July 2003 - Posts
If you're reading this post then the w.bloggar configuration updates worked for me. Thanks to Patrick and Robert for the referrals to Daniel Bright's w.bloggar config settings .
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From a News.com article on Microsoft searches: "' Searching Microsoft.com was a real problem; using Google would sometimes get you better results,' said Matt Rosoff, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft. " Quite the understatement if you ask me. The
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If anyone knows how to set up w.bloggar to post to ASP.NET Weblogs, please point me in the right direction. I thought this was documented somewhere but I can't seem to find the information. Also, if anyone has a recommendation for a better tool let me
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From the recent interview with Euan Garden, SQL Server Tools Product Unit Manager. "[Objectspaces is] an object-relational mapping layer. For example, you could have Customers and Orders, and Customers could be mapped to 20 or 30 tables. You don't know
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Gates seems to be hedging the bets on Longhorn a bit. Pinging Scoble for commentary on the Longhorn schedule risks.
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This was an enjoyable talk. I ran out of gas so I didn't take a ton of notes, but Dan talked about how weblogs and communication on the web have changed the way news is disseminated. One interesting example was one of Joi Ito's public photoblogs. He also
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This talk isn't flowing at all like Tim's was, so I'll just bullet some of the main talking points and comment at the end: - Hardware glut continues, software bloat not keeping up with hardware; - Trends that are unfolding- wireless, weblogs, digital
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The current speaker is Tim O'Reilly . Tim is talking about the shifting paradigms in the computing industry, from hardware to software, and now from software to customer data and relationships. I'm capturing bits and pieces and blogging it below. So far,
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As a follow up to my last post, here are a few more quotes from Gnomedex. Unknown audience member commenting on the use of PHP over ASP.NET for web development- "You might as well use a stone tablet to chisel out your web sites." Speaker from the Greater
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In a follow up to an earlier post, I wanted to comment more on the talk given by Nelson Minar of Google. First, the audience at Gnomedex includes a broad range of the technology users spectrum, from newbies to hardcore developers and implementers. The
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I've been planning to blog the Gnomedex conference, but some connectivity issues and a busy schedule have made it difficult to do so. I've met Brad Wilson (.NET Guy) and Eric Sink of SourceGear (and http://notalegend.com ), and have had some great conversations
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I'm heading to Gnomedex in a few hours. Brad is going too . From what I've read a lot of people will be there, and there will be some good coverage on Windows-related topics and lots of blogging. I'll try to blog the Microsoft-related portions of the
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CNN.com : Microsoft will be giving away cash in July and August to users of the newer MSN 6.0 IM software. It seems odd to me that Microsoft would go to these lengths to gain users for a product that generates no revenue, but I'm sure there is a justification
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Jim Gray of Microsoft Research has written a paper on the economics of distributed computing and the findings, although perhaps obvious, are thought provoking. His conclusion is that the costs associated with computation are so significantly cheaper than
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Version 3.2 OpenLink's Virtuoso Universal Server will include support for a blogging infrastructure. With support for Mono as well, I wonder how long it will be before we see some C# extensions to Virtuoso's functionality on a non-Windows platform? If
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E-Commerce Times : Anti-virus software a "natural fit for packaging with Windows."
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Here's an interesting article on Corel and their SmartGraphics server initiative, and the dependency of the initiative on Windows.
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Thurrott: Sites Switching from Linux to Windows Server 2003 .
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Paul Thurrott writes about how Microsoft can beat Google (scroll to the bottom of page).
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I thought there was some momentum building, but it seems that some of the people that were starting to blog on SQL Server or data access have been quiet recently. I hope that they become active again soon.
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From Doug Purdy : Host Web Service Applications With Cassini : This is interesting and useful. Thanks for reading it.
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According to this article , Microsoft will be reviving its Trustbridge product , first announced last year. I don't understand why a feature like this isn't baked into the OS, both client and server. This article makes it sound as if Trustbridge is a
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Sorry, couldn't resist posting a link to something with that clever of a title. Article here .
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I just got off the phone with Robert Scoble . We were talking about a book project that I wanted his input on, and the topic naturally shifted to the publishing industry. I was interested to see what he had to say given his background in the publishing
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ENTNews has an article on Microsoft's Next Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB). This feature will likely ship with Longhorn. The feature is described as a "secure OS kernel" that runs separately from the main OS kernel. I'll be interested to hear
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I took a week off over the July 4th holiday, but I'm back and getting ready to ramp up into work and other responsibilities. I have a few articles getting wrapped up today and tomorrow- one for Hardcore Web Services and another in .NET Magazine . I have
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