By Kent Sharkey on 6/27/2011 11:19 AM

 Yes, I know I'm beating on this whole discussion on "Is Silverlight dead?", but please bear with me.

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By Kent Sharkey on 11/16/2010 1:43 PM

 A few weeks back, Microsoft held their mini-PDC for 2010. During the conference, some people noticed a particular technology missing from the keynotes: Silverlight. Whatever happened with that?

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By Kent Sharkey on 9/7/2010 10:30 AM

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch is Microsoft's latest attempt to persuade the "forms over data" to stick around. It's still rather early in the product's life cycle, but here's a quick look.

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By Kent Sharkey on 7/9/2010 12:17 PM

Microsoft is attempting (again) to help us get to our data. This time it's OData providing us our data via Internet standards. Is it the "new ODBC"?

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By Kent Sharkey on 1/7/2010 4:03 PM

 In my ongoing role of attempting to get everyone to prove me wrong, I've decided to write down a few predictions this year about where I think our little corner of the industry will be this year. Then, in December, I can either brag about the no-brainers that I got right, or ignore this entirely as I got too many wrong.

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By Kent Sharkey on 10/21/2009 2:05 PM

 Well, now that we really know for certain that Visual Studio 2010 won't be launching at PDC, it's time for my annual look at what we can learn from looking at this year's PDC session schedule.

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By Kent Sharkey on 9/27/2009 4:39 PM

 Say what you will about Joel Spolsky, one thing he is really good at is starting a discussion.The latest discussion is about Duct Tape Programmers vs. Architect Astronauts. While the discussion is valid, many are getting confused by the analogy, so I dare to join in.

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By Kent Sharkey on 12/24/2008 4:15 PM

It used to be that a sample from Microsoft was guidance that would be copied into thousands of programs. Now, not so much.

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By Kent Sharkey on 10/26/2008 3:00 PM

With this year's PDC (Professional Developers' Conference) only a few days away, I decided to go looking at the session list to see the topics. PDC is traditionally Microsoft's future-looking conference, as opposed to TechEd, which traditionally is intended to help developers and IT professionals understand currently shipping software.

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By Kent Sharkey on 9/12/2008 1:00 PM

Mark your calendar: Dec 4 marks Winnipeg's episode of TechDays 2008. For only $124.99 (until Oct 15), you get a full day of in-depth coverage on the products you use (or should be using), and enough software to build your future.

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