| 1. |  | Branching Theory  - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
This is based on a conversation I had with a coworker in my former team, my own experience, and my thoughts stemming from that experience.
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| 2. | | Milanese Coffee - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
Quick coffee review from Milan.
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From: myShoggoth |
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| 3. | | Venetian Coffee - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
Quick review of the coffee in Venice.
Full article ==> Venetian Coffee
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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...
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| 5. | | 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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| 6. | | 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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| 7. | | 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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| 8. | | 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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| 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. | | 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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| 11. | | 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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| 12. | | 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...
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| 13. | | 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...
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| 16. | | 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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| 17. | | Its the little things... - Captured: 4-2-2005 9:56:00
It's amazing to find a feature that you didn't know existed in a product you use all the time. I have (casually) looked for a way to write in white on black in Microsoft Word for years. Today, I was reformatting a document in Word 2003 and I noticed that the Themes menu item was there on the Format menu. Funny, I've used that item extensively in FrontPage, but I never noticed it in Word before. I thought, wow, I can probably use this to type in white on black. So I tried it by applying the Zero...
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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. | | Thoughts on passing DataSet objects via web services - Captured: 24-1-2005 4:06:20
Every now and then the question
comes up about whether to pass DataSet or DataTable objects through a web service.
I agree with Ted
Neward that the short
answer is NO!!
However, nothing is ever black and
white…
For the remainder of this discussion
remember that a DataSet is just a collection of DataTable objects. There’s no
real difference between a...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 20. | | 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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| 21. | | OSS sabotage of Windows security? - Captured: 10-1-2005 18:50:27
On the PeerCast website there is an FAQ in which
they recommend turning off the Windows XP Firewall:
I got everything right with my broadcast, but no matter what I do, my stream
can't get through. Should I get lost?
You are probably behind a firewall, if it is a personal firewall installed
on your local PC, try turning it off. (Windows XP Pro for example..)
No wonder open-source is “more secure”, when they are actively runnin...
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| 22. | | 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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| 23. | | 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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| 24. | | Latent Semantic Indexing - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:07:24
Very nice post by SEO Book, I mean Search Engine eBook, ah how about Search Marketing Guide? :) about Latent Semantic Indexing. The idea is related to what I've seen described as "contextual relavency" where a search engine (like Google) ranks a document in part based on the related concepts in the page as a whole and compares them to other related documents in the index. What this means for
From: Online Marketing Blog |
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| 25. | | Ask Jeeves - Google Local - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:07:24
Ask Jeeves now has a blog with JeevesGuy unmasked! Also via WMW:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Web search provider Ask Jeeves Inc. (Nasdaq:ASKJ - news) on Thursday posted sharply higher profit and revenue, helped by strong Web search advertising and an acquisition last year that roughly doubled its size. Oakland, California-based Ask Jeeves said net income from continuing operations rose to $17.1
From: Online Marketing Blog |
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