Right-size IT Budgets with Windows Server 2012 "Storage Spaces"
What is the Largest Single Cost Category in Your IT Hardware Budget? If you're like most of the enterprise customer organizations that were surveyed when we were designing Windows Server 2012, your...
View ArticleWhy Are We Here?
Back in the early 2000s, Toyota had a vision of building the number one best selling minivan in North America. Their current minivan, the Sienna, was small, underpowered, and badly needed help. Yuji...
View ArticleService Bus random thought for the day
Its been really nice to see that over the last few weeks since we implemented our Dynamics CRM connecting via Azure Service Bus to backend line of business applications solution how much interest this...
View ArticleGeeks with Blogs acquired by Watson Technology Group
Just received the following email… It’s now official! Hello bloggers, you are receiving this email to let you know that Geeks with Blogs (http://geekswithblogs.net) has been acquired by my company,...
View ArticleSandcastle Help File Builder - October 2010 release
At http://shfb.codeplex.com/releases/view/92191, the latest Sandcastle has been released. I am pleased to say that it incorporates the generic version of a fix, I originated that allows projects...
View ArticleExchange 2013 goes RTM!
Exchange 2013 has been signed off and is now RTM! Hoozaaa!! From the Exchange team blog: Today we reached an important milestone in the development of the new Exchange. Moments ago, the Exchange...
View ArticleUK Connected Systems User Group Oct 2012
Just a little note for the uk connected systems user group next wednesday.We have a great pair of sessions lined up, would be great to see you therehttp://ukcsugoct2012.eventbrite.com/
View ArticleDon't Call it a Comeback
I received the email like most of you about Jeff and crew stepping down and selling the blog to another company. That it is a long time associate and friend of the team we have all grown to know and...
View ArticleMicrosoft Dog Food Days
There is a free two-day event called "Dog Food Conference 2012" being held at the Microsoft offices in Columbus, Ohio (home to my beloved Ohio State Buckeyes) that looks to be promising. It covers a...
View ArticleExtra Life 2012 - The Final Plea ... Until the Next One
I thought I'd share the email stream that my friends and family get about the event.So, here we are again. We scream closer to the event, and the goal is not met.I was approached by the ghost of feral...
View ArticleAJI Report Talks With Matt Watson About Stackify
Matt Watson of Stackify sits down with us at HDC to talk about what Stackify offers for developers who need the ability to get access to their production systems for diagnostics. Matt discusses why it...
View ArticleAmanda Todd–What Parents Can Learn From Her Story
Amanda Todd was a bullied teenager who committed suicide this week. Her story has become headline news due in part to her You Tube video she posted telling her story: The story is heartbreaking for...
View ArticleUsing Apache FOP from .NET level
In one of my previous posts I was talking about FO.NET which I was using to generate a pdf documents from XSL-FO. FO.NET is one of the .NET ports of Apache FOP. Unfortunatelly it is no longer...
View ArticleSet up a TFS Server/Service demo environment in less than 1 minute now!
Release Notes – http://tfsdemosetup.codeplex.com/ | Download | Source Code | Report a Bug | Ideas To Demonstrate the capabilities of TFS 2012 Server/Service Task board you would need to set up TFS...
View ArticleHow-do-I Script Sample Videos
http://blogs.technet.com/b/onescript/archive/2012/10/14/how-do-i-script-sample-videos.aspx All-In-One Script Framework is featured by customer-driven script samples. Each sample demonstrates how to...
View ArticleSample Browser Visual Studio Extension is localized and introduced to Japan
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/codefx/archive/2012/10/14/sample-browser-visual-studio-extension-is-localized-and-introduced-to-japan.aspx...
View ArticleGet your TFS 2012 task board demo ready in under 1 minute
Release Notes – http://tfsdemosetup.codeplex.com/ | Download | Source Code | Report a Bug | Ideas In this blog post, I’ll show you how to use the ‘TfsDemoSetup’ application to configure and setup the...
View ArticlePeople != Resources
Ken Tabor’s blog post “They Are not Resources – We Are People” struck a chord with me. I distinctly remember hearing the term “resources” within the context of “people” for the first time back in...
View ArticleDDDNorth2 Bradford, 13th October 2012 - Async Patterns presentation and...
Many thanks to Andy Westgarth and his team for organising a fantastic conference at the rather elegant Bradford University School of Management. Also, a big congratulations to all the delegates who...
View ArticleHosting and consuming WCF services without configuration files
In this post, I'll demonstrate how to configure both the host and the client in code without the need for configuring services i the <system.serviceModel> section of the config-file. In fact, you...
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