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Cloud Computing: Web-Based Applications That Change the Way You Work and
Collaborate Online by Michael Miller is an excellent introduction to this
phenomenon within the software industry. Written using a style that takes the
reader on a gentle journey through a "brief history of computing," explaining
where we have been and why we'll be living and working in the clouds in our
future, the book is an excellent introduction.
The book is not a deep technical book on cloud-based architectures and how to
implement those architectures using .NET or J2EE technologies, if you're
looking for that then I would still recommend reading this book and then
finding a more technical treatise somewhere else.
Every few years there seems to be a new buzz word within our industry, or
more accurately, a myriad of new buzz words. As a software architect the buzz
over th... (more)
With the release of Visual Studio 2005 in November Microsoft Visual Studio
entered the enterprise development tools space with a coherent set of
products targeted at the distinct roles in the software development
lifecycle. On March 17 2006, Microsoft released Team Foundation Server, which
finally enables users of the various editions of Visual Studio 2005 to
achieve the Team System.
Visual Studio 2005 Team System enables the primary stakeholders in a software
development project, the architects, developers, testers, and project
managers, to collaborate through a common environm... (more)
In today's enterprise applications nobody is going to comment on the quality
of your middle-tier components or the databases to which you persist your
application's data. Enterprise applications, like all others, are judged
using the age-old adage: first impressions count. Essentially, your
applications are judged on the quality of the user interface.
Integrating advanced business and scientific charting into your application
is a breeze with Chart FX for .NET, which supports both Windows Forms and
ASP.NET Web applications.
Chart FX integrates into the Microsoft Visual Studio .NE... (more)
Unlike other products that we've reviewed in .NET Developers Journal, Crystal
Reports enjoys an almost unique relationship with Microsoft Visual Studio in
that a copy of Crystal Reports has shipped with Microsoft Visual Studio since
1993.
It's interesting to note that Business Objects and Microsoft have recently
announced that this relationship will continue with the inclusion of Crystal
Reports into Visual Studio .NET 2005 (Whidbey), which may surprise some
considering Microsoft's recent move into the reporting domain with their SQL
Server 2000 Reporting Services.
One of the g... (more)
Microsoft has expanded the Visual Studio product line with the addition of
six new Express products designed to help the student, hobbyist, enthusiast,
or novice developer become proficient with the Microsoft .NET 2.0 platform as
quickly as possible.
Based upon the same code-base as their professional cousins in the Visual
Studio 2005 product line, the express products have been on a diet, allowing
them to be downloaded easily even when connecting to the Internet using a
dialup connection.
Microsoft has provided six express beta products, which are all freely
available at http:... (more)
A "blue-badge" .net architect and developer at Intel Corporation since March 2007, Doug Holland is part of the Intel Mobility group and is presently working within an advanced tools and development team with an emphasis on graphics performance. He holds a Master's Degree in Software Engineering from Oxford University and has been awarded both the Microsoft MVP and Intel Black Belt Developer awards. Outside of work, Holland enjoys spending time with his wife and four children; and is also an officer in the Civil Air Patrol / U.S. Air Force Auxiliary. 
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