In a word, Puzzling, over the years they have been historically late delivering support in their ADO.NET provider for new features in Oracle.  That said ODP.NET was generally the better option for acc

I just finished reading Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber.  As I was reading it (and enjoying it - I find a lot to like in Scrum) I was struck at how easily Agile methodologies like

  Ed Bott covered this weeks ago when the news was made public that Intel was planning on skipping Vista and he provides good insight into the history around that and why it isn't super significant. 

  I have been working with Agile methodologies for a couple of years now.  I have had a fair amount of practice on real projects and read a lot on the subject.  Lately Scrum has been on the top of my

I love the Olympics!  There are so many memorable moments over the years.  They signified so much during the Cold War it seemed - when we thankfully used athletic events instead of bullets and missile