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The most impressive tech blogging - Vertigo

Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:29 PM by alogan
I've been trying to plug back into the tech blogs so I can keep my knowledge up. Vertigo has one of the most impressive blogs in terms of quality & depth. check out this post . The blog isn't much to look at ( vanilla WSS or MOSS 2007 ) but the content Read More...
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Microsoft joins DataPortability.org

Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 4:03 AM by alogan
Kevin just announced on dev.live.com Microsoft is joining DataPortbility.org who's mission is: put all existing technologies and initiatives in context to create a reference design for end-to-end Data Portability. To promote that design to the developer, Read More...
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 3:50 AM by alogan
Yesterday at a team offsite we all (did Myers-Briggs Type Indicators ) (fun I know!) I was pleasantly surprised how fun / informative it was. If you are into this stuff I'm an ENTP . From Wikipedia notable ENTPs : U.S. Presidents John Adams [8]   Read More...
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Quick Apps (Tafiti) gets some Programmable Web Loving

Posted Sunday, January 13, 2008 1:01 PM by alogan
ProgrammableWeb is one of my favorite websites for web 2.0 info, it haqs a huge collection of APIs and also Mashups built using those APIs. Recently I added all the APIs from dev.live.com to ProgrammableWeb and all of the Windows Live Quick Apps too. Read More...
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Tafiti can now use SharePoint as a Datasource

Posted Saturday, January 12, 2008 1:04 PM by alogan
Case closed = grab the source code , otherwise it will be in the 6.0 release BTW = the 6.0 release has a MASSIVE amount of work done on it - I had to make IE 30% zoom setting just to see all the items . Read More...
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Tafiti front and center on channel9.msdn.com

Posted Saturday, January 12, 2008 3:55 AM by alogan
  Marc Mercuri gets more press than I do , he's interviewed by cheller on Channel9.msdn.com. Catherine Heller sat down with Marc Mercuri , Architect on the platform incubation team, to discuss one of Marc’s recent incubation projects, Tafiti Read More...
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Photo API integration into WLQuickApps.SocialNetwork almost done

Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 6:29 PM by alogan
  check out the work in progress code on http://codeplex.com/wlquickapps Read More...
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Marc Mercuri interview on Channel8 about Tafiti

Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 5:26 PM by alogan
Ever wonder who reads the messages you send to tafiti@microsoft.com ? Well wonder no more; it's Marc! Not only does he read your messages, but he has listened to you all and has made available the code behind the Tafiti search engine leveraging Microsoft Read More...
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FilmsForLearning.org - Great website in the UK

Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 4:57 PM by alogan
It is targetedz at 6-18 year olds and the content is contributed by students and then moderated by teaching professionals. From a technical point of view it uses: Silverlight with Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live Telligent's Community Server (powered Read More...
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Codecamp in Seattle has some Windows Live Dev stuff in it by Ed Kaim

Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 4:48 PM by alogan
Read more here https://seattle.codecamp.us/sessions.aspx   Windows Live Development In this session, we'll take a look at the Windows Live development platform, which enables 3rd party applications to integrate with Live ID, Contacts, Spaces, Messenger, Read More...
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Spaces Photo API changes - now need to set content-type or you'll get a 415 back

Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 4:32 PM by alogan
A recent change was made to the Spaces Photo API ( http://dev.live.com/spaces/photos ). when uploading you now need to set the Content-Type to image/jpeg Read More...
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Powershell Script to upload photos to the Spaces Photo API

Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 4:26 PM by alogan
once again, this is cool for doing smoke tests. === $DomainAuthenticationToken = "** put your DAT HERE **" $strRootURI = " https://cumulus.services.live.com/angus@angusloganlive.com/SpacesPhotos/2014/pic.jpg " $PictureLocalFilePath Read More...
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SharePoint added to the Tafiti Search Visualization Quick App

Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 9:16 AM by alogan
George Durzi & Kevin Marshall have implemented the SharePoint Search into the Tafiti. Get more information here and grab the source code from Codeplex source code tab. Read More...
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Want to upload photos to your Windows Live Space without ever plugging in your Camera? do it with eye.fi

Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:16 PM by alogan
What is Eye-Fi ? The Eye-Fi Card is a wireless memory card. It automatically uploads pictures from your digital camera to your PC or Mac and to your favorite photo sharing, printing, blogging or social networking site. No cables, no waiting, no hassles. Read More...
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Silverlight Streaming is moving to new infrastructure - yay!

Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 8:52 AM by alogan
The Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live service is moving to from " its current hardware in Sandbox to a more permanent home on new hardware in the Production environment " - YAY! There may be an hour where the UI (silverlight.live.com) & API will Read More...
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OFF TOPIC: International Man of Mystery

Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 8:20 AM by alogan
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Have you ever lost the Vista "Snipping Tool" and not been able to find it again? I found it

Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 5:20 PM by alogan
I always lose the Windows Vista Snipping Tool - I just found that I don't lose it, I uninstall it when I remove the Tablet PC Optional Components from Vista. Read More...
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I may not like the weather in Seattle but I'm not this far gone

Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 10:52 AM by alogan
And the reason I don't like Seattle weather is this : Brisbane is Where I'm from and its a nice 29 degrees at 2 PM celsius (thats 84 in American) Read More...
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Community dev - I love LiveNet the managed code wrapper for Live Services & the team listens!

Posted Monday, January 07, 2008 12:16 PM by alogan
Through no fault of their own, Scott & Luke had a bug ( see below for the details ) in LiveNet the managed code wrapper for Live Services ; I quickly logged it ( log one now! ) with the guys and they turned around a fix quickly and its assigned to Read More...
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Easily link to a blog with the Messenger Presence for the Author : Using Windows Live Writer

Posted Monday, January 07, 2008 12:01 PM by alogan
I blogged about adding messenger presence to blog cross posts before and thought there must be an easier way. I issued the challenge to ScottIsAFool (aka Scott Lovegrove) and he came through with the goods. His directions for doing this via Windows Live Read More...
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Tell me the time in <random city you have no idea where>

Posted Sunday, January 06, 2008 8:59 AM by alogan
I always find myself trying to figure out what time zone a city is in; And its smart too – it can tell the difference between Brisbane & Sydney in Australia (both GMT+1000) but one has DST and the other doesn’t. It also tells me more cities than Vista's Read More...
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PowerShell Script to dump photos XML from Photo API

Posted Saturday, January 05, 2008 8:59 AM by alogan
I just had a play with Powershell - pretty neat - I wrote a little script with dumps the XML of your spaces photos. Right now the terms of use for the Photo API/Contacts API only allow use from web sites but this is a cool little script for testing / Read More...
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Why just link to a fellow blogger... when you can link AND show their messenger presence?

Posted Friday, January 04, 2008 2:30 PM by alogan
I just linked to my buddy Johann Kruse on my previous post; instead of just using his name and linking to his blog; I decided to show is Messenger presence there and add a link to the IM control. Johann has published his messenger presence and using the Read More...
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Drowning in email? I've got the solution for you - Pay it Forward Email Management

Posted Friday, January 04, 2008 11:45 AM by alogan
Working at Microsoft is great but it isn't all sunshine lollypops and rainbows. Getting ~ 400 emails per day direct to my inbox, with the majority requiring action takes its toll. Calendar Year 2007 I sent 30,000 emails For the first few months I was Read More...
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