Archives for October 2008
Chief Development Officer
I’ve never come across this job title before.
Mr. Bechtolsheim, who will serve as chairman and chief development officer of Arista, co-founded Sun and invented its first product, a high-powered desktop computer known as a workstation.
Again, from the New York Times – Sun Loses Co-Founder to Start-Up
Guy Kawasaki’s Golden Rules of Pitching
Guy Kawasaki, famous venture capitalist, gives us his two golden rules of pitching:
There are only two golden rules of pitching – whoever obeys these rules gets the gold. First, be able to explain in 30 seconds what your company does. Almost no one is capable of doing this. Second, when using PowerPoint, use 10 slides […]
.NET Architectural Cheat Sheet
CodePlex (Microsoft’s open source project hosting web site) has a Patterns & Practices Catalog At A Glance Cheat Sheet. It’s quite a long list. You might want to at least glance through it before starting on the architecture of your next .NET solution.
Tribute to VB6
It’s the 10th anniversary of Visual Basic 6 (it was released in 1998) and I would like to pay tribute to the programming language that launched millions of software development careers worldwide.
First, let us take a look at VB6 in the context of Microsoft’s strategy for dominance. From the very beginning, unlike other software companies […]
