February 2007 - Posts

BeatBox Mixer...Oh Yeah!!
22 February 07 04:29 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

Yil sent me this link to Verizon BeatBox Mixer !! It is definitely the bomb! Pretty much, you select your BeatBox crew, and get bizzy! You can save and share your mixes... great idea Verizon! Read More...

How Do I Engage With Microsoft?
19 February 07 01:10 PM | davidlem | 2 Comments   

I caught up with a customer (ISV Partner) this morning to discuss their latest product offering, and they said two things that I hear more often than "Dave, how can such a brilliant man be so lethally handsome!?" 1. You are the first person from Microsoft Read More...

Oh Shiny Palm Treo 750
15 February 07 04:03 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

I've been dicing with Dynamics AX this week, trying to get the most out of the programming interfaces (AIF and Business Connector), and I have to tell you, my head is spinning. Not because it's particularly challenging, but more that the possibilities Read More...

I'm Getting Short Changed!
14 February 07 11:52 AM | davidlem | 9 Comments   

Now, let me give you a hypothetical. Say I buy a large pizza, because I'm hungry, but also because I like pizza. Say a large pizza has 8 slices, but when I get home, I find that the pizza shop has taken a quarter of the pizza out (the chef probably got Read More...

What About Mashing Up Communities!!?
13 February 07 02:03 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

Noticed this on TechCrunch , and it immediately got my thinking juices flowing. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/12/ea-acquires-karaoke-site-singshot/ Essentially, EA has acquired an online singing community called Singshot ! Now, if you're like me, Read More...

Yil Interviewed the Beastie Boys!
12 February 07 02:46 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

I had to blog this, even though it hasn't anything to do with Microsoft or technology (well, that really hasn't been a stopper for me before), but on the weekend, my wife Yil, who is probably the biggest Beastie Boys fan on earth, got to interview them Read More...

Resizing Virtual Hard Disks...Suh'mo!
12 February 07 02:02 PM | davidlem | 0 Comments   

So I've been building the mother of all Virtual Machines for showcasing Dynamics development using all the latest goodies of Visual Studio 2005, .NET 3.0 and Office 2007. But I ran into a little problem, as I'd only setup the disk to be 16GB dynamic. Read More...

Spend more time doing nothing!
07 February 07 02:10 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

Shanemo and me were chilling out at Kenny's bakery, working through some strategies for reclaiming some extra time during the day, either directly or indirectly. I had some options, this was the one I really took a shining to though. Strategy #1: Corporate Read More...

Evangelism Month @ Microsoft!
07 February 07 01:00 PM | davidlem | 0 Comments   

When I first started at Microsoft 23 months ago as a Developer Evangelist, most of my friends and family (not all my friends, because some of my friends include dogs, goldfish and the little possum who stalks me at night) were unclear on what an evangelist Read More...

New Masheen!
07 February 07 11:34 AM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

So my new masheen arrived yesterday, and I'm already setup and rockin'. Just a couple of things I wanted to mention though, firstly, it's a HP/Compaq nc8430 and while it came with 2 1GB sticks of RAM (memory), it can be upgraded to 4GB. Problem numero Read More...