I wanted you to know about this in advance. Turns out my knees need to be fixed - the articular cartilage has become rough and needs to be smoothened out (too much cricket I think:-)) so I'll be out of the office starting this Thursday uptil April 4th...

I was interviewed today by Sean Kaye over Skype. Sean expects to have the podcast/blogcast/audiocast online sometime this week. We covered a bunch of topics, such as the upcoming Visual Studio 2005 releases , Entlib , challenges IT Professionals...

This question seems to be a popular one:-) ICOP have provided an answer here http://www.icop.com.tw/manual/eBoxII_WinCE_50_JumpStart.pdf

In order to help the teams that are participating in the contest we have also scheduled some technical chats - the first chat will be on Tuesday April 5th at 9:00 am Pacific followed by a chat on Wednesday April 6th at 5:00 pm Pacific. We hope these times...

Dan asked (a long time ago, sorry Dan) that he was getting notifications of accounts being locked out due to invalid password attempts. Dan's assuming this is because someone is trying to hack into an account and wanted to know how to stop SBS usernames...

This week, the team is under an enormous amount of stress as the deadline approaches for the decision that will make or break PDC 2005: the swag bag. Sitting in Steve's office are three different styles of computer bag, and we must choose which one we...

Just a reminder of the Irish MSDN and .NET Community events happening this week. Myself an Rob are down in Cork this week to give the final leg of the regional MSDN Ireland tour. This evening, we will be hosting the MSDN Introduction to .NET , which answers...

Lately, I've been doing a lot of work to help further define what we are looking for in the marketing and finance spaces. Specifically, I'm working to define the "big buckets" of candidates we try to attract, not the kinds of roles that we hire them into...

I’m back in the office after travelling to Switzerland to speak about Software Factories at TechDays . I had some very interesting conversations there with Ralf Westphal , who showed me his work on adding textual Domain Specific Languages to Visual Studio...

Only 70 votes so far for covariant return types in C# (and all .Net languages)!! :-( I thought that there was a lot more interest than that. Here's a chance for you to really show what you're interested in seeing. If you haven't voted yet, and you do...

Why do hackers hack By Dick Bishop / Columnist Thursday, February 10, 2005 " S uppose for a moment that a complete stranger walks up to you, stares you right in the eye, and says, "I'm taking your name and everything you have;" then turns and walks away...

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