Contagious Curiosity

This is a cool tool , it helps you to quickly write and deploy ADF (application definition files) which allow you index external (line-of-business) software using the BDC (business data catalog) feature available in MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server...

I am in a team meeting this week, planning for content delivery over the next quarter. It looks like I'll be doing some webcasts with some of the other MSAM MSDN presenters - Mike Benkovich (blog) on SharePoint and Bill Steele ( blog ) on WF. Look for...

I am trying to work, but keep thinking about more interesting things like this....

Whatever your background - JSP, PHP, Cold Fusion, etc.. this series will get you up and running with ASP.NET fast. Plus you can earn a free web development kit just for watching the modules - try it!

There's nothing I love more than seeing a new city. Tomorrow I'm off to Tokyo and will return March 17. Wish me luck on navigating the subway! Thanks to Mithun for the great tip (take a digital picture of your 'home station' and show it to people if you...

Back from 10 great days in Tokyo (based in Shinjuku ), even though the clock says 'sleep now', my body just isn't agreeing with that. Being a MS employee, I've of course got 100s of emails to go through for "entertainment". In Tokyo I took lots and...

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I've just returned from 10 days in Tokyo. Lots of pictures are available on Flickr. This street "evangelist" in Tokyo made me smile - rubber dress, boots, microphone and really, really fast Japanese... If you get the chance to visit Tokyo - go...

Lately, I've been listening to Grapevine - picked this up in Tokyo. I really just couldn't even work if I didn't have music. It seems that my tastes are becoming increasingly eclectic. This year's finds includes the newest from Tom Waits , something extraordinary...

at the .NET user group meeting from 6pm to 9pm - hope to see you there

I did my first webcast yesterday - for GeekSpeak on MSDN. The topic was SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Data Mining using the Excel 2007 client tools. If you want to listen to this presentation and watch the demos, it's archived here .

At the Expandability conference at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. I'll be presenting the SQL Server 2005 session twice - at 10am and again at 2pm. I plan to give an overview of all of the great features for administrators and developers in the relational...

Mac "evangelism" from one of my favorites from YouTube ( Happy Slip )

This quarter I will be presenting MSDN events on CardSpace and AJAX. If you haven't already - sign up now! Also, Michele Leroux Bustamante will be presenting the CardSpace portion of the event on 5-15 in LaJolla and on 6-14 in LA . Michèle Leroux...

On April 11, I'll be speaking to students at UCI about Vista and Office - time is 6pm to 9pm. If interested in joining, send me mail to get the building location on campus.

Doing a presentation from 6-9pm for the San Diego SharePoint user group. If interested in joining, please send me mail for directions, or if interested in joining the user group, send mail to Ron Rohlfs ( rrohlfs@interknowlogy.com ). I look forward to...

I'll be available to answer your questions and to do ad hoc demos on this week's GeekSpeak show on MSDN on Wednesday, March 21 from 12 to 1 PST. Sign up now. If you can't make it, the show will be recorded as well.

If you use Live Messenger 8.1, you can now easily give back to one of nine (currently) available charities. By adding a special code to your name in IM, a new icon will appear and a portion of the ad revenue generated will be donated to the charity of...

Do you read MSDN Magazine ? If you don't yet, you should. It's packed with great, practical articles and useful code samples. Here's a new feature of the online version that's worth exploring. Now you can read the code online without downloading it. How...

Go to MIX07 April 30 to May 2 in Las Vegas and get a copy of Vista Ultimate for free . I went to Mix06 (before I was working at Microsoft - well, I actually worked for a vendor, but also got to see quite a bit of the conference). MIX is fun, filled...

Here's a series on Channel 9 that does it for me... WM_IN (for Women in Technology)

Bill Steele gave the MSDN MSAM team a really cool demo of Microsoft Robotics today. The highlight is the simulation visualization Tool. Bill's other tip is to play with the freely available tutorial #5 . Who says being a geek isn't fun?