February 2006 - Posts

Comments enabled
28 February 06 09:45 AM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So it took the boss, Larry Gregory wanting to post a comment for me to realize I had somehow disabled comments some time ago. You can now comment again... I hope I'm not opening the floodgates, I got quite a bit of comment spam over the summer. Read More...

Windows Vista and Office 12 Touchdown event in Seattle
27 February 06 10:53 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So if you've been itching to meet me, you'll have your chance this Thursday at the Windows Vista and Office 12 Touchdown event in Seattle. I couldn't pull down any cool graphics to give you the link, so you'll have to deal with the text hyperlink above. Read More...

SQL Server 2005 Application Compatibility Lab
27 February 06 10:31 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So next week I'm running my 3rd SQL Server Application Compatibility Lab in the last year and its right here in Redmond this time. It's a lab focused on doing an in-place upgrade of a SQL Server 2000 database to SQL Server 2005. We do it in 3 steps: Run Read More...

Excuse the mess...
27 February 06 10:07 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

Ok, so I've been playing with the CSS. I see the cache isn't working quite right in Community Server, so bear with me. I've had complaints that links weren't showing up right and it was difficult to view. I should have this worked out over the next few Read More...

Feb IE7 chat posted for your reading pleasure...
25 February 06 10:46 AM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So if you missed the live chat, you can now view the interchange at this link: IE7 February Chat transcripts And if you weren't aware, we're holding monthly chat discussions hosted by a variety of the product groups. Windows Expert Chat Zone IE7 Blog Read More...

The Code Room: Breaking into Las Vegas
24 February 06 07:38 AM | jvast | 1 Comments   

Click on the image above to see the latest installment of the The Code Room. Watch white hats do battle with black hats in this episode where a group of rouge hackers goes for the big money. You can pick up the Developer Security Resource Kit here: Read More...

Anatomy of an Evangelist
23 February 06 09:08 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

I love this cartoon, I ran across it on Brad Fitzpatrick's blog . Even though Brad is roasting Guy Kawasaki , it still hits a little too close to home.... LOL /********** UPDATED *****************/ I had a URL image link to the cartoon. I removed it since Read More...

Personal thoughts on dearelena today....
23 February 06 05:28 PM | jvast | 8 Comments   

So I keep up with the No Fluff Just Stuff guys and Daniel Steinberg has suffered the kind of loss you can never be prepared for. My heart goes out to his family during this time of grief. He created a mini blog dearelena that hits very close to home and Read More...

The rise of the knowledge worker
22 February 06 10:26 AM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So I read Matt Homan from time to time and the other day he had a really good post about the knowledge worker. The idea needs to ferment a bit more, but he put together some really good thoughts. My favorites: "Knowledge workers are not like workers from Read More...

Pivot Table master Mike Arcuri opens the komodo
20 February 06 11:30 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

Check out Mike, Excel Group Program Manager, on channel 9 demonstrating some of the coolest new features coming in Excel 2007. I had the chance to see Mike demo some of these features pre-beta 1, but now you to can become enlightened... Mike Arcuri on Read More...

Get yourself invited to SPARK
15 February 06 09:45 AM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So I blogged about attending MIX06 in Las Vegas here . Now we have a two day pre-event architects won't want to miss. You won't find much out there on the web except this post on ZD Net , its an invitation only event. To attend SPARK, visit your local Read More...

3GSM its where I want to be....
14 February 06 04:55 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

So I've been keeping up with the news coming out of 3GSM and recall when I was part of a 3G planning effort back in 2001. You know, back in the day when all the operators were going broke buying spectrum access.... Back then 3G speeds were going to be Read More...

The ISV 64-bit dilemma ....
13 February 06 06:22 PM | jvast | 1 Comments   

So in talking with ISVs over the last year or so about 64-bit adoption I have to admit that outside of the database layer, software vendors large and small are not feeling the pressure to move their applications to a 64-bit platform. Relatively quickly Read More...

Generics and .NET 2.0
07 February 06 03:27 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

I gave a web cast a few weeks back on the new features of .NET 2.0 and the most asked question was around generics in .NET 2.0. Consequently, I thought I would throw up a few code samples and pretend to be uncommonly intellegent. Sooo ...... Then I checked Read More...