How did they get their names?

Where did some of the most heard and renowned computer software & hardware companies get their names from? Here’s an interesting look at the origin of corporate brands from Adobe to 3M: http://scott.yang.id.au/archives/000177.php…

Free ASP.NET Training

Free ASP.NET training sessions are scheduled in the month of October and November 2003 in New York, Florida and Virginia. A great offer indeed! I just wish such events were also held (atleast occasionally) in Europe and Asia – where there’s a growing community of .NET developers,…

Joel on Developers and Exceptions

In his latest article, Joel Spolsky refers to the Empower Program for ISVs: “If you’re a software company willing to commit to developing software for any variant of Windows, you can join the Empower Program for ISVs, which entitles you a huge pile of software at the…

Longhorn Bits

On October 27 2003, the day after the PDC starts, Microsoft will launch the “Longhorn” Developer Center on MSDN. The actual product is expected sometime in 2005?but all the buzz?reminds me of the hype that was before Windows 95 was launched. Ofcourse, this time, its a…

Yahoo Groups blocked in India

Lately, I haven’t been able to access the Yahoo Groups (groups.yahoo.com) from back here in India. There are tons of .NET-related groups which I browse once in a while to respond to queries, get answers to my own questions and share custom code snippets. Unfortunately, following…

Extreme Programming (Intro)

Just to add a quick preface to Roy’s post on Engineering Notebook: An Extreme Programming Episode, for those who might wonder what extreme programming (XP) actually?is, a good starting point is ExtremeProgramming.org?and XProgramming.com. In brief, the XP methodology mainly emphasizes on customer-driven development and?…