MSDN Ultimate Subscriber Giveaways A few days ago I got three MSDN subscribers for MSDN Ultimate to give away as I see fit. The subscriptions allow their owner to download and own full featured versions of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate , as well as most of Microsoft software. The retail value of such subscriber is approximately $12,000. Also, the subscriptions are valid for one year of use. So I thought to myself how do I intend to give away such a valuable gift? do I intend to give it in a session...
To Use OSS or Not to Use? This post is a result of a very big discussion I had with a customer that I’m currently consulting for. The discussion started because a project reached its testing phase and to my surprise the QA team worked with… (don’t be shocked) a primitive excel file to manage bugs. The testing phase was taking to long because of things like concurrency (two users can’t edit the excel file at the same time), synchronization of the same file and many other multi-user or files problems...