Monday, November 9

Apprenda closes $5M round

Congratulations to Tech Valley startup, creator of SaaSGrid, Apprenda, on closing a five million dollar ($5M USD) round of financing! Along with seed-round investor High Peak Ventures, Apprenda has brought New Enterprise Associates (NEA) on-board for some major VC firepower!

Apprenda is located about 15-20 minutes north of Albany, and uses some verrrrry cool .NET technology to automagically convert your single-tenant apps to multi-tenant without you having to change your code or data model. SaaSGrid also facilitates granular monetization of your offering.

Congrats Apprenda team!

Thursday, November 5

No big surprise here

via Business Insider

Wednesday, November 4

jQuery Datepicker & Z-Index Fix

While working on one of my current projects, I ran into an issue with a high z-indexed div already on my page floating on top of the jQuery Datepicker when it popped up on control mouseover. Rick Strahl to the rescue with a fix.

Thursday, October 29

Next Leg of the MSDN NE Roadshow is on!

THE MSDN Northeast Roadshow team of Jim O’Neil and Chris Bowen will be making another stop in Albany, NY:

MSDN Events Presents >
The MSDN Northeast Roadshow - "Don't Fear the Coder" Tour

Thursday, November 12, 2009
9:30 AM - 3:30 PM Eastern Time
Welcome Time: 9:00 AM

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1623 15th St
Biotech Building
Albany, New York 12180

Lunch Included

The Agenda: Clever Hacking, Slashed Efforts, and Killer Applications
Topics Include:
• Something WCF This Way Comes
• RIA Window – Expression, Silverlight, and MVVM
• "Help!" – Grasping at Lifelines
• LINQ De-crypted
• Tales from the Webside - ASP.NET WebForms, AJAX, and More

Register today for the Roadshow (seating is limited), and we’ll see you soon! http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9693448

/MSFT announcement

A quick .02: seating's really not that limited at this event. Not once, not ever. But that's mostly thanks to the use of RPI's biotech auditorium, which can seat a good number of people.

Wednesday, October 28

Pipin' hot Google Wave Invites

So I happen to be up at 3:27am Eastern, and I happen to open Wave, and much to my delight, in pops an update (blip?) to my invite nomination wave, informing me I have 12 fresh invite nominations to pass on.

So ... friends & family & anyone I promised after I ran out the last time -- please get in touch! (I know a lot of you have invites already -- if so, please let me know that's the case, so I can pass these on to others.)

Tuesday, October 27

A look at the new Apple iTab



I kid! But check out Silicon Alley Insider/Business Insider's take on what the real Apple tablet might look like.

Mac fans are apparently willing to lay it on the line for this as-yet-vapor device:

Monday, October 26

TimesUnion.com == porn

At least according to Kaspersky Internet Security 2010:



When I clicked the link to indicate miscategorization, I was taken to a 404 page on Kaspersky's site. I've been able to flag other miscategorizations without difficulty. #fail