Category: Technology

Working with Box OpenAPI Clients

In May of this year, Box announced an OpenAPI specification for their API endpoints.  The specification is available on their Github site, but in implementing it, I found few practical examples and no examples for C#/.NET. To start with, you...

Is Social for the Enterprise Useless?

Is Social for the Enterprise Useless?

There is a key difference when we look at social networks in our personal lives (Facebook , Twitter, etc.) and professional lives (LinkedIn) and social networks in an enterprise and that key difference is that enterprises are still primarily concerned...

Has SharePoint Jumped the Shark?

Has SharePoint Jumped the Shark?

I’ve worked with SharePoint now for some 7 years starting from SharePoint 2007 beta 2 and I’ve worked with portals and CMS  systems in some form or another since 2003. Since 2006, most of my domain experience has been in...

TFS – Does It Suck?

TFS – Does It Suck?

I’m not sure, but I don’t want to find out either. I’m currently tasked with recommending a new source control platform and a new defect tracking platform as well. I’m late to this post from March 2010, but Martin Fowler...

Lev Grossman on The Cloud

Lev Grossman on The Cloud

Lev Grossman has an article in Time this week (not available on Time.com) that pretty much hits it on the mark — at least in my book — with regards to The Cloud.  I look kind of befuddled when people...

More Commentary on Windows 8 and HTML5

Arstechnica has another feature on the aftermath of the Microsoft’s game-changing Windows 8 + HTML5 announcement. First, a quote: The lack of broad platform support meant that Silverlight could never quite rival Flash on this front, but it was there,...