Recent Posts by DeeDee Walsh:
by DeeDee Walsh, on Dec 3, 2025 6:40:43 PM
The average global enterprise is burning over $370 million annually on inefficiencies rooted in legacy systems. That's not a typo, and it’s not just a maintenance cost; it’s a compounding …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Nov 13, 2025 6:05:41 PM
Your favorite runtime just went to 11. Wait, no. It went to 10. And if .NET Conf 2025 taught us anything, it's that the future of .NET isn't just bright, …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Nov 10, 2025 5:57:44 AM
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It’s that time again! New .NET release, new features, new performance tuning, new shiny things to get excited about. And if you’ve been sitting on a legacy application thinking “One …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Nov 9, 2025 2:40:11 PM
If you’re still running a Visual Basic 6.0 application… first of all, God bless you. VB6 had a great run, but it turned 27 and officially crossed over into vintage …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Oct 26, 2025 12:00:00 AM
If you're anything like me, you love new tech, but you're also tired. It feels like .NET 8 just landed, .NET 9 was a minute ago, and now .NET 10 …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Oct 5, 2025 1:00:00 AM
AI is No Longer an Add-On. It’s the OS. Let’s be brutally honest: for years, if you wanted to do serious, cutting-edge AI, you sighed, spun up a virtual environment, …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Sep 15, 2025 2:42:14 PM
The Ice King and the Art of Compounding Gains In the early 19th century, a Boston merchant named Frederic Tudor embarked on a venture that seemed ludicrous to his contemporaries: …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Sep 3, 2025 5:46:46 PM
Well, this is a blast from the past. I just saw the news from Microsoft's Scott Hanselman and Stacey Haffner: they've officially open-sourced the original 1978 source code for Microsoft …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Aug 24, 2025 8:23:29 PM
Every two years, Microsoft releases a Long-Term Support version of .NET. Usually, it's the "safe" choice—the boring, stable option that enterprises pick while the cool devs chase the latest features …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Aug 17, 2025 12:00:00 AM
The gap between VB6 and .NET 10 is more than a version upgrade - it's a generational leap in computing architecture. While your VB6 apps may still run (mostly) on …
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