Craig McMurtry's WebLog

Mr. Marcin Kuthan has a post on testing Spark Streaming code that, in production, would be ingesting...

Date: 05/31/2017

This morning, I set about installing the Windows Phone SDK on a Windows 8 64-bit desktop. The...

Date: 08/25/2013

Whenever I've developed Web applications, which I used to do all the time and now do only...

Date: 10/03/2012

Let's say that you want your Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) application to display an icon that...

Date: 12/31/2011

If you are hosting the WebBrowser ActiveX control in a native code application (perhaps following...

Date: 12/31/2011

... you so changed the world ... thanks for making lives like mine possible. RIP.

Date: 10/05/2011

All of the samples I've found that show how to build a JSONP service using the Windows Communication...

Date: 08/13/2011

If one searches the Web for samples of how to integrate a desktop application with Windows Live,...

Date: 07/15/2011

I'm reading Stephen Levy's wonderful book about Google, In the Plex. In the account of the...

Date: 05/21/2011

Selecting a Particular Home Page in Internet Explorer 9: I have 5 home pages that I add to Internet...

Date: 03/23/2011

I can't listen to Goldfrapp, The Ting Tings, and The Scissor Sisters exclusively. Goldfrapp's art,...

Date: 01/22/2011

I recently had a case where a thread running under one identity would process data periodically...

Date: 01/21/2011

Everyone. RIP Gerry Rafferty. Done too soon.

Date: 01/06/2011

... Once I added a new location, set that as my Live Tile location, confirmed Live Tile update, and...

Date: 01/06/2011

... which explains why I find myself surprised that it has actually been clear and freezing in...

Date: 01/02/2011

Of the very many people I know who have Windows Phones, all of them except one opted for the Samsung...

Date: 01/02/2011

Windows Phones, by definition, are equipped with an accelerometer for detecting the physical...

Date: 01/02/2011

After nearly twenty-years, I'm always delighted when my wife treats us to her Santa cookies:

Date: 12/18/2010

Software Engineering is Still a Risky Enterprise The problems in being able to produce and maintain...

Date: 02/03/2010

I've been interested, recently, in improving my digital art skills from their current state of being...

Date: 10/18/2009

One of the features of Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" is self-service password re-set....

Date: 10/20/2008

I read a lot of spy fiction. I have observed that the sociology of an espionage organization, as...

Date: 10/20/2008

Requests In the argot of Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager, a request is a request to perform...

Date: 10/20/2008

Reading Judith Barker's excellent Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England, I came across...

Date: 10/20/2008

That I am able to spend time blogging about Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" has nothing to...

Date: 10/01/2008

A previous post introduced you to Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2"'s concept of policy. We...

Date: 10/01/2008

Ping that back.

Date: 10/01/2008

Now that I have explained that the concept of organizing things into sets is the most fundamental...

Date: 09/29/2008

In an earlier post, I explained the crucial concept of organizing things into sets, in Microsoft...

Date: 09/29/2008

Here is the schema administration page that I mentioned in an earlier post:

Date: 09/29/2008

Here is a screenshot of the Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" home page:

Date: 09/29/2008

The concept of organizing things into sets is the most fundamental idea behind Microsoft Identity...

Date: 09/29/2008

For almost two years, I have been part of the team developing Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager...

Date: 09/28/2008

Recently, I had to write a test case that posed an interesting problem. The product that I am...

Date: 05/20/2008

Yes, when I was a teen in the '80s, I was guilty of creating a mix tape, and worse, of giving it to...

Date: 03/06/2008

Back in November, I added a post about how to get SharePoint and a regular ASP.NET application to...

Date: 03/06/2008

I subscribe to a bunch of IT industry e-mail newsletters. Yesterdays mail from CIO Insight was...

Date: 01/08/2008

Intel's announcement of its Canmore chip at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas seems to me...

Date: 01/08/2008

It turns out that if you have an Alienware Area 51 desktop, you need a rather unusual power cable in...

Date: 12/26/2007

One needs to have an Enermax aluminum keyboard. They are not easy to obtain. The one vendor that can...

Date: 12/26/2007

Goto Control Panel -> Security -> Windows Firewall -> Allow a Program Through Windows...

Date: 12/26/2007

In IIS 7, create a new Application under the SharePoint Web Site, and select the Classic .NET...

Date: 11/02/2007

I find it extremely useful to be able to send files to NotePad from Windows Explorer, by...

Date: 10/19/2007

In case you haven't noticed already, the RTM of .NET 3 is finally available. Runtime:...

Date: 11/07/2006

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Date: 11/05/2006

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Date: 11/05/2006

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