08 11:59 PM | mrdecav | 2 comment(s)

Early in the web development world, scripting languages such as ASP or PHP were used to compose pages. Although this proved great for relatively static pages, the dynamic web, filled with rich applications called for a more powerful framework. Thus, frameworks...

Filed under: Web 2.0, .NET/C# Development, On Software, PowerShell

Gatsb.com Now Open Source (A Case Study in Geotagging, Workflow Foundation, SMS/MMS Parsing)
14 June 08 09:37 PM | mrdecav | with no comments

After hosting Gatsb.com for a year, I have decided to open source the project. I haven't had time to promote it the way I wanted to promote it, and it therefore hasn't caught on with too many users. I've been busy with other projects, other...

Filed under: Web 2.0, .NET/C# Development, On Software, Gatsb

Ruby, From The Eyes of a C# .NET Developer
12 March 08 07:37 AM | mrdecav | with no comments

I recently got to playing with Ruby, something that some colleagues in Lab49 have been big fans for some time. I've never been a big fan of scripting languages, but have grown more of an appreciation for functional programming over the past several...

Filed under: Web 2.0, On Software, Ruby

.NET: Sending Email to Japanese Mobile Phones
13 June 07 01:53 AM | mrdecav | 1 comment(s)

Following up on my previous post about configuring ASP.NET for Japanese mobile phones, I thought I would write about another irritating aspect of developing for the Japanese mobile market: sending email to the fairly ubiquitous Japanese phone email system...

Filed under: Web 2.0, .NET/C# Development

Security: Writing Password Protected Applications
08 June 07 04:23 AM | mrdecav | 1 comment(s)

Okay, here is something that is very frustrating to me. So many people do this incorrectly and it makes me feel insecure about giving my password to a website. The thing they don't do properly is password management . In this day of web and hobbiests...

Filed under: Web 2.0, .NET/C# Development, On Software

Introducing Gatsb: Mobile photographs and social networking
30 April 07 03:00 PM | mrdecav | with no comments

I'm excited to announce the first public release of Gatsb will be going live today! Gatsb is a social and mobile networking app I've been meaning to build for a long time and have finally gotten around to. It allows its users to share photographs...

Filed under: Web 2.0, .NET/C# Development, Personal, Gatsb

Building and Running Web Applications
23 March 07 08:31 PM | mrdecav | with no comments

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has a really good article regarding the management and building of web applications . He makes some really good points about the common business sense that most developers overlook when trying to start a profitable web...

Filed under: Web 2.0

Ramblings on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), WPF/E and the Direction of Microsoft
25 November 06 07:40 AM | mrdecav | with no comments

Reading through the WPF architecture documents on MSDN and MSDN blogs turned up some interesting hints about the overall direction of WPF and Microsoft. As the web matures and bandwidth increases, it is becoming ever more apparent that "mainframe" computing...

Filed under: Web 2.0, .NET/C# Development, On Software

Running Zune on Vista!
17 November 06 05:56 AM | mrdecav | 36 comment(s)

UPDATE: I've seen alot of people searching for how to run Zune on Vista, long after Vista was released. You can run Zune on Vista, and if you're having trouble, go download the latest player software at http://www.zune.net . So it is possible...

Filed under: Web 2.0, .NET/C# Development, On Software