BlogML 2.1 Released
Not only in the software world, but also in almost every aspect of our life, sometimes we need to make small movements rather than making big plans just in order to activate a work and let it proceed. I think that this BlogML release is such a minor change to reactivate the project after a long time. Background Unlike what some people think about the BlogML project as something originally started by me, BlogML was a pet project started by Darren Neimke in 2005 with a few initial versions that subsequently improved a proposed specification and a corresponding .NET API. The idea behind BlogML was simple yet nobel: to represe

Is Windows Azure the Right Technology for the Future?
It’s PDC time, and unlike the last two conferences, I haven’t been very active in publishing the news and my opinions about it. PDC used to be one of my favorite technical events before, but to be honest, the last two conferences were very disappointing for me. As you may have noticed, these days I’m more like a listener than speaker,

Twitter in a Dead End
These days it’s hard to find someone who doesn’t know about Twitter as a social networking status updating site mainly founded in 2007 with the very simple and basic idea to let people share their status on the web with 140 characters and follow others’ updates. I was among the first group of users who appeared on Twitter and have been continual

Mads Kristensen in Iran
My blog subscribers would remember that earlier this year during the new Persian year holidays I had a short trip to Shiraz and Isfahan, wrote about my trip, and uploaded

My 25th Birthday
Looking in the past is usually nostalgic for many people including myself specifically in the past few years after passing 20 as I ought to waste much time for things beyond my power like the military service. One of the advantages of having an old blog like this is the opportunity to go back and read your own archive to see what has happened in your life, and how you’re chang