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Chris Bowen is finally joining Microsoft
This past Saturday, I attended Code Camp 6 where Chris Bowen announced that he's taking Thom Robbins' position starting Nov 6th. About time! & Congratulations!
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Code Camp 6: Devs on a Plane (Oct 21-22 @ Waltham MA)
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Chris Bowen at Connecticut .NET Dev Group - 26th Sept
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Daring Joel
Jesse Ezell has a posting on'Dare on Joel''. Not quite sure why daring Joel should be such an issue. Jesse's post was in reference to Dare's posting which was a timely response to Joel's views on using esoteric languages like 'Wasabi' which may be anachronistic.
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XNA dev docs
Sparse dev docs on XNA out there. Here's one -
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Tabulating offline SharePoint 2007 solutions
This interesting table from Colligo summarizes the "offline SharePoint 2007 solutions:
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MSFT .NET 3.0 - Release Candidate
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SharePoint 2007 Workflow
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SharePoint 2007 Resources & Links
I am knee-deep in Groove & SharePoint v2007. Some links & resources listed here are well worth digging into:
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Visual Studio 2005 Installation FUBAR that 'The Daily WTF' missed
Perhaps it missed it because this VS2K5 installation FUBAR qualifies for the Annual WTF - missing VS2K5 Website templates. Read the discussion thread here ... (ironically, what worked for me is picking the second Visual C# item from the drop-down box under 'New Website')..
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Thom Robbins - onwards and upwards to Redmond WA
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Open Warfare in Open Source
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Robert Hurlbut to talk about SQL Server 2005 Service Broker at CTDOTNET
Robert Hurlbut is going to be presenting tomorrow (Aug 22 6-8PM @ Microsoft Farmington Office) for the Connecticut .NET Developers Group. The topic is SQL Server 2005 Service Broker - more details here...
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SQL Server installations beats up the registry - not good for Infragistics NetAdvantage installation
While installing Infragistics NetAdvantage in the Toolbox, I encountered an insidious error. Apparently, SQL Server installations tamper with the registry in a way it's not suppose to. Following Chetan's blog posting cured the problem. Thanks Chetan.
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Hello World from Windows Live Writer
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Groove the “offline” SharePoint
Wild Bill Simser has a most interesting post about 'The Sad State of Groove add-ons'. I couldn't agree more with Bill. Seeing Groove development for nearly 5 years now and much has changed. The Groove Tools SDK is very much missed by the Groove development community. There has not been much Groove tools (these add-on to the Groove space itself) over the years but the few that were, were quite exceptional. A notable example is CompuTact-Apwiz (a company that I am associated with) - over the past 5 years we have had more tools than Groove Networks itself! As mentioned by Bill - other tools came from Information Patterns & NetSender. There were others (TeamDirection another exceptional one). Groove space add-ons were a very innovative (& much loved) way of enhancing the Groove client. The Groove add-on SDK (with the Visual Studio integration) had won the famed Jolt Award (& Sam Gentile was part of that effort.. :-)
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Coming soon to a HONDA dealer near you...
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size matters - "Java succumbing to .NET in my organization"
I picked up this trail from Fabrice's posting that pointed to this article in TheServerSide.com. One cannot ascertain what is the size of the company that the writer (Neil Chaudhuri) belongs to. Size matters - larger companies (Fortune 500 onwards) that have hundreds (& perhaps thousands) of developers can afford the luxury of choices (as described in the article). What is interesting is that smaller companies (say less than 80 developers - I mean developers and not including thescaffolding crew of analysts, tech writers, DBAs, etc) can do better if they pick one development environment, be it Java or .NET or the Mac! A choice not easily made but is paramount that it be done. For a productive development environment, like good wine, takes time to mature. Quite a few smaller companies make the mistake of having a 'heterogenous' environment - spattering of Java with sprays of .NET (that too with constraints - ok with VB.NET but C# is verboten). The key here is to pick a development environment with its portfolio of tools & libraries and let it grow along with the developers!
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Groove 2007: Software Development Kit
Groove 2007: Software Development Kit is here...
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Tags and more tags
Reading Plip's posting about 'tags' that are needed for appearance in the main feed -
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Thanks for the new CS blog
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INETA Leadership Summit
User Group Leaders today faces many challenges such as promoting your group, financing, engaging existing members, recruiting speakers, finding new sources of content, leveraging local Microsoft relationships; etc. The New England INETA user groups along with INETA, in hopes of building a more close knit community, invites you all to join us on Sunday June 11th, prior to the start of TechEd 2006 to explore, share and learn about what has worked and what resource are out there. You are not alone, we know your pain!
As a follow-up to last year's hugely successful INETA User Group Leadership Summit, the New England INETA User Groups will host this event in the hope of that we can all learn from one another to improve the user group experience for our attendees as well as ourselves. The sessions are open to all leaders, both local and afar. If you are currently involved with a user group, in a leadership role or not, want to get involved, or even looking to start one then you will get powerful direction in the course of the sessions. -
Would you buy a developer tool from a company that has their head up their URL?
To download the installation kit, please click on the following link, or copy and paste the URL into the address field of your web browser:
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MONAD moves from beta to 'Windows PowerShell'
and the release candidate is available here...
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Microsoft's new brain
FORTUNE magazine has a very interesting article on Microsoft's new brain -
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microsoft.public.groove
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Groove at Code Camp 5!
There's a rumour floating about that none other than Hugh Pyle (Sr Product Manager @ Groove Microsoft) is going to present at *Code Camp 5!
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New England Groove Usability Research
Work with us to shape the future of Groove and Office.
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Flashy Groove within Office 2007 demo
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Agile Does Not Scale Very Well - a response
Paul Gielens has a thought-provoking posting on 'Agile Does Not Scale Very Well'. I posted a response to it but here it is again -
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Hugh's multiple postings on Groove, SharePoint and other new cool stuff
Looks like Hugh Pyle (Sr Product Manager @ Groove Microsoft) has been busy -
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XSLT Questions and Answers
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How Office got its Groove
One year after selling his Massachusetts start-up to Bill Gates, Ray Ozzie is challenging Microsoft to change or face extinction (more at Boston Globe)
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Looking for DotNetNuke (DNN) Hosting for .NET User Groups
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Announcing Code Camp 5: Code Frenzy!
Announcing Code Camp 5: Code Frenzy!
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Wringing the Web
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Moving from eRoom to Groove+SharePoint collaborative environment
Back in 2004, I had done a small evaluation project for a client who wanted to move from eRoom into a Groove+SharePoint collaborative environment. It was an interesting project and much was learned from it. I had very briefly mentioned my findings at Eli Robillard's blog posting HERE. Since then, I have received almost a hundred emails about it. I have posted that document HERE (it has been edited to remove client-sensitive information). Much has changed within eRoom, Groove and SharePoint - this year will see new & improved versions. Hopefully, I'll get to work on these again.
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Applications for Windows SharePoint Services - test app sites
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MSFT Office Groove 2007 - FAQ answered
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ANNOUNCING The CTDOTNET Study Group
Connecticut DotNet Developers Group has started a Study Group (a great initiative by Dan Krhla) -
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Groove has a place in 2007 Microsoft Office System Enterprise Suite
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BitTorrent Client Shootout
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The Groove Deployment at Microsoft
The Microsoft internal deployment of Groove is up to over 8000 active users since we started the rollout last May.
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GrooveAid - Groove tool for Global Relief Management released by CompuTact
Apwiz (CompuTact) has released GrooveAid. GrooveAid is the first product that can be deployed safely and securely across agencies / companies to Plan and Manage the complex demands of global relief management. It even provides secure video / messaging for first respondents and fieldworkers to communicate the situation on the ground as well a complete resource tracking module for those who need to actually procure and distribute supplies or deploy people in the field.
Details here ...
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Ray Ozzie on Live Labs!
Ray Ozzie announces the inaguration of Live Labs in his blog posting..
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RSS Adapter for Groove Available
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SOA Web Services Journal is Harrison Ford's Favorite Magazine in the Movie "Firewall"
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Software and services exports from India reached $17.2 bln in fiscal 2005
Software and services exports from India reached $17.2 bln in fiscal 2005 by ZDNet's ZDNet Research -- India's software and services exports were $17.2 bln in the fiscal year ended March 31 in 2005, up by 34.5% from the previous year, according to the National Association of Software and Service Companies. BPO services industry could be bringing in $60 bln by the year 2010, growing at over 25% a year.