I’ll spell it American… happy, blogosphere? Here’s a few interesting examples of how the battle is being waged in terms of virtualisation of software: I can’t run Windows Live Writer—simply the best blogging software on both the Mac and Windows—through Crossover, because it was built in .Net. And .Net apps don’t work in Crossover. You [...]
Context: I’m currently in discussion with a number of companies that are involved with SOA-vending & -consulting. As a result, I’ve been studying up a little on this market and hope to learn more by writing about it. Note: Since I know, judging by the response to other articles on enterprise-software, this isn’t exactly the [...]
hello hello It’s a sunny sunday so I will share my idea rapidly and kick off to photosynthesize. Techiteasy is a community blog so we tend to interact, ping pong ideas etc. Kari was sharing some thoughts about gaming experiences, Vincent some others on blogging about books and I was trying how to o’reillishly “Learn [...]
Here’s a quick question to all people used to either interact with or being part of software development teams. Consider a software vendor, a good one, and its technical headcount. It is no secret that R&D teams aren’t made of software developers only. In order to be deployed successfully, architectures and code need to be tested by [...]
Last week, the unsexy world of lower software layers witnessed some significant consolidation moves: Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL AB, and Oracle Corporation acquired BEA Systems. I know you guys browsing the blogosphere want to hear about Paris Hilton (this one keyword to boost visits from search engines), and most of all Twitter, Google, Apple, MS-bashing (which I [...]
As a software developer, one of the most difficult challenges to have a interesting career path is to be able to adapt to changing environments, even when you are an expert in a specific framework. I think there are 2 majors reasons to explain this necessity: the first one is that technology evolves very quickly, [...]
If you’ve ever been serious in the recent 15 months about finding your dream property in France, then you probably used BMyKey. BMyKey was launched about a year ago by Katya and Pierre, after 7 months of platform development. Katya, a graduate in communication and marketing, left her first job to start the company with [...]
If you’re serious about software development &/or IT infrastructure, you can’t miss the Tech Ed developer training event between November 5th and November 9th in Barcelona. All the best developers from the very best European software publishers will be there. And I’ll be there too (as the outlayer, the worst developer in the room), to [...]
A not-so-interesting, but worth watching once, buzz marketing video for SalesForce’s AppExchange platform & Force framework. You could basically leave content as it is and replace SalesForce – AppExchange – Force by: Microsoft + CRM 4.0 ‘Titan’ + .NET; Facebook + Facebook API; Twitter + Twitter API; Google + GWT; Adobe + Flash + Flex; etc. [...]
Xobni is an amazing OBA S+S example. But what is OBA (see links here, and here, and here, and here)? What is S+S (see my quick explanation to Vincent here)? Thanks to Julien for spotting Xobni. Like Unlike
As the youngest member of the Emerging Business Team, it is an honor for me to have been invited to blog on Microsoft’s Startup Zone with bloggers and colleagues as prominent as Don Dodge (my favorite blogger ever alongside with Marc Andreessen), Cliff Reeves, David Rowe and Rodney Bowen-Wright. I see this opportunity as a [...]
I actually learnt what software architecture means something like 9 months – when Jean-Sébastien and Pierre discussed the architecture of CartoReso and I was listening, eyes wide opened not understanding the slightest bit of what was going on. However, it didn’t take long for me to realize how crucial designing a smart and robust architecture [...]
People, Register now for the 2007 Tech Ed, an event organized for software developers (5 – 9 November 2007) and IT pros (12 – 16 November 2007) already familiar or willing to learn more about the Microsoft platform. It’s taking place in Barelona, Cataluña, Spain. Since you read my blog and I’m a nice person, [...]
If you’re a software-as-a-service publisher (eg Google as far as Google Earth or Google Gear aren’t concerned, SalesForce, Idylis, TellMeWhere, Netsuite, Excentive, Facebook, Zlio, Brainsonic, Microsoft as far as Live or Titan are concerned, U.[Lik], eBay, Yahoo!, Inspirational Stores Group, Amazon, 37Signals, Neocase, Advance IT, Constellation, blueKiwi, SideTrade, Twitter, etc.), here are 5 reasons you’ll [...]
I had dinner tonight with a friend and technical consultant jumping from a 3-month mission for an industrial companies to another 3-month mission for another industrial company. So far, so good. The issue is that one of these clients hates to pay for software and has the weird habit of wanting to develop in-house all [...]
