April 2009 - Posts

Signs of life.
28 April 09 07:31 PM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   
Did ArcReady Austin today, CloudCamp on Saturday.  Look for some more blog posts later this week. Read More...
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GameCamps coming to Austin June-Aug.
17 April 09 12:04 PM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   
With me living in Austin, I get to hear (and talk) about game development a lot.  If you don’t know, Austin is the MMORPG development capital of the world.  (To go along with the Live Music Capital thing.)  Well, there are game design graduate Read More...
SharePoint 14 now officially Microsoft SharePoint 2010
15 April 09 03:34 PM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   
Find the details on the SharePoint Team Blog! http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/14/microsoft-sharepoint-14-is-now-microsoft-sharepoint-2010.aspx Read More...
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Walking the SharePoint Object Model
15 April 09 11:46 AM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   
(In response to a tweet conversation between @MattBremer and @mrackley)   The question was – how do you find all the web apps on a SharePoint server, from the server itself.  I have some old code from SharePoint 2003 that did this and so I figured Read More...
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Exchange 2010 Beta up
15 April 09 08:57 AM | PhilWh | 0 Comments   
I’d missed this yesterday, but it appears that those looking to see what the next wave of Exchange looks like have to wait no longer.  The first beta of Exchange 2010 has arrive and can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1898ed2c-2f88-48ac-824e-d3d20fad77d7 Read More...
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SharePoint and IE8 (B2)
15 April 09 08:23 AM | PhilWh | 0 Comments   
Last week on the local SharePoint “Stump the Experts” panel someone brought up the concern that .Net 3.5SP1  “Broke” their SharePoint installation.  We worked through the issue they had seen for a bit and discovered that they had also installed Read More...
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ArcAttack does the Dr Who theme like it deserves!
13 April 09 07:33 AM | PhilWh | 0 Comments   
Giant Tesla coils, the Doctor Who theme, a parking lot in downtown Austin.  It’s it great when things come together like that?  (Yep, it’s the Orbital remix of the theme if you were wondering.) Read More...
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Omar is leading the DFW Startup Weekend!
10 April 09 09:41 PM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   
You can get some more info at http://startupweekend.com/groups/metro-dfw – details are forming up, but it’s going to be a GREAT event! Read More...
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Windows Essential Business Server
10 April 09 07:03 AM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   
If you’ve heard me talk to Small Businesses, you know that I’m a HUGE fan of Small Business Server and the different editions that it ships with.  It’s GREAT for Small companies, but it is fairly easy to grow out of – and the step up to a full enterprise Read More...
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Design your Dream PC
10 April 09 07:01 AM | PhilWh | 2 Comments   
Asus has introduced a new challenge – tell them what you want in a PC and they’ll look at the entries and build the winning design!. http://www.wepc.com/ Read More...
LINQ on the Micro Framework
09 April 09 06:58 AM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   
I’ve been working with LINQToTwitter a lot and really enjoy the flexibility that LINQ gives me.  But I thought that I couldn’t use it everywhere.  Well, there’s one more place that has shown up – the Micro Framework!  http://blogs.oberon.ch/tamberg/2009-02-06/implementing-linq-on-the-dotnet-mf.htm Read More...
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SharePoint TechFest 2009 next month in Dallas
09 April 09 06:57 AM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   
SharePoint Products and Technologies provide enterprise-scale capabilities that enable you to meet business-critical needs, manage content and business processes, simplify how people find and share information across boundaries and drive the right business Read More...
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Amazon sells downloadable games – for XBox 360!
08 April 09 09:03 AM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   
Amazon is really working hard to become the first place you go to find digital content.  We all know what the Kindle is doing for eBooks, and the Amazon digital music service is my favorite today.  Well, I just found out that they’ve just jumped Read More...
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SharePoint Designer 2007 Free Download Link
08 April 09 08:29 AM | PhilWh | 0 Comments   
That sounds like I’m giving you a super secret link, but truth be told, it’s free for everyone after the first of this month.  So if you haven’t given it a try, or haven’t spread the capabilities around because you didn’t have enough copies of it, Read More...
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High Schools get in on DreamSpark
08 April 09 07:29 AM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   
One of the things that was interesting last year at Maker Faire Austin was how many students are really excited about technology, software, and development in general.  Well, that awareness is getting out as well and the DreamSpark program that was Read More...
ArcReady Sessions are coming up again very soon.
07 April 09 06:08 PM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   
Architecting for the Client Tier The client (or presentation) tier of our applications is taking on an increasingly important role. Users are expecting more compelling user interfaces, but they also want more functionality from their applications. In Read More...
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More “How Do I?” sessions going up
07 April 09 05:56 PM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   
If you haven’t seen the series yet, there are some great video tutorials (with code) going up at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dd439432.aspx   As I start my upcoming “Coding outside the Box” series, I’ll be pointing to some of these for greater Read More...
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Brian Harry - Visual Studio Team System 2010 - 30 April 2009 @ 19:30 GMT
07 April 09 12:33 PM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   
  Brian Harry is a Microsoft Technical Fellow who is the Product Unit Manager for TFS, and has been working on TFS since its inception in 2002. He has plenty of experience in working with source control systems - prior to working on TFS he formed Read More...
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April Linked In User Group meeting.
07 April 09 12:31 PM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   
Our April Speaker is going to be Greg Low. He’s a Microsoft MVP from down under. Here is some information: Developers like queries that are very constrained. Users don’t. In this session, Greg will show how iFTS in SQL Server 2008 allows developers to Read More...
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Roles for SharePoint projects
03 April 09 10:43 AM | PhilWh | 0 Comments   
One question that keeps coming up again and again is what should I look for in a SharePoint guy.  I get asked this a lot and from many different directions, but it’s a large enough topic that I’ve resisted following my rule and blogging the answer Read More...
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Nonstandard interfaces
02 April 09 09:13 AM | PhilWh | 1 Comments   
Just as a note, recently I've been talking to a lot of people about nonstandard interfaces.  For the next bit I'm willing to test out one of the current “nonstandard interfaces” available to us right now by dictating my blog posts using the native Read More...
MVC release under OSI approved License!
01 April 09 09:07 PM | PhilWh | 0 Comments   
No April Fool’s here – check out Scot Guthrie’s latest blog post.  MVC Framework from Microsoft has been released under the the OSI approved MS-PL license.   You can read all about it at http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/04/01/asp-net-mvc-1-0.asp Read More...

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