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Tuesday, May 22, 2012 5:21 PM

Windows Azure for Amazon AWS Users

One hurdle I run across while talking to AWS users about Azure comes down to terminology. Every cloud vendor has their own vernacular and this can be a source of endless frustration when one starts to compare the two services. Developers that have already...
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Friday, April 20, 2012 11:40 AM

Windows 8: Sleep, Restart & Shutdown

Of all the questions I’ve seen regarding the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, “How do I shutdown?” seems to be the most prevalent. I’ve spent my share of time on various social networks showing people how to do it but that just doesn’t scale. As such, I’ve...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010 3:41 PM

Ray Ozzie and Steve Ballmer

So Ray Ozzie announced  few days ago that he is leaving Microsoft and then followed up with a typical Ozzie blog post this weekend…. Yeah… Please make sure to clean out the office, we wouldn’t want you to leave any of your “vision” behind. Sorry...
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Thursday, July 01, 2010 12:02 PM

New MSDN Format

I really like the new layout for MSDN, but I especially enjoy the nod to Steve Ballmer’s infamous “Developers, Developers, Developers” speech in the header.
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Sunday, February 08, 2009 1:22 PM

A Talk by jQuery Creator, John Resig

I’ve you’re going to be in the Boston area this Wednesday the Boston .NET User Group is offering a talk by jQuery creator John Resig. It isn’t often that you have an opportunity see hear a talk by someone with this much influence. And it is even rarer...
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Sunday, January 11, 2009 3:48 PM

SIP Monitoring with Wireshark

Wireshark is a free tool for capturing network traffic. It is an invaluable resource for troubleshooting problems with VOIP calls. It is available for download from www.wireshark.org (current version for Windows as of this post is 1.05). ... Read full...
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Monday, October 06, 2008 4:37 PM

Mono 2.0

The Mono Project has hit 2.0 . They seem to have done a lot of work around ASP.NET, Windows Forms, and ADO support. It has been a while since I've poked around with Mono. Maybe it is time for me to take another look. Time to steal my children's Mac for...
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:33 AM

I Snapped My Chrome!

One of the more interesting features in Google’s new Chrome browser is “Application Shortcuts”. These are web site links that Chrome places on your Start menu, Desktop and/or Quick Launch bar. When launched they open with a trimmed down...
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 8:51 PM

My First Chrome Experience

My inbox has been flooded with emails asking me to blog about my opinion of Chrome . That is if you consider "flooded" to be one more than zero. And you include the email I sent to myself from work as a reminder to give it a shot... Ok fine...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 12:07 AM

Scoble Scale?

Robert Scoble has an interesting post in response to Om Malik's suggestion that Twitter start charging "Super Users". Scoble would qualify as an edge-case when comes to social network . He has a history of hitting the limits like these on MSN Messenger...
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