Korby Parnell's Social Software Wunderkammer

A customer recently asked, “ In most VSS articles, the recommendation is for the VSS password to match the domain password. In short, since the VSS users database is (a) difficult to secure from VSS users, and (b) passwords are stored plain-text...

You asked for screenshots of the next version of Visual SourceSafe. I pleaded for the privilege to provide them. Here's your first installment: Screenshot #1 - Resizable VSS Share Dialog Box Dialog boxes in the next version of Visual SourceSafe...

Microsoft has evolved some, um, unique traditions over the years. One of these is the “Welcome Back Carter” tradition. When a Microsoftie returns from an extended absence (honeymoon, maternity/paternity leave, trek across Siberia, etc) they...

Some bright bulbs over at Microsoft Research (MSR) have organized a Symposium on Social Computing on March 29th and 30th at the Columbia Winery north of Redmond. Mark your calendars! Word is, the talks will be streamed to the Web. Stay tuned for details...

My friend Steve has been doing some thinking around and about the convergence of the weblog and WikiWiki mediums; a medium that has become known as bliki (or wikilog). Steve thinks that a wiki might be a good place to store blog comments. Martin Fowler...

A customer recently hit me with the following question: “When we set up our web projects, we mirror our file system view to our repository view using a virtual directory. Ex. file system - c:\Webproj_soln (this is our solution, under that would...

Last night, I typed “Parnell“ into my Google toolbar and was surprised to see a link to my blog, not just on Page 1 but in the number 3 slot (!). I am now more googlicious than my most famous ancestor, an Irish dude named Charles Stuart (#4...

If you live in Outlook or are reticent to install an RSS aggregator such as SharpReader , you can receive an email every time your pet technology (or any other keyword) is mentioned in the blogosphere by plugging a Feedster RSS URL into a nifty little...

Darrell Norton commented on one of my recent posts, “ Fritz Onion and others liked to use class libraries instead of ASP.NET projects. In the Whidbey version, I believe you will be able to run an ASP.NET project without IIS installed at all, so...

Post Edited ;-) at 1420 hours PST on 29/1/2004 Link to related post: The Semantic Bliki . I don't think anybody can predict whether intrablogging will take off in the enterprise, or not. However, I have come to the conclusion that the blogging...

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a bleeding edge hi-fi, home entertainment kinda guy. In fact, the only TV that has ever made me say “Ooooh” is a 60” flatscreen. I own a 27” Quasar television that interfaces...