| 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. | | 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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| 3. | | New RSS Feed - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
Okay, Mr. Scoble convinced me to change my ways concerning my RSS feed philosophy. His post (well, it is Scoble, so really there was a storm of posts...) convinced me not that my main feed should include all the content of each article, but that I should provide a full RSS feed for my site that people can subscribe to if that's what they want.
Full article ==> New RSS Feed
From: myShoggoth |
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| 4. | | Foundations: Window Handling - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
My 'Foundations' series will be a set of articles on what constitutes the foundations of a solid, world-class GUI application. In other word, what is the minimum bar to be considered serious software? That minimum bar is higher than most people think, which is why most successful companies and projects have very ugly growing pains after they go from "Good enough to get to market and make some money" and head towards "Competing against the big software houses in global markets".
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| 5. | | Washington Ski Season - DOA - Captured: 31-1-2005 10:40:00
Because of the infamous "Pineapple Express", the Washington ski season has basically ended. See for yourself. This has been the worst season in my lifetime. However, we do have water rationing to look forward to this summer.
From: Andrew Conrad's WebLog |
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| 6. | | 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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| 7. | | Weekend Update - Captured: 7-12-2004 0:26:51
Decent weekend, Friday night was dinner at Mediterranean Kitchen and some shopping at the Bon. Saturday we went to Keshav and Kerrie's pre-Christmas party. Unfortunately I slept through the first part of it, but I did get to play a bit of halo 2 co-op and watch Keshav show off the new Grand Theft Auto game. Sunday, pam and I went on an 8 mile bike ride through a small snow storm, meeting our ride leader Ted. Pam's phone didn't survive the trip. We did a bunch of chores around the house, finally ...
From: Doubt's Log |
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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 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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| 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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| 11. | | I got a new SmartPhone - Captured: 27-1-2005 20:29:00
I got myself an Audiovox SMT5600 smartphone today. This thing is amazing. It syncs to my outlook server for mail and calendar. It has IE on it. I can play movies and music on it. It came with all the cables to sync up to my computer like a PDA. And it is very snappy to use. Screen is a good resolution too. And you can use it like a phone without any hassles. Where will these things be in 5 years? The fact that I could compress 10 DVDs onto a card and play them on my phone is amazing to me - I di...
From: BenCon's WebLog |
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| 12. | | Table editing feedback - Captured: 15-10-2004 20:07:00
For lack of anything better to post, I would like to get an idea of what people think of the table editing in the HTML/ASPX designer in whidbey. I spent a lot of time trying to improve this area. After VS.NET 2003 I rewrote some parts of this code, hoping to create something that was more powerful and easier to use. For example: Selecting rows and columns is hopefully easier now with the selection widgets that we added. Selecting cells should be easier now (you can hold down CTRL to get an Exce...
From: BenCon's WebLog |
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| 13. | | 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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| 16. | | 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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| 17. | | 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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| 18. | | 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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| 19. | | Designing great frameworks training: Member Types - Captured: 5-2-2005 12:47:00
Continuing on the weekly series, today we posted the session on Member Types. Thanks for watching the last week’s session on naming conventions and coming that chat… If you missed it there will be a chat transcript posted soon. A couple of notes on this sessions: Slide 5: Don’t accept the defaults! Sounds like a powerful philosophy of life as well as a good API design principle J Slide 8: Bertrand Meyer and the Eiffel programming language Slide 18: On proper...
From: Brad Abrams |
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| 20. | | 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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| 21. | | SuperBowlSunday at the cottage - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:06:27
It's SuperBowl Sunday, and tonite I'll be ready to watch it live on ITV. Yesterday I got a bit of a warm-up by watching the Wales-England rugby match with Archie, one of Christina's schoolfriends' Dad.
From: CURRY.COM |
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| 22. | | What would you want out of Master Page templates? - Captured: 7-1-2005 11:57:00
I need your help. I've been trying to figure out what a set of master page templates / themes would look like to help people easily build attractive web sites -- But I'm struggling to figure out if there is a need for this and if there is what you all would want. The initial vision was to create 10 unique page layouts -- think 3 column layouts, 2 column layouts, etc. that each have five unique color schemes. These layouts would be simple Master page files using CSS to control the lay...
From: Brian Goldfarb's Blog |
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| 23. | | 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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| 24. | | April Reagan is Blogging - Captured: 5-2-2005 1:45:00
April Reagan is a box PM for the Visual C++ team and she's one of my favorite people over in building 41. She's got a blog now and in her first post she explains, among other things, what a box PM is. Check out her blog here (rss). Here's a link to her first post, be sure to stop by and say hi!
Introduction: A Day in the Life of a Box PM
A box program manager is basically a project manager without any direct reports (unless, of course you are a box PM lead). In other words, ...
From: BufferOverrun |
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| 25. | | 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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