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Long, long time now posts. Twitter captures my immediate thoughts; and time is captured by other pursuits. The Netbooks at Australian TechEd pioneered the way for the PDC 2009 Acer handout. And quite frankly drained me completely. After being hyper-immersed
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Twitter; Facebook and friends is the place where I spend most of my day. For work and play. Separating work and play is difficult in single-column twitter clients. Enter mutliple columns, filtering as base requirements for my perfect twitter client. Stuck
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Hyper-V Instrumentation via Linux driver, source code contribution (GPLv2) Microsoft Live@EDU integration for Moodle via a plug in, PHP source code contribution (GPLv2) Gestalt. <script language=”ruby | python”> client-side scripting (MsPL)
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As TechEd 2009 approaches, there are many people scurrying around behind the scenes ensuring the Windows 7/Mini-notebooks experience succeeds. Andrew Dugdell is tracking the process from the outside; and Jorke has a new blog with indepth details from
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Two unintended consequences of Microsoft open sourcing: 1. Google Chrome (on Windows) uses the Windows Template Library (WTL) published under the Ms-PL 2. Mono outpaces Java for Linux desktop application adoption . An interesting quotation from the article:
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SOme quick notes on Microsoft and PHP things that are in motion. Things is such a great Anglo-Saxon word. July CTP of PHP SDK for Windows Azure . If you are more visual, Rob Bagby has an excellent post and more excellent screencast overview: Also, pop
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The FOSS community has been concerned about the difficulties, pros and cons of including Mono-built applications as a part of standard Linux builds. Both Pro and Con . Most recently, the Ubuntu Technical Board posted to their Ubuntu Developer Announce
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ntpro : Where was something kick-ass like this for the first 2500 #TechEd US registrations? Screw the party ... http://bit.ly/10iUtu WindowsITPro : TechED Australia attendees each score HP Netbook: TechEDAustralia attendees will get more than a bag and
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Andrew Dugdell has started a blog following us HP mini-note/netbook guys on our 10 week journey to TechEd 2009.
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Documenting the initial coverage for posterity. Will update as stuff flows Long Zheng “got the scoop” on the story: Microsoft TechEd Australia attendees to receive free HP Mini Notebook with Windows 7 Picked up by the Australian IT news community (in
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(the image above is not displayed at actual size) Mini Packages Yes! , paid delegates to Australia's TechEd 2009 are each receiving Microsoft Windows 7 on a HP 2140 Mini notebook (aka: netbook). Pop over to the TechEd 2009 web site to register to see
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Photo thanks to James Dumay Thanks to all for questions, and attending on Thursday night. Big ups to the Googlers (including the cheeky @pamelafox! ) for their hospitality. Linkages for relevant Pythonic and IronPythonic stuff: Zoomit for Windows . Zoom
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Need to test your website against new and old versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer? Microsoft offers a set of VPCs free specifically for this purposes. They are downloadable as .vhd images, and include the base operating system. Of course. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en#filelist
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(Caution: Ruby application names are as prolific, esoteric and funny as Microsoft code names) The previous post (broadly) demonstrated how to use a combination of URL Rewrite and FastCGI to put a Ruby on Rails application on IIS7.5 . As Rails , Merb (
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Having spent the weekend working on Ruby on Rails with IIS/SQLServer 2008 Express backend via FastCGI, here are some tips to get you going: The best resource is Ruslan’s post on Rails and IIS7 . In fact, go and bookmark this site right now. In Ruslan’s
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