July, 2008

As part of my outstanding "Sharepoint Today" gadget I wanted to use CML to query various Sharepoint sites. Thanks to these Linq to Sharepoint projects this could be much easier than learning CML: Codeplex project: http://www.codeplex.com/LINQtoSharePoint...

Thanks to Lyndon Higgins for the following: Microsoft will be releasing Internet Explorer 8 to display content in its most standards compliant way by default.  Enabling Internet Explorer 8 to display web content in its most standards-compliant way...

The Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Hyper-V Guide is the third instalment in a series of guides intended to provide easily accessible, hands-on guidance to our customer and partner community. This 145 page guide is available on MSDN , TechNet and as...

After the weekends news about Mojave there has been much noise in the blogosphere . It turns out that the Mojave Experiment was simply the out of the box Vista Ultimate experience. I'm going to delve a bit into the testing process and the hardware, but...

As featured on Steve Clayton and Nick Mayhew ’s blog posts. An Information Week article and related blog posts described how impressive the work to build a world-class infrastructure for S+S really is. The reporter visited a Microsoft Datacenter...

A couple of weeks back I did a presentation that included some ASP.NET MVC Framework preview materials thanks to some help from Tatham Oddie ( Readify ). He was really great and walked me through his presentation he did for the Solution Development Centre...

Thanks to this site for a bunch of the videos Geotagging with Surface Inside the Surface Testing Labs Disneyland's latest attraction in Tomorrowland, the Innoventions Dream Home delivers on Walt Disney’s vision for showcasing cutting-edge technologies...

Details on Mike Walkers EATK can be found here http://blogs.msdn.com/mikewalker/archive/2008/07/07/the-enterprise-architecture-toolkit.aspx His Powerpoint from the SAF is here: http://www.slideshare.net/mikejwalker/enterprise-architecture-toolkit-english...

I recently received the announcement of the first edition of the “ Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide ”. The Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide is the second installment in a series of guides intended...

After watching ReMix 08 in Sydney I thought a bit about Angus Logan;s presentation on making you web visitors into residents. My main two thoughts were: 1) how do you identify a visitor from a resident 2) when a person is resident can they become a citizen...

part 1 of a my concept of the transition of web visitor to resident The web visitor is someone who uses the data and services of a company on an ad-hoc basis Access: Enter by chance, recommendation, e-mail or by search engine Behaviour: The visitor usually...

part 2 of a my concept of the transition of web visitor to resident The resident isn't going to a web site to simply consume information. They go there to participate. Access: Access to a web site as a result of a notification, some participative need...

part 3 of my concept of the transition of web visitor to resident A citizen is a native or naturalized member of a web entity who has an allegiance to its data and services and is entitled to its protection and privileges. A citizen should feel less vulnerable...

My good friend Roger has been talking about digital natives (his younger kids) for some time. Digital natives and digital immigrants are terms coined by the American futurist Marc Prensky to distinguish between those who have grown up with technology...