| 1. |  | Back in the saddle again  - Captured: 13-1-2005 14:15:00
Whew! It's been a while hasn't it? My new son was born 9/30 and I returned to work late October after infant care leave. We're all hard at work here getting Whidbey Beta 2 ready to ship. The holiday's hit and I spent a bunch of time on the road and on airplanes. I'm back from vacation now and sitting in a rountable discussion with VSIP partners at the January VSIP Dev Lab here in Redmond. Good suggestions and a lot of hard work getting partner products ready to run...
From: AllenD's WebLog |
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| 2. | | This Old Blog - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
When I first started this website/blog, it languished for a while before I got serious about putting up some content that anyone would really care about. I think there's enough now for some kind of critical mass, so rather than demanding that I continue to put up stuff that meets some kind of 'article' feel like I have in the past I'm going to generally switch over to more of a conversational feel with occasional articles on topics as I get the request or urge to post them.
Full article =...
From: myShoggoth |
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| 3. | | New RSS Feed - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
Okay, Mr. Scoble convinced me to change my ways concerning my RSS feed philosophy. His post (well, it is Scoble, so really there was a storm of posts...) convinced me not that my main feed should include all the content of each article, but that I should provide a full RSS feed for my site that people can subscribe to if that's what they want.
Full article ==> New RSS Feed
From: myShoggoth |
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| 4. | | Foundations: Future-Proofing - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
There are really two sides to making your application robust against future change.
Writing the application to maximize current and future compatibility.
Writing the code to maximize future maintainability and minimize necessary code and more importantly architectural changes.
Full article ==> Foundations: Future-Proofing
From: myShoggoth |
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| 5. | | Washington Ski Season - DOA - Captured: 31-1-2005 10:40:00
Because of the infamous "Pineapple Express", the Washington ski season has basically ended. See for yourself. This has been the worst season in my lifetime. However, we do have water rationing to look forward to this summer.
From: Andrew Conrad's WebLog |
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| 6. | | 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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| 7. | | SharePoint Portal Server Extranet Whitepaper released - Captured: 13-1-2005 7:02:00
Still on vacation (get back to work on Monday), but had to post some very important news: SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Document: Deploying on an Extranet by Using ISA Server 2000 and ISA Server 2004, as promised, was released recently. You can download it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4C5BF9DD-3EFB-451D-B213-98ED039190BF&displaylang=en.
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 8. | | SharePoint MSDN RSS Feed - Captured: 24-11-2004 8:00:00
We hosted an Architect Portals Bootcamp last week in the Seattle area. I was impressed with the different projects the architects were involved with. However, one thing that I did notice, based on comments and questions some of the attendees had when I spoke to them, is that many folks out there are not familiar with all the whitepapers we post on sites such as MSDN and TechNet. With the growing popularity of RSS and to make it easier for people to get notified when a new whitepaper is rel...
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 9. | | 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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| 10. | | Responding to feedback - Auto Position feature has been added to the designer - Captured: 28-9-2004 16:22:00
After hearing a lot of support for the idea of automatically positioning controls, I got the go ahead to implement the feature. The fact that we are able to respond to what customers ask for is very encouraging - I hope that this and other examples (such as Mikhail's) will help to create a positive feedback loop where we implement more suggestions, so people are more likely to communicate with us, and therefore we get more data, which allows us to even better implement suggestions, and so on. He...
From: BenCon's WebLog |
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| 11. | | Windows Needs To Get Worse! - Captured: 4-2-2005 0:07:30
Seriously, Windows needs to get worse to become better. I've
written about how Office has too much stuff. I now believe, for the average user,
Windows has the same problem.
This conclusion results from a discussion after watching a recording of brands in
the public space by Friedrich
von Borries (Author of "Who
is Afraid of Niketown" and creator of Urban-Diary)
given in mid December in Zurich at the ETH. I liked the ideas of activating the public
spa...
From: Benjamin J. J. Voigt :: Creativity is Inspired by Activity |
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| 14. | | The Venting Game - Captured: 23-1-2005 15:15:41
As all large corporations Microsoft also has a few execs who see little of what comes
from their work. Thats the problem with living the 40 000 feet scenario continuously.
On the other hand there are these others who have never understood that 40 000 above
reality is pretty high and some greasy details never make it there. The problem here
is misunderstanding. While the execs get news papers to communicate with the folks
below 40 000 feet, the rest of the world never get...
From: Benjamin J. J. Voigt :: Creativity is Inspired by Activity |
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| 15. | | Gotdotnet: a suspicion that weve created a life form - Captured: 28-1-2005 13:02:00
So I don't normally inflict more than one blog post on you guys per week, but I feel I owe it to the greater Gotdotnet community to talk more about the site's ups and downs this week.
I joke around with people with dark humor - especially the old Gotdotnet team who know the site well - about how sneaky the site is. If there's a server or application problem, it usually shows up ....
1) On a weekend when there's a skeleton Microsoft.com ops crew that doesn't know G...
From: Betsy Aoki's WebLog |
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| 16. | | Envisioning blogging without er, throwing up - Captured: 10-1-2005 15:39:00
Next week I get to do yet another presentation with Robert Scoble, Blogger at Large. It's always a pleasure because Robert is so darn sunny in his personality and he's a natural presenter - he digs that evangelism thing and can wing it on notes taped to his sleeve. I am of course more terrified and methodical, especially when ( as with the Webcast we did together) the audience is people who do evangelism for a living and present all the time. I live and die by the Powerpoint. Oh and Advil, never...
From: Betsy Aoki's WebLog |
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| 17. | | 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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| 18. | | Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam - Captured: 22-12-2004 11:33:00
I was surprised a few years back when James, a friend of mine, introduced me to what looked like "Spam sushi" - nori seaweed paper rolled around sushi-vinegared rice and a big long hunk of spam. I made the normal protests ("I'm too hip and cool for this Spam business ") and then shut the <blank> up and tried it. It....was.....AMAZING. I couldn't believe it. The official Hawaiian dish is called Spam musubi and you can find a recipe here, but you should really follow the traditional s...
From: Betsy Aoki's WebLog |
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| 19. | | Designing great frameworks training: Member Types - Captured: 5-2-2005 12:47:00
Continuing on the weekly series, today we posted the session on Member Types. Thanks for watching the last week’s session on naming conventions and coming that chat… If you missed it there will be a chat transcript posted soon. A couple of notes on this sessions: Slide 5: Don’t accept the defaults! Sounds like a powerful philosophy of life as well as a good API design principle J Slide 8: Bertrand Meyer and the Eiffel programming language Slide 18: On proper...
From: Brad Abrams |
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| 20. | | Best of from the naming conventions chat... - Captured: 1-2-2005 22:58:00
Today I reviewed the chat transcript from last weeks following up from the Naming Conventions session, it should be posted soon. In order to encourage you to attend tomorrow’s chat from the Rich Type System session I thought I’d post a few gems I pulled out of that chat. So, just a reminder, the Rich Type System chat is 2/2 at 1pm PST [Sign up for the chat]. See you there! BradA [MS] (Expert):
Q: What phase of Beta2 are you in now? Ask, Tell, Final ...
From: Brad Abrams |
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| 21. | | ASP.NET 2.0 product design changes between Beta 1 and Beta 2 - Captured: 15-11-2004 19:07:00
Today the Web Platform and Tools Team is proud to announce two product design changes made directly in response and in conjunction with community feedback. The changes, detailed below are focused around two key areas. First, in September, we announced changes to the special private ASP.NET 2.0 directory naming. Based on feedback, we are revising these names. Second, we are making changes to the compilation model in order to enable ASP.NET 1.x like behavior where the .asp...
From: Brian Goldfarb's Blog |
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| 22. | | April Reagan is Blogging - Captured: 5-2-2005 1:45:00
April Reagan is a box PM for the Visual C++ team and she's one of my favorite people over in building 41. She's got a blog now and in her first post she explains, among other things, what a box PM is. Check out her blog here (rss). Here's a link to her first post, be sure to stop by and say hi!
Introduction: A Day in the Life of a Box PM
A box program manager is basically a project manager without any direct reports (unless, of course you are a box PM lead). In other words, ...
From: BufferOverrun |
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| 23. | | Indigo: the future of asmx/wse/es/msmq/remoting - Captured: 8-2-2005 19:35:52
I
just finished watching Eric Rudder’s keynote on Indigo at VS Live in
San Francisco
. As with all keynotes, it had glitz and glamour and gave a high-level view of what
Microsoft is thinking.
(for those who don’t know, Eric
is the Microsoft VP in charge of developer-related stuff including Indigo)
Among the various things discussed
was the migration roadmap from today’s commun...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 24. | | Can a Service have Tiers? - Captured: 4-2-2005 6:32:50
One last post on SOA from my coffee-buzzed,
Chicago-traffic-addled mind.
Can a Service have Tiers?
Certainly a Service can have layers.
Any good software will have layers. In the case of a Service these layers will likely
be:
1. Interface
2. Business
3. Data
access...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 25. | | dasBlog upgrade and a trip to Chicago - Captured: 30-1-2005 5:58:59
I just upgraded this blog to the newest version of dasBlog. I upgraded my personal
blog a few days ago and it has been trouble-free, so I thought it safe to upgrade
this one. The only serious change you may see is when posting comments, as this new
version requires that you type in a code from a graphic to help defeat posting bots.
Kind of a pain, but worth it I suppose.
Of course I'm doing this just before leaving town for two weeks - first to Chicago
and then t...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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