Contagious Curiosity

Currently this is only available for Microsoft employees internally. It's quite an impressive customization built out completely using the SharePoint platform as a base. We've had several customer requests to see this site, and we are considering using...

Ok, I'll admit it, I've got a problem. For some girls it's shoes. I have to say that my 'habit' is a bit more troublesome (to my pocketbook anyway) -- for me it's laptops. I've been lusting after this one for quite a while, and today, while at Fry's I...

Working with the beta? and Silverlight? You'll want this then! This video provides step-by-step instructions for adding Silverlight 1.0 JavaScript Intellisense to Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 with Microsoft Silverlight Tools Alpha . Presented by Justin-Josef...

Here's a detailed answer to a great question from my MSDN session today. Q1. In the WCF demo, I illustrated the “secure by default” nature of wsHttpBinding. In order to illustrate this, we inspected the messages using Fiddler2 from a call using basicHttpBinding...

I'll grant that it does take a certain temperament to live in SoCal, however if you can put up with stereotypical things (too many people, too much freeway, etc...), the area does have it charms as well. The Griffith is but one...

Check out this well-written article from Ed (.NET developer who attended my recent MSDN presentation in San Diego, CA). Thanks for sharing Ed! Dynamic Data Display in Silverlight

Great article for SharePoint developers. Development Tools and Techniques for Working with Code in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 1 of 2)

Did you attend one my events in August to September 2007 and want more information about the topics covered? Here you go. I'll be updating this entry as I get questions from developers who attend my fall events. Happy studying and productive coding! LINQ...

Great article with interesting approaches. Given the volumes of data that we (should) be working with, this is a problem that I've been giving quite a bit of thought to lately. The reason I say 'should' is my bias toward data warehouse stores, given my...

Feeding my language hobby, I've taken a look at F# from MSR (Microsoft Research). If you have similar interest, you'll enjoy this too. There is also an 'all up' (of samples for F#) on CodePlex . http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp/fsharp.aspx

a good read--even for developers Deploying and Supporting Enterprise Search

Some days I just LOVE my job. Anyone else besides me like watching this is Swedish? When I write C# samples, I like to use German strings, just to make it more interesting...

and has you do so via your Facebook profile page... interesting

Next week Tuesday (8/14) in San Diego and Thursday (8/16) in LA from 1-5pm ( FREE) * topics are LINQ, WCF and Silverlight. Pre-register at http://www.msdnevents.com/lynn (includes detailed agenda and locations) Lots of information, demos, resource DVDs...

Something fun for those of us unwilling to travel to Orlando. My favorite general tool is the 'fly around' view. I particularly like this view as well. Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth

Well-written blog post. SSRS 2005 SP2 integration with WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007

It appears that our attention span has sunk to a new record low. I had thought we still had around a 15 minute tolerance. Based on this story, I appear to have overestimated. And people ask me why moving to a foreign country becomes more and more appealing...

Have you seen it yet? Silverlight in action too! Have fun.

On Tuesday, October 16th at 9:45-11:00 am at the Sheraton Marina in San Diego, CA. My topic is SharePoint Architectural Best Practices . I'll also be attending the conference on Monday, October 15th and the afternoon of the 16th after my talk. If you...

35,000,000 users; 8,500,00 photos per day uploaded...do you know what the 'social graph' is? Link to Garage Calendar - Facebook Developers Wiki

1) Monday and Tuesday, Oct 22nd and Oct 23rd take me to the She'sGeeky unconference at the Computer History Musuem . Check out the list of geeky women that plan to attend. 2) Thursday and Friday, Oct 25th and Oct 26th, I'll be speaking at the (internal...

Do you code from written security requirements? Do you write Secure Code ? Does your test phase include security testing? How tempting is your application for hackers? Hackers are a different breed in many ways, not the least of which is determination...

Here's a detailed answer to the SECOND good question of the day in today's MSDN event. Windows Live Quantum Mechanics : Hello World with Silverlight and Silverlight Streaming

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