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September 2008 - Posts

San Antonio serves up part of our S+S story

To service Windows Live and Microsoft Online Services , you have to build a global infrastructure. A part of this story is building datacenters, and the San Antonio data center is the next part of the story. Consider a few facts of this effort: 470K sq. Read More...
Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 12:49 AM by jonbox | 1 Comments
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I'm a PC!

If you're anywhere near a TV lately, you've probably seen some new ad's from Microsoft. The first two were starring Jerry Seinfield and Bill Gates , and they were certainly curios, humorous, and show a different side of Microsoft than most people see. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:54 AM by jonbox | 1 Comments

MSN Direct Lives On!

Years ago, I loved SPOT watches. While the watches did not survive, the underlying technology evolved into the .NET Micro Framework , and the application went away - at least that is what I thought. Now, I see that they are involved in several app scenarios Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:18 PM by jonbox | 2 Comments
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"Ask The Brain" about PDC 2008

Now, here's an interesting site. I can go to AskTheBrain.com to ask questions about PDC 2008 . It's pretty smart too. Read More...
Posted Friday, September 12, 2008 2:10 PM by jonbox | 1 Comments

Easier and Robust in .NET?

I thought this was interesting:   From VSLive! Keynote: NYC Sees More .NET and Open Source Development, Moving Toward SOA : ...Paul Cosgrave, commissioner of New York's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT), talked up Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 1:50 PM by jonbox | 1 Comments
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Jon Box Talks Mobility on "Thirsty Developer" Show, plus a little about Chicago

Two weeks ago, I was in Chicago with the rest of the Central Region DPE team. It's always great to catch up with folks that you work with virtually and rarely see. We have a little fun but we work too. During the day, we're taking care of business - reviewing Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:14 AM by jonbox | 1 Comments

ArcReady starts back up in September

The ArcReady series is back with " Architecting Modern Distributed Applications ". Nearly every application we build today has dependencies to other systems. How do we design them to work together to meet our goals? How do we decide what to Read More...
Posted Monday, September 08, 2008 11:34 AM by jonbox | 1 Comments
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MSDN Unleashed, in a city near you

Session 1 : Demystifying WPF Today’s applications need to do more than simply work. They need to draw in the user, and provide a differentiated experience. This means moving beyond battleship gray forms, boxy UIs, and providing a positive user experience. Read More...
Posted Monday, September 08, 2008 11:30 AM by jonbox | 1 Comments
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Interesting Findings and Good BBQ

New Windows Blog Just found a new blog that looks interesting since it's about Windows "7". It's called Engineering Windows 7 . Office Labs At It Again I've mentioned before that Office Labs has some cool projects in the Search Commands and Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 07, 2008 10:51 PM by jonbox | 1 Comments

AT&T Sumsung Blackjack II upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.1

Yes, friends, the time has arrived. I've been using WM6.1 for months on my Blackjack. I've been loving the experience ( as I've noted before ) and now you can too. So, check this out from Samsung. Be careful as the directions were written by a techie Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:40 PM by jonbox | 1 Comments
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