Darcy Burner's WebLogSoftware vendor centralThe software crisis- February 25, 2004 Jim Fawcette, president of Fawcette Technical Publications, talked in his most recent blog entry about the decline in programming jobs and wages, which he attributes to a combination of offshoring and the increasing productivity of developer tools. He goes on to cite productivity improvements in Visual Studio as a bad thing, based on the idea that if one programmer can do what five programmers used to do, that four programmers are going to be sent packing without jobs. I think that...http://blogs.msdn.com/darcyburner/archive/2004/02/25/79905.aspx Master classes- February 10, 2004 We've been thinking about how we should provide the best, most valuable content we can to large numbers of software vendors. There are some channels through which Microsoft already does a fairly decent job of this: MSDN and the Professional Developer's Conference come readily to mind. On an ongoing basis, though, we've been discussing how best to get highly valuable information to ISVs who will actually use it in a timely and compelling manner. (In the last week alone I've spent...http://blogs.msdn.com/darcyburner/archive/2004/02/09/70450.aspx I'm doing a webcast this morning- February 4, 2004 I'll be talking about programs available to ISVs to help them develop on new and upcoming technologies. If you're interested in attending - I will be taking Q&A both online and live at the end - you can register at http:members.microsoft.compartnerisvworktogseminars.aspx.http://blogs.msdn.com/darcyburner/archive/2004/02/04/67415.aspx |