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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 4:32 AM

I Wish My Burndown Chart Were In A Downturn

In this post I share that I am in the midst of a failed sprint that is to be canceled and started again. This is the first sprint in a year (the entire lifetime of this specific scrum team) that I have gotten to 2 weeks in and the burndown chart flattened
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Saturday, January 24, 2009 8:34 PM

More People Using The Phrase 'Barack Obama' Link To The Washington Post Than NY Times -- and more people using my name link to my blog than either of those-- and other not true statements from egosurf.org

I love egosurf.org because it's so fun and totally worthless. For instance I can get a higher score than Barack Obama using his name and BarackObama.com as the domain. Coming in at about half the rate for Obama when using his direct website if you use
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Saturday, January 24, 2009 6:01 PM

A Community Inspired Power Tweeting Week

I attended two different 1 day "conferences" this week. Thursday was MSDNDevCon in Boston and today was Data Camp V1.0 (Code Camp but around Data). I decided I'd use the Twitter and Facebook as outlets to the community for the content I sat in on. So
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Saturday, January 17, 2009 8:36 AM

jQuery with ASP.NET And the Need To Improve My Deployment Process

I started this last week working with jQuery with ASP.NET. I have a different post in process that discusses some of the lessons learned in terms og jQuery UI and jQuery API and the great idea but seemingly (at the moment) less than ideally functional
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:47 AM

Why An IM 'bot' Is Not Like An IVR Application - Or What I Fear I'll Find in OCS 2007 R2

Let me begin by saying that I'm still figuring all this stuff out and blogging on it as I go along so that those interested can follow along. I continue to evolve an IM bot that communicates with a developer to perform tasks or provide information. It's
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Sunday, January 11, 2009 2:25 PM

Speech Server 2007 'Red X' and 'Can't attach to process' Fixes

If you have a machine in which you are doing Speech Server 2007 development and also have Visual Studio 2008 installed you may run into two distinct issues. You may find you have a 'Red X' on your workflow activities in which case you need to apply the
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Sunday, January 11, 2009 8:12 AM

Appreciation For DevDiv and Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System Folks in Particular

Occasionally things happen to remind you to appreciate certain constructs in your life. A case in point for me was the recent desire to get moving into Office Communication Server 2007 (OCS) R2 for the purpose of building an IM bot/agent. When I couldn't
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Saturday, January 10, 2009 2:28 PM

Microsoft Tag- It Rocks

This application rocks. Put Microsoft Tag on your Windows Mobile, iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian or J2Me phone and when you start up the app it will automatically flip on the camera. When you point the camera at a tag like the the one below (really you can
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Friday, January 09, 2009 8:01 PM

A Busy Quarter Coming Up

I look to have a busy quarter coming up. If you are in the Boston area you may want to hit some of these same events. If you do make sure you say hello. Jan 13th-- An Introduction to Microsoft F# presented by Chris Bowen at the Plymouth Public Library
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 7:05 AM

Innovate

It's the New Year. Though I don't typically create formal new year resolutions I do generally try to have a theme in mind. Last years was more time with the family. That had mixed success. I left consulting to spend more time at home and spent a tremendous
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 5:55 AM

Silverlight 2 and My clientaccesspolicy.xml Issue

Currently a team member and myself are working on a small Silverlight app that deals with work items in TFS and associating some cost accounting values related to capitalization to these work items. We were going to be done last week with the first pass
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