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Mobile workers need the right tool to do their job effectively. Finding the right device for any given scenario can be a challenge. Is the user working indoors or outdoors? Does their work require adv...
The mobility field is maturing, as are the tools to build mobile enterprise applications. But maturity implies more than functionality and performance. Integrity, manageability, and above all security...
This Birds of a Feather session I will be moderating is a discussion on Enterprise Mobility scenarios and how to architect them properly. Mobility implies mobile devices and wireless networks, but beh...
Visual Studio 2005 incorporates both Native and Managed Development for Devices. This talk provides a very comprehensive overview of all the pieces of Visual Studio that a device developer show know, ...
It's that time once again for the greatest conference of them all: Microsoft TechEd! We are headed to Boston this year, and if you are lucky enough to attend, make sure to look me up. Here is an overv...
By Gregory Brill
Note to readers from ActiveNick: Since I posted on the Motorola Q two days ago, a real flame war erupted on my blog. As I mentioned there, Infusion's CEO, Greg Brill, bought one ...
Last saturday, May 20th, I was speaking at the Mobile Development Workshop organized by the San Diego .NET User Group. This was a great event and I would like to thank everyone who showed up for on th...
I normally do not use my blog for such announcements, but given that we are desperately looking for top talent, I figured that here is as good a place as any other. We have tons of really cool an...
You have finally completed that perfect mobile application. Now what? Time to get it running on that fleet of devices but how do you do that? Can Visual Studio help me build a setup package to deployi...
Mobile workers need the right tool to do their job effectively. Finding the right device for any given scenario can be a challenge. Is the user working indoors or outdoors? Does their work require adv...
Mobile applications need more than data and connectivity. Field workers need to rely on their location to easily pinpoint key resources around them based on their application context. This data could ...
Infusion Development partners with Microsoft and MEDC 2006 at The Venetian in Las Vegas, NV, May 8-11 2006, to provide a fun and unique value-added activity for conference attendants Mobile Kombat! T...
Finally, it has arrived! Real-time e-mail, Direct Push e-mail, "true push" e-mail... call it what you want, Palm has finally released the updater for the Palm Treo 700w Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC ...
Well folks... I've done it! I've cracked TechEd! Pack your bags, we're off to Boston! Well... not now, June 11-16 that is... As usual, I'll be there, but this time, I'll be speaking on the following t...
Aside from speaking at TechEd this year, I have also submitted a great topic for a Birds of a Feather session:
Architecture Models, Patterns and Design Approaches in Mobility Scenarios for the Enterpr...
I am pleased and honored to announce that I have been elected and appointed as Vice-President of the IASA New York chapter. IASA (International Association of Software Architects) has over 30 local ch...
While the rate of personal computer innovation is slowing, the mobility space is exploding with a proliferation of new wireless standards, gadgets and devices of all sizes, shapes and denominations. S...
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a) Like to shoot craps? Love to make grown men sweat as you raise the ante in a round of Texas Hold 'em? Enjoy staring at a cold-blooded woman straight in the eyes as you say "Hit me!"?b) En...
An attendee at the NYC Code Camp asked me recently about SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition, also known as SQL Mobile. For those of you who did not know, SQL Mobile is essentially SQL Server CE v3.0. The ...
Looks like Microsoft is generating more buzz and suspense around its secret Origami project. The main site states we'll find out more on March 9th 2006, but the source HTML of that site sports the com...
There are a lot of blogs out there. Robert Scoble (aka The Scobleizer) is probably the most famous blogger of the Internet Age. If you look at my blogroll in the sidebar, you'll notice a lot of f...
This session is a presentation and discussion on Enterprise Mobility scenarios and how to architect them properly. Mobility implies mobile devices and wireless networks, but behind it all rests an inf...
Welcome to ActiveNick's Big Bald Blog dear .NET Rocks! listeners. I hope you enjoyed the show. If you are a regular reader of my blog and have not heard the news, I had the honor and privilege of bein...
Being French-Canadian and born in Montreal, Qubec, it surprises a lot of people when they hear me speak so proudly of my home country of Canada. I am a proud Canadian and always will be. Having r...
This session discusses the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and how it failed to rise up to the fast-changing expectations of Component-Based Development (CBD) and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)....
The original tenet of .NET was to make applications and data, both personal and corporate, available Anytime, Anywhere, and on Any Device. With Windows CE now turning 10 years old and .NET Compact Fra...
Looks like RIM gets to extend their grace period since U.S. District Judge James Spencer decided not to force a shutdown of the BlackBerry network and service in the US. The bottom line of today's rul...
I love technology. Not for the pure sake of technology, but once in a while comes an amazing product that just blows my mind away and sometimes even changes my life. This is why I decided to start thi...
Ok, I must admit, I'm not really going cross-country but I have a bunch of User Group and Code Camp talks scheduled in the next 2 months and I thought it'd be a good idea to give a heads up to my...
Ok, I know, I'm like over 10 days late to report on Day 2 of the Microsoft Tablet PC Partner Briefing, but it's called having a job and having a life. Besides, I have no idea if anyone reads this...
So I've been in Redmond at the Microsoft Campus for a few days already since I've been involved in a consulting project with the Patterns & Practices team (don't ask, I cannot tell), and today was...
I've been pretty busy in 2005, especially from July to December where I was working full-time on-site at one of Infusion's largest client, which happens to be one of the top investment banks in the wo...
With even more great mobility features, Visual Studio 2005 brings us one step closer to the dream of business applications and data accessible anytime, anywhere and on any device. Whether its for the ...
Its Friday morning, 11:00am. You have completed the change requests for your system and QA has approved your new version. Now what? How do you create a build for this thing? Carl the Build Guy is away...
Visual Basic 1.0 revolutionized the world of software development in 1991 with the introduction of a new concept: Rapid Application Development (RAD). RAD has been both a blessing and a curse, allowin...
Many people have always had or used nicknames... we love them, people remember them more easily (it's much easier to simply remember "Angie" when talking about your good friend Anzhelika Miagkobrukh...
2005 has been a busy year for events, and thanks to my snappy and super-slim Sony Cybershot DSC-T7 camera, I now have tons of new pictures to add to ActiveNick's Geekish Celebrity Sightings Gallery. I...
The news do not look too good. RIM is in trouble due to it's infringement of an NTP patent. Frankly, I'm still trying to figure out the specifics of the patent. Something about the use of radio freque...
Join up with over 1500 attendees and come see me and other great speakers, authors and Microsoft .NET experts at DevConnections 2006 in Orlando, FL, on March 20-23. The event will be held once again ...
Yes, it's true, for whatever reason Microsoft has honored me once more with the MVP Award as Visual Developer - .NET Compact Framework. I am looking forward to another great yeat of community engageme...
I said I would be back on the blog scene a few weeks back and nothing has happened... well, a lot has happened and that is why I am not really blogging for now. I am so swamped! Which has led me to re...
After a 1+ month hiatus, I am finally ready to start blogging again. I just came back from the Microsoft Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference in Las Vegas and I am totally psyched about what...
So I'm sitting in the speaker room at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando, FL. I have two sessions to present in less than two days here at VS.NET Connections Spring 2005. One of these sessions...
For about a week now I've been wondering if I should speak out regarding the whole petition to keep maintaining VB6, forcing Microsoft to go back on their decision to end free support and the publishi...
I know, I'm weak... but after Beth Massi (aka .NET Fox) gave me a hard time over IM about my blog not being easy to read from a Smartphone ("*you* of all people should have a mobile friendly blog Nic...
Well, it seems our Infusion blog space is gaining momentum as all the cool kids want to be like ActiveNick. With many more Infusion bloggers getting ready to hit the Web with their unusual i...
This is your chance to visit one of the greatest cities in the world, which also happens to be my hometown. I may be a French-Canadian New Yorker now, but Montreal will always hold a soft spot in my h...
I am pleased to welcome the second Infusion blogger to this community: Joe Capka. Joe is a co-worker of mine at Infusion and also a very good friend (when you live over 500 km from your hometown and j...
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) wrote in the introduction to his book "The Restautant at the End of the Universe" (the second book in the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series) the fo...
In 2003, I published two very successful articles for CoDe Magazine under the Mobile CoDe.NET banner name. These articles were meant to be a regular feature in CoDe but events in my personal life forc...
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