The new Windows Live Spaces are an incredibly easy and powerful way to keep a blog. Add to that the ability to keep a photo album, music list, favorite blogs list, Windows Live Gadgets, XBox Live Gamertag, XBox Live recent games stats, and an archive...

The ISV Touchdown Briefings will be presented in Atlanta on Thursday, June 29th. This is a complimentary event. There will be two topics: Preview of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Preview of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) This...

I'm really looking forward to attending this one. I've been a Speech Server enthusiast ever since the Microsoft Agent ActiveX control came out back in 1997. We've come a long way since then and this event is a good way to get up to speed on how you might...

I wanted to take a few minutes to share an upcoming training opportunity for those of you in Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. http://www.devfish.net/FullBlogItemView.aspx?BlogId=228 Visual Studio 2005 Team System and Team Foundation Server...

Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation: The future of applications. We want to make sure you don't miss this opportunity. Take your knowledge of the Windows Vista™ operating system and the next-generation Microsoft® application...

I host one of my production webs on a hosted server that I do not control. This is much easier than having to worry about maintaining a server in my home (and the problems that come with hosting in your home - like horrible speeds, power outages, etc...

I recently made a few major errors while hurredly setting up some online sites. I set up a full year of hosting for the wrong domain. I have been hosting www.cerkit.com with DiscountASP.net for over a year now, so I also signed up for hosting for my...

I’m currently installing Community Server to host a new community that I’m building. Since I’m hosting it with DiscountASP.net , I needed to use the web installer. I’ve also never installed Community Server before, so this was...

I went to restore all of my files and settings to my newly rebuilt computer last night and I’m getting the message “please select a folder that contains files and settings”. So I say to my computer, “I just did. Let me try again”...

My teammate Steve Yi has posted an entry describing an upcoming Windows Vista application compatibility webcast. Windows Vista Application Compatibility Webcast

Ok, this position has been open for a while. We've interviewed a lot of people for the position, but it's still open. ISV Developer Evangelist The position is listed for Charlotte, NC, but the accounts will be in Atlanta, GA and in North Carolina...

Via Tom Archer – The February CTP for Windows Vista, Windows SDK (and WinFX) and Orcas technologies such as Cider have been released on the Windows Vista and WinFX Dev Centers . http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista http://msdn.microsoft...

My pal Paul Lockwood will be presenting at the next Atlanta .NET user group meeting. If you’re in the area, come on out and get a taste of one of Atlanta’s top architect developers as he discusses the finer points of testing with .NET. ...

Microsoft Global Contact Access for Windows Mobile powered devices . With Microsoft Global Contact Access, you can use Pocket Outlook on your Windows Mobile powered Smartphone or Pocket PC Phone Edition to look up contacts in the Global Address List...

My Bluetooth dock for the Microsoft GPS will arrive soon and I’ll need to read up on how to get GPS coordinates from it for a few applications that I’m building for my Palm Treo 700w . I’m not doing anything that hasn’t been discussed...

I spent some time with Visual Studio 2005 and the Windows Mobile 5 SDK last night. I’m amazed at how simple it is to do complex tasks with the new tool and the new API. I had a user interface, a picture picker, and a camera dialog all wired into...

Today marks the first public technology preview release of the Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer (previously code named "Sparkle"). I've been using the Interactive Designer since I saw a demo of it at TechReady a few weeks ago. It's an incredible...

The WPF (pronounced "Indigo") team has created a great community site for all things WCF. Welcome to the Windows Communication Foundation WCF is the new Windows Communication Framework for those that are unaware. Check out the link above for the...

Don Smith of the Patterns and Practices team pointed out this document in an email today. I'm pasting it here for future reference. Web Service Security Guide

Free Maya to XAML import/export plug-in http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/tools/3d_converters/3782.html

I’ve been in Redmond this week to attend top-secret training of a technology that I can’t tell you about (Office “12”). Oops, I told you. I’m getting to know the campus pretty well, but there’s still the odd experience of getting lost in one of...

Greetings, My name is Michael Earls and I just started working for Microsoft about a month ago. My role here at Microsoft is as an ISV Developer Evangelist. Here is a blurb about the position: Partners are the cornerstone of Microsoft’s success...