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yesterday a saw a great photo from birth of a galaxy and it brings me back to writing. A great sentence explain:

Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

It's really true.

Mew and nice guide from asp.net team. Enjoy it.

AJAX Control Toolkit Tutorials : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site

Deming's 14 Points - Deming first stated the 14 points in Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position. Over time he continually revised them. The points are part of a system of management which Deming later described as the system of Profound Knowledge. The 14 points listed here are the list shown on the W. Edwards Deming Institute site.

1. Create constancy of purpose for the improvement of product and service. With the aim to become competitive, stay in business, and provided jobs.
2. Adopt the new philosophy of cooperation (win-win) in which everybody wins. Put it into practice and teach it to employees, customers. and suppliers.
3. Cease dependence on mass inspection to achieve quality. Improve the process and build quality into the product in the first place.
4. End the practice of awarding business on the basis of price tag alone. Instead, minimize total cost in the long run. Move toward a single supplier for any one item, on a long-term relationship of loyalty and trust.
5. Improve constantly and forever the system of production, service, planning, or any activity. This will improve quality and productivity and thus constantly decrease costs.
6. Institute training for skills.
7. Adopt and institute leadership for the management of people, recognizing their different abilities, capabilities, and aspiration. The aim of leadership should be to help people, machines, and gadgets do a better job. Leadership of management is in need of overhaul, as well as leadership of production workers.
8. Drive out fear and build trust so that everyone can work effectively.
9. Break down barriers between departments. Abolish competition and build a win-win system of cooperation within the organization. People in research, design, sales, and production must work as a team to foresee problems of production and in use that might be encountered with the product or service.
10. Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets asking for zero defects or new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force.
11. Eliminate numerical goals, numerical quotas and management by objectives. Substitute leadership.
12. Remove barriers that rob people of joy in their work. This will mean abolishing the annual rating or merit system that ranks people and creates Competition and conflict.
13. Institute a vigorous program of education and self-improvement.
14. Put everybody in the company to work to accomplish the transformation. The transformation is everybody's job

Curious Cat Management Library - Definitions of Management Terms: Deming's 14 Points

The Experimentation Platform enables product groups at Microsoft and later on will enable developers using Windows Live to innovate using controlled experiments with live users.  The platform enables testing new ideas quickly using the best-known scientific method for establishing causality between a feature and its effects: randomized experimental design. The basic methodology in controlled experiments is to expose a percentage of users to a new treatment, measure the effect on metrics of interest, and run statistical tests to determine whether the differences are statistically significant, thus establishing causality.

more information on http://exp-platform.com/default.aspx

Microsoft looks to make product planning more science than art | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

The Developer and Platform Evangelism Group in Microsoft has created a new training kit for all the enhancements for the .Net Framework 3.5:

• ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data
• ASP.NET AJAX History
• ASP.NET Silverlight controls
• ADO.NET Data Services
• ADO.NET Entity Framework

Download the training kit (34.9 MB)

Guy Burstein on MSDN : .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit is available for Download

It's really great news. In a surprise announcement, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson announced that SpringSource has agreed to be acquired by Microsoft. InfoQ interviewed Johnson to learn more about this acquisition and what it will mean for the future of both Spring and the .Net Framework.

Johnson began by describing the terms of the acquisition - because SpringSource is a private company, full details of the transaction will not be disclosed; however, the purchase amount was greater than the $1 Billion USD that Sun paid for MySQL in January. Johnson also said that the acquisition would result in a change of focus for SpringSource - a greater focus will be placed upon filling out the .Net-based side of the Spring Portfolio, with a .Net-based version of Spring Web Flow becoming the basis for the ASP.Net web development APIs.

Johnson told InfoQ that integration of the Microsoft and SpringSource development teams has already begun:

• Johnson, Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie are discussing how the Spring Framework can be leveraged to address the historical problem of meeting deadlines at Microsoft by simplifying and modularizing Microsoft's many codebases
• Christian Dupuis of the Spring IDE team has begun working with the Visual Studio team to integrate the two codebases together
• Juergen Hoeller is working with the Office team on integration points for the upcoming 2009 release of the Office suite
• Costin Leau is exploring the creation of an OSGi runtime container for .Net
• Adrian Colyer is working together with S. Somasegar to plan out future directions and strategies for Microsoft's Developer Division

Johnson also indicated that the Spring Framework would be integrated into the Windows operating system, with users having the ability to configure most settings and applications via associated Spring Beans. When asked whether the next version of Windows (Windows 7) would be called "SpringHorn" Johnson declined to comment - however, he did express excitement about the prospect of Spring being on every Windows installation.

Mark Pollack, founder and lead of the Spring.Net project, added:

Anders Hejlsberg, Erik Meijer and I have had some excellent conversations around where Spring.Net can improve the development process for .Net applications, and we expect to add many of the existing Spring APIs in the .Net Framework 4.0 release. The AOP and Aspect namespaces will likely be added to the System namespace, and the DAO and Data namespaces will augment the existing ADO.Net APIs.

InfoQ: SpringSource Announces Acquisition by Microsoft

.Net Framework source code is now available for everyone to use ( only for view ). Specifically, you can now browse and debug the source code for the following .NET Framework libraries:

• .NET Base Class Libraries (including System, System.CodeDom, System.Collections, System.ComponentModel, System.Diagnostics, System.Drawing, System.Globalization, System.IO, System.Net, System.Reflection, System.Runtime, System.Security, System.Text, System.Threading, etc).

• ASP.NET (System.Web, System.Web.Extensions)

• Windows Forms (System.Windows.Forms)

• Windows Presentation Foundation (System.Windows)

• ADO.NET and XML (System.Data and System.Xml)

For more information about way uoy can download and use it go to http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx

He discusses about new acquisitions of MySQL & BEA by Sun and Oracle and affects of this merge on open source industry.

SpringSource Team Blog » The Power of Adoption: Why no Company is Big Enough to Deny Developers What They Want

Gartner presents top 10 strategic technologies for 2008. It's include the following technologies :

1. Green IT
2. Unified Communications (UC)
3. Business Process Management
4. Metadata Management
5. Virtualization 2.0
6. Mashups & Composite Applications
7. Web Platform & WOA
8. Computing Fabrics
9. Real World Web
10. Social Software

For more information see CIO > Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies for 2008