The annual Microsoft pilgrimage TechEd 2007 is starting next week. From 6/4~6/8 at Orange County Convention Center of Orlando, Florida , USA. The main topics of this year's TechEd, at I.T. side should be: Windows Server 2008 The 2007 Microsoft Office...

Just did a quick search on CodePlex about open source .Net blog framework, and here are some blog frameworks that I am watching: .Text - should be no doubt the origin of .net blog framework, used in my very first personal blog site. SubText - from .Text...

My ipod video just freezed the other day and since there are not many buttons I can not even turn it off . since it's also a software system I thought there must be a way to soft reset it instead of just leaving it there until the battery runs out. Just...

According to TechCrunch report at 2007/05/23, Google is buying RSS management company FeedBurner at a $100 million deal. I believe that many bloggers are using FeedBurner to manage rss feeds and distributing traffic from self-own site (including me)....

So people in Asia that using CommunityServer for forum or blog system should know that the search function will not work for asian languages like Chinese, Japanese, as well as Korean. the reason is that CommunityServer had built-in hashcode-indexed keyword...

As I mentioned in my post couple days ago that I am doing some web application performance evaluation recently and found couple tools to use for getting perfomance data. Recently had found that actually there is one of perfomance bottlenecks that's due...

[via J.D. Meier ] Just saw from J.D.'s blog that he just released beta 1 of Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Guide , which should be a very good guidence for TFS. Forward the contents index from J.D.'s blog as follows: Contents...

[via Jensen Harris ] If you are a ThinkPad X60 user, you'll realize that your max screen resolution is only 1024x768 and that's pretty not enough when you are editing some large office documents like a big excel sheet. Especially after Office 2007 there...

[via Win@Br ] So, as you may know from media or press, that the long waiting Longhorn Server is going to have the final product name: Windows Server 2008 ... Technorati tags: microsoft , windows , server , 2008 , longhorn , os , WinHEC

Since recently my work is primarily related to Web Application Performance Tuning, some tools are needed to work efficiently. Talking about web debugging / performance tuning tools, at Microsoft side the " Fiddler " tool should be a must one. recently...

[via Scott Watermasysk ] Just saw post from Scott that CommunityServer 2007 SP1 (build 3.0.20510.895) is available for download now . I just downloaded it and used the SDK upgrade that: Overwrite original source with updated SP1 source code Doing a clean...

[via Thomas Freudenberg ] While my personal blog site was still in CS1.1 system, I used ReverseDOS to act as underlying spam filter also used Dan Bartels' CAPTCHA control for second level spam prevention tool. While my blog site upgrading to CommunityServer...

Before Windows got Zip functionality included into system ones, WinZip was my zip tool. After Windows started including Zip functionality, it was also no problems for me using WinZip for usual operations, until someday while I was using CuteFtp to ftp...

As I've upgraded my personal blog site to CommunityServer 2007 , I decided to change my blog writting experience to totally use Windows Live Writer (Beta) , the offline blog writing tools for various popular blog systems, including CommunityServer. I...

Saw Jeffrey's posts (written in Chinese) couple days ago while my blog site system upgrading to CommunityServer 2007 , about recently the trend that to name post in title name for easy identification, but when the title name is not written in English...

So today the long-time beta Windows Live Mail is finally go released, and changed the name back to Windows Live Hotmail . Released in 36 languages. Refer to the official introduction site for more information. Expect for the 2GB mailbox size, which is...