This is the the third instalment of my experiences and ideas around the development of a piece of software to initially satisfy my disappointment around Outlook and also to allow me to play with some new technologies and making them all work together. Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here . This latest instalment...

In a part 1 of this series , I talked about what was the purpose of coming up with this "software thingy". Now I will tackle some of the design aspects that have evolved as I have been working on it. Just to mention the requirements again though, it must be able to gather and store information from literally...

Its been a little while since I have blogged as I haven't had very many value items to add to the blogosphere lately. However, I have been steadily (albeit slowly) working away on a little software project that may or may not see the light of day, but it has been a fun learning experience, and may eventually...

Note the special date of April’s meeting and the special registration requirements. This month’s meeting will be a joint meeting for IVBUG, IVCUG, and .NET Architects User Groups, so that we can all take advantage of a special guest speaker – Matthew Winkler from Microosft Corp (Remond). Matt is a Workflow...

Following in the footsteps of last year's event, Microsoft Israel is repeating the Microsoft Developer Academt event (tomorrow, November 27, 2007). This full-day event offers 6 parallel tracks of presentations and panel disucssions, across 5 time slots. Lots of of real-world and new technology sessions...

I'm completing final preparations for my trip to Barcelona next week for the annual Microsoft TechEd (EMEA) event. I'll be there from Sunday through Thursday and am giving the following presentation Mashups and Windows Live - Not Just for Browsers (WIN203) 6 November 2007 Start: 15:15 Finish: 16:30 Although...

I have been associated with DNUG and SQLCON since long, and i have seen how much it has helped the developer community. Some of us have been thinking it would be great if a similar thing be available for Architects and Aspiring architects as well here. In the same context a week back i started a group...

So, this New York Times article claims that mashups are about to go mainstream - do you agree ? Have you been playing with mashups? Have you build a "real" or at least really usefull mashup application? Previous posts of mine on mashups: http://weblogs.asp.net/jackieg/archive/2007/05/30/mashups-for-the...

Although it has been around since this past TechEd US, The Region has now moved to ists permanent home at http://www.theregion.com/ The Region is basically the public global center for the 140 Microsoft Regional Directors around the world. It is a single view into the blogs of all of these technical...

I have been sick and out of action lately, and one of the things that has transpired during this period is the launch of the Readify Developer Network - RDN . Greg Low does a great job of explaining it in detail in his post , but here is a quick snippet of what its all about. Its basically a series of...