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Friday, March 30, 2007 5:37 AM

Follow Up - Telerik Codeless Ajax Webcast

Many thanks to the nearly 500 people who attended my webcast with Telerik yesterday. Todd is working on getting the code for me to post. (Since some of the demo was for an unreleased product he needs to try to find a .dll that we can include. You can
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Thursday, March 29, 2007 10:26 AM

Webcast - STARTING in 90 Minutes .....

The next in the 3 rd Party AJAX Web Cast Series is Thursday March 29 th ASP.NET AJAX the Codeless Way: Telerik AJAX Manager in Action Ever dreamed about a shortcut to building ASP.NET AJAX-enabled applications? One that eliminates the need for writing
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Saturday, March 24, 2007 11:02 AM

Book: Designing Forms for MS Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007

If you work in technology then your probably know that Addison Wesley publishes great books. InfoPath is a very interesting technology, and one that I think is a little under exposed and documented. This book is a definitive source for InfoPath power
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Friday, March 23, 2007 10:32 AM

REALLY Inexpensive ASP.NET Web Hosting

One of the cool things about my job is that I get to make friends all over the world. I met Ruchir when he emailed me as a student looking for inexpensive hosting. Well, Ruchir had allot of trouble finding what he was looking for and has remembered that
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Friday, March 23, 2007 10:26 AM

PHP Quebec - My PowerPoint

PHP Quebec was a blast, apart from having 3 flights canceled due to fog trying to get there, and having to rent a car and drive home due to the snow. The bad news was that the drive took about 16 hours. The good news was that it only snowed for the first
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Friday, March 23, 2007 9:17 AM

Dr. Dobbs issues on-line.

Dr. Dobb’s is one of the longest standing developer magazines. Read issues on line here. http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cmp/ddj0407/index.php
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Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:42 PM

Pluralsight ASP.NET AJAX Class

Course: Applied ASP.NET AJAX When: April 23-25, 2007 Where: Microsoft Technology Center, Waltham MA Cost: Special Microsoft Rate - $2,095 Register: 781.749.9238 or bill@pluralsight.com Bill Williams ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions expose a framework for building
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Thursday, March 22, 2007 11:35 AM

Why are airlines such a mess ?

So here I sit in an airport again. LaGuardia this time in NYC (Ajax World ended yesterday) Every flight I’ve been scheduled on in the last 2 weeks has been either canceled or delayed. (A total of 7 cancelations.) Judging by the announcements, there
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 2:16 AM

Microsoft joins OpenAjax Alliance

Today we announced that Microsoft has joined the OpenAjax alliance . The OpenAjax alliance is a group of vendors, open source projects and companies using AJAX that are focused on developing common AJAX standards and ensuring interoperability across different
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:51 PM

The Best Steak Anywhere !

I happened to get into a conversation at Ajax World with the CTO of a medium sized company with a pretty large infrastructure that is considering moving from Java to .NET After the days events went up the block from the hotel to Morton's. The BEST Steak-house
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:41 PM

This week at Ajax World

It’s conference season. Last week I was at the PHP Quebec conference. http://conf.phpquebec.com/ This week ……… I’m in New York City this week speaking at Ajax World. Just being here and staying at the beautiful Roosevelt
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:03 PM

Rory versus Scoble - Full Contact Blogging.

Rory and (Robert) Scoble are at war. In my time at Microsoft I’ve gotten to know both of them. I “lovingly” tell you they’re both egomaniacs (as am I!) Rory and I have have found much to argue about. I think because we are so different,
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 5:36 PM

Webcast: ASP.NET AJAX the Codeless Way: Telerik AJAX Manager in Action

The next in the 3 rd Party AJAX Web Cast Series is Thursday March 29 th ASP.NET AJAX the Codeless Way: Telerik AJAX Manager in Action Ever dreamed about a shortcut to building ASP.NET AJAX-enabled applications? One that eliminates the need for writing
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Monday, March 12, 2007 10:16 AM

CodeRage - Borland's free On-Line Conference

Borland has always been cool. Check this out http://conferences.codegear.com/coderage07 A free 5 day virtual conference. See you there !
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Sunday, March 11, 2007 3:35 PM

Installing Ubuntu 6.10 in a Virtual PC

I’ve never benn a big fan of virtualization, Id rather just have twice as much hardware But since I’ll be spending most of the time between now and July on the road, I thought I’d revisit VirtualPC again, especially now that the 2007
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Sunday, March 11, 2007 3:14 PM

After a weekend with Vista

Vista was driving me nuts and I posted some of my frustrations at the end of last week. The response was interesting. There were a couple ignorant slashdotters who chimed in with the used sore looser crap. Mostly though, I got reminded how smart my blog
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Friday, March 09, 2007 2:16 PM

Borland --> CodeGear --> RAD PHP IDE

Check it out. The folks from Borland Dev Tools, now called CodeGear are gearing up to release Delphi for PHP. A RAD IDE for PHP. I’ve been chatting with Michael Swindell, The VP of Products at CodeGear and I’ll be kicking the tires on the
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Friday, March 09, 2007 12:53 PM

Windows Vista vs. Hotels

I found this tidbit on Steve Riley’s blog. Windows Vista vs. hotels At many TechEds this year I've presented information about the new TCP/IP stack in Windows Vista. One of the important advances is its automatic performance tuning . With some of
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Friday, March 09, 2007 12:38 PM

And While I'm complaining about Vista Security.

This really puzzled me. How can MY OWN pictures file be access denied. (Especially since in an admin on the box.) I asked my peers who quickly suggested that it was a parental controls thing because I’d put something naughty in my pictures folder
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Friday, March 09, 2007 12:30 PM

Vista Hates Me !

I wanna like Windows Vista, really I do. But, like a loud child, I have to WORK at liking it. After finally turning off all the redundant Security Dialogs…. – Do you wanna do this ? – Are you SURE you wanna do this ? – It might
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 4:50 PM

The Intercontental Super Heavyweight Championship

I’ve been involved in the sport of Kickboxing for over 30 years. Up until this January I owned a Gym and now am a (somewhat) silent partner in one. This guy, Jason “The Trooper” Bonacorsi is one of the fighters that I’ve trained fort about 10 years. He’s
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 1:30 PM

Moving your IIS Web Site ?

The Internet Information Services 6.0 Migration Tool is a command line tool that automates several of the steps needed to move a Web application from IIS 4.0, IIS 5.0 or IIS 6.0 to a clean installation of Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 and Windows
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:00 AM

Wanna try IIS 7 for free ?

My friends over at MaximumASP.net (one of my AWESOME hosting partners) is gearing up to support Longhorn server and IIS 7. As Bruce Lee said, “You can’t learn to swim standing on the beach”. So MaximumASP.net is getting their IIS 7 experience
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:51 AM

WEBCAST TODAY: In 2 Hours - ASP.NET UIs on Steroids !!

I’m starting a new Live-From-Redmond webcast series on developing AJAX applications using 3 rd party libraries. The first one is TODAY – MARCH 8 th at 09:00(PST) / 12:00 (NOON) EST Learn about the kinds of things that you can do with 3 rd party UI libraries.
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:32 AM

Microsoft is Hiring 30 Developers in BOSTON !

A couple of years ago I metthe guys from Softricity ( http://www.softricity.com/ ) who had somne really interestering virtualization technolohy. Well, the business guys at Microsoft thought they were interesting too, so we bought thecompany. Now we’re
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 10:27 AM

Chris Morrow / MaximumASP Videos - with the new MS Web Manager !

My buddy Chris Morrow, over at MaximumASP has been doing some of his own How-Do-I Videos. Chris is an expert in ASP.NET hosting technology. Here is a list of his videos (Check out the page HERE.) 1. Deploy your applications to your beta account using
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 10:07 AM

Take your AJAX UI to the Next Level !

I’m starting a new Live-From-Redmond webcast series on developing AJAX applications using 3 rd pary libraries. The first one is THIS THURSDAY – MARCH 8th Learn about the kinds of things that you can do with 3 rd party UI libraries. In this session you’ll
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 12:48 PM

FoxPro will always be dear to my heart.

As a younger (single) guy, FoxPro helps me buy lots of big-boy toys ! In my day jobs I wrote C, C++, Assembly, Pascal, ADA, Modula2…… But nights and weekends I wrote FoxPro. It was the perfect “small business” application environment
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 8:03 AM

Scott Guthrie is a Video Combat Droid :)

Check out the episode done with WPF/e HERE. And read Scott Blog pos about it HERE.
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Monday, March 05, 2007 8:09 PM

Couch Desk - 'Cause I gotta go home at night.

If you're like me, after dinner it’s back to work. Duringthe day it’s recording videos, and phone calls most of the day. Night time is research, coding, learning, etc…. While my office is only a few minute walk from my house, I like to be in the house
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Monday, March 05, 2007 7:55 PM

USB 2.0 Coolness.

I’m a mobile guy and USB devices are an integral part of my day. I found this little beauty at Circuit City. It has a total of 7 ports. 4 on the front and 3 on top. The ones on top are great for dropping USB keys onto. It also has an external power
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:36 PM

Recording the How-Do-I Videos

I’ve had SO MANY inquiries as to how I reocrd the How-Do-I videos I thought I’d type up a little guide. First, I use Camtasia Studio 4 from TechSmith . I do my recordings on Windows XP, but I’ve tested a beta release of Camtasia for
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 11:11 AM

Since IIS 7 is Coming !

The IIS team delivered an amazing product with IIS 6 but they sure haven’t rested in their laurels since then. They’ve been doing all sorts of great work, not the least of which is IIS 7. So I thougt I’d share this list of IIS Resources
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