January, 2008

Microsoft has a love affair with the corporate conference call. Part of that ubiquitous event involves listening to the hold music while we wait for the call to start. Here's what can and does happen on occasion behind the closed doors.

I have been working with the MSDN team to roll out the all new MSDN Code Gallery for 18 months. It the answer to some customers and partners who thought that posting to CodePlex was too complex. Where CodePlex is for open source and hard core devs, the...

I get a lot of comments from my co-workers and friends about my eclectic choice of music that is usually playing full-time in my office. So I've decided to take a page from Dare Obasanjo, akd Carnage4Life award winning blog. I've been reading Dare's blog...

Ever wondered what goes on after you publish your post for the day? Most of know there are services out there who bring readers to our blog like Live Search and Google. But to really understand what is happening take a look at this article from Wired...

What a great find. kbAlertz.com is an e-mail notification system that scans the entire Microsoft Knowledge Base every night, and e-mails you when updates or additions are made to the technologies you subscribe to. Since we scan the entire knowledge base...

Because I link to the new CRM books in my listbox I like to have the thumbnails in my post so that I can clean them up a bit. Here are two new books that you might be interested in. Programming Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Developer Reference by C. Wood...

I get asked for this information, most of which in on the CRM Team Blog site. So I thought I'd copy from a recent e-mail to this post for posterity. MSDN CRM Dev Center - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/crm/default.aspx CRM Team Blog - http...

One of my favorite individual CRM bloggers is Michael Lu who's Adventures of a Vagabond is a good read. In addition to covering CRM Michael discusses his world travels, food, drink and friends. And as an apparently avid photograph, his pictures are excellent...

Ah, the Convergence 2008 blogging has begun. Once you register for Convergence 2008 you are given the opportunity to add your blog to the blog roll. Then you can subscribe to the RSS stream and see what your peers and fellow convergence attendees are...

Just want to make sure you are aware that you can now get the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: Planning and Deployment Guidance for Service Providers . These guides and tools provide additional information for Service Providers to plan and deploy Microsoft...