June, 2008

eek! My buddy Curt reminded me of Kim Cameron's must read: the Laws of Identity . What moves you?

eek! Yes, I live under a rock but this is great news (via the STB News Bytes blog). I got a new laptop with 8 GB of memory (thank you Mr. Dell) and intend to use Hyper-V as my main gateway to sanity - run everything virtualized. Hooray for Hyper-V ! P...

eek! In case you missed the session (out of 650+ who registered about 250 of you missed it) in May 2008, the recording turned out ok : Developing Service Oriented applications with Visual Studio 2008, WCF and WF Visual Studio 2008 improves the developer...

eek! See you in New York City in September ? Guess which session I'm doing :)

eek! If you were busy and missed the FireStarter event, Mithun published the list of session recordings that you can download and review. I've reviewed most of them and would recommend them. I was pleasantly surprised to see a good use of the Business...

eek! Another good article on IIS 7 and getting to a better place. Bill Staples identifies 3 key steps to get from IIS 6 to IIS 7. Sell the Boss Get the Goods Be the Hero! Which step are you on? P.S. On Facebook? Become an IIS 7 fan ...

eek! This showed up recently and I'd thought I'd share it with you. If you are still maintaining VB6 code , these may be resources worth reviewing :

eek! Happy Facebook Friday! I'm catching up on my reading and enjoying home. Here's a glimpse of my peeps on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=668377&l=4fe60&id=658667307 Oh, speaking of catching up on my reading. I liked these gems...

eek! I'll be downloading a version in July when the bits hit the street. Found it via the Microsoft's PressPass site : Wow!

eek! If you are like me and want to have a ready made, local development environment for your WSS or MOSS work, then you've got to check these virtual images out... A WSS 3.0 VPC environment that is a tidy 6 GB uncompressed - so easy on the hard drive...

eek! It's always exciting to see new blood course through the Microsoft veins, especially when they are local folks. Chris Bortlik and Jim O'Neil joined Microsoft recently and have blogs. Stop by!

eek! I will be in New Haven, CT presenting on behalf of Microsoft at an upcoming workshop entitled "Take Back the Net". Join me, its free!

eek! What is this Microsoft Connect? A dating site? Who is she? Is this part of the "great benefits package" you keep cheering about ???? Honest honey, I was just trying to get the latest version (3.2) of Network Monitor. I must admit, on further...

eek! Windows Vista Home Premium has a gem that I just discovered - Windows DVD Maker . What a cool little application. It turned a movie I made (using Windows Movie Maker) into a professional looking DVD - effortlessly. Complete with menu, scenes, notes...

eek! Sounds like they'll be making noise about TownSquare today according to this article in ComputerWorld . I can neither confirm nor deny that I've been using this. But if I was to confirm, I'd deny that that I said in public: I love TownSquare. Watch...

eek! If you've heard be jabber about WCF, you'll know that one of the key points is the great interoperability story that WCF allows. Greg Leake and team have revved the StockTrader Interop Reference Application to version 2. If you care about interop...

eek! Chris Mayo, a friend of the family, announced a set of Unified Communications Platform webcasts starting next week. What you'll get... We're going to cover a lot of the UC dev basics and take a deeper dive on a couple of APIs. Details on registration...

eek! It is always great to see measurable performance improvements from new technology. IIS 7 doesn't disappoint and the Microsoft.com Operations team has a great new blog post: IIS 7.0/W2K8 RTM is over 10% more efficient then IIS 6.0/WS03 SP2 in handling...

eek! As a follow up to my previous post, just wanted to share with you a cool hands on lab put on by our Swiss MSDN team . It is a Line of Business (LOB) type application and is built for Beta 1. Given the new controls and features of Silverlight 2 Beta2...

eek! I guess I'll echo what everyone is buzzing about: Silverlight 2 Beta2 is ready for you. As always, ScottGu follows the announcement with an in depth post on the feature set . Worth reviewing. Things to keep in mind: "Silverlight 2 Beta2 will...

eek! Happy Facebook Friday! Yes, I do love MEF - those are my wife's initials. As far as the other MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework), I don't know yet. Was reading Don Box's Spoutlet pointing to the MEF CTP and then found a good overview via Krzysztof...

eek! Soma announced a whole slew of new stuff at TechEd 2008 . I'm trying to get caught up with all the coolness including the Silverlight buzz, but I really like this long awaited news: Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3...

eek! I know what I'm doing next Wednesday - attending the SharePoint in Web 2.0 Fire Starter via Live Meeting . Register today (times are in US Pacific Time)! With all the innovation and engineering that continues around SharePoint (e.g. Microsoft Silverlight...

eek! Wow, MSDN is running 100% on Hyper-V. I guess this Hyper-V thing is production grade...already! Good read at Mai-lan's IIS 7 primer on the platform running TechNet and MSDN. The details on the migration to virtualization are available here (it is...

eek! Thank you for joining us last week for Developing Service Oriented applications with Visual Studio 2008, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) . We'll have the recording up soon if you missed it (and if I flubbed...