In this interview, Eric Troup talks with Abdi Modaressi, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T, about the challenges behind combining web services and IMS to deliver new types of experiences for the device, computer, and TV experiences....

I had the opportunity to interview a good friend, Joe DeCarlo, about the Microsoft Certified Architect program. Joe is an Architect at Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta, and came from a deep developer background. In this interview, we discuss the MCA program...

When I think of the impact of Enterprise 2.0 in the next 5 years, I can't help but imagine there's a war brewing. Web 2.0 was the big love fest, can't we all just share data and get along with standards? Enterprise 2.0, by contrast, doesn't share that...

Sad... Uga VI, the winningest Georgia Bulldog mascot, passed today. http://tinyurl.com/69jesg My wife just brought home the Sporting news College Football '08 issue that shows UGA as #1 for the upcoming year. Here's the lineup. Georgia Ohio State USC...

It's end of the fiscal year for Microsoft right now, which means there's an absurd amount of reports, filling out forms, updating Siebel, and general grunt work that has to be done. One of the things I needed to do was to submit a list of resources into...

Interesting post from TVBoard. There are many in the media industry who assume that the operators will not work with Microsoft. But the truth is the cable guys have never shied away from Microsoft and would probably embrace them on the advertising front...

I have been using Magnifier.exe to magnify the screen during presentations. Before I do, I usually crack a joke about people with weak constitutions and expecting mothers to look away, because the effect can be disorienting. I just found out about ZoomIt...

I was starting to write some demos on how to host WCF in SharePoint, and ran into some odd problems. I kept getting a System.ArgumentException, pointing to a parameter called "virtualPath". I fought it only for a little while and decided to see if anyone...

Making sure everyone is aware that my colleague, Rob Cameron , is hosting a webcast on Friday, June 20th from 11:00am - 12:30 pm PST: Visual Studio for C++ Developers Visual C++ provides a powerful and flexible development environment for creating Microsoft...

I am in training this week with Andrew Connell (by far the best SharePoint training I have ever attended), learning about SharePoint development. As I get started with my deep dive into learning SharePoint, something that comes up a lot is the need to...

Yesterday was Father's Day in the US. We celebrated by going to GameStop and bought Call of Duty 4 and Guitar Hero 3 . I made the mistake of putting in Guitar Hero 3 into the XBox 360 first. I played it straight for almost 5 hours. I have a freaking blister...

Dan Waters has a great video series as well as code download showing how to build a networked Zune game. How To Build a Networked Zune Game with XNA Series - Introduction How to Build a Networked Zune Game with XNA Series- Part 2, The Code Every time...

I finally got these videos posted! This was an incredibly fun day for me. I was fortunate to spend the day with Motus Digital in Plano, Texas. They are a motion capture and film studio, and they were kind enough to show me every bit of detail about how...

I have procrastinated forever it seems on getting some of my videos published onto Channel9. Well, I finally found some free time and got a few of the videos posted. Trends in the Media Industry with Brian O'Neil Brian O'Neil is a Solutions Architect...

Wow! There are currently 265 people on the SharePoint Firestarter webcast event. This is a live event in Redmond that is being simulcast via LiveMeeting ( click here to register ). Very cool idea by Mithund, he embedded a chatroom into his blog and has...

No, we didn't directly port Mod-Rewrite to IIS7. But there is a great implementation of a URL rewriter module on IIS7 that will even let you import rewriting rules from Apache's Mode-Rewrite! For more information, check out Bill's post on the URLRewrite...

A Full Day SharePoint WebCast Wed June 11 th The recent SharePoint developer webcasts have been such a huge success that we are running an entire day of SharePoint developer-focused webcasts on June 11 th . This will be on-site in Redmond as well as broadcast...