Ron Jacobs
Windows Workflow Foundation
My Quest: Architecture
I’ve had a long career in software. Nearly 20 years now during which I have been an enterprise...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 09/22/2005
PDC2005 .NET invades the platform (finally!)
5 years ago at the June 2000 PDC we told the world about .NET for the first time. It has been a long...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 09/19/2005
Composite UI Application Block - today is the day
Today is the day… I can’t put it off any longer – I have to dive in and learn about the CAB. “What?”...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 07/22/2005
TechEd 2005 Reflections
What can I say? TechEd 2005 in Orlando was a great event. I really enjoyed getting to meet many of...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/12/2005
Generating the Data Tier
Recently a couple of MVPs from Mexico sent me a tool that they created called the DataTierGenerator...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 05/19/2005
Dynamic configuration of data access block
It seems that about 3 times a week I get a question like this... "How do I use the Data Access Block...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 05/18/2005
SQLScript.NET
How many times have you created a project and you needed to insure that a SQL Script was run to...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/20/2005
On the road again...
Ok, I really intended on blogging every day while on this extended trip. The only problem is that...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/19/2005
Brazil: Day 1
After flying all day yesterday and all night tonight I left the plane to a beautful and warm day...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/04/2005
Why am I still at the office?
That's what my family wants to know... Well, what can I say - it seems like we are all working...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 03/30/2005
Inside the Delta Lounge with the Enterprise Library Dev team
Ever wonder about how our dev team works? A few months back, the conference room across from my...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 03/29/2005
Blog Spam!
This is getting downright annoying... As if the spammers haven't already done enough damage to the...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 03/07/2005
Record setting webcast!
Wohoo! The first webcast in the Entlib series set a record for our team with 564 people...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 03/04/2005
Enterprise Library Webcast Series
Wow - Putting together a webcast series is a lot of work. I just finished the slides for...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 03/01/2005
VSLive Reflections
As I write this I’m riding BART on my way to SFO to fly back to Seattle. I spent two days here in...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 02/11/2005
Hello World - its Enterprise Library
Now would be a good time to start my day...if I were in London where it is 10:46 GMT but here I am...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 01/31/2005
Exception Handling & Metadata
Metadata is a funny thing... In an effort to make the complex simple we often go down this road of...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 01/17/2005
Looking for some people in cyberspace...
I'm working on this project that I can't say much about yet, but I need to find some people who are...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 12/06/2004
Some more thinking about open source projects
Wow - any time you mention open source, you touch a nerve don't you... First off - just because I...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 10/27/2004
Judging the quality of open source projects
It seems to me that people who want to use open source projects have a big problem. Several problems...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 10/26/2004
Getting into Wiki...
Now that I work with the "Father" of wikis, I decided that I really ought to get into working with...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 10/13/2004
How much would you pay?
Everybody wants something for nothing, but we all know that this is not realistic. Architects know...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/14/2004
Committed to guidance
One of the really great things from TechEd was to hear Andy Lees tell the world that Microsoft was...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 06/04/2004
Why SOA?
As the product manager of Shadowfax I am often asked about how Shadowfax relates to service oriented...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 04/26/2004
You know you are a geek when...
You know you are a geek when You miss coding like a fisherman misses fishing. You give up an evening...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 02/17/2004
Blog in my mouth...
Strange thing these blogs... It's like a loaded gun that can go off on you. In the vastness of...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 02/11/2004
My Best Webcast - ever
Last week I gave the best webcast of my life (so far anyway...). All right, so I have only given...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 02/10/2004
Building Blocks for Everyone
I've been thinking about application blocks lately. It turns out that of all the things that our...
Author: Ron Jacobs Date: 02/09/2004