I just came back after attending the developer track at Dallas TechDays. It was a really good session. Zain Naboulsi was the main presenter, and man can this guy talk! He gave a 3 part presentation by himself that spanned to almost 4 hours. Here's a picture I clicked with my cellphone during one of the...

I just came across this: www.MyRampUp Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based program that can help users save time in learning Microsoft technology. The easy-to-access content (provided by subject-matter gurus) is specifically tailored to the Ramp Up program, and offered in a variety of forms (whitepaper...

A few weeks ago I announced the availability of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) in Beta. Web PI makes it easy to obtain and install the Microsoft Web Platform, including IIS, ASP.NET, Visual Web Developer Express, SQL Express and tons of other great IIS and other platform extensions in...

A few times a year, I'm lucky enough to get to spend a week in Las Vegas. Well, I use the term lucky loosely here. A week in Vegas can be a huge drain, even if you're not gambling all of your money away, or spending your nights drinking out of glasses that are bigger than you are. But it's still something...

Almost every popular PHP app that you may want to run on IIS7 requires MySQL.  I just ran across a couple of really great articles which provide step by step instructions for how to get MySQL and PHPMyAdmin running.  First, learn how to get MySQL going on Windows 2008 by reading this tutorial...

Here are a few cool links I found today while catching up on my IIS reading:   URL Rewrite In case you missed it, the IIS7 URL Rewrite extension is now licensed for production use in its final beta release.  Deploy it today and get all the benefits from one of the most powerful IIS7 features...

Voting has been open for a few days now for which lectures will be featured at the next Microsoft Developers' Academy. The event is the second most important event for Microsoft-platform-developers in Israel, surpassed only by the biennial Tech-Ed Israel. Among some very interesting lectures I would...

I've was looking for an interesting project to get my hands on live maps API. Just to get the hang of developing cool application on top of Live maps. I've started this Olympics Medal Count + Community Contributed Data + Live Maps Mashup And It's almost complete. Take a look at this Beijing 2008 Medals...

Microsoft Press has created an exclusive discount URL for the E-Reference Library that MVP s can pass along to the broader community without any limitations or restrictions. To create a trial subscription, community referrals should use the Trial URL ( http://microsofteref2.books24x7.com/promo.asp?ref...

I just love the fact that there's a "Community Content" section to the MSDN documentation. I just found out that there's an undocumented exception coming from the System.Net.Mail.MailMessage.Subject property, I browsed to the relevant MSDN page and simply added a line saying so . It's a nice...