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Chris Johnson

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January 2008 - Posts

Famous Kiwi launches US into space...
Not many people know his name or what he did, but he was none the less a very important man. He was a fellow New Zealander who was instrumental in launching the US into the space race. William Pickering was born in my home city of Wellington in New Zealand Read More...
Lone Server...
Another funny marketing campaign to promote the launch of Windows Server 2008. This is all about the last Windows Server 2003 server at microsoft.com. http://www.loneserver.com http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2008/01/24/guest-blogger-lone-server.asp Read More...
Microsoft Office System Developers Conference 2008... I'll be there!
The ODC is shaping up to be a great event for SharePoint developers. This year it is on Feb 10-13th in San Jose, CA. I will be there with Alex Malek doing a session on developing SharePoint solutions using the Visual Studio extensions for WSS. There are Read More...
Couple of winter campus shots...
Took these on the way to work a couple of days ago. First time I have lived anywhere that properly snowed. Read More...
NewsGator stuff for free...
Read over on Rod's blog that NewsGator got some funding and made a few of their products free. Great stuff! I love the software + services feel of their stuff ... I have all the same feeds on my PC, Windows Mobile Phone & the web. Nicely integrated. Read More...
Deploying files under the \TEMPLATES directory in a SharePoint VSeWSS project
A common thing you might want to include in a SharePoint solution is to include various files that are deployed to the \Template directory. These might be images (\Template\Images) or Aspx pages that you would like put in a folder in the Layouts directory. Read More...
Turn your Windows Mobile phone into a mobile Wireless Router to the Internet (Seriously Geeky Stuff).
I came across this the other day and thought I was far too geeky to let pass. This tool will let you turn your WiFi capable Windows Mobile device into a Wireless Router that routes to the phones Internet connection! Just like a portable wireless broadband Read More...
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