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June 2007 - Posts

Saturday, June 30, 2007 6:20 PM

Thanks to IdeaBlade.

This is just a small shameless shout out to IdeaBlade . As an MVP they have offered up the Professional version of DevForce with 1 year of support. I am not familiar with the product but I'll give it a whirl if I get a good opportunity soon. I don't do
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 11:07 AM

Team Foundation Server Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

For all that have asked about my forthcoming book. My always forthcoming book that never comes. I have good news. It is coming. I have spent a lot of time obsessing over the content and going through analysis paralysis. I hate to let it go. It's tough
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Monday, June 25, 2007 2:41 PM

iPhones to Outpace iPods in Comparable Periods- What Are They Crazy?

From a Bloomberg report Apple, in its only public forecast, says it plans to sell 10 million next year. Sales at those levels would outdo the iPod, Apple's best- selling product to date, for comparable periods. I think Apple is crazy. How in the world
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Monday, June 25, 2007 6:26 AM

Under the Weather with Vertigo

I have been very much under the weather lately and to try and swing me out of my funk I started yesterday with my much neglected but fun Project Vertigo . It has sat at 0.3 Alpha for some time now. So basically its functionality is that IF you have a
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Sunday, June 24, 2007 10:16 PM

Google Thyself

I love it when I google something and find the answer and it turns out to be my own blog that had the answer all along. It's even more amusing when I say to myself 'Awesome here's a google response that looks just like what I need' and when I click through
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:09 PM

Testing Out Live Writer Beta 2

Testing out some of the new features in Windows Live Writer Beta 2. I am especially glad to see the ability to add categories from the tool itself I hope that it works for Community Server - I'll know as soon as I post this. I like the new features for
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:34 AM

Leave It to Hanselman For Digging Deeper With Silverlight and Safari

Appears Scott Hanselman has gotten further along than I even attempted related to Silverlight under Safari. Check out the comments as well. Technorati tags: Safari , Silverlight
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:55 AM

Trying Out Safari

I'm giving Apple's Safari Browser a whirl. It will never replace IE7 for me because of the many Microsoft specific type things I often deal with such as OWA and SharePoint. It seems to be YANB (Yet Another Browser) with the usual Apple cosmetics. Then
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Monday, June 11, 2007 7:34 AM

I moved from AT&T/Cingular to Verizon For The Treo Will I Move Back For the iPhone? No.

About 2 years ago I moved from AT&T Wireless/Cingular to Verizon for multiple reasons. One was the horrific customer service I was getting after Cingular bought AT&T. Additional reasons were the wireless internet connection and the Treo 700w that
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Monday, June 11, 2007 5:33 AM

Beware the Tipping Point in Technology Specialization

First my disclaimer. This is not related to Malcolm Gladwell's book The Tipping Point . Not intentionally related at least. I have never read it. Yes, I know, having not read it is considered poor form in many circles for someone that makes some attempts
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Sunday, June 10, 2007 9:39 AM

How Totally 80's Are You?

Of course I'm a Vidiot- what else. Find out how totally 80's are you at LiquidGeneration!
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Sunday, June 10, 2007 8:21 AM

A Few Orcas Beta 1 Install Gotchas

If you are like me and have chosen to install Orcas Beta 1 versus just using the VPC let me give you a few gotchas that I ran into and what I did to fix them. The list below will outline the issues I ran into in chronological order and then I'll go into
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Saturday, June 09, 2007 7:18 AM

Hear, Hear! On Enthusiasm Versus Technical Debt and Sysphean Tasks

I think my coworker Rocky Lhotka in his post A Lack of Enthusiasm in the Microsoft World hit the nail on the head. I can't speak for the community at large but can speak for myself- I'm overrun with new technology and so much of it contains dependencies
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Friday, June 08, 2007 3:50 PM

Visual Studio Code Name Orcas Beta 1 Install --- Post Twitteresque

I have made 3 attempts for install of Orca's Beta 1 on an XP VM that I have had around a while. It kept crapping out on the .NET 2.0 Framework install of all things (which is already installed). Still didn't work when I removed .NET 2.0 so it could add
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Monday, June 04, 2007 4:17 PM

Welcome Vista Avalon!

I was heads down today working on some SharePoint stuff and of course found my way to Bil Simser's blog to gather some info. I hadn't read it in a few weeks. Apparently, I missed his anouncement about Vista Avalon .
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Saturday, June 02, 2007 8:16 AM

Agree or Disagree with a Software License You Must Abide By It

Yes. This is the follow up to a post yesterday about the TestDriven.NET spat with Microsoft. I have thought a lot about this and it wasn't difficult for me to digest. Though I am sympathetic to a TestDriven.NET for Visual Studio Express after reading
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Friday, June 01, 2007 12:56 PM

Microsoft and TestDriven.NET Express - How do we avoid these pitfalls?

So what do you think? http://weblogs.asp.net/nunitaddin/archive/2007/05/30/microsoft-vs-testdriven-net-express.aspx I'm still digesting this all and need to review the license terms etc. But what do you think? My initial thought is that it seems to be
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