Cloud Computing/Azure Should IT Fear the Cloud or Embrace It ? - David Pallmann explores the impact to IT faced with the challenges presented to it by cloud computing, even in the face of a compelling business story Gold Coast .Net SIG Azure Development Talk - Slides and Demo - Steve Nagy shares his...
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Silverlight/WPF Silverlight Games today and more on the way Hanselminutes Podcast 122 - BabySmash! Tip of the Day #21 - How to work with Shapes, Brushes and Gradients Silverlight Cream for July 25, 2008 -- #334 New version of Silverlight Spy Web 2.0/Social Networking Hanselminutes Podcast 123- Dare Obasanjo...
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ASP.NET MVC Scott Hanselman's ASP.NET MVC Cheesy Northwind Sample Code WPF/Silverlight 'Prism' launches on CodePlex Single source code base for Silverlight and WPF solutions Wonderful WPF Applications : bTwitter C#/.NET/DLR/IronPython Community Convergence XLI Congrats to my good friend Harry...
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ASP.NET MVC Scott Hanselman's ASP.NET MVC Cheesy Northwind Sample Code WPF/Silverlight 'Prism' launches on CodePlex Single source code base for Silverlight and WPF solutions Wonderful WPF Applications : bTwitter C#/.NET/DLR/IronPython Community Convergence XLI Congrats to my good friend Harry on joining...
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BizTalk Services This is one way to find out that the BizTalk Services hosted at http://biztalk.net have been updated :) WCF/Web Service Software Factory/Oslo/Neudesic I really love the new Web Services Software Factory and the Contract Modeling capabilities. They just recently released the WCF Security...
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BizTalk Services This is one way to find out that the BizTalk Services hosted at http://biztalk.net have been updated :) WCF/Web Service Software Factory/Oslo/Neudesic I really love the new Web Services Software Factory and the Contract Modeling capabilities. They just recently released the WCF Security...
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Glenn asked me to keep this quiet until today. As Glenn just announced, the patterns & practices team will develop WPF Composite Client guidance. This follows after the Acropolis team just announced that the core Acropolis concepts will be rolled into future .NET Framework releases. They have learned...
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Glenn asked me to keep this quiet until today. As Glenn just announced, the patterns & practices team will develop WPF Composite Client guidance. This follows after the Acropolis team just announced that the core Acropolis concepts will be rolled into future .NET Framework releases. They have learned...
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Thank God for coffee.... Astoria/Orcas/Data Services The Astoria September 2007 CTP is now available for download and it works with Orcas Beta 2. [via ADO.NET team blog ] SOA Nick Mallik details the things you need before SOA reuse starts to become feasable Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on REST and the Magic of...
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Thank God for coffee.... Astoria/Orcas/Data Services The Astoria September 2007 CTP is now available for download and it works with Orcas Beta 2. [via ADO.NET team blog ] SOA Nick Mallik details the things you need before SOA reuse starts to become feasable Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on REST and the Magic of...
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Trying to squeeze this in before yet another gym workout. As I have been talking about on my personal blog , I have really amped up my running as well as my weight-lifting programs. I joined a 2nd gym at work since it's cheap and on the same floor as the office so I work out every day. Also possibly...
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Trying to squeeze this in before yet another gym workout. As I have been talking about on my personal blog , I have really amped up my running as well as my weight-lifting programs. I joined a 2nd gym at work since it's cheap and on the same floor as the office so I work out every day. Also possibly...
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Financial and Banking I work with a bunch of people that used to work in Collateral at ABN Amro, so it was interesting to see Mike's news that ABN Amro agreed Monday to be acquired by Barclays of Britain for 67 billion euros (nearly $91 billion), creating one of the world’s largest banks SOA/Software...
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Financial and Banking I work with a bunch of people that used to work in Collateral at ABN Amro, so it was interesting to see Mike's news that ABN Amro agreed Monday to be acquired by Barclays of Britain for 67 billion euros (nearly $91 billion), creating one of the world’s largest banks SOA/Software...
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Still real tired from my Oklahoma trip , partying with Raymond sure is exhausting-). Agile/Development Tools On my short list for some time now, is to switch from NUnit to the definitely superior MbUnit. My friend Andrew has done some great work with this tool and he has a new release out with the beta...
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Still real tired from my Oklahoma trip , partying with Raymond sure is exhausting-). Agile/Development Tools On my short list for some time now, is to switch from NUnit to the definitely superior MbUnit. My friend Andrew has done some great work with this tool and he has a new release out with the beta...
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Harry wonders if it has been a slow week. It started that way for me but its certainly not now with both work and the Orcas CTP release. I was getting so bored with .NET in general and even WCF/WF lately. Its really been a long time for me with something new. Vista is so one year ago, WCF too, etc. Last...
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Harry wonders if it has been a slow week. It started that way for me but its certainly not now with both work and the Orcas CTP release. I was getting so bored with .NET in general and even WCF/WF lately. Its really been a long time for me with something new. Vista is so one year ago, WCF too, etc. Last...
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I haven't felt like blogging much lately. Some of that is due to how much is going on at work (much more on that when I feel like it) but I have also haven't really felt jazzed about blogging lately. I want to, and am starting to devote more time to get myself into the gym and my family, both...
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I haven't felt like blogging much lately. Some of that is due to how much is going on at work (much more on that when I feel like it) but I have also haven't really felt jazzed about blogging lately. I want to, and am starting to devote more time to get myself into the gym and my family, both of which...
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Winter has finally set in with single digit temps and minus degrees wind chills but still no snow. WPF/Avalon Adam's WPF book is out and flying off the shelves apparently ! I have been looking forward to this one as his COM Interop book is the bible there. Feb CTP of WPF/E! New Docs, SDK and QuickStarts...
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Winter has finally set in with single digit temps and minus degrees wind chills but still no snow. WPF/Avalon Adam's WPF book is out and flying off the shelves apparently ! I have been looking forward to this one as his COM Interop book is the bible there. Feb CTP of WPF/E! New Docs, SDK and QuickStarts...
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Way back on Sep. 7th of last year, I published an entry on writing your first WPF program on Vista . Now, that Vista is really out, and there is a ton of excitement about WPF on blogs lately, I have been ramping up again on WPF. I spent about 4 hours this morning from 1-4 AM (yes that's when there's...
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WPF/Avalon One thing I had forgotten about in Avalon is the XAML Browser Apps (XBAPS) sandboxed in the browser. Karen Corby has two posts here on features and the second on security levels . [Found via Lester's WPF Blog ] One of the things I am looking at architecturally for 2007, is rationalizing the...
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WPF/Avalon One thing I had forgotten about in Avalon is the XAML Browser Apps (XBAPS) sandboxed in the browser. Karen Corby has two posts here on features and the second on security levels . [Found via Lester's WPF Blog ] One of the things I am looking at architecturally for 2007, is rationalizing...
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Completely buried with two projects and the main one is going to CTP #2 at a major back in Paris/London next week so going to scrape this together quickly. I have also been pairing with Steve back on the main project on solving performance problems - yesterday, he and I optimized a section of the system...
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A N&N from Brussels Belgium where I am up in the middle of the night (again I wake up at 3AM!) with my sleep hours all screwed up. I am enjoying my week here nonetheless. I don't know quite what to make of Brussels. Some parts remind me quite a bit of Paris but there is this weird mix of "modern"...
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A N&N from Brussels Belgium where I am up in the middle of the night (again I wake up at 3AM!) with my sleep hours all screwed up. I am enjoying my week here nonetheless. I don't know quite what to make of Brussels. Some parts remind me quite a bit of Paris but there is this weird mix of "modern"...
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Some exciting announcements and tools from Microsoft today. Michael Swanson's got all the information here . Of big interest to me is the first Community CTP of WPF/E ....
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Some exciting announcements and tools from Microsoft today. Michael Swanson's got all the information here . Of big interest to me is the first Community CTP of WPF/E ....
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Ok after all this confus ion (a bunch of questions still remain), I was able to install the whole bunch on Vista 5600 and I got my first Avalon program working there from VS2005. .NET 3 Runtime Components (already installed in box) Microsoft Windows SDK Sept CTP Orcas Tools for .NET Framework 3 Windows...
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Ok after all this confus ion (a bunch of questions still remain), I was able to install the whole bunch on Vista 5600 and I got my first Avalon program working there from VS2005. .NET 3 Runtime Components (already installed in box) Microsoft Windows SDK Sept CTP Orcas Tools for .NET Framework 3 Windows...
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As I said in my Vista post, "As you know from all my posts about our project we are not exactly using old technology but everything bleeding that pushes the edge (.NET 3, WCF, etc)." That and having over 20 years of alpha and beta program experience at Microsoft (Building 20 is my 2nd home...
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As I said in my Vista post, "As you know from all my posts about our project we are not exactly using old technology but everything bleeding that pushes the edge (.NET 3, WCF, etc)." That and having over 20 years of alpha and beta program experience at Microsoft (Building 20 is my 2nd home...
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I don't know what to title this post. My friend Scott Hanselman is having all sorts of legitimate problems with Vista RC1 and finds the experience painful, which have led at least some to not install. He lists a bunch of things that either don't install or are not working correctly. As we all...
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I don't know what to title this post. My friend Scott Hanselman is having all sorts of legitimate problems with Vista RC1 and finds the experience painful, which have led at least some to not install. He lists a bunch of things that either don't install or are not working correctly. As we all know, Scott...
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Too busy to comment. Here is what I'm reading... SOA/WCF/BPM/Workflow My good friend Tomas has a sample on implementing IWsdlExportExtension for WCF which can be used to customize the WSDL generation process for a given service contract or service endpoint And again with Testing Code That Invokes...
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Too busy to comment. Here is what I'm reading... SOA/WCF/BPM/Workflow My good friend Tomas has a sample on implementing IWsdlExportExtension for WCF which can be used to customize the WSDL generation process for a given service contract or service endpoint And again with Testing Code That Invokes WebServices...
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Ok, so now I got Windows Vista RC1 installed (You can get it too from MSDN Subscriber Downloads) and I have the Orcas tools installed . I have been playing with Avalon since 2002 and it was announced as a "pillar of Longhorn" to all of you at the 2003 PDC but yet it seems to be a good time...
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Ok, so now I got Windows Vista RC1 installed (You can get it too from MSDN Subscriber Downloads) and I have the Orcas tools installed . I have been playing with Avalon since 2002 and it was announced as a "pillar of Longhorn" to all of you at the 2003 PDC but yet it seems to be a good time...
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Finally, after being MIA for over a week, the Orcas RC Tools are up [H]. The Development Tools for .NET Framework (RC1) provides developers with support for building .NET Framework 3.0 applications using the final released version of Visual Studio 2005. This support includes XAML Intellisense support...
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Finally, after being MIA for over a week, the Orcas RC Tools are up [H]. The Development Tools for .NET Framework (RC1) provides developers with support for building .NET Framework 3.0 applications using the final released version of Visual Studio 2005. This support includes XAML Intellisense support...
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Happy Father's Day to all other Fathers! My son made me breakfast and in a letter said "I was smarter than Einstein" and "are you sure you didn't invent E = mc2 and Albert E. copied you?" -)) Data/ORM/ADO.NET 3 Ayende has been reading the docs for the ADO.Net Entities Framework...
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Happy Father's Day to all other Fathers! My son made me breakfast and in a letter said "I was smarter than Einstein" and "are you sure you didn't invent E = mc2 and Albert E. copied you?" -)) Data/ORM/ADO.NET 3 Ayende has been reading the docs for the ADO.Net Entities Framework and...
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