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See you in Barcelona for Tech Ed EMEA Dev: Looking forward to seeing lots of familiar faces and meeting new ones starting December 10th at Tech Ed EMEA! While I ran the Windows Mobile track for Tech Ed North America last June in Orlando, this time around I'll just be delivering a couple of presentations Read More...
Posted 07 November 08 08:14 by robtiffany | 1 Comments
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Chapter 1 of my new Book is Ready!: Mobile Data Synchronization with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server Compact > Second Edition Achieving Global Scalability via Merge Replication Republishing Download and review the PDF from my Windows Live SkyDrive @ http://cid-8b9c82da88af61fc.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Sync/Ch%201.pdf Read More...
Posted 23 October 08 06:12 by robtiffany | 0 Comments
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Listen to Rob's Windows Mobile Interview on .NET Rocks!: I was recently interviewed by Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell who run one of the Internet's most popular developer sites, .NET Rocks! You can catch the interview at http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=384 where you can either listen to Read More...
Posted 09 October 08 01:07 by robtiffany | 2 Comments
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Mobile Scalability + Staggering Performance: As you know from my recent posts, I've been hanging out at 1,200 concurrent Subscribers trying to boost performance. When I first hit the 1,200 Subscriber mark, I was able to change and replicate ~13 million rows per hour. I was happy with the scalability, Read More...
Posted 15 January 08 09:08 by robtiffany | 11 Comments
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My New Book is Now Available!: "Windows Mobile Data Synchronization with SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server Compact 3.1" is now available in print! Those of you in the continental U.S. can just buy it directly from the Hood Canal Press site at http://www.hoodcanalpress.com/catalog.htm Read More...
Posted 07 January 08 02:12 by robtiffany | 4 Comments
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New Mobile Merge Replication Benchmarks: I just finished up a week of teaching attendees at the Dev Connections conference how to setup and use mobile merge replication to sync data between their Windows Mobile devices and SQL Server 2005. As usual, I brought along my favorite teaching tool, Read More...
Posted 09 November 07 10:02 by robtiffany | 2 Comments
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Chapter 1: Getting Started with Merge Replication: The non-linear fashion by which I've been writing this book reminds me of the way Pulp Fiction jumps around. Chapter 1 is ready to go so you can get started with Merge Replication for Windows Mobile devices. In addition to obvious technology walkthroughs, Read More...
Posted 09 September 07 10:54 by robtiffany | 2 Comments
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Chapter 3: Configuring the Publisher: The biggest and most comprehensive chapter of the new book is ready to preview! Chapter 3 is ready to go for some relaxing Labor Day weekend reading. It's the deepest coverage that I've seen on all the nuances of the SQL Server Publisher for mobile replication Read More...
Posted 31 August 07 10:14 by robtiffany | 1 Comments
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Chapter 2 Refresh: Configuring the Distributor: Not to be outdone by a refresh to chapter 4, I've made some updates and additions to chapter 2 for you to look at as well. Don't worry, chapter 3 is almost ready... The book is called "Windows Mobile Data Synchronization with SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server Read More...
Posted 30 August 07 08:57 by robtiffany | 0 Comments
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Chapter 4 Refresh: Web Synchronization: I've made some updates and additions to chapter 4 for you to look at. The book is called "Windows Mobile Data Synchronization with SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server Compact 3.1" and it's being published by Hood Canal Press . Click on Chapter4.pdf below to Read More...
Posted 30 August 07 06:35 by robtiffany | 1 Comments
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Chapter 2: Configuring the Distributor: Here comes another chapter! My forthcoming book is called "Windows Mobile Data Synchronization with SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server Compact 3.1" and it's being published by Hood Canal Press . Click on Chapter2.pdf below to download Chapter 2 on installing Read More...
Posted 19 August 07 11:16 by robtiffany | 1 Comments
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Book Review: Microsoft Mobile Development Handbook: Best Windows Mobile Development Book Ever Written! Trust me, I've read them all going back to 2001 and I've written two of them myself. This is as broad and deep as it gets when it comes to managed code development on Windows Mobile. This should come Read More...
Posted 13 August 07 03:40 by robtiffany | 3 Comments
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Chapter 4: Web Synchronization: As I mentioned in a previous post, my latest book is underway. For those of you who visited my booth at MEDC 2007 in Las Vegas or Tech Ed 2007 in Orlando and wondered how I built my 4-tier merge replication architecture, your questions are about to be Read More...
Posted 08 August 07 08:49 by robtiffany | 6 Comments
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The new book is underway...: As some of you know, I've been building and piecing together the documentation necessary to build out a scalable merge replication architecture for your Windows Mobile devices. If you've been to MEDC 2007 in Las Vegas or Tech Ed 2007 in Orlando, you may Read More...
Posted 11 July 07 03:26 by robtiffany | 9 Comments
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Tech Ed 2007 Orlando Day 4: The Magic is Back! The performance of our 800 concurrent subscribers rocked! Less proved to be definitely better than More when it comes to thread pools on IIS. Before launching the 800 subscriber test run, I throttled back the number of threads that Read More...
Posted 08 June 07 05:22 by robtiffany | 0 Comments
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