| 1. |  | Home Roasting Coffee  - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
Roasting your own coffee is one of those unique activities that makes it possible to optimize for both cost and quality.
Full article ==> Home Roasting Coffee
From: myShoggoth |
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| 2. | | 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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| 3. | | RSS Feed Ahoy! - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
As I hoped and suspected, setting up an RSS feed in CityDesk wasn't too bad. The joys of a CMS, I guess. All it took was a quick check of the CityDesk discussion forum, one attempt to do it a broken way (sited at the top of the discussion), and then someone gave this link: http://www.henko.net/Computers/CreatingRSSfeedsusingCity.php
Now that's pretty. Slick, uses the system as-is, and is very flexible. Nice work, Henrik Jernevad.
Full article ==> RSS Feed Ahoy!
From: myShoggoth |
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| 4. | | 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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| 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. | | Tuesday Morning Links - Captured: 7-12-2004 19:19:14
The lame duck session of congress gives us an Intelligence
Overhaul.
Reality seems
to continue marching in Iraq, although not
everyone agrees.
Here is a pretty detailed article about the status
of Nuclear Weapons and Iran. Things that stand out to me is that the civilian
program issues is still a two year timeframe, alligations of military programs especially
related to two sites, Parchin and Lavisan II, an Iranian ...
From: Doubt's Log |
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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 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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| 10. | | 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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| 12. | | 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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| 13. | | 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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| 14. | | Meeting physical force with soul force - Captured: 17-1-2005 10:46:00
Martin Luther King Jr. Day has a special place in my heart. My first Web site for The Seattle Times was a site we built in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I worked with editor Bill Ristow, who, like many who work with me, stared at me as though I were a maniac. :) And I was. We did this site because Frank Blethen, publisher of the paper, has always felt strongly about educating the public about Dr. Martin Luther, Jr. and about supporting the holid...
From: Betsy Aoki's WebLog |
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| 15. | | 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. | | 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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| 18. | | no source? - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:06:27
Sorry 'bout the lack of a source code yesterday. Life got in the way
again. I went up to Blackbushe airport to get all the info on obtaining
my fixed-wing add-on. I thought I was pretty much immune to getting
lost with my Audi's fabulous gps/route planner. Unfortunately many
addresses in the UK are really only trackable by postcode. Many houses
don't have numbers, just names. The airport is in Camberly. No street
name. Unfortunately the Audi system doesn't 'do' postcodes, so I saw a
lot o...
From: CURRY.COM |
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| 19. | | 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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| 20. | | Visual C++ Developer Center - Captured: 3-2-2005 14:38:00
We made some tweaks to the Visual C++ Developer Center today. We added the top five threads from three different newsgroups to the home page. This will make it easy to see what people are talking about around Visual C++ in the newsgroups. For now, I've added the following groups:
microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vc
microsoft.public.vc.language
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
This is sort of an experiment. Add a reply to this thread to let me know...
From: BufferOverrun |
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| 21. | | 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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| 22. | | 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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| 23. | | 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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| 24. | | 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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| 25. | | 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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