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February 2006 - Posts

Monday, February 27, 2006 1:13 PM

When did "Open Source" start to imply "Swiss Army Knife"?

Todd Bishop mentioned the Higgins project this afternoon. For some reason this one just hit me wrong. I mean, we need a federated identity management system. Until we do everyone will have to roll their own solution and interop will just be a dream. But,
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Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:02 PM

RSS connector revisited

I'm getting close to finishing the RSS connector now. I've finished the cache code and I've switched the query engine over to use the CRM 3.0 web services. I'm not sure how we'll release this, but I suspect it'll be part of the CRM GotDotnet sandbox somewhere.
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Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:59 PM

Three faces of SaaS

I was talking to some folks yesterday about this whole Software as a Service thing. While we were talking I started trying to define to myself what SaaS is. Now, I know there are many smarter more experienced people doing the same and that there is no
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Friday, February 17, 2006 9:11 AM

Where is the RSS connector for CRM 3.0

It's stuck in LegalLand right now. It's not really Legal's fault either. When I put the original prototype together for the BizSummit and PDC I was able to take liberties with the set of APIs that I used. Yup, I ended up using unsupported functionality.
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Thursday, February 16, 2006 1:37 PM

New-found respect

I've been spending the last few weeks developing a graduate-level database modeling course as part of my MSE capstone project. Turns out that creating a 10 week long course covering database modeling as part of a Software Engineering program is a lot
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 2:45 PM

CRM metadata browser

It was interesting to see Mitch Milam's post about the metadata browser. This was a little tool I put together pre-V1.0 ship, but which didn't make the schedule until V3. Mitch points out the "published" component which displays the entity metadata in
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006 3:00 PM

Why duplicate detection is hard

In a past life (I'm fairly certain it was a past life because there are days when I'm sure I'm paying for it), I worked on a pair of very large-scale data-cleansing systems. They will go unnamed, except that I'll refer to them as System DBS and System
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006 10:58 AM

The "F" in the DMF

[Note: This is personal opinion, it doesn't reflect the viewpoint of Microsoft or the Microsoft CRM team. This is my take on the DMF and both its shortcomings and ultimate potential. Don't assume that anything that seems like a prediction here is apt
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