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• Silverlight on Linux in 21 Days

  After just recently promising to bring Microsoft's Silverlight to Linux by years end, Miguel De Icaza, the project leader for Mono , has ported significant portions of Silverlight in only 21 days. He chronicled this effort in a recent blog post .... Posted Jun 21 2007, 09:24 PM by The Web Gambit Filed under: Linux, Silverlight, .NET

• The Economics of Disposable Code

  Nick Malik wrote a post entitled "Mort and the Economics of Unmaintainable Code" where he espoused the belief that re-writing code can be more economical than writing good, maintainable code in the first place. Rather than look at "making... Posted Jun 19 2007, 11:39 PM by The Web Gambit Filed under: Development, .NET

• DDNUG and the After Party

  Last night, my good friend Dave O'Hara gave an excellent presentation on Automated Unit Testing with the .NET framework to the Dallas .NET User Group . Dave covered the tools available to write unit tests in .NET including NUnit and others. He also... Posted Jun 15 2007, 12:01 PM by The Web Gambit Filed under: career, .NET, Dallas

• Microsoft at a Crossroads

  Microsoft's developer story has recently diverged into a tale of two cities. Martin Fowler and Sam Gentile both recently wrote about it. On one hand, you have the traditional Mort-focused camp, which focuses on creating drag-and-drop developer tools... Posted May 31 2007, 05:46 PM by The Web Gambit Filed under: Development, .NET, Microsoft