I was in Shanghai, China this past week, teaching an advanced .NET class at a John Bryce customer’s site. The training went well, and is not the topic of this post. I was in China once before, some 7+ years ago for a non-work related activity – learning Tai Chi Chuan (old Chen style) for a few weeks with a well known master (Master Ma-Hong, 78 years old at the time, if that means anything to anyone. He learned the style from the 5th generation member of the Chen family that invented the style – no...

A large part of my job is training. I’ve been doing that professionally on and off for the past 13 years. I remember the “good old days” of teaching C and C++, then COM (Component Object Model). These two, C++ and COM (with ATL, no doubt) where the backbone of any productive development on the Microsoft platform, and it all seemed to be possible to do, each with its own training course: 5 days of C++, 5 days of COM (non consecutive, as it’s pretty unrealistic to take some software guy and teach C...

קצת יותר משנה אחרי שנפטר גארי ג'ייגקס (Gary Gygax) מת מסרטן בשנתו בגיל 61 דייב ארנסון, שותפו של ג'ייגקס לכתיבת Dungeons & Dragons . ארנסון היה אחראי לכמה מהרעיונות הבסיסיים עליהם מבוסס עולם ה-D&D: כל שחקן שולט בדמות אחת, גיבורים צוברים כח דרך הרפתקאות והתנסויות ושאופי לא פחות חשוב מכח בקרב. נשארה תהילת עולם.

Please update your bookmarks, because the new url of this blog is http://khason.net/ (you have not update RSS feeds, it will be done automatically). Why I did it? Why I decided to go to “stand-alone”… Well. there are some reasons. Generally, I do not want to explain all those here, but trust me, there are some. The main reason is, that there is no responsible person in charge for this blog platform in Microsoft Israel. This why, if your blog is popular and you have a respect to your blog visitors...

[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/asus-r50a-umpc-review/ ] So, I got new branded Asus R50A UMPC for test. This ultra mobile machine with 5.6" WSVGA (1024x768) screen, based on Intel US15W chipset, comes with Intel Atom Z520 (1.33 Ghz, 533Mhz) processor, 1Gb of RAM and 20GB SSD. Also it has 3.5G mobile unit, integrated 802.11b/g network card and GPS. First impression was very cool. Slick design, big screen build in...

[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/consultants-for-charity/ ] As you, probably, know, I left consulting field . However, it does not mean, that I quit helping developers community with client application development. Also, every day I'm getting between 50 and 300 emails with questions (I'm trying to answer all of those) and sometimes proposals for consulting. Currently I'm refusing all those, because I do not...