| 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. | | Out for a while - Captured: 29-9-2004 11:11:00
I'm going on infant care leave either tomorrow or next week. I'll most likely not blog anything during that time since I'll be enjoying my new son. I'll return to work at the end of October. The VSIP/Extensibility team is working hard to get Whidbey Beta 2 ready and everyone is heads down on that effort. It's going to be great to get that beta shipped!
From: AllenD's WebLog |
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| 3. | | 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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| 4. | | Links continue - Captured: 15-12-2004 3:01:07
Joel points out the deeper
coolness of Google
Suggest, and announces
a geek dinner this Saturday.
Jon Udell is playing with Calendaring which
is a subset of a problem space I've been interested in since college.
JWZ has a link about folding
shirts.
Gladwell has two new pieces up, I found the one on the nature of getting
on with life over grief and trauma pretty interesting.
There appears ...
From: Doubt's Log |
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| 5. | | 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. | | 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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| 9. | | Halo 2 Has Gone Gold!!! - Captured: 11-10-2004 15:13:00
http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?story=GoneGoldAnnouncer&p=811577 I want to congratulate all of the flaming ninjas over at Bungie, you guys rock! Man, I can't wait until this ships! :-)
From: aaron's weblog |
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| 10. | | 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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| 11. | | 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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| 12. | | patternshare.org is online!! - Captured: 9-2-2005 2:35:39
I was looking for info on a design pattern, and on a whim I thought I'd see if patternshare.org was
online yet. And it is!
This site promises to be an awesome resource for all of us, since it provides a centralized
index/resouce for patterns of many types. The fact that it is online is wonderful
news!
For more information go to www.lhotka.net.
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 13. | | 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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| 14. | | 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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| 15. | | 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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| 16. | | Claudia Black on Stargate SG-1 - Captured: 1-2-2005 3:27:36
OK,
just finished the latest episode of Stargate SG-1.
Just
so everyone knows, LOVE Claudia Black. Hey,
Erin and Chriton rock Farscape, and I really liked her character here too…what
was her name? Varla?
Varla’s
just this incorrigible multi-layered-lying, cheating, mercenary, ass-kicking bitch,
and ...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 17. | | 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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| 18. | | Blog and Search Marketing - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:07:24
A few tidbits regarding the trend of blog, RSS and search marketing:
News that Ask buys Bloglines. This news has gained quite a bit of coverage in the blogosphere, but very little in traditional news (yet). Formal announcement is to occur today or Tuesday.
I first read about Bloglines being purchased by Ask Jeeves on John Battelle's Searchblog over the w/e but did not have time to post. One
From: Online Marketing Blog |
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| 19. | | Google spatial engine - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:07:24
According to Government Computer News, Google Inc. will be geo-enabling its search engine with the recent acquisition of Keyhole, a digital mapping company. Keyhole’s technology lets a user enter an address, “fly� over a 3-D image of it, zoom and tilt, measure distances and find things around it.
"The Google engine will be part of the second-generation Geospatial One-Stop e-government site,
From: Online Marketing Blog |
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| 20. | | 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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| 21. | | Internet Explorer on a Mac is dead. - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:07:24
As the browser wars continue, I think we can now rule out one. Internet Explorer on a Mac should be considered dead. Why? If you run IE on a Mac and load www.msn.com you will get a horribly rendered site. Seeing as this is Microsoft's browser and a Microsoft site, I would think they'd work together, but they don't. This leads me to believe that they no longer care about IE on a Mac and maybe we
From: Online Marketing Blog |
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| 22. | | Yahoo to launch search tool Y!Q - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:07:24
MercuryNews.com ran a short article today announcing that Yahoo is launching a new search tool (Y!Q tool). Yahoo boasts that it's the first contextual search technology that analyzes the contents of the Web page you're viewing and then gives you a list of search results directly related to what you're reading. You can test it out on Yahoo News
Tags: Yahoo, Y!Q, Search Engine, Search
From: Online Marketing Blog |
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