Contrary to some reports that Joost has gone live with unlimited invites and 150 channels - at least that is not what I am seeing. I don’t know if I need to do anything “special”, but here is what I have when I login to Joost. Number of Invites: Zero, yes that is a 0 as in nada, zip, zilch, etc. ...
Zeddy has released a plugin for VS 2005 (with a screen-shot on his blog) which allows you to copy and paste the code from VS.NET directly into a CS blog. It only supports C#, so if you are using VB.NET you are stuck with another method (such as copy’ing into Word and then using that - though as Zeddy also points out that has issues). See ...
Well I bit the bullet and upgraded the blog to run on CS 2007 RTM - yes contrary to what I had said earlier. Initial indications look good so far and I only had to make a couple of changes. There are still a few things which I have not tried like the Google CS plugin, and I suppose the CAPTCHA control will stop working. I would need to look at those over the next few days. ...
One of the MSDN Webcasts that I along with Shawn, Dennis, and Chris did on the following topics with some samples from the WCF Pro book. This is a Level 300 Webcast, and there is a lot of material to cover! If you would like us to do a Webcast on any specific topic from WCF let us know - we will see what we can do. Hosting Options COM+ Integration Peer to Peer Model If you are interested you can see the recording for this session. ...
In case you have not been following the news lately, NASA and Stanford University’s joint effort - Gravity Probe B after 17-odd months of launch and collecting data has proved one of the two not-as-yet-proven aspect’s of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. Simply put (and it will be simple as I only have a fairly basic grasp on Physics - it was one of my favorite subjects in School, but that was many moons ago 😄, Isaac Newton believed (as shown by NASA’s image below) that both time and space were fixed entities and gravity was the force which acted between the object. So, in Newton’s world a perfect gyroscope orbiting the Earth would remain forever fixed to relative space. ...
Don’t get me wrong - I love Italy - the country (whatever little I have seen), the food, the language, the people but all this is also true for India
RC1 for Community Server 2007 (the thing that runs this blog) is available now and you can get it from here . If all goes well then the RTM version is supposed to come out on the 16th of this month - in other words in four days. I will wait for the RTM before I try and update the blog to the new bits. ...
Cross posting from Karan - click on the image below to see it in full size.
Google’s ISP called TISP is in Beta now - check it out in case you are interested in joining. With only two loo’s at home though I think I’ll pass on this one
I alongwith some of my co-authors are going to be hosting a couple of MSDN Webcasts next month - the details for both are listed below. Webcast 1 - “How to build an SOA application with WCF” Webcast 2 - “How WCF impacts on Enterprise scale applications” ...
Interesting way to do advertising - something (which incase you did not know), is something Avanade does not do - it is mostly word of mouth or very targeted marketing to the CxO. Video: Avanade - Where Microsoft Innovation Meets Unrivaled Insight
This is a hilarious video of someone trying to write Perl using the speech recognition in Vista.
The first of three articles entitled “Hosting and Consuming WCF Services” which is essentially one of the chapters from the book is now published on MSDN at the . NET home page . The article directly can be found via this link . The other two should follow soon. Excellent job guys! ...
If you are like me, and your Hindi is crap, what better way to learn it by reading the news via Google News Hindi ?
After a flurry of activity on Live Writer last year there has not been any movement on Windows Live Writer and seems like it is dead? Anyone got any updates on when (or if) when this will move forward?
I had the opportunity to present on .NET 3.0 in the Enterprise at the Architect Insight Conference hosted by Microsoft earlier this month. All the presentations from the conference are available for download and of course including my presentation (13.6 mb). ...
Microsoft has released the March CTP of .NET 3.5 (a.k.a Orcas) and there are many new networking features. Last year as I was doing the research for my book especially on the P2P implementation in WCF it was quite obvious that while that was an excellent start using PeerChannel, there was a lot left to me done (in managed code). This new CTP drop fixes that! ...
Google Maps have recently update their data and India is one more country they show street level maps for - check it out .
APress, the publisher of my book entitled “Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation” is giving away the first Chapter for free - you can get it from here . The table of contents is also published and can be downloaded from here . ...
Telligent have released the Beta 1 for Community Server 2007 and you can find more details here . I have the beta running locally on my machine and on the surface I don’t see many changes, but I have not had too much time to dig into it. The only notable change is how the themes are handled - making it very easy. E.g. changing the image on the paperclip theme is a piece of cake. But given a version jump from v2.1 to v3.0 there should be more in this. ...
Microsoft hosts an annual event in the UK called the Architect Insight Conference . I am one of the speakers this year and will be presenting on “.NET 3.0 in the Enterprise”. This is a pretty good event and I would recommend it if you have not been to one of these. You can check out the Agenda here and if you want, register here and you can find out more information on the Speakers here . Here is a blurb from Microsoft on what can you expect to hear: ...
About time if you ask me; WMDC (Windows Mobile Device Center) - Incase you have not heard, WMDC is the thing that replaces ActiveSync and is the new software that allows you to sync you mobile phone or Pocket PC/PDA with Vista has finally gone RTM. . I am glad this has gone live as that means, no more hacking to get this installed and working . You can read up more on it at the WMDC Home Page . ...
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I got this via the Avanade communities and was not aware of it. There is SyncToy v1.4 for Vista ! BTW this also works with XP and there is a white paper showing how to do this on XP.
Dennis earlier was responsible for collating the code from us for the book, and he just informed us it is available online! Sweet! You can get the code from here and have a play. You will of course need .NET 3.0 RTM and preferably Visual Studio 2005. ...