Microsoft responded today to Yahoo’s non-answer with a snarky reply that probably has all the remaining Yahoo developers sending their resumes to Google and Facebook.
The breathtaking Microsoft answer, which sounds personally handcrafted by Steve Balmer:
“It is unfortunate that Yahoo! has not embraced our full and fair proposal to combine our companies. Based on conversations with [...]

Today I compiled a Microsoft ASP.Net code sample downloaded from a programming website. This error message was displayed:

“Generating user instances in SQL Server is disabled. Use sp_configure ‘user instances enabled’ to generate user instances.”

Being a Microsoft SQLServer novice, I wasn’t sure of the solution.
I executed the command “sp_configure ‘user instances enabled’” but nothing changed. Still [...]

I have been doing some Microsoft ASP.Net programming over the past few weeks. Compared to my beloved Linux - Apache - MySQL - PHP - HTML - Javascript platform, programming in Visual Studio is a lot like flying a modern jet airliner: it’s all done with wires.
I call it “programming by holding your mouth right”.
You [...]

I read glowing accounts in other blogs about how Facebook is the “next big thing” or the “platform of choice” for developers. I log on to my Facebook account, trying to see the site as those avid proponents see it. But I can’t catch the enthusiasm.
Maybe it’s because I don’t have the maximum limit of [...]