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Free is free
Following my review of Chris Anderson’s book “Free: The Future of a Radical Price”, I found a few interesting interviews and presentations by Anderson and most interesting, I found that you can get the book for absolutely free.
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Book Review: Free: The Future of a Radical Price
I love Wired Magazine so when I saw that editor-in-chief Chris Anderson wrote a book called “Free: The Future of a Radical Price”, I immediately ordered it because I wanted to learn more about that free economy.
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Microsoft/Yahoo Search Deal Makes Front Page in Montreal
The Microsoft/Yahoo search deal makes front page news here in Montreal with content in pages A2 and A3 that I can summarize with this: “So what?”. I don’t think that people yet realize how Google has become an advertizing monopoly.
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KB971092 Fails to install
This morning, a Visual Studio security patch was waiting for me, thanks to Windows Update.
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Linus Torvalds: I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease
What else to say?
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Prototyping Technique and Tool
While speaking at the USI 2009 conference in Paris, I attended Todd Zaki Warfel’ paper prototyping session. The purpose of paper prototyping is for a team to create screen mock-ups with simple tools like paper, scissors and Post-Its. Team members would consist of graphic designers, engineers, marketing people and stakeholders. The goal is to produce the mock-ups without relying on software tools because clients often focus on non important stuff instead of functionalities at that stage.
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System.Data.OracleClient Deprecated
The ADO.NET team blogged about it a month ago but I just saw it. In .NET 4.0, the System.Data.OracleClient will be deprecated. It will still be there and apps using it will still work but warnings will be generated at compile time but no errors will be generated at runtime.
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Code Camp Montreal 2009 - Organization Retrospective
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Expression Studio 3 on MSDN
Expression Studio 3 is now available for MSDN subscribers.
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Azure July CTP
Microsoft has released a new Azure SDK CTP. Basically, workflow is gone.
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Azure ROI Calculator
[Via Christian Weyer]
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Windows 7 has RTM’ed!
Here’s the official announcement:
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/07/22/windows-7-has-been-released-to-manufacturing.aspx -
Wired on Google
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TFS 2008 SP1 + SQL 2008 SP1 Installation Dance
When I install TFS 2008, I always install it with SQL 2005. They’re like an old couple and they go well together ;-)
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Great Talk by David Chappell
David Chappell’s Dutch DevDays talk called “The Microsoft Application Platform: A perspective” is available on Channel9. This is a must see talk where Chappell expresses his opinion on a number of topics like:
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Microsoft Contributing to the Linux Kernel – Panic in da house!
Mary-Jo Foley reports that Microsoft has submitted some 20,000 lines of drivers code for the Linux kernel.
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HBO’s The Alzheimer’s Project
Note: This post deals with personal matters but may help other people.
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Chrome OS - Gary Short’s Opinion
I just came across a great blog post by Gary Short of Developer Express who shares his opinion about the Google Chrome OS announcement. What I really like is the last chapter:
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Parallel Computing on Azure
Interesting blog post from May-Jo Foley where she writes about parallel computing projects from Microsoft Research called Dryad and DryadLINQ and how Microsoft envision them to run on Azure.
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WPC – Azure Quickstart
Microsoft has created an Azure resource portal for partners:
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Void in Cuba; Iran; North Korea; Sudan and the Province of Quebec
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What is Windows Azure – Fun Intro Video
Here’s a fun video made by Steve Marx explaining what Azure is. What’s fun about it? Steve drew the whole thing.
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Azure Pricing
Microsoft announced part of the Azure pricing model in this blog post. When they revealed Azure at PDC08, Microsoft said that the pricing model would be competitive (read: on par with Amazon Web Services). A quick Azure/AWS comparison confirms that.
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Windows 7: when, when, when?
According to the Brandon LeBlanc who posted an update on the Windows Blog, Windows 7 will RTM in July. Looks like we won’t be able to upgrade from RC to RTM. I wonder if the previous trick (Beta to RC) will work.
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Opera files antitrust complaint with the EU against Google Chrome OS
Opera Software ASA, the only company that can put the Web on any device, filed a complaint with the European Commission yesterday which is aimed at giving consumers a genuine choice of Web browsers.
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Silverlight 3 is out
Now that Silverlight 3 is out, where do you start?
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Chrome is not a browser
Google announced that they developing an OS designed initially for Netbooks computers. Here’s my attempt to read between the lines. Reader discretion is advised ;-)
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Visual Studio Talk Show #102 is now online (French)
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Visual Studio Talk Show #101 is now online (French)
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Developers Developers Developers Developers (free eBook)
Derek Hatchard, Microsoft Regional Director and MVP based in eastern Canada and editor of the dev{shaped} Website, rolled out some of the site content from various contributors (RDs and MVPs) into an eBook that you can download for free.
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Microsoft SQL Services is now Microsoft SQL Azure
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Server side PDF creation – Recommendations?
I’m looking for a way to create PDF files from an ASP.NET 3.5 app. Any recommendations?
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New data centers online in July
Microsoft (like Google) does not talk much about it’s data centers so I was surprised to find a that a blog from the Microsoft Infrastructure Services team. The latest blog post briefly describe the newest data centers that are located in Chicago and Dublin and the fact that they will go live in July.
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Azure - .NET Services SDK (July 2009 CTP) now available
A new version (July 2009 CTP) of the .NET Services SDK is now available.