| 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. | | The Next Few Entries - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
For a time I had an internal blog at Microsoft for posts that were either only really internally relevant or contained information that wasn't suitable for public consumption. For assorted reasons I didn't keep it going, and the few poor people who were looking at it gave up, so when I moved groups most recently I decided not to try to put it back up.
Full article ==> The Next Few Entries
From: myShoggoth |
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| 3. | | Why Does Setup Make Windows Reboot So Much? - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
The short answer is: because memory mapped files are locked by the system and can't be changed while they are in use.
For the long answer, I want to go way back to how programs are run on a computer and begin at the beginning.
Full article ==> Why Does Setup Make Windows Reboot So Much?
From: myShoggoth |
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| 4. | | The Joys of CSS - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
I don't know the exact name of the group of people who hold similar XHTML + CSS views as I do (other than 'snobs' or 'impractical'), but there's not only a certain amount of style and simplicity to it, but practical application as well. This site's design is not as much a culmination of my CSS knowledge as much as an intersection between it plus my personal aesthetic.
The original intention of this site was to explore ideas around XHTML and CSS and web sites created with those plus the to...
From: myShoggoth |
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| 5. | | Aurora, Once Again - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
I'm now going to try CityDesk from Fog Creek Software and see how it goes. I tried an older version a while back and was not impressed by a few aspects of it, but am giving v2.0 a shot because.
Full article ==> Aurora, Once Again
From: myShoggoth |
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| 6. | | The 12 days of XSD gripes – Gripe 1 - Captured: 29-12-2004 13:29:00
Ok… before, I get started – a little background. I am basically now on my second dance with XSD. Back a couple of years ago I was working with it extensively as part of the SqlXml effort – particularly around the mapping technologies at that time. Then it was new – so it was cool. I knew it had some issues, but we were still in the courting period of our relationship. Then I took a couple of years off from actively working with XSD to concentrate on the O/R...
From: Andrew Conrad's WebLog |
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| 7. | | Getting out of town for new years - Captured: 4-1-2005 18:46:19
Pam and I took a trip to Friday Harbor on San Juan Island for New Years. While
a bit cold, we had a nice time; a good dinner, time in a Jacuzzi, breakfast served
at our room (at the Tucker House), buying some artwork and seeing the island. We also
found a book that is perfect for our trips: a directory of weekend trips detailing
what to see when, where to eat and place to sleep.
On the 2nd, we had Misha, Rachael and Ben over for a salmon dinner. I used...
From: Doubt's Log |
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| 8. | | Ny Times Wrapup - Captured: 17-12-2004 18:15:08
This was from tuesday, but better late then never...
NY Times WrapUp
A New York painter, Steve Mumford, has been embedded
with military units in Iraq on and off since April 2003. Also check out the artist's
website.
Energized by electoral wins, conservative Christians are pushing
ahead state and local initiatives on controversial issues.
Delegates from more than 190 countries have g...
From: Doubt's Log |
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| 9. | | Hanukah and Biking Weekend - Captured: 13-12-2004 22:55:56
Had a pretty busy weekend, Friday night was the our holiday party, which was pretty
decent once my headache went away and I could enjoy the band. The Dancing Heads room
was especially enjoyable. They use green screen technology to get a video of just
your head and then overlay it on to a video of headless dancers keyed to a the playing
of a popular song. The results are VERY amusing.
Saturday I woke up and joined a cascade cycle ride for what should have been a 40
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From: Doubt's Log |
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| 10. | | Welcome back Wensday - Captured: 1-12-2004 17:54:35
Jon Udell introduces me to Amtrak Julie, who has been "outed"
by the New York Times and to the NPR
segment where they have Tom the flight information guy meet Julie called Modern
Love.
Even better is this german forklift
safety video.
Cnet talks about web
based remote record for MCE.
JWZ points to disclaimer
stickers for science textbooks.
First, party and person fidelity pledges, blocking
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From: Doubt's Log |
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| 11. | | 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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| 12. | | 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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| 13. | | 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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| 14. | | Mount St. Helens Pictures - Captured: 7-10-2004 15:33:00
Apologies about the lack of blogging over the past two months. I will get back to it soon, I've just been unfortunately swamped. Anyway, the USGS has a set of really amazing photos of Mount St. Helens from the past few days. Well worth the look. They come in sizes up to 650x400 pixels and so, and look terrific as desktop backgrounds. (Link) Update:
There are volcano pics from Thursday at the link above, I'd suggest checking there for more content. :-)
From: aaron's weblog |
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| 15. | | Kickboxing through molasses, or, the ancient curse - Captured: 24-1-2005 17:06:00
First, I'd like to offer my sincere apologies as program manager for Gotdotnet - the only one left standing I might add, except for Texas Ops Ranger Clayton - for the fact that both the site and Workspaces was down today. I know that Workspaces started acting, well, tetchy over the weekend. I was actually online on Sunday and saw it happen, and started flagging the Microsoft.com ops folks at that point. Little did I know what would await for me (and you) this morning. So, we had a hardware...
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. | | 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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| 18. | | 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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| 19. | | ipodder down but not out - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:06:25
While true that Dave and I will not be pursuing a podcasting business together, the current outage of iPodder.org
is unrelated. Unfortunately I can't fix anything since it still resides
on 'his' server. I've sent a mail, should be back up soon.
10:15 GMT, the site is back up. Thanks for the fix!
From: CURRY.COM |
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| 21. | | Some holiday cheer for Steve and company in Iraq - Captured: 3-12-2004 18:31:00
I thought our care package might never make it, but earlier this week our big box of XBOX stuff arrived in Iraq for Steve Smith and his platoon. Check out pictures and info here: http://armyadvice.org/armysteve/archive/2004/11/22/932.aspx?Pending=true
From: Brian Goldfarb's Blog |
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| 22. | | 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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| 23. | | 20 Year Usenet Timeline - Captured: 10-1-2005 16:45:59
Google has released a 20
year timeline of usenet newsgroup history, highlighting notable events along the
way.
I find it very interesting to see the history of the “world's largest BBS“.
Personally I got involved in usenet in 1989 or 1990. I was working for a bio-medical
manufacturing company, and managed to convince a local defense contractor to allow
us to tap a usenet feed off them. The feed came through our 1200 baud modem, with
us dialing...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 24. | | Attack of the Giant rAnts II: The Revenge of the Drama Queens - Captured: 7-2-2005 7:26:18
OK
everyone, it’s rant time again. This
one goes out to all the drama queens out there…OK wait, that’s not right. You
Drama Queens don’t know who you are, because you have your head so completely
wrapped up in your “me-verse” that you have no clue that what I’m
talking about applies to you. Never Mind…go
about your business.
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From: Anomalous Data |
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| 25. | | The baddies are getting bolder - Captured: 3-2-2005 4:35:02
This is from Rick's LJ: Thought it
merited a little more attention. Because well...obviously SOME people in the
world are starting to think that it's 1955 again.
You couldn't make up shit like this. Even
if you tried.
I just got home from work. Ten minutes ago, on 35W heading south,
I passed a great big white pickup truck. In the back window of the cab were two stickers.
The one on the passenger side proudly stated "Sportsmen For B...
From: Anomalous Data |
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