As the end of year holiday season approaches, it's fairly common for some web sites and products to re-skin their logos and applications to make them a little more festive or seasonal.  Google has long been known for their creative variations of their logo in response to various holidays throughout the year.  This year, at least one ...

It's official now - Microsoft has announced that it will ship Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 later his month, November 2007.  The announcement came earlier today at TechEd Developers in Barcelona, Spain.  I expect a similar announcement will be made this week during the keynotes for DevConnections.  You can read the ...

The Fall 2007 DevConnections conference is next week in Las Vegas.  This is definitely going to be the biggest conference in the United States for developers for the second half of 2007 (TechEd being the only larger one this year, I think), and I'm sure the show will be bolstered significantly due to a lack of a PDC event this year.  ...

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Soma announces the Small Business Developer Center on MSDN.  One point he makes about small business solutions is: Good enough is really good enough which sounds familiar.  This new resource is ''focused on providing practical, actionable platform guidance for developers working with small businesses.''  The sample application, ...

Fellow RD Stephen Forte is hiring for a project that promises to help accelerate a cure for cancer.  The work will be performed remotely using the latest Microsoft tools and technologies.  If this sounds like something you might be interested in, please read his complete requirements and get in touch with Stephen.

Officially this morning, Robotics Studio was released.   With Microsoft Robotics Studio, robotic applications can be developed using Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio Express C# and VB as well as Microsoft IronPython.  Read the Press Release and the PressPass Q&A with Tandy Trower.   Feature ...