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One Long Strange Trip: Visual Studio Magazine and Me

The January Visual Studio Magazine marks the first time the C# Corner is written by Patrick Steele . I’ve bowed out after a long run with the magazine and its predecessors. The most important part is that...

Posted 29 January 2010 02:26 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: Effective C#, SRT Solutions, Me, C#, .NET General, C# General, DevCenterPosts

The CodePlex Foundation: Cautiously Optimistic

With some fanfare, the CodePlex Foundation launched itself late last week ( http://www.codeplex.org ).  This has generated quite a bit of discussion on blogs, twitter, email lists, podcasts, and everything...

Posted 17 September 2009 11:39 AM by wwagner | 3 comment(s)

Filed under: SRT Solutions, .NET General, SrtInsights, Elevate

Elevate: SRT Solutions first Open Source Project

Chris Marinos started Elevate as a learning time project at SRT Solutions.  It’s still very young, but it’s already very useful to me. Chris wrote a great introductory post on the library, which is...

Posted 19 August 2009 08:29 AM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: SRT Solutions, LINQ, C#, C# General

Reflections on Executive Briefing Event: Cloud & RIA

Last Tuesday, we hosted our first executive briefing on upcoming technology trends.  The first two topics were Cloud Computing and Rich Internet Applications (RIA). We chose those topics because examples...

Posted 19 June 2009 05:43 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: SRT Solutions, local interest, Software Engineering, Azure

Reflections on our Software Development Jam

Yesterday, we hosted a Software Development Jam at Automation Alley in Troy, MI (North suburbs of Detroit, MI for those readers not in the Michigan area). We billed the event as a way for developers to...

Posted 16 June 2009 03:28 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: SRT Solutions, Me, local interest, Software Engineering

Upcoming Event: MI Software Stimulus Lab

The software industry will be part of the underpinnings for the jobs of the future. (You can read more of my thoughts on the importance of Software to Michigan’s future here ). We created our company to...

Posted 18 May 2009 10:27 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: SRT Solutions, upcoming attractions, local interest

Paint Wars at CodeMash

One of our engineers, Chris Marinos , has some interesting content to discuss at CodeMash: Paint Wars . Paint Wars is a game that Chris some of his classmates wrote for a senior project at the University...

Posted 05 January 2009 10:47 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: SRT Solutions, upcoming attractions, Software Engineering

Starting a Company? We (and Microsoft BizSpark) can help

Yesterday Microsoft formally launched BizSpark, a new program that is designed to help increase the chances of success for startups in the software business. The timing couldn’t be better for the Michigan...

Posted 06 November 2008 12:30 PM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: SRT Solutions, Me, upcoming attractions

Several new blogs at SRT Solutions

It's been a while coming, but we finally convinced several of our new and brilliant folks to start blogging. I've added them all to the blog roll, but here they are, along with some editorial comments...

Posted 14 April 2008 05:59 PM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: SRT Solutions

Announcing Lightning Talk Fridays

Dianne discusses this at length here, but I want to make sure than anyone subscribing to my blog but not hers knows about it as well. One of our goals in having physical office space was to facilitate...

Posted 23 September 2007 10:36 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: SRT Solutions, upcoming attractions

New SRT Solutions blogger

Our newest senior consultant, Patrick Steele , is now blogging here at SRT Solutions. He has a depth of technical knowledge, and he communicates that knowledge to his readers very effectively. It's...

Posted 18 September 2007 11:09 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: SRT Solutions

New Location for Ann Arbor .NET Developers Meetings

Since SRT Solutions has opened our own office (with user group meeting space in mind), AADND is moving its meeting space. Starting in September, AADND will meet at 206 S. Fifth St, suite 200. Same city...

Posted 31 August 2007 10:48 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: SRT Solutions, User Groups

Blog Moving (And new Website Software)

This blog has just been moved from its previous address to www.srtsolutions.com/blogs/billwagner That's because we've moved from our website from a custom application written by our friends and...

Posted 03 August 2007 02:07 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: SRT Solutions

Big news for SRT Solutions

We now have physical office space Well, it’s official. After several years of working out of our homes, coffee shops, the IT Zone, and onsite at customer sites, we’ve left the ranks of virtual...

Posted 25 July 2007 03:25 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: SRT Solutions

On creating software and economic development

Two resources, with different histories I've started reading Marc Andreessan's blog recently ( http://blog.pmarca.com/ ). I find it interesting to contrast Marc's view on everything with Eric...

Posted 09 July 2007 12:49 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: SRT Solutions