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Poetry: Unravelling layers
Read this great piece of prose by English poet Jonathon Swift today which reminded me of the almost endless possibilities for drilling down into layers of complexity...
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IE2OneNote Powertoy
Last week Will behooved me to check out the IE2OneNote powertoy. Today I needed to save some pages for quick, offline viewing so I thought that I'd give it a whirl. It's very useful. It installs as a button on the main IE toolbar and scrapes the page into a new top level category named WebClippings. All of the styles and images are perfectly preserved.
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Some great tools to check out
During the week I was introduced to Serena Yeoh by William Luu. Serena's tagline is: I'm a little ant working in a big-big colony.
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Creating knowledge from information
Over the next few months I intend to do some intensive blog'ging on the topic of using tools such as InfoPath, Office 2003, Sharepoint and the Information Bridge Framework and how you can wire them together to create smart applications which add value to existing information systems.
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A couple of Windows Services resources
I've had a couple of Windows Services snippets that I've been meaning to "rip-to-blog" for a while now...
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Some ideas about User Groups for 2005
I've been thinking about ways to increase the visibility of UG's in 2005 with the idea that, through increased visibility we will be able to increase membership numbers. Much of this comes from my exposure to both the Adelaide and Brisbane UG's. I thought that I'd take this opportunity to jot down some of my thoughts.
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More InfoPath learning
Worked through some more InfoPath suff this morning:
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InfoPath SDK Documentation and more
A rich source of goodness for any aspiring InfoPath guru:
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Falling in love with Office 2003
I had a big SOA with Office 2003 day today,
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Can't read, working (Office, Smartphone, Avalon)
Some links to things that I saw today which caught my attention:
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Best Practices Analyzer Tool for Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Not terribly sure why I only just came across this:
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Restricted access to Hotmail
Today when I attempted to connect to my Hotmail account through Outlook and Outlook Express I received the following exception message:
Task 'Hotmail: Folder:Inbox Synchronizing headers.' reported error (0x800CCCF6) :
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WebMessenger enhancements
I noticed some nice useability improvements in webmessenger today, at first glance I noticed:
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Your company has moved Mt Fuji eh? Tell me something interesting about that.
I've been meaning to blog some thoughts about how to manage the interview process from the point-of-view of the employee. I think that it's an important topic because, when I've read other people's writings about it in the past I think that they tackle it from all the wrong angles. I think that too many people will tell you how to play up to an interviewer but not how to extract useful information from them.
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Canberra User Group meeting tonight
On the topic of User Groups, I just noticed that my future "home" User Group are meeting tonight: http://www.cbrdev.net/Default.aspx
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Evangelism Rhythms, "know the score"
Yesterday Dave Glover - from the Microsoft Developer Platform Group - gave a special lunchtime presentation in Adelaide titled: "What is new in VS 2005 and ASP.NET". This presentation will serve as a forerunner to the Whidbey "ASCEND" day in January.
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Member boards at UserGroup meetings; photo's, stories, etc.
One of the major problems that I find at User Group meetings is that it can be difficult to meet new people. An example of this is that, prior to our last User Group meeting I had some e-mail correspondence with a fellow developer who was planning on attending; we both agreed that we should meet up at the meeting. Once you are at the meeting though, it becomes very difficult to shout-out for the person with whom you wish to meet. I noticed that sentiment is kind of echoed in this blog entry:
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One book; One CD
I'll have some time in the coming months to fill in some of my weaker areas in .NET. Remoting, WSE and Compact Framework are the 3 that could use with a refresher. Of course, whenever you are about to "go dark" you must take some good tunes with you so... I finally got around to purchasing a couple of things that I've been after for a while today :-)
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One of my new vows...
I've steered away from Visio - apart from designing databases - in the past because I've not had the time to work out how to create something of use with it. Last week I ordered a Visio book because I've decided that I need to find new ways of communicating plans and ideas with other team members.
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COM+ registration and permission errors
If you are using EnterpriseServices (COM+) from a web application you need to make sure that you manually register your components with COM+ when deploying your app.
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ProjectDistributor now lives - standalone!
Switched over to a standalone domain with dedicated hosting provided by WebHost4Life. The new Url is:
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And then there's Bad OneNote etiquette...
Note to self... when next sharing a session with Mitch, don't share my BIO page:
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Etiquette in a OneNote collaboration session
I teamed up with Mitch and Thomas tonight to share a bit of a OneNote collaboration session. Mitch and I actually had a session to start with and found that it is an awesome way to share ideas in an interactive and spontaneous way.. OneNote has a strength in allowing you to spawn new threads at will. Mitch decided to start a protocol to facilitate a richer experience and we continued that on when we joined Thomas's session. Here's some notes that we made, I'm sure that we'll develop more as we continue to use this awesome tool.
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How to study for an MS certification exam
Today the question was asked about techniques used when studying for MS certification exams. I've passed a few of them so, here's my secret ;-)
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Load testing Christmas cards
Wow! It must nearly be Christmas again... I just received my first Christmas card:
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Highlight of the weekend - learning about OneNote
Anybody that knows me can tell you that I'm the original Notepad Warrior; just about everything I do or think about goes through Notepad at one time or another: architecture thoughts, blog entries, code, details about my various websites, diary journal entries, etc. This is about to change because I've discovered OneNote!
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OpenSource - checklist
Came across this link today while Googl'ing for information about OpenSource licensing:
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Justin discusses "peering" technology
http://weblogs.asp.net/justin_rogers/archive/2004/11/06/253224.aspx
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Poem: To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing
As seen on George Reilley's blog...
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Adelaide .NET UserGroup meeting next week
Details here: http://www.adnug.com/notices.htm
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MsdnConnection site of the month
Hey, Frank just noticed that ProjectDistributor got named site of the month on the new MsdnConnection program... cool!
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Fixed my SqlServer/Enterprise Manager issues
Lately SqlServer has been giving me some little headaches...
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Some golden rules to adhere by when thinking about features
When we started doing a spec for ProjectDistributor Justin and I had some long chats about what features we wanted in and how they would be implemented. In fact, there were dozens of features that we discussed and, as we progressed we found that we needed a better methodology for quickly deciding whether features would be winners or losers. Additionally, we needed a better way to describe new features to one another so that we didn't waste cycles trying to understand what the other person was trying to say.
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Managing XML schema collections in SQL Server 2005
Kent Tegels keeps us entertained while walking us through working with schema collections in SQL Server 2005
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Blogging Portals - useability and finding stuff
Tonight I was feeling really crappy about MS Project. I was thinking about all the ways that I'd just love to get the box and squash|crush|kill|destroy it... {some mental karma excercises}... ok, better now.
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ELMAH installed on PD
This morning (at approximately 3am :) I installed ELMAH on the ProjectDistributor application. ELMAH is an HttpModule and an HttpHandler which combine to capture and provide global reporting of exceptions which are occurring in your web applications. The whole excercise took me a mere 10 minutes to:
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Response Output Filters
I just finished reading Dino Esposito's excellent article from the September Msdn Magazine titled: Design Smarter Tracing for ASP.NET Pages
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Back in work; Excitement++
What a day... Today I accepted a position as a .NET Consultant and Trainer with Readify. Readify is one of Australia's best branded consultancies and does work with some of the country's leading businesses and agencies. This role not only gives me an excellent opportunity to work on large projects and gain hands on experience with emerging technologies but also has me working with some of Australia's most respected .NET consultants. The team members are listed here: http://www.readify.net/staff/default.aspx