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Live Communications Server 2003 FAQ and Troubleshooting Guide
'Live Communications Server 2003 FAQ and Troubleshooting Guide' is now available. A must-read if you are deploying LCS2K3.
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Resuscitating our local .NET Developer group
After a very silent and uneventful year, our local .NET developer group is very much dormant. In over a year, we haven't had a SQL Server presentation/meeting (with Bill Sulcius, who is perhaps, the most knowledgeable SQL2K Server person out there). The .NET events have been very few and with less attendance and vigor than the past ones. The truth is that our local MS office has been quite busy with the changing economy and priorities do change. I don't see much happening this summer but perhaps, the coming fall would bring in new events on Whidbey, Yukon, etc - ANYTHING!
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Eric Sink discusses the 'Hazards of Hiring'
The vaulted unlegend (pun intended), Eric Sink has a new biz-tech piece titled 'The Hazards of Hiring'. It's some thought provoking piece of work, especially about the “Ph.D. Qualities“. What he didn't mention is that PhDs usually have very big egos that can bring a company or its product development down. I encountered one about a year ago (an Ivy-Leaguer to boot) who insisted that XML be used as a database (a futile attempt that I had described in a blog posting). One of these days, I have to put my biz-econ hat on and re-read Eric's biz-tech series.
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Code Complete 2 - a mast on your shelf
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SmartPart for SharePoint 0.2.0.1 Released!
Jan Thielgen has released SmartPart for SharePoint v.0.2.0.1. I have been developing/deploying SP recently and SmartPart is a very “convenient” way of developing web parts.
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Sam Gentile's Jonathan writes his first distributed app!
Sam has a wonderful little posting about taking his son Jonathan to work (at Adesso) and him writing his first distributed application! Adesso should consider using 6-1/2 year-old Jonathan as a model!
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Groove v3 (Virtual Office) is out!
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Groove v3 comes out very soon
The long awaited Groove v3 comes out very soon - this is a different beast than prior versions. Not only in UI but very considerable improvements in performance. Peter O'Kelly, an analyst with research firm Burton Group calls it "This is the deepest security you're going to find in a commercially available product--period".
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Does ActiveViews have a web service interface?
I am developing with the SQL2K Reporting Services and MSFT's recently acquired, ActiveViews, has me more interested in this SQL Server reporting capability. Does anyone know if ActiveViews has a web service interface? (see illustration in prior post).
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ActiveViews integration with SQL2K Server Reporting Services
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Roy makes MVP
Roy makes MVP! A very well deserved accolade. I recall encountering Roy well over a year ago and his 'Regulator' Regular Expression tool has helped me out a lot (I did attempt to document it via the Regulator Wiki and perform some beta testing). Roy also sponsors some interesting “contests“ - the Desktop Screen and the recent VS.NET Add-in. He's a great asset to the .NET community. Congrats Roy!
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Using W2K3 Server as a desktop
I use a W2K3 Server as a desktop (upgrading from WinXP). It's far more stable and in addition, has IIS6 and WSS built-in. Feed it more memory (>1gb) and it'll do more wonders. Kevin Moore had a posting about using W2K3 as a desktop and there's a site ('msfn.org') that's also a source of info on this topic.
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Happy Birthday America!
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Using .NET in the Enterprise (Barry Gervin's Blog)
A very interesting blog - Barry Gervin's Software Architecture Perspective. Lots of very interesting info about using .NET in the Enterprise.