Jon says, "So I hate my new Blackberry Curve from work. What a terrible phone. I don't understand why people like these things so much."
@ 10:58 pm, 11/20/08
Microsoft Convergence 2008 Wrap-Up
March 16, 2008
Last week I attended Microsoft's Convergence 2008 conference at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. Convergence is focused on Microsoft's Business Solutions division which includes applications in the Dynamics family -- CRM, GP, AX, NAV and SL -- but also touches on related technologies such as SharePoint (WSS and MOSS) and SQL Server. It was my first time going to this conference, but being at Tech-Ed last year, I figured it would be similar.
June 06, 2007
This week I've been attending Microsoft's Tech-Ed 2007 conference here in Orlando at the gigantic Orange County Convention Center. A group of us from work ascended upon Orlando on Sunday and Monday to check out new Microsoft technologies, do some recon on products we've recently brought into our "enterprise" and to get out of the office fray for a bit and communicate the with the people that design the tools we use on a daily basis.
May 09, 2007
This morning's keynote entitled "Jurassic Code" by Billy Hollis was a breath of fresh air. The topic of his speech was about simplicity of software design. In making his point, he spoke strongly against Microsoft and the Visual Studio Team. He urged the audience to adopt his manifesto. People don't want features, they want simplicity. He referenced the movement towards simplicity as the "iPod Revolution." I couldn't agree more. As I wrote about yesterday, I'm drowning in a sea of "revolutionary technology." I can't keep up. As someone who manages a software system, a team of developers and many projects as well as analyzes feasibility of new projects, I simply don't have time to learn the ins and outs of every significant or insignificant improvement to our programming models.
May 08, 2007
I'm excited and yet depressed about being at the VSLive! conference in Orlando, FL. I like going to conferences. I enjoy the experience of the hotels, the routines and the knowledge sharing. But it's also very depressing and frustrating because it revolves around Microsoft.
October 02, 2006
When I bought my Macbook Pro back in April, the prospect of consolidating my computer-based lives into one machine was finally a reality. Using Apple's Boot Camp software, I could create a dual-boot scenario where I can run both Mac OS X and Windows in their native forms without virtualization or emulation.
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I’m Jonathan Brown. I write software during the day, I bootstrap businesses at night and I’m a father on weekends. It’s not how I designed it, but that’s how it worked out.Copyright © 2006-2008 Jonathan Brown. All rights reserved.
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