Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: Why do Fast Followers often beat the First Mover innovators?

 

Before exploring the reasons for success or failure lets review a list of innovation leaders and fast followers.

• AltaVista -> Google
• Napster -> iTunes
• VisiCalc -> Lotus 123 -> Excel
• Word Perfect -> Word
• Netscape -> Internet Explorer
• Apple Newton -> Palm Pilot -> Blackberry
• IBM PC -> Compaq -> Dell
• Double Click -> Google Ad Sense
• Ofoto -> Flickr
• Compuserve -> AOL -> @Home -> Comcast & Verizon
• Nintendo –> Xbox
• Friendster –> Facebook
• Blackberry –> iPhone

Via Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: Why do Fast Followers often beat the First Mover innovators?

Ajax survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are almost tied among .NET developers

 

 

Via Ajax survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are almost tied among .NET developers

Box Insertion and Multi-Edit in Visual Studio 2010

Insertion

 

MultiLine-Editing

Video:

http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-US&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:3e57917d-1b92-4188-b898-25a1d64a408e&showPlaylist=true&from=shared

An Early Look at Silverlight Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit 1

 

The toolkit includes:

• A Visual Studio 2008 Project Template
• Silverlight Command Implementation
• ViewModelBase that implements INotifyPropertyChanged interface

Download : SilverlightModelViewApplication.zip (15 KB)

Via 

Michael Sync » An Early Look at Silverlight Model-View-ViewModel Toolkit 1

Running NUnit 2.5 against Visual Studio 2010 .Net 4 code

 

I discovered that if you add the following to the relevant NUnit config file you can run a test dll built for .NET 4.0 in Visual Studio 2010 beta

Under <configuration> add:

<startup>
  <requiredRuntime version="v4.0.20506" />
</startup>

and under <runtime> add:

<loadFromRemoteSources enabled="true" />

ASP.NET MVC Installer For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Released

The installer is now available on CodePlex. Be sure to give it a try as many of the new VS10 features intended to support the TDD workflow fit very nicely with ASP.NET MVC. You can also check out how to create a new Controller the TDD way here.

ASP.NET MVC Installer For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 And Roadmap

jQuery Ajax tutorials, jQuery UI examples and more!

 

via jQuery Ajax tutorials, jQuery UI examples and more! – The Ultimate jQuery List

Google Opens Up Internal Speed Tool To Developers

 

To help streamline its sites, Google has been using an internal tool called Page Speed, and starting today it’s opening up the tool to the developer community. The newly open-sourced tool is a Firefox plugin that integrates with Firebug, making suggestions on how to speed up your site based on best practices.

From the Google blog post:

For example, Page Speed automatically optimizes images for you, giving you a compressed image that you can use immediately on your web site. It also identifies issues such as JavaScript and CSS loaded by your page that wasn’t actually used to display the page, which can help reduce time your users spend waiting for the page to download and display.

If this sounds familiar, it’s because Yahoo offers a similar tool for Firefox called YSlow, which is also meant to help developers streamline their websites.

Google Opens Up Internal Speed Tool To Developers

IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit

 

The IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit makes it easy to analyze and assess how search engine friendly your web-site is.  It pinpoints SEO violations, and provides instructions on how to fix them.  You can learn more about the toolkit and how to best take advantage of it from these links:

• IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit Home (including download link)
• Walkthrough: Using Site Analysis to Crawl a Website
• Walkthrough: Using Site Analysis Reports
• Carlos Aguilar Mares’ IIS Search Engine Optimization Blog Post (he is the guy who built it!)

The IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit is free, takes less than a minute to install, and can be run against any existing web-server or web-site.  There is no need to install anything on a remote server to use it – just type in the URL of the site and you’ll get a report back a site analysis report with actionable items that that you can use immediately to improve it.

IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit – ScottGu’s Blog

Getting Real: The Book by 37signals

 

Getting Real: The Book by 37signals