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Microsoft has started a new program called Ramp UP ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/default.aspx ). “Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program, with a number of different tracks that will help you build your portfolio of professional...
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I owned an Amiga 500 and loved it. It was a great computer and unfortunate Commodore wasn’t able to compete with IBM-PC or Apple. During the mid-80’s, Amiga was far ahead of its competitors. While I don’t agree with all of Rozlog’s predictions...
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The Dawning 5000A is the 10th fastest super computer in the world and it runs Windows HPC 2008 as an operating system. The system uses AMD x86-64 Opteron Quad Core Processors and has 122880 GB of memory. Ref: http://www.top500.org/system/9787 Technorati...
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http://www.rpath.com/corp/ Great explanation of Cloud Computing by RPath. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license.
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http://drowningintechnicaldebt.com/blogs/davidstrommer/archive/2006/11/25/_2200_bukimi-no-tani_2200_-or-_2200_uncanny-valley_2200_.aspx A couple of years ago, I blogged about an phenomenon called Bukimi no tani or Uncanny Valley. Jeff Atwood...
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I am constantly querying random data out of SQL Server and sending it to EXCEL files to email to a co-worker. Exporting to a comma separated or tab separated file is no good since those characters appear in my data frequently so I have switched to using...
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I wanted to share the feedback that I got from my presentation this year at the PASS Summit. ( http://drowningintechnicaldebt.com/blogs/shawnweisfeld/archive/2008/11/23/sql-pass-2008-talk.aspx ) Again thank you to all that attended, and a special thank...
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Microsoft released a set of controls called the ASP.NET charting controls. I don’t know if they licensed this from Dundas, however in one of my projects I was able to replace Dundas with this in about 30 min. Most of the class names are the same. Oh and...
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Interesting book coming out from one of my favorite publishers – PACKT Publishing . WCF Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ Build SOA applications on the Microsoft platform in this hands-on guide Master WCF and LINQ concepts by completing...
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Contrary to popular belief it is possible to programmatically manipulate the SharePoint's web.config. When attempting to programmatically manipulate the web.config it is wise to have a utility to promptly roll back your modifications. The Kid has...
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If you attended my talk at pass last week, you can get the slides & downloads here ( http://www.developerroundtable.com/Libraries/Downloads/PASS_SQL_CLR.sflb.ashx ). I hope you enjoyed the talk. Feel free to send me feedback!
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I am tired of forgetting the link to this darn site and people keep asking me about it, hence this blog post. A while back at a presentation by Russ Fustino ( http://blogs.msdn.com/rfustino/ ) he demoed this application. MS Popfly ( http://www.popfly...
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I was attending the Dallas Connected Systems UG last night ( http://biztalkusergroup.com/ ) and during the presentation I made the bold assertion that one should NOT use the "using statement" when working with WCF. Now I am a HUGE proponent...
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Microsoft released Geneva beta 1 – an identify management solution which supports WS-Trust. An alternative to Geneva is WSO2 Identity Solution. I’m just coming up to speed on Geneva and in general the “Identity problem”. Hopefully, I can spend more...
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What: Custom Themes and Branding for the SharePoint Intranet Join us for an insightful discussion on how to meld a SharePoint Intranet to reflect your corporate identity. Our talk focuses on three major areas. The first covers out of the box options for...