http://blog.tollkuci.com Thoughts on .NET, software development, mISV and random stuff Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:16:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been more than one year since the last post, and it has been a very very busy year. Unfortunately things haven't gone as planned, so there has been no progress on a new mISV and on keeping this blog updated. Hopefully things will change with the beginning of next ... http://blog.tollkuci.com/index.php/2009/12/25/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year/ As defined in the "HTTP RFC", HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is "an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. It is a generic, stateless, object-oriented protocol which can be used for any tasks, such as name servers and distributed object management systems, through extension of its request methods. A ... http://blog.tollkuci.com/index.php/2008/10/10/web-fundamentals-part-2-http-basics/ Although I had the first contact with the web relatively late (about 8 years) ago, I still remember generating tables is plain ASP by combining server-side JavaScript with HTML code. Web development has matured a lot since then with many new frameworks, patterns, technologies, etc that try to hide all ... http://blog.tollkuci.com/index.php/2008/09/26/web-fundamentals-part-1-introduction/ As it happens often in software development, I had to reschedule the release date of the "Website Analyzer". A combination of several factors made it impossible to release the first public beta in October 1st. Instead I'm planning to have a private beta in October 1st and the first public ... http://blog.tollkuci.com/index.php/2008/09/21/rescheduling/ As you know many things do not go according to the plan. In this case the main thing did not go according to the plan and this is the product idea. As I said in the previous post I had envisioned it as a way to extract useful information (email, ... http://blog.tollkuci.com/index.php/2008/07/04/first-change-a-big-one/ As I said in the previous post I'm going to release the first product of my mISV in October 1st, 2008. After evaluating lots of ideas I decided to build an "email extractor" or "email spider". The more general idea is to extract useful data from different sources. This can ... http://blog.tollkuci.com/index.php/2008/06/27/so-whats-the-product/ As I wrote in my last post I moved the blog from the default site www.tollkuci.com to blog.tollkuci.com (Currently www.tollkuci.com redirect to blog.tollkuci.com but this will change later). The reason for this change is because I want to use www.tollkuci.com as the official site of my newly born mISV "Tollkuci ... http://blog.tollkuci.com/index.php/2008/06/25/new-misv-is-born/ Finally, I'm starting to write again in my site. As you may notice, I have changed the blog address from the homepage http://www.tollkuci.com to http://blog.tollkuci.com. I have some plans on how to use http://www.tollkuci.com for some other purpose...more on this in the next days. In the meantime, football fans should know ... http://blog.tollkuci.com/index.php/2008/06/23/im-back/ Today, I participated in the first Microsoft Summit held in Tirana, representing AESS Group together with two colleagues. As I have mentioned before, I'm co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of AESS Group, which is one of the best software companies in Albania. It was founded in summer 2005 and was ... http://blog.tollkuci.com/index.php/2008/01/29/microsoft-summit-in-tirana-2/ It's been quite a lot of time since my last post, but I've been very busy these days. I'm planning to write at least one article each week, mostly related with software development & mISVs, but don't know if I'll have enough time to do it. At least I'll try... Anyway, ... http://blog.tollkuci.com/index.php/2008/01/17/outlook-vs-lookout/