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I am not a spaghetti coder
Following the reactions I got from a previous post, I decided it was time to fight back against the Microsoft pasta people! (Beware: I still like spaghetti but with tomato sauce)
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[Video] Clare Dillon Microsoft Ireland and the role of communities at the last INDA meeting
Now next in our video series, Clare Dillon Microsoft Ireland and some nice comments on the history of INDA and generally on the role of communities.
If I started a community in Ireland, I have to say because of Clare who help me a lot building a now 900 members user group.
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.Text compatible with .Net 2.0?
I installed the .Net 2.0 package on web server. But it seems I have some problem with .Text. Anybody has done this and can tell what are the modifications to make .Text working?
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[Video] Ian Griffiths session - Avalon at the last INDA meeting
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The Code Spaghetti generation is back
Over the last few months, I try to read and prepare some book reviews regarding ASP.NET 2.0. So with all my personal subjectivity, I found myself embroiled in some sort of conspiracy by the C.S.G. aka the Code Spaghetti Generation. -
Send me the money
Wow, thanks to S.B. Chatterjee, I know I am 'virtually' rich. So where I can claim the money now :-)
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[Video] Dino Esposito session - Dynamic Expressions at the last INDA meeting
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Google Base
Google has launched a new service but play with our nerves by switching on and off the service all the time. Well at least the entry page is really there but this morning I was unable to enter.
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Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package
The Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package is also available for download now.
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Visual Studio 2005 Final version...
... available on MSDN.
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INDA Conference - the speakers
To finish Eamon O’Tuathaile (do I need to say again that he is the Microsoft Security Champion 2004) delivered a lecture on birds breeding in Donegal (oops sorry wrong topic!). Indeed it was about DSL (Dynamic Structured Languages)
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INDA conference - the speakers
Then after a nice lunch, Ian Griffiths assumed perfectly his mission to keep up the crowd (100!) awake with Avalon (aka WPF). I recommend that you read his new book on the subject anyway!
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INDA Conference - the speakers
Then after a coffee break, it was the turn of Paul Fallon, majestic as usual, in one of his ‘tour de force’ speech on Indigo (aka WCF)
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INDA Conference - the speakers
First we started with Dino Esposito on ASP.NET 2.0 Dynamic Expressions. As you can see Dino show as an Italian he can talk with his hands.
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INDA conference - the team
On this picture almost everybody was there early on the morning. Paul Fallon is not on the frame, he was surely recovering from the bloggers dinner the night before!
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INDA Treasure Hunt competition - the winners [part6]
Yesterday at the INDA conference some lucky people won some incredible prizes total value of over 13000 Euros! Thanks again to our sponsors for their generous efforts for the community
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INDA Treasure Hunt competition - the winners [part5]
Yesterday at the INDA conference some lucky people won some incredible prizes total value of over 13000 Euros! Thanks again to our sponsors for their generous efforts for the community
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INDA Treasure Hunt competition - the winners [part4]
Yesterday at the INDA conference some lucky people won some incredible prizes total value of over 13000 Euros! Thanks again to our sponsors for their generous efforts for the community
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INDA Treasure Hunt competition - the winners [part3]
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INDA Treasure Hunt competition - the winners [part2]
Yesterday at the conference some lucky people won some incredible prizes total value of over 13000 Euros! Thanks again to our sponsors for their generous efforts for the community
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INDA Treasure Hunt competition - the winners [part1]
Yesterday at the conference some lucky people won some incredible prizes total value of over 13000 Euros! Thanks again to our sponsors for their generous efforts for the community
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Ian Griffiths - Windows Presentation Foundation
After a very succesful session yesterday to present Avalon (I still prefer the old codename), Ian Griffiths is now on his way for the second leg of his journey in Ireland, Belfast.
I really ask everybody to meet Ian, such a nice man, and with a very persuasive and powerful voice. Ian almost blew up the audio recording, all levels in the red zone :-)
Anyway Ian will be also tomorrow in Waterford, then on Friday in Galway.
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Thanks to everybody!
Thanks to all of you for making the 1st INDA birthday conference a success.
Thanks to the 100 delegates, thanks to all the sponsors, thanks to our speakers Dino Esposito, Paul Fallon, Eamon O'Tuathaile and Ian Griffiths.
I hope to have soon some pictures, and the videos of the lectures too.
For the moment my head is hurting after a very long night :-)
INDA is now starting a new year an I promise all people involved will do our best to make this second year even better! -
INDA Conference on the starting blocks
After few months of preparation, a lot of hard wrk has been achieved today to build our first user group birthday. I wish the best luck for our four speakers this Tuesday (in their orde of appearance: Dino Esposito, Paul Fallon, Ian Griffiths and Eamon O’Tuathail).
With a big thanks to our different sponsors, Microsoft, New Horizons, Hosting365, Eden Recruitment, SureSkills, Allen Recruitment and all the publishers like O’Reilly, Apress, Addison-Wesley, Murach, INDA has managed to prepare a nice Delegates Package. -
[Gizmo] Zizzoo
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Some dude have some hard time working in Intel ...
Hard time for this bloke, now if anyone knows anyone in Intel, good luck ;-)
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What podcast can you recommend?
I am starting to get on the podcast stuff now that the traffic in Dublin start to be heavy and Mr Winter knocking at the door. I am curious to know what podcast you people can recommend for a geek.
The ones I listen regularly are Engadget and Dave's Ipaq but I like to know more, more in the Ajax and .Net too.
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What is it?
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FlyakiteOSX
This is so fun. Well done, a functional website which look like if you were using MacOSX .
The site is there not to promote Macintosh, but also to let you download for free a package to transform your Windows XP as a MacOSX looka like.
Really stunning, and works well on my Dell desktop PC. I am sure anyway I saw somewhere similar site which mimic XP, can't rember which one anyway.
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WWW SQL Designer
Wow this is really a neat useful tool. SQL Designer use a lot Ajax to let you designing online you SQL diagrams. You can even export your schemas in XML or scripts.
I really have to see if it works well with SQL 2005.
See the demo and then go to the main page here.
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Google drops Gmail name in UK
Bad news for Google !
"Google has dropped the Gmail name for its e-mail service in the UK following a long-running row with a small British company that has claimed the rights to the trademark. [...] From today new users of Google's e-mail service will get an @googlemail.com address. Those that have already signed up will keep their @gmail.com addresses."
Source: The Times
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The Really Simple History framework
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Visual Studio 2005 Ireland Community Launch
Join the Irish .NET Community for the launch of Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 and SQL Server™ 2005 in Dublin*, Galway, Cork or Waterford!
This event will give you a great overview of how and why these new tools fit into Microsoft’s application platform. You will also have the chance to meet and interact with technical experts.
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Treasure Chest - last chance to register
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The Flying Toasters are Back (for free) !
Well this post is not about a new SciFi flick but more about nostalgia, at the time when the Macintosh was screen savers were done mostly using After Dark.
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Windows-Tools on CD-ROM
This is really cool stuff! Dirk Loss has listed a whole bunch of Windows utilities you can run directly from a CD Rom (or a USB memory key).
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New add-in for Outlook: Outlook Calendar Views
Overview
The Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Calendar Views Add-in makes it easy for you to view your Outlook Calendar appointments through a filter that is based on Outlook labels and categories. For example, you can create a view that shows you only the appointments on your calendar that are labeled Must Attend, or are categorized as Important.
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New CodeSnippet site
Michael Palermo has created a site for sharing code snippets.
Hopefully it will be a success :-)
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Backbase compare themselves to Atlas
BackBase is an Ajax Framework and they might have seen some pressure regarding Microsoft Atlas, so that's probably why they have decided to write a comparison.
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Steve Ballmer in Dublin last week
Robert Burke, Microsoft Ireland, was at the front row to take some cool pictures.
On the first one you can see Steve addressing the community, on the second one addressing the students in Trinity College, Dublin
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ROM upgrade for iMate Jasjar
If you are the lucky owner of an iMate JasJar (yes I have one too), don't forget to register to the club iMate. Some cool stuff there.
One I noticed yesterday was a more recent ROM version than the one I got.
I just installed it, and works like a charm. Sadly no release notes to see what was fixed. Don't forget of course to backup your data before the upgrade.
Last thing, upgrades for this device has never been so easy, far away the time where you have to do some weird reset on an iPaq to update the ROM.
New ROM version: 1.13.53 WWE - 23/09/2005 - Radio version - 1.03.01
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C# and VB.Net for Beginners to Programming Workbook and Videos
Free videos to download for learning the basics with VB and C#.
This unique series features 22 lessons containing a workbook chapter with questions, exercises, further readings and one or more videos that step an absolute beginner through learning the most fundamental C# topic matter. If you have never programmed before and want to learn C#, this is a great place to start.
Source : LearnVisualStudio.NET
For VB.NET click here
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Hotmail Kahuna Beta review
Paul Thurrott has an in-depth look at the new version of HotMail (codename Kahuna) on his SuperSite. Lots of screen shots show a very Outlook-like three-pane interface, drag-and-drop, and other AJAX goodness.
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Hands On Lab tomorrow - Microsoft Dublin
I invite everybody in Dublin who missed the PDC (or couldn't afford it) to catch up tomorrow with Robert Burke in Microsoft Sandyford for a cool Hands On Lab on Windows Communication Foundation (aka Indigo) and Windows Presentation Foundation (aka Avalon).
I was there today and I can tell it's really great to get an access to a PC, playing with the technology and not to be afraid tobreak anything.
If Robert, by any chance you read my post, I still have to figure out why the Avalon exercice 7 didn't worked well for me :-)
For the registration details, please contact Robert Burke on his blog.
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[Announcement] INETA Ireland is now official
I am pleased to announce that Paul Fallon has taken the role to represent the INETA Ireland bureau, starting from today.
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Sharepoint meeting: the videos
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Apple, back in the front row for great software?
I am watching the Apple event from today and dude, I think Apple really impress me, but this time is not about hardware.
Yes sure t new iPod, the new version of the iMac are pretty cool stuff.
But really I was blown away by their capacity to provide some sleek UI in their tools, and make all the applications so desirable.
Maybe this is news for you, but I really think Steve just launched today with FrontRow their answer to Windows Media Center. I really like the idea of a simple remote control to access from my couch all the media content, I just hope I could use this on my little Mac Mini. Steve Jobs even dare to show its tiny remote control compared to the Media Center ones with dozens of buttons!
But man the software is really great, simple to use, and I am really worry about for Windows Vista. I know that Microsoft promised some awesome graphics for the Beta 2, but hey Apple is really too good on this.
Also shown today was their new iChat Audio Video, and again, yes video conferencing can't be more easy than that. The demo was astounding showing Steve chatting with 3 people in real time, and with a pseudo 3d effect. Amazing!
And also built in the new iMac by default. I believe in Microsoft to react but Apple have really what it take to move the entire industry forward.
Maybe Microsoft should hire some Apple developers ?
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New Ipods
In case you care, Steve Jobs has just announced a new Ipod 60Gb 399$ in white and one in black, smaller than the current one, with a bigger 2.5 inch screen, able to play videos, but still presented as a music device. And a new iTunes 6.0 (a month after the version 5.0!)
So nothing really awesome this time just a kind of continuity.
From Engadget:
iTunes 6.0 will also feature video and the iTunes Music Store will feature video downloads (big surprise, right?)—at launch over 2,000 music videos will be made available at a cost of $1.99 apiece.
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Delegates: Simple introduction
From Mark Berck, a simple idea to explain delegates:
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Sending Emails Asynchronously in C#
I found a great article in sending emails asynchronously(C#) . I based my code to some parts from it to write a window service which is being called every 1 hour to check if there are any email message to be sent from the database
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Sharepoint meeting tonight: Excellent!
Thanks to our speakers Tiernan and Mark for their great lecture on Sharepoint. They had the good idea to have a short speech, and then a QAs which was absolutly brilliant.
Regarding the subject, expect to see more on Sharepoint in the next months, probably in some innovative way.
If you missed the event I will have the video and audio up on Developers.ie soon.
Now time to think about our next big event, a full day conference to celebrate the first year for the user group (already pass the 900 members!). So don't miss it, register on Developers.ie, you won't regret it :-) -
Yahoo launch Yahoo Podcast
Some competition for ITunes? Now we can hope with Yahoo podcasts to have this technology more popular.
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First membership cards on their way
Just out of press, the first new user group membership cards for all registered users of INDA. -
OutPost: PostBack Over XmlHttp
OutPost is a new angle on AJAX. Other AJAX frameworks use specifically tailored Web Services that you have to write yourself to return the data you need. And none of the frameworks fully support the benefits of the ASP.NET Framework. With AJAX you have to re-think and re-write your code.
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General Network Error... more than 2 years and still looking for a coherent solution
This post has been probably the most unsuccessful attempt to solve a very weird .Net error.
I am still waiting for an answer (like many apparently). Well Parmesh thanks for the KB, but this is not really related to the issue.
Anyway now that Scott Guthrie knows this blog, maybe he can give us an answer. I just hope this has been solved with .Net 2.0
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Ready Launch tour started!
Cool, just see that the launch of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL 2005 all around the world will have the same type of poster, very showbiz!
Plus apparently if you're coming, you will go back home with a free Visual Studio 2005 Professional and SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition.
Wow Rock'n roll :-)
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INDA Library - New books
If you're joining us tomorrow at the SharePoint meeting, don't forget to ask me about the Library.
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INDA Dublin - meeting tomorrow - Sharepoint
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My first 3 weeks with a Windows Mobile 5.0 device
Yes 3 weeks already that I received my new toy, sort of pre Christmas gift to myself.
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Book: DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM
I read online few chapters of the excellent book by Stuart Langridge DHTML Utopia published by SitePoint and just wow!
It's a great refresh of everything you assume as right regarding websites construction. This is really a great start for Web 2.0 applications, Ajax techniques are also covered by the author, and one methodolgy I really like to develop now is unobtrusive Javascript, which let your users have a better experience with a web application.
If anybody from Sitepoint read me, yes I am ok for a review :-)
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Client Side Paging in DataGrid
I know I am in Ajax mood, but it's because I code actually a lot of small Ajax stuff in my current projects.
So this article by Russel Aboobacker come handy regarding some explanations about Datagrid and Ajax.
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Ajax Mistakes
Alex Bosworth list all the mistakes developers can make with Ajax.
You can add also your own suggestions here.
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dTree
dTree is a free JavaScript tree menu.
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New book: Pragmatic Ajax
Interesting reading (the book is still in Beta approach) and available also in PDF (20$).
Contents
I like the cross platform idea, it's not just Java or .Net, but this book covers more.
- Building Rich Internet Applications with Ajax. What is Ajax. Why now? Wither now?
- Ajax In Action. What it means to Ajaxify a web application.
- Ajax Explained. Client-side JavaScript. DOM manipulation. Server access.
- Google Maps Made Easy. Folks are awed by Google Maps, but it isn't rocket science (apart from the satellite pictures). See how to implement your own Google Maps-like application using DHTML.(partial extract...)
- Ajax Frameworks. Why you need a framework. Introduction to Dojo and Prototype. (partial extract...)
- Ajax UI, Part I. Using Ajax and JavaScript to provide a rich client user interface.
- Ajax UI, Part II. Standard patterns. Web forms and effects. A look at the things that you shouldn't do when deploying Ajax applications. (partial extract...)
- Degradable Ajax. Degrading gracefully with old browsers, and browsers with JavaScript disabled.
- Debugging Ajax. Tools, techniques, and tricks.
- Server-side frameworks. Java, .NET, PHP, and Rails
- Beyond Ajax. Mozilla XUL, Microsoft HTA, Flash as an Ajax component.
- Ajax Futures. E4X, Canvas, SVG, JSON.
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List of websites using Ajax
Interesting compilation of sites using Ajax on Wikipedia. Maybe the list is a bit short, but I believe we can already add a lot more.
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MSConfig update
Microsoft has released an update to the old Windows utility, MSConfig. One interesting thing is the new tools menu wich provides a single location to launch many useful Windows administration utilities.
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Bye bye Outlook Express...
... hello Windows Email. Following the current fashion to name every product with Windows, now Bryan Starbuck, the development lead for Outlook Express talk about the improvements you will find in WE, like a faster Search.
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The MVP season has opened!
OK so seems that a new
huntingMVP season is opened. So if you find one flying high in the sky please don't shoot him, let him alive, we might need him.
Anyway because I believe a lot of new MVPs awards are on their way I decided this year to write one general congaratulations post for everybody. And as usual, I wish the best for the eventual Irish MVPs ( come on we can 'nest' more of them in our green country, I know at least one or two nice contestants here)
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Multi column in CSS
I post this because it could be useful to a lot of web designers trying to implement a multi column page on their web application.
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Make magazine
Just subscribed to the new magazine MAKE launched by Philipp Torrone. It’s a kind of geek meeting DIY enthusiast, where you can find any sort of hacks and build yourself type of projects. -
Top 20 Ajax applications
If you still don’t have heard yet about Ajax, you can catch up with this list of cool Ajax applications (part 1, part 2), compiled by Dan Grossman.
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My first technical Ebook
I am used to Ebooks but for novels or sci-fi stories. Now with some doubts, I tried the new Apress Ebook service and I reckon I am convinced by the idea.
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Absolutely Free Software
This page list most of the free software you can find today for Windows.
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Web 2.0, what is it?
A lot of people are now talking about web 2.0, a multitude of definitions are launched, but I think Richard Mac Manus summarize it well in this article.
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AJAX in action
Good article by Mohammad Azam on CodeProject about real Ajax demo.
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Domains registered to Google
To follow one of my previous posts, you can check here a list of domains Google has registered, compiled by Gary Price. Some interesting stuff here, you can see maybe some future releases.
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Mobical another cool web application
Web applications are the latest coolest things on the web, and another one I used recently is Mobical.
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Future me
Some fun stuff for tonight. Future me propose to let you send an email to a future you, yes literally.
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Google after Office?
Seems that Google’s plot to dominate the world (:-)) unfold every day, revealing a piece at a time like a giant puzzle.
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Ebooks from Apress
Apress has a good reputation as a .Net publisher and they have launched a series of ebooks.
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Security Seminar
One of INDA partner, New Horizons, has an interesting seminar coming on the 11th of October.
