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June 2006 - Posts

Wednesday, June 28, 2006 11:16 PM

My first Official How Do I Video

Last night I finished my first ATLAS “How Do I Video”. It took three rounds of feedback from Simon and Scott and about a hundred “takes”. Usually, when your boss(s) want you to redo something it’s a pain in the ass, and it’s
Posted by JoeStagner | 5 Comments
Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:12 PM

PowerPoint actually got FUN !

PowerPoint 2007 ROCKS !!! I’ve never made a secret of the fact that I’m artistically challenged. I’m a developer, but the foundation of my job at Microsoft is the COMMUNICATION of software Engineering concepts. This might seem like a minor distinction
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 8:45 PM

BOOK: The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Marketing is contest of Words. The very propose of marketing is to present “your thing” in a more favorable light that everyone else’s “thing”. Doing this effectively seldom includes providing COMPLETE comparative information
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 7:06 PM

Kudos to Bill Gates (or... the failing state of US Education)

Bill gates appeared on ABC News tonight in a segment on the Imagine Cup. In the clip Bill was talking about the challenges in education and expressed his concern about the relative quality of education in the USA . Kudos to Bill for this concern and attention,.
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 3:29 AM

People who don't matter and the Commercialisation of Linux

The geniuses at Business 2.0 Magazine have published an article called 10 people who “Don’t Matter”. It’s a list of Corporate and Technology Leaders that THEY THINK are no longer significant. For people that supposedly don’t
Posted by JoeStagner | 11 Comments
Tuesday, June 27, 2006 10:04 AM

New Web Services Software Factory

Check out the The Web Services Software Factory by the Microsoft Patterns and Practices Group. [ Click here to check it out. ]
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Monday, June 26, 2006 11:21 AM

Calling for Steve Ballmer to Step Down ??

The internet has its down side. Everyone has become the press and people with little or no experience in a particular subject matter can offer “expert” commentary that is then picked up by others and assumed to be factual or accurate, It’s not like the
Posted by JoeStagner | 3 Comments
Monday, June 19, 2006 1:36 PM

Netcraft shows IIS usage increased 16.7 percent against Apache in just three months.

From June's 2006 Web Server Survey from Netcraft: Apache's lead over Microsoft, which stood at 48.2% in March, has been narrowed to 31.5%, a shift of 16.7% in just three months. http://news.netcraft.com/
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Monday, June 19, 2006 1:33 PM

Yankee Group says Windows Server 2003 is more reliable that Linux.

"Windows 2003 Server is a more reliable server operating system than Linux, a research firm said Monday." http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060606/tc_cmp/188701822 The Yankee Group made a point of stressing that the survey was not sponsored or supported by
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Sunday, June 04, 2006 3:46 PM

The ATLAS Wave !!!

I’m spending as much time as possible these days studying Microsoft ATLAS and will be starting to post ALTAS – How-Do-I Videos at www.ASP.net by next week. In the meantime the Federal Dev Blog has been posting some great stuff on ATLAS. Check
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Thursday, June 01, 2006 11:21 AM

Do you listen while you work ?

This Rocks – Click HERE to get yours.
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