Geekswithblogs.net Blogger Hub–Behind the Scenes!
Behind the Scenes–TechEd 2012 John and I are hard at work setting up the Blogger Hub at TechEd 2012 and we made a little video for you to see everything we are planning this year. Take a look and give...
View Articleteched 2012 - starting with a c++ pre-conf
c++ is catching up with c#. might actually be worth to Start using std, now they've added auto - which is the same as var in c#
View ArticleThe True Cost of a Solution
I had a Twitter chat recently with someone suggesting Oracle and SQL Server were losing out to OSS (Open Source Software) in the enterprise due to their issues with scaling or being too generic (one...
View ArticleMotorola announced Specs, Features and Price of Defy XT and Defy Mini
Motorola Defy Specs
View ArticleFree E-Book on jQuery
Sync-fusion have provided a free e-book on Jquery at http://www.syncfusion.com/Content/downloads/ebook/jQuery_Succinctly.pdf
View ArticleJSIL - a Dot Net to JavaScript translator
JSI is described at http://jsil.org/ as:"JSIL is a compiler that transforms .NET applications and libraries from their native executable format - CIL bytecode - into standards-compliant, cross-browser...
View ArticleAT&T - Customer service hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Okay, I'm a separated 2 time Iraq war veteran, living in Germany Supporting the military. About a year and a hald ago I bought an iPhone 4 off a guy from Craigslist. I thought the phone was unlocked,...
View ArticleNetwork Solutions Gold VIP Program
Today I received an email advising me “Congratulations! You have been selected for the Network Solutions Gold VIP Program” Now I get a bunch of messages from Network Solutions because a long time ago I...
View ArticleTechEd 2012 - last session
Nearly over. For last session attending a talk on c++ apps in windows metro. When I came to TechEd I didn't think I would attend so many sessions on c++, but somehow this has proved more interesting...
View ArticleNear-Earth Object Flypast at 00:00 on 15/June!
An unusually large Near-Earth Object, 2012 LZ1 has just been discovered by Rob McNaught and colleagues on 2012 June 10/11 - Slooh Space Camera will track live with Bob Berman and Rob McNaught!See the...
View ArticleBizTalk: mapping with Xslt
BizTalk Map Editor (Mapper) is a good editor, especially in the last 2010 version of the BizTalk. But still sometimes it cannot do the tasks easily. It is time for the Xslt code, It is time to remember...
View ArticleThe new Internet Explorer 7 Tax
An Australian online retailer, Kogan, has just announced a 6.8% tax (really a surcharge) on users of IE7. (I wonder how IE6 users would be treated?)To avoid the surcharge, all users have to do is...
View ArticleAutoscaling in a modern world…. Part 4
Now that I have the rules and services XML files in the cloud, it is time to sever the bounds of earth and live totally in the cloud. I have to host the Autoscaling object in Azure as well, point it...
View ArticleO'Reilly Deal of the Week to 21/June/2012 23:59 PT
The latest deal of the week from O'Reilly at http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/cplusplus-owo.do will be of great interest to those Geeks among Geeks, 50% off a series of e-books on C++
View ArticleTechEd 2012: Windows Phone Exam Cram
Usually speakers take offence if you wear headphones in their talk. For the exam cram session it was a requirement. This was because it was a cubical walled room with an open top next to a study...
View ArticleConfiguration setting of HttpWebRequest.Timeout value
I wanted to set in configuration on client HttpWebRequest.Timeout.I was surprised, that MS doesn’t provide it as a part of .Net configuration.(Answer in http://forums.silverlight.net/post/77818.aspx...
View ArticleA new day has dawned in my SharePoint world.
Until I started working with SharePoint, I never thought I would be blogging. I am usually a pretty private individual, but this thing called the SharePoint community pulls you in and makes you feel...
View ArticleA Guided Tour of Complexity
I just re-read Complexity – A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell , protégé of Douglas Hofstadter ( author of “Gödel, Escher, Bach”)...
View ArticleTechEd 2012: Fast SQL Server
While I spend a certain amount of my time creating databases (coding around SQL Server and setup a server when I have to) it isn’t my bread and butter. Since I have run into a number of time that SQL...
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