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The Enterprise, The iPhone, and the Role of Silverlight

With its recent announcement to support ActiveSync on the iPhone , Apple is clearly going after the enterprise user. The problem, as Colin puts it, is that the decisions that consumers make decisions on a radically different set of criteria than organizations . Lack of Exchange support was surely holding...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-27-2008
Congrats to Faisal on his new role on the ADO.NET team

My good buddy Faisal has moved from MSBuild to ADO.NET . Specifically, he's the Program Manager for LINQ to SQL and the Object Service for Entity Framework. He says you'll hear a lot more from him on these things, but of course if past history is any indication his blogging will be short lived...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-05-2007
Friday Fun: LOLCODE! on the DLR

The LOLCAT is mildly amusing, but what I find really amazing is that someone actually took the time to write an implementation LOLCODE for the DLR . Imagine that, instead of writing boring old C# code, you wrote something like this: HAI CAN HAS STDIO? I HAS A FISH ITZ "Yummy" VISIBLE FISH VISIBLE...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 11-23-2007
Microsoft Silverlight

A lot of people are very excited about Silverlight , the technology that was formerly known as WPF/E. Jesse says it will give Flash a real run for its money because of a better video story (emphasis in original). Unlike Flash, Silverlight (the new name) will support DRM, it supports the industry standard...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-25-2007
OpenID gaining momentum

On the heels of Microsoft's announcement that it will support OpenID in CardSpace , AOL has become the latest major player to support OpenID . "Every AOL/AIM user now has at least one OpenID URI". This is big news. We made the decision to use OpenID as the sole authentication mechanism on a product we...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-17-2007
An Introduction to OpenID

OpenID, which describes itself as "an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity", has been gaining momentum and getting press in the Identity 2.0 space. The fundamental idea of OpenID is that a URI is necessarily unique and thus a good way to identify users. If you say you...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-15-2007
SQL Server installation problems on Vista? (Failed to compile the Managed Object Format)

I've been having issues installing SQL Server 2005 tools (i.e., Management Studio) on Vista. I know it works because I was able to get it installed on my tablet also running Vista - I just couldn't get it on my desktop. I thought it might be related to SQLEXPRESS installed as part of the VS.NET 2005...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-22-2007
SubSonic

We've been using SubSonic lately, which I first bookmarked from Scott's post . Essentially, the project is an implementation of the ActiveRecords pattern from Ruby on Rails in .NET. Or as the authors describe it, , "a toolset that helps a website build itself". I'm using it on a project I'm working on...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-22-2007
If you can read a file, you can copy it

Raymond reminds us that there is no "Copy" access mask because copying is not a fundamental file operation . Copying a file is just reading it into memory and then writing it out. Once the bytes come off the disk, the file system has no control any more over what the user does with them. Something to...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-09-2007
JSON and XML

Back at the PDC, I mentioned that Microsoft chose JSON over XML in Atlas, its AJAX framework. The debate has reared its head again recently, prompted largely by Tim Bray's post . Tim says that JSON is great for its single intended purpose, "to put structs on the wire." Dare, who used to work on the XML...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-05-2007

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