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Randy Holloway at Microsoft

Blogging from the field.

April 2005 - Posts

9 year old earns MCP
A 9 year old Pakistani girl has become the youngest MCP. Having a 5 year old, I guess I can see how a child that age could progress over several years in their proficiency a technology and then study for the exam and pass it. I wonder if this means that Read More...
What is DoIP?
I had not seen this acronym previously, and the concept is not entirely new . However, it is a highly interesting concept that could radically change our approach to personal computing . Check it out. Read More...
RFID whitepaper on MSDN
Javed Sikander has published an article on MSDN titled RFID Enabled Retail Supply Chain , and according to his weblog a sample toolkit will be made available soon. Read More...
One year with Microsoft
I nearly forgot- as of this past Tuesday, it has been one year since I started working for Microsoft . This post from Vic , a General Manager in Developer Platform Evangelism and very experienced at Microsoft, reminds me of why I'm glad to be here. Read More...
Developing Integration Solutions with BizTalk Server 2005
Via Jan Tielens , SharePoint MVP, I saw this MSDN article on Developing Integration Solutions with BizTalk Server 2004 . Great guidance for those that are new to BizTalk, or those that are interested to see Microsoft's BizTalk guidance for developers. Read More...
Microsoft eLearning
Here's a great new site for eLearning from Microsoft . In this case, "eLearning" is just a fancy term to describe free tranining. Oh, and if you sign up now you can enter to win some cool prizes, including a 50" Sony Wega Plasma TV. Check it out- there Read More...
MOM 2005 Performance and Sizing Guide Now Available
The MOM 2005 Performance and Sizing Guide has been posted to Microsoft Downloads . Here's an excerpt from the overview- "An accurate analysis of the performance and sizing of the hardware systems that support Microsoft® Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 is Read More...
Indigo- what makes it compelling?
Rocky has an interesting take on Indigo that needs to be shared. If you don't know Rocky, he's written a number of books on buiding distributed application with Visual Basic and is a regular on the developer conference route. Here's an interesting quote- Read More...
Reorg
News.com : "Microsoft plans to overlay its current sales structure, which divides the continent into regions, with a second group that is focused on five specific industries--financial services, health care and life sciences, manufacturing, professional Read More...
My Suggestions for GotDotNet
In light of Jim's announcement , I've posted some suggestions that might help to improve the next generation of tools for GotDotNet. Read More...
Podcasts- how many people listen?
Just how many people are catching on to this podcasting phenomenon ? Read More...
Community Server FAQ
Now that we've updated the MSDN blogs platform, I wanted to have a handy link for Community Server questions/issues. Here's the Community Server FAQ for those that are interested. Thanks to Rob and Scott. Read More...
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