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Saturday, March 31, 2007 1:00 PM

Joost's First Commercial

I posted (very abbreviated) about Joost a few weeks back Joost has posted their first commercial on YouTube . Rumor has it that Joost will be moving out of beta very soon. Let's see. I'm stoked. Especially if I will be able to load onto my iPod. Here
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Saturday, March 31, 2007 11:46 AM

TFS VC Branch/Merge and Streams

As a response to Eric Lee's post about TFS VC and Streams I started this as a comment to his blog entry then decided it was too long and would thus make it my own entry with a pingback. I recently did a demonstration with a potential client that was moving
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Saturday, March 31, 2007 9:40 AM

A recent comment about recent posts

A well respected colleague and former coworker of mine recently said to me "Keep the interesting blog posts coming" That meant a lot to me. I wasn't sure if anything about the more theoretical or more personal - yet hopefully appropriate to technology
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Saturday, March 31, 2007 9:29 AM

The 12 Step Program for Activist Consultants

This is the second installment in the series, if I may be so bold as to call it that, on Consulting Constraint, Consulting Activism . This is the 12 step program for Activist Consultants. It may not be what you expect. It's all affirmative and doesn't
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Saturday, March 31, 2007 8:23 AM

MSDN and more productive life?

Rob Caron asks, in his Visual Studio Decennial, Redux "Has the MSDN Library made your life - at least when it comes to your development efforts - simpler and more productive?" Let me think... how do I phrase this. Hell yes!
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Saturday, March 31, 2007 5:48 AM

I wasn't crazy when I compared Shadowfax...er... EDRA and PIAB

I just ran across this post Similarity between EntLib 3.0 Policy Injection Application Block and EDRA by Erwyn van der Meer on technorati by accident. I didn't have a pingback from this post on my blog so I decided I'd point others to it. Glad to know
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Friday, March 30, 2007 8:27 AM

Spec#

I'm very excited to pass along that Spec# has a new release. I personally am very interested in Spec# because I am a big fan of assertions (though I far too often don't practice what I preach) and this is a giant leap beyond that. Check it out. I love
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Friday, March 30, 2007 8:00 AM

While voting for your BoF

While you are voting for you BoF session-- make sure you take a look at these two and give them a vote if you are interested. Collaborative Development in the Organization and in the World For those that would like to discuss existing or new ways to collaboratively
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Friday, March 30, 2007 7:47 AM

Code Camp 7 Deer in Headlights- this weekend

Code Camp 7 Deer in Headlights Agenda has been posted. Hope to see you there. I personally will be in and out but... you should definately attend.
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Friday, March 30, 2007 7:36 AM

TechEd 2007 BoF

Don't forget to vote for your TechEd 2007 BoF sessions you would like to see. You can hope to this url https://www.msteched.com/BOF/Voting.aspx to cast your vote. Technorati tags: TechEd
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007 3:11 AM

Consulting Constraint, Consulting Activism, Judicial Constraint and Judicial Activism- unlikely bedfellows?

*WARNING- work in process. Multiple revisions and reposts to come. Software development always involves a client and thus always involves consulting to that client. How much and how active that consultation creates a spectrum of consulting constraint
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Monday, March 26, 2007 2:55 PM

A somber post

I'm in Logan Airport (Boston) and just witnessed the unloading of a casket from a hearse and loaded onto the plane. A casket escorted by a contingent of Officer and enlisted Naval personnel. Whether it was the active duty sailor that died here in Boston
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Monday, March 26, 2007 2:21 PM

Microsoft Acquires devBizSolutions (TeamPlain)

My colleagues, Steve St. Jean and Ben Day , just sent me this from Brian Harry's blog , which I read religiously, but had not yet read this post. It states Microsoft acquired TeamPlain, you can find devBiz Business Solutions through the link. Hate to
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Sunday, March 25, 2007 1:23 PM

P2P Calendar- Tungle

I need to set up a new category for my cloud, P2P. Mentioning Joost the other day and Tungle today. You can find the Tungle blog informative in a marketing sort of way- with its three entries, which is up 300% over the last nine months entries. ;-) As
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 8:32 AM

Using the DialogChangesetDetails

Here's a little tidbit for you. If you, like me, prefer to keep the user experience the same when writing extensions for Team System then this is for you. Plus it just makes sense in terms of reuse. If you need to show the details of a changeset you normally
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Monday, March 19, 2007 11:48 AM

Virtual Server Annoying Beep Be Gone...

I had a post by a similar name on my blog hosted by my employer Magenic . Magenic moved to a new blog server and I decided to let me old posts there die away. One was how to be rid of the annoying beep from Virtual Server 2005 R2. It came up again today
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Sunday, March 18, 2007 6:36 PM

The Demons Inside - not technical all personal philosophical

My wife and I have been married almost 3 years. My how time flies. In that time we have moved temporarily to Montana just because we could as a last hoorah before heading off into matrimony and trying our best to have children. We were married about half
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Sunday, March 18, 2007 5:27 PM

BitLocker without TPM

I have been frustrated lately. By many things, but one of the things I can discuss is that my nice Core 2 Duo Tablet does not have a TPM chip and thus I thought I could not use BitLocker. Then it hit me... why don't I Google (sorry Ballmer- but that's
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Saturday, March 17, 2007 2:05 PM

Why turn on custom errors

Maybe the Patriot Ledger needs some .NET consulting. When trying to look at the weather for my town in southeast Mass to determine if I might be able to paddle tomorrow here is what I get Server Error in '/' Application. Configuration Error Description:
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Thursday, March 15, 2007 6:41 PM

50 terabyte flash drive made of bug protein

I want to be the first on my block to have one of these. Maybe I can head over to Harvard Square next week and get my fingers on a prototype. *LOL* 50 terabyte flash drive made of bug protein
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Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:03 PM

Just because this made me laugh outloud

http://evilmattcutts.com/2007/02/13/73/
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 8:13 PM

J.D. Meier Post

J.D. Meier's blog is one i read fairly religously. Much I agree with, some things make me think and I don't know whether I agree or not and yet others gte me started off in areas that very much like to discuss. One of hist lastest posts on Structuring
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 7:55 PM

Why I am not at the MVP summit this week.

At the last moment (Saturday) I called and cancelled my hotel reservations, cancelled my flight to get my reward miles back that I had consumed in order to fly out for free and decided not to attend the Microsoft MVP Summit for this week. Why? A few reasons
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 4:53 AM

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 for Vista - Released - so much for my theory

The Visual Studio 2005 SP1 for Vista has been released for download. So much for my theory on the countdown for Defy all Challenges
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 11:12 PM

Attending Tech-Ed Check the BoF

If you are attending Tech-Ed be sure to check the proposed BoF Sessions and pay special attention to one as follows: Collaborative Development in the Organization and in the World For those that would like to discuss existing or new ways to collaboratively
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 5:54 PM

A peek into "Longhorn"

First off, I don't think I'm outside of any NDA . In fact I think my participation in the Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" Invitational CTP is meant exactly for me to pass along what I find and help educate others. So... if someone reads this and I
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 1:18 PM

Does anyone else loose their Sidebar when selecting show desktop?

When I select show desktop from the quick launch toolbar my Sidebar and all the sidebar gadgets, whether on the dekstop or within the sidebar itself, disappear. I have to right click in my notification area on the Sidebar icon and choose open or bring
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 1:01 PM

Joost

You simply must check out Joost .
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 8:16 AM

Test Post to be deleted

VSTS
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Saturday, March 03, 2007 10:31 PM

8 days and counting

I take it from Rob Caron's recent posts of the very funny Defy All Challenges videos that as I write this, according to my most recent screen capture, there is just over 8 days until I expect to see Visual Studio 2005 SP1 for Vista? The above image is
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Friday, March 02, 2007 7:07 PM

I love posts like this

Jeff Beehler writes We recently ran a bootcamp for some of our internal teams on the testing capabilities of Visual Studio Team System and used a bunch of blog articles already available on the web. Seems like this list might be useful for others so here
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