It has been a wild week, hearing the gloom and doom on Wall Street with the credit crisis.
All That Money You've Lost - Where Did It Go?
I found this article to be helpful. Realistically, all that "gain" or "loss" that we see in the market, whether the stock market or the housing market, is all on paper. It only makes a difference if you are looking to buy or sell soon. Otherwise, you just keep the asset, whether on paper (stocks) or the real asset of your house, until later. And most likely...
I have, for quite a while now, used virtualization technology for all of my development. Multiple versions of installed tools, beta development kits and specialized setups have made the maintenance of a single machine too complex to support everything needed for every project. It has been much easier to create a virtual machine for a project, install whatever is needed, work on it, and tear it down at the end. If an installation fails, or if CTP software has destabilized an operating system. then...
We implemented Web SSO with ADFS. It works great, but the development experience was limited to W2K3. This was a problem as development workstations were XP. So we had 1 server on the side to test code against. We pulled down the dll to the XP development boxes which allowed for compilation, but testing only on the W2K3 server. A new framework for claims based identity is in beta from Microsoft. It is code named Zermatt. One of the interesting things from the developers perspective is that...
For the next few weeks I'm going to be turning my attentions to Microsoft SQL Server as the new version, 2008 is now with us and even has it's first big patch CU1. I am however not going to focus on coding as plenty of others on GWB have that sufficiently covered.
It is fair to say that SQL Server has turned into a monster, it's far more than just a database product these days, it is a complete data management suit of tools. Some of the tools are fully fledged complex products in their own right...
Below are the slides I used during the presentation I gave at Tulsa Techfest 2008. There were many people at this presentation. It was a great time! I will be posting all the demos here shortly. Tulsa Tech Fest2008 Service Oriented Development With Windows Communication Foundation View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: tulsa tech)...
Below are some links to the slide deck I used during my presentation at Tulsa Techfest 2008. The presentation went real well and was a lot of fun. It was awesome to teach people about Speech Application Development that have not been exposed to it in the past. Speech development is something I am passionate about, but have been out of it as far as professionally developing on it with my day job. Enjoy! I will be posting the demos for the presentation here later. Tulsa Techfest...
In this issue: Martin Mihaylov, Dave Relyea, Manish Dalal, Karl Shifflett, Terence Tsang,
David Anson has been busy with his updates and reports: Just a little too eager with the clicking... [Updated binaries and source for MouseButtonClicker].
Corey Schuman posted about an Update for his Video Slider
Karl Shifflett has a Cool Usage Tip For XAML Power Toys
Adam Kinney has a blog post and set of demo videos on the WPF Effects and Transitions Library Applied
Laurence Moroney reports...
The Useless Introduction You Used To :)
This post has taken so long to be started in writing. I’ve been busy with many events in my life lately. Suffering from frequent limited internet access lately, and, all this moving between companies thing has been eating me. And yes, I admit, I' have been as tired and more honestly lazy as you expected me to be!
Hey, there’s a little warning. This post is not exactly for my usual audience. I’m sorry, but introducing Domain Driven Design is not one of the...
Sitting here at TCCC I decided, why not blog it up for a few minutes? I had my presentation this morning and it was OK, I should have the slides and other info up in the next week for anyone interested.
So far I've listen to talks about BizTalk and XNA (both by fellow GWB's). Next is Silverlight followed by some ASP .Net stuff.
I might have to stop going to Chris's XNA talks, I always want to start creating games after seeing them...
My son informed me yesterday that we have the notorious 3 flashing red lights on our Xbox 360. This is the third time in three years that we've had this problem.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907534
I called Xbox support, initiated a repair order, and will be waiting another month before my son can play it again. I'm amazed by the lack of quality hardware in the Xbox. Fortunately they keep repairng it at no cost to me, but I'm getting tired of annual repairs...
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Free SharePoint Designer Custom Workflow Activities
Link:
http://www.codeplex.com/SPDActivities/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Available%20Activities
These are add-ons for Office SharePoint Designer and are used in building up Workflows for SharePoint sites. I will be making use of Copy List Item Extended Activity in one of my blogs. This activity lets the user copy items from one site to another (from a subsite to another subsite in the same site).
Other activities include:
sending attachment...
Now with more reflective imagey goodness!
The new theme is a work in progress. I am porting Carl Mason's SummerFruit theme for Wordpress. I've got most of the major stuff, I just need to get the comments and contact form styled.
~Lee...
Windows Vista: Pros and Cons
I just bought a laptop which has Windows Vista. Since I wasn’t sure if it’s feasible to keep it with this Operating System, I researched to see the advantages and disadvantages of Vista. Here is what I gathered out of personal use and research
What I love about Windows Vista:
· The increased security, although you can also get this by having Service Pack 3 on Windows XP
· The new looks, which in my opinion are way better than those of Windows...
I learned a few things the hard way and thought I'd pass them along in case it helps someone else. I bought a PowerEdge 2900 last winter planning on consolidating my five machines onto a single virtualized server. The PE 2900 has a pair of quad Xeons, supports up to 48 GB of RAM and 10 SCSI/SATA drives. Plenty of room for growth to support Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V. Doing my homework, I downloaded and burned the System Management Tools v. 5.5.0, A00 (5.4+ needed for Windows Server 2008 support)...
So today I ran across the dreaded "Error: Subreport could not be shown." The odd thing was that the report and subreport executed fine in business intelligence studio, yet this problem arose when the report was deployed to the SSRS server. The key to broken subreports that execute fine in stand-alone mode are the report parameters passed in from the root report to the subreport. A little background: The subreport was being called iteratively in a table where each row in the table contained the...
Not very amazing or technical but thought I'd post a bit about it anyways. Anyone that gets asked how to show a repeating decimal in Word, for example representing the fraction 1/3 in decimal is 1.33333333 with 3 repeating to infinity. Normally there would be a line above the last 3 (the line is called a vinculum).
Now to show the 3 with a line above it in Microsoft Word you need to use a field code that superimposes one character over the other.
Press Ctrl-F9 to insert the field delimiters...
Eduardo is an architect and consultant with Daugherty Business Solutions. He recently started blogging. Check out his post on Habbits of Effective Architects. You can also see him give a talk on this post at this month's Chicago Architects Group meeting.
Happy blogging Eduardo...
Conquer Online - Game Review
Conquer Online, is a game that I have played for about three and a half years. I had 3 characters in all, two trojans which are characters which can hold two weapons, and i also had an archer - everyone knows what an archer is!
The environment of the game was wonderful, it is colorful and very Chinese related. Character customization is pretty amazing for a free of charge online game. At the beginning one chooses the type of character: trojan, archer, taiost or warrior,...
We are very pleased to be holding this meeting in cooperation with the Central Florida BizTalk User Group. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) using BizTalk Server 2006R2 Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) using BizTalk Server 2006R2. Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2, the latest version of BizTalk, is an exciting tool that all .NET application developers should know about. BizTalk fills two key business needs: enterprise application integration, and business process automation. This...
I'm going to PDC2008 in Los Angeles. I've never been before, but am told I will have a total nerdgasm. Several coworkers are going too, so I'll have some guidance.
I will try to post what I can, as often as I can, but we'll have to see (I'm not very good at keeping up with my blog).
Dave...
"Fix the Architecture" - Open Discussion We have a great group of members with a variety of experience, so bring your architecture problems and leverage those experiences and creativity to help solve them. This is an open discussion format and depending on how many people we have and how many problems we may split up into small groups or try to solve problems one at a time. Please bring your topics to discuss. We also have a backup topic of Tips for Performance in a Web Architecture. When...
SharePoint Permissions... Part 4
Breaking Inheritance
The owner has the permission to create unique permissions at the time you create a site. If you change your mind later, you have to break inheritance.
To stop inheriting permissions from a parent site:
1. Br
