"A-HA! moment" is right! - I read this blog entry on the RatcliffeBlog , and couldn't keep myself from posting it here. Although I do work for MSFT, I have absolutely zero knowledge about anything internal with Xbox (except for the fact that quite a few...

David Chappell has posted an article titled, "Services as an Explicit Abstraction" In this article, David states that the 3-tier application arch. model of Data -- Logic -- Presentation layers has evolved with the adoption of services into a 4-tier model...

Even while sitting at Gnomedex, (on a Saturday), I have to keep up with my day job. This looks like a great way to view the slides and watch the sessions from Tech-Ed 2005 a month ago. http://microsoft.sitestream.com/teched2005/ Tech-Ed Sweetness....

Wow. Julie Leung ( http://www.julieleung.com ) just finished a presentation at Gnomedex about Blogs as a Social Tool. She made all of us think about where the limits are between one's public and private personas. Where is the line between our private...

Day 2 is about to start at Gnomedex. The broadband was terrible yesterday, and I couldn’t get a connection for more than a few minutes. I haven’t posted about the remainder of Day One yet, but I’ll get to that in a second. One of the lessons that...

What a great morning. I'm attending Gnomedex 5.0 today in Seattle. It was a conference that I couldn't pass up, being local to the Northwest, and being about blogging and web communication. I was looking forward to meeting some of the people that I've...

Alan Smith has released the latest version of his compilation of BizTalk goodness found on the web. He calls it the Blogger's Guide to BizTalk. I call it the BTS Cheat Sheet. Download v1.6 here .

Marty Waz announced a new tool that will save time and effort when deploying those assemblies that somehow got missed or dropped when replicating between machines. This tool, the BizTalk Assembly Checker, will compare the assemblies that are registered...

I'm going through a little bit of Tech Ed withdrawal this week - I attended the last two years, and have been living vicariously through the following links... enjoy. Tech-Ed Home Page Tech-Ed 2005 Webcast Series and, of course... Tech-Ed Bloggers...

The Tech-Ed Keynote address on June 7 announced that Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 will RTM (Release to Manufacturing) on November 7, 2005. I found Andrew Connell's blog today. Andrew is attending Tech-Ed and has a couple of categories on...

Microsoft has announced that the next version of Microsoft Office will use, BY DEFAULT, new OPEN XML File Formats. Scoble's post that started it all for me. Scoble's also uploaded a video on a Channel 9 Post . Brian Jones is a Program Manager for MS Word...

Microsoft is now publishing RSS Feeds for recently published KB articles for each of its products. See the complete list here . Some of the more important and significant products that you might want to take note of... Microsoft Content Management...