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Thursday, November 19, 2009 5:03 PM

Top Ten Things at PDC 2009

P.main:first-letter { COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-SIZE: xx-large } I’m sitting at LAX writing this summary of PDC which is just wrapped up. Although I went “on my own dime” (i.e. I paid my own way), it was definitely worth it for the ten reasons below… Learning
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 4:24 PM

Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC 2009) : Tuesday

This is the first time I’ve been to PDC in a number of years, and it is fun to be back.  Here are some impressions really more than details about the first day. It is big.  Just walking around the LA Convention Center from session to session
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:38 AM

Azure – from July CTP to November 2009 PDC Release

Well, the official PDC 2009 release of the Azure SDK is out and there are a lot of changes.  I’m not going to do a release-notes style narrative on changes, but thought it might be interesting to instead focus on changes I had to make to get a simple
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:55 AM

DevDays Seattle – Scott Hanselman

Lolcode.net – funny site with a domain-specific language that mimics IM syntax.  Actual code MVC When you create an MVC project, you get default code for controllers and views but nothing for the model. ASP.Net MVC lets you use nHibernate, Linq to
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:48 AM

DevDays Seattle – Joel Spolsky

We get interrupted too much by a computer that has an agenda of its own for ourselves. Examples: Windows updates Outlook: Any exceptions associated with the recurring appointment will be cancelled. Is this OK? <OK> <CANCEL> but Cancel doesn't
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:53 AM

DevDays Seattle

I’m at DevDays Seattle , an event sponsored by Stack Overflow and Microsoft.  I look at it as a day of seeing “how the other half codes”, i.e. those not using the Microsoft stack (IIS, ASP.Net, Azure, C#, etc.) but more open source tools like jQuery,
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 4:28 PM

Azure Service: Moving Storage from Development (local) to the Cloud

As part of the process of moving my Azure test service from running entirely locally (on what's called "Development Fabric" and "Development Storage", i.e. for development on your local machine) to the Cloud, I followed the steps on MSDN which suggest
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Monday, October 12, 2009 12:08 PM

MVC and CSS

I've spent some time trying to figure out why my simple MVC site (built on Azure) isn't rendering correctly on my development machine, and of course tracked it down to the CSS file not loading. I spent time playing around with paths, etc., but finally
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 2:31 PM

Simple Azure Service Experience

I started a couple of days ago working on my first Azure service and have learned a lot. It's a cliche, but there is a ton of good information on the web on this. One of the challenges is wading through it all and piecing together the great information
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Monday, September 14, 2009 12:30 AM

PDC 2009

I registered for PDC 2009 today, getting in under the wire for the pre-September 15 discount. Looking forward to seeing more about the Windows 7 app features and of course Azure .
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Saturday, January 17, 2009 9:55 AM

Unix Time and Windows Time

A little note in Portfolio magazine caught my attention: On Friday, February 13, at 23:31:30, the Unix time value with be 1234567890. This got me thinking about when the Windows time value will reach that serendipitous number, and led to some research
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 3:51 PM

Excel Conditional Formatting Against a Goal Value

Today, for a metrics worksheet I'm doing, I had a conditional formatting problem with Excel. I suspect this is a pretty common problem. I had a column of numbers showing the monthly results for a set of metrics (the rows) for this fiscal year, and I had
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 2:20 PM

Business Contact Manager and Outlook 2007

My group at work has decided to use Business Contact Manager (BCM) for tracking engagements we're doing with other product groups here at Microsoft. My team is a sort of internal consulting organization focused on software development processes and tools
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:39 AM

Don't Forget Those Passports!

As an experienced international traveler, I am embarrassed to admit that on a trip this weekend, I forgot my passport on an international trip. This past weekend was my wife’s 50 th birthday and we decided to celebrate it on Vancouver Island, at the Wickinannish
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Thursday, December 27, 2007 10:38 AM

HP LaserJet printer hung "processing job"

Vista makes it very easy to add a network printer. A friend bought an HP laptop and wanted it set up on her LAN to print to a HP LaserJet 5N printer attached to her desktop. So I went into Visa's 'Add Printer' wizard on the laptop and it discovered the
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