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I’ll be back on the road again on Tuesday to squeeze in three more conferences before the end of the year. My stops this time include: TechEd Europe, Berlin This will be my first time to Berlin, so I’m really looking forward to it. I think it will be especially interesting as this year marks [...]
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With the previous builds of Windows 7, and now the RTM, I've had more than enough experience of rebuilding my machines over the past few months. One of the things I've created as a result is a "build script" for each of my development machines – it's still largely manual (although it would be great [...]
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One of my favorite features of Outlook 2007 is Search Folders. A Search Folder is a dynamic folder, automatically populated based on a query. For example, a Search Folder can be used to show all email over 1Mb in size. Being a GTD (Getting Things Done) addict, I wanted to see if I could use [...]
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On Monday I had the privilege of presenting at the TechEd 2008 pre-conference, the subject was "An Architectural Overview of Software + Services". In my presentation, I wanted to show the architectural angle of the S+S message. What does it mean? How does SOA, SaaS, Web 2.0, RIA, etc. relate to S+S? What are the [...]
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The call for sessions tool is now open for the Architecture track at the TechEd Developers conference (3-6 June 2008). This year, the Architecture track will focus on three core areas: · Persona (for example, “What is an architect?”, “How do I become an architect?”, “What skills does an architect need?”) · Patterns (for example, [...]
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Like me, you may write a fair number of articles and documents. Like me, you may also be constantly distracted by alerts, pings, toolbars, the temptation to ALT-TAB when you are writing. Recently, there have been a number of full screen editors that attempt to solve this. DarkRoom is an example of one of these, written [...]
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I’ve been running a pre-release version of Vista on our home machine for a while now, so I was amused to read this correction through PRNewswire. I think we should start a new worldwide program based on the original text http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.aspx?Feed=PR&Date=20070111&ID=6336338&Symbol=MSFT
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Simon Guest is the Senior Director of Technical Strategy in the Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) group at Microsoft, responsible for helping developers worldwide deliver practical and elegant solutions using Microsoft technologies. Since joining Microsoft in 2001, Simon has led the Microsoft Platform Architecture Team, acted as Editor-in-Chief of the Microsoft Architecture Journal, pioneered [...]
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On my way over to TechEd Amsterdam this week I found myself thinking about the best features of airlines that I’ve traveled on during the last year. Wouldn’t it be great if we could have a single airline that combined the best features of these I think my airline would have: The flat [...]
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