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

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Vincent Leung

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

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Vincent Leung

top10_JS_frameworks

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

Box Insertion and Multi-Edit in Visual Studio 2010

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Vincent Leung

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

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Vincent Leung

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

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Vincent Leung

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

Posted on June 13, 2009 by Vincent Leung

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.