| 1. |  | Why Choose Microsoft for your Portal?  - Captured: 14-1-2005 10:51:00
Whether you're a business or technical decision maker, it's important to think about what's important to your organization when making a software decision. For most companies, software is an enabler of business. That is to say, your company is probably not in the business of making/developing software, but rather using software to run your business. Since I'm most familiar with the Portal space, my remarks are specific to Portal software. Nevertheless, many of the same suggestions and concepts a...
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 2. | | SharePoint Extranet Solutions - Captured: 24-11-2004 8:29:00
Yes. You can deploy SharePoint solutions on the Extranet. I know several small and large customers who either have deployed a SharePoint solution externally or are in the process of doing so. A few months ago, we released a whitepaper relevant to partners and customers who want to deploy WSS on the Extranet. You can find it at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/sharepoint/revproxy.mspx. There are several other resources, one of which, is a web cast that y...
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 3. | | Table editing feedback - Captured: 15-10-2004 20:07:00
For lack of anything better to post, I would like to get an idea of what people think of the table editing in the HTML/ASPX designer in whidbey. I spent a lot of time trying to improve this area. After VS.NET 2003 I rewrote some parts of this code, hoping to create something that was more powerful and easier to use. For example: Selecting rows and columns is hopefully easier now with the selection widgets that we added. Selecting cells should be easier now (you can hold down CTRL to get an Exce...
From: BenCon's WebLog |
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| 4. | | Turn of the tide - Captured: 30-12-2004 10:54:00
So 2004 winds to a close. The devastation in Indonesia and Thailand beggars description (despite all the news commentators, who still find ways to talk about something that just leaves me speechless). Advances and retreats in medicine are announced every day. I'm trying to do one of those "sum up" blog posts and I really can't. Microsoft's pace (up until the beauty of the holiday weeks, when no one is here) has been such that it's been hard to remember what I did the week before, never mind 52 w...
From: Betsy Aoki's WebLog |
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| 5. | | Not for the fainthearted or symbol-minded - Captured: 2-2-2005 20:10:22
I
never really got into the whole conspiracy theory thing. For
instance, I’ve never seen even a single full episode of The X-Files. For
one thing, I already had enough T.V. to watch, for another, David Duchovney (or however
you spell it) always seemed like kind of a dick. And
I found it annoying how every other woman on the planet seemed to think he was hot,
when I looked and looked, and just saw a scrawny, too-full-of...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 6. | | Claudia Black on Stargate SG-1 - Captured: 1-2-2005 3:27:36
OK,
just finished the latest episode of Stargate SG-1.
Just
so everyone knows, LOVE Claudia Black. Hey,
Erin and Chriton rock Farscape, and I really liked her character here too…what
was her name? Varla?
Varla’s
just this incorrigible multi-layered-lying, cheating, mercenary, ass-kicking bitch,
and ...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 12. | | WebParts and Cross-Page Connections - Captured: 8-2-2005 8:13:29
A quick introduction to concepts and terminology about the connections feature within the ASP.NET Whidbey Web Parts Framework, followed by a discussion of building support for cross-page connections using the extensibility mechanisms, along with associated code to download and play with...
From: ASP.NET Daily Articles |
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| 13. | | Need.A.Rewrite: Part.I - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:13:44
"The code is too messy, it needs to be rewritten"
How many of us have heard of (or said) the above statement? It is the typical statement given by most developers when assigned to maintain a piece of code developed by other developers who probably had left the company and in no way contactable (Or even if they are contactable, they will most likely have forgotten what they wrote).
Most managers find it difficult to understand why code needs to be rewit...
From: Firedancer.Unleashed! |
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| 14. | | More cell phone fun - Captured: 28-1-2005 18:42:57
Yesterday
my newest replacement phone arrived. This is replacement number 3, phone number 4.
To recap my fun thus far:
Phone 1 locked up with increasing
frequency
Replacement 1 had physical damage,
including the display not working reliably
Replacement 2 had worn contacts
and so didn't charge reliably, nor could it be connected to my computer (and Bluetooth
wasn't enabled)
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From: Visions of Shadow and Light |
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| 15. | | The cell phone saga - Captured: 22-1-2005 5:23:32
I have a Motorola V600 cell phone.
It is a Java-based phone. You’d think I’d have a Windows-powered phone,
but there wasn’t one in the agreement with our cell provider at work, so there
you go – no Windows.
That’s OK, I know people with
Windows phones and they lock up from time to time. Of course I figured (from all the
noise in Java-land) that my V600 would work great. Ha!
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From: Visions of Shadow and Light |
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| 16. | | Fiorina Gone From HP - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:19:14
Carly Fiorina was definitely one of the most watched, and judged, CEOs around -- whether fairly or unfairly. Before she'd really had a chance to settle into the job at HP, she was already being compared to Lou Gerstner and what he did at IBM. Those are tough shoes to fill, and HP had a lot of moving parts to handle, and it appears that no one's going to be comparing the status of HP post-Fiorina favorably to IBM post-Gerstner any time soon, as Fiorina is now gone from HP in a bit of a surprise...
From: Techdirt |
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| 17. | | Woo Hoo! $5.00 pay day! Baby needs a new pair of...uh..chicken McNuggets? - Captured: 9-2-2005 21:26:10
Just
wanted to let everyone know who might care...and a few people who might not...
I'm
getting published.
I
sent off a signed contract for a small, moralistic, saccrine piece that I wrote because
I have a policy of writing whatever comes to me...not looking a gift muse in the mouth...ya
know? Anyway, the piece is called "Promise", and it will be published online
in a webzine called "Knights, Dragons and Angels" It's a Christian Scie...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 18. | | Popular Belgian blogs: top 25 v2 - Captured: 10-2-2005 20:27:54
The major differences from the first top 25 are:
LONGER LIST: I took 100 blogs into account instead of 50 (e.g. I added sites like druppels.be)
WEIGHTING: I weighted the results of the search engines, in order to give Google more weight than e.g. Teoma and Altavista. In the previous stats, I used the sum of all hits, now I use the weighted average (so the number is always lower). Altavista is very generous with its presumed #hits, but now only gets a 5% weight. Bas...
From: blog.forret.com |
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| 19. | | Blogs as Online Learning Environments - Captured: 10-2-2005 22:18:41
James Farmer has an interesting post about how students might use blogs to manage their learning. Here's a snippet:
However, if that learner has their own blog ?outside? of the central, managed environment then things can start to look a bit different. Let?s say that in this case they are studying four units and they can simply create categories for each one (so postings relevant to that unit can go there and to their main blog if appropriate), that that category is then aggregated into the ?c...
From: Weblogg-ed |
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| 20. | | Recent Enhancements and The Long View - Captured: 11-2-2005 22:57:23
We have an exciting new service for publishers and some enhancements for a couple of our most popular services. I'd also like to tie these new features to "the long view" of how we see the world of syndication evolving, and the role that FeedBurner will play in this fast-growing space.
Introducing FeedCount™
The new service that is now open to all publishers is FeedCount. This is a customizable chicklet that shows the current number of subscribers your feed reaches. I...
From: Burning Questions - The FeedBurner Weblog |
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| 21. | | SharePoint SDK and Whitepapers - Captured: 11-2-2005 16:26:00
Randall Isenhour's team is doing some great work at Microsoft for SharePoint developers. Check out some of the new things that they have released! Browse/View the SDK in the MSDN Library: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/spptsdk/html/SPSDKWelcome_SV01017094.asp?frame=true Download the SDK: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=aa3e7fe5-daee-4d10-980f-789b827967b0&DisplayLang=en This upgrade includes more than 200 new topics, including: SQL ...
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 22. | | Performance Management And The Application Life Cycle - Captured: 12-2-2005 20:52:26
Application performance is one of the major sources of downtime and brownouts, as well as the most difficult problem to resolve. Today's applications are an increasingly complex aggregate of many moving parts, and problems lurk not only in the code, but in architecture, platform configuration, links with dependent internal or external systems, and infrastructure capacity. Resolving these issues in production by throwing hardware at them is the most costly and ineffective approach possible. Yet b...
From: Forrester Research: null |
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| 23. | | Microsoft Gains Antivirus Momentum With Sybari Acquisition - Captured: 12-2-2005 20:52:26
Microsoft remained tight lipped on Tuesday about its wider antivirus (AV) strategy after announcing plans to buy server antivirus and antispam vendor Sybari Software for an undisclosed sum. However, Forrester believes that Microsoft will use the Sybari assets, plus its previous acquisitions of antivirus vendor GeCAD, to ship host security features with both the Longhorn server and client OSes and with Exchange itself.
From: Forrester Research: null |
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| 24. | | My first blog (yes yes I finally broke down and started to blog)... - Captured: 14-2-2005 18:52:00
I finally decided it was time to join the rest of the world and have a blog. But what to blog about... Hmmm, I like model trains... No that will not do. I like video games... Nope still doesn't seem to be useful. Aha! I got it! I will blog about development in my favorite technology .NET. I am currently writing a series of articles on how to build a better master page framework that can be used over and over again. I know, “Another Masterpage framework&#...
From: Magenic Technologies Developer Blog |
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| 25. | | A Lot of People Dont Like Me (oh yea something about Ranking Functions too) - Captured: 14-2-2005 23:49:05
I know this. (Ask me
if I care.) Anyway, all of those folks who dislike me usually say "is there a way
to shut him up." Well there is a way!!!! Have me train for a marathon. Ran 18 miles
on Saturday and then a 9.3 mile race on Sunday inside the “gates“
in Central Park. I was very quiet all weekend. (Marathon
in 12 days)
Another thing people
thought was impossible was referencing a RANK()ing function in a WHERE clau...
From: Stephen Forte's WebBlog |
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