| 1. |  | Safe Computing  - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
Here are the things I think are necessary for a safe computing environment. Some of these are Windows specific, many are not. If you run your computer within a corporate or otherwise managed environment, make sure to check with the administrators and/or support personal before making any major changes to your network configuration or computer settings.
Full article ==> Safe Computing
From: myShoggoth |
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| 2. | | Note enough commute time - Captured: 5-1-2005 11:14:00
About a 1 ½ years ago, I decided to purchase an iPod and get a membership with audible.com (which I highly recommend) in an effort to “read� more. Since the birth of my second child in mid-2003, my amount of free leisure time had been drastically cut and hence my reading time had become almost non-existence. I am pleased to announce that this experiment has been quite successful, and in fact – I am basically stopped listening to the radio during my 70 minutes of total commute...
From: Andrew Conrad's WebLog |
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| 3. | | XSD gripe 2 – DataType hell - Captured: 30-12-2004 12:43:00
I know I am just the latest in a long line of people to “comment� on this subject – but I just wanted to give my two cents. I appreciate the fact that the XSD designers wanted to vastly enrich my datatype life. But why come up with a bunch of built-in SimpleType datatypes which are just derivations of other SimpleTypes when you gave me a nice mechanism for doing so myself? If I really want a nonPositiveInteger – then I can easily define it myself using constrain...
From: Andrew Conrad's WebLog |
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| 4. | | 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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| 5. | | Working from home and a nice dinner - Captured: 30-12-2004 22:05:06
Been working at home all week, which has turned out pretty well. I don't think I'll
have house fever before our trip this weekend.
I got in one bike ride from Tracy Owen park to Redmond because it looked like a sunshiny
day. Unfortunately most of the ride was in a cold fog and I popped an inner tube
after running into some glass. I met some nice folks and learned that a lot of people
use a ~15 mph pace with an early start and a pace line to do STP in one day. I...
From: Doubt's Log |
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| 6. | | The cost of software - Captured: 15-1-2005 8:07:00
As I suspected, some folks (based on feedback on the blog and email to me), made some points about cost - specifically, saying that SPS is too expensive. Above and beyond the points I made in my quite lengthy blog entry, fundamentally, you must ask yourself - "what exactly do you want to do today and where do you want to go?" The first, obvious point that I didn't mention in my most recent blog entry in the TCO section is that Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) is part of the Windows Server ...
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 7. | | 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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| 8. | | Indian Vacation - Captured: 27-12-2004 8:04:00
I'm in India right now on vacation visiting extended family and friends. I've been here since the 20th and will be on vacation for the next few weeks. I have, almost, completely detached myself from work (haven't checked work email for the last 1+ week) and I've just really begun enjoying my vacation now that I'm jet-lag free. It's always great meeting extending family and friends in India. It reminds me that there's another, very different world out there. Speaking of which, family calls...
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 9. | | 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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| 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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| 13. | | Searching Through Video and Audio Content - Even With MSN - Captured: 29-1-2005 18:47:05
Video search engines have been getting quite the hype this week as Yahoo! and Google introduced
a video search engine to the public. But wait, only Google truely searches in video
content. Yahoo! only searches through images names and basic meta data. But if you
think they are pioneering anything at all, you are quite wrong. At least HP
has been providing the same service long before.
So audio mining has been around since some time, even for your own use,&...
From: Benjamin J. J. Voigt :: Creativity is Inspired by Activity |
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| 14. | | Smartphone Development Resources - Captured: 1-2-2005 11:33:00
It almost goes without saying that I'm completely addicted to my Windows Mobile-based phone. I have an Audiovox SMT 5600, which runs Windows Mobile 2003 and has support built in for the .Net Compact Framework. There's something wonderfully compelling about being able to easily write apps code for smaller devices while still being able to use a world-class IDE to handle everything related to them. Anyway, I found a great collection of links this morning on developing apps for the Compact Framewor...
From: aaron's weblog |
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| 15. | | Marketing Eye for the Dev Guy - Captured: 25-1-2005 18:13:00
Ok, I'm taking a break from blogging about Gotdotnet today to talk about the idea for a new cable show that sprang upon me like a panther on a protein jag. It was inspired by Microsoft.com's very own snazzy lead product manager, Dave Morehouse (Microsoft.com communities team). I have to tell you that Dave is a man of substance, suave haircuts, and snazzy shirts, but it's his documentation that always makes me feel unkempt and well, like my specs just don't wash behind their ears. Every time I g...
From: Betsy Aoki's WebLog |
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| 16. | | 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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| 17. | | 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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| 18. | | SOA really is just RPC with angle-brackets - Captured: 4-2-2005 5:59:31
I am afraid that
I'm rapidly becoming more convinced than even
Ted that
SOA == web services == RPC with angle brackets.
The more people
I talk to, the more I realize that virtually no one is actually talking about service-oriented
analysis, architecture or design. They are using SOA as a synonym for web services,
and they are using web services as a replacement for DCOM, RMI, remoting or whatever
RPC protocol they used before.
I think th...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 19. | | Remoting vs Web Services vs ES/COM+/DCOM - Captured: 4-2-2005 5:11:20
I’ve hashed and rehashed this topic
numerous times. In particular, read this and this.
But the debate rages on, paralyzing otherwise perfectly normal development teams in
a frenzy of analysis paralysis over something that is basically not all that critical
in a good architecture.
I mean really. If you do a decent
job of architecting, it really doesn’t matter a whole hell of a lot which RPC protocol
you use, because you can alwa...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 20. | | 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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| 21. | | From VAX to Windows - Captured: 19-1-2005 17:29:50
When I first got involved with Microsoft
it was around 1990 or ’91. The world of the time was dominated by IBM, with
DEC a close second. If you wanted to network PCs you used Novell or Banyan. All PC
programs were DOS programs. “Windows” was just one of many graphical libraries
being used by software to handle drawing on the screen. And if you wanted to do real
work you used a mainframe or minicomputer.
At the time, M...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 22. | | The power, the absolute power! - Captured: 31-1-2005 6:13:44
I
was recently in an argument with a guy calling himself “Thomas”, who has
posted here several times, and on Rocky’s blog several times. Now,
Thomas seems to be a pretty smart guy, but he makes wild assumptions that, when challenged,
he is unable to support without any sort of coherence. An
example would be this quote below:
“The
Founding Fathers designed the system with the assump...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 23. | | A is for Academic Excellence - Captured: 30-1-2005 22:17:22
Like many compellingly outrageous
topics on education I’ve had brought to my attention, this one was found at Ernie’s
3-D Pancakes.
Here is an article
on the subject…and another.
The thrust of the story is, this
17-year-old kid wanted to get into an honors math course at his high school, and as
a condition of admission into this class he has to complete three very difficult calculus
problems over th...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 24. | | Girls Night Out - Captured: 29-1-2005 9:24:52
Girl’s night out last night. I
went out with my friends Sue and Denise. I
was DD. We
went to O’Donovan’s Pub in
Minneapolis
. This is where we go to watch rugby. When
there is no rugby, we drink. Guiness. No
cute guys were around for the single chicks in the group to flirt with. For
some reason, someone threw a quarter at us as we were getting up to leave the table. Freaks.&...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 25. | | Drill Sergeant Voice - Captured: 28-1-2005 20:15:11
Oh Lordy!
I had to use my drill sergeant voice today.
Now, normally, I am into the whole pro-active discipline thing. My kids are
very sensitive and spirited, so I try to minimize disruption, stick to a
schedule, keep things predictable and consistent...use reminders and
re-direction...etc.
&nb
From: Anomalous Data |
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