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VFP: Did someone mention FoxPro?

Apparently there was some news about a Visual FoxPro release this week. I searched but couldn’t find anything :-). Except this, this, this, this, this, this. (To be fair to myself I did mention it on my link blog here.) Or perhaps I was getting it confused with this article about salesforce.com’s new Visual Force, which David Berland likened to an on-demand version of FoxPro. The...

Microsoft and Atlassian partner

I guess you all know about the partnership announced between Microsoft and Atlassian. More Specifically a connector between Confluence (Atlassian's Wiki) and SharePoint (Microsoft's collaboration platform).
Scoble has a good interview.
Technorati Tags: Atlassian, Confluence, Microsoft, SharePoint

BizTalk 2006 R2 Release webcasts

The resources from the BizTalk launch are up. Of interest is Don Ferguson's keynote (which I raved bout here). There is a PDF of his slides, as well as the video of his keynote. The rest of the event details are available here.
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DevWorkz SharePoint workshop

Perhaps worth a look if you are evaluating the many different SharePoint helpers, DevWorkz (which I reckon is a dumb name) has a Discovery Workshop for people to checkout their offering. Seems to be free…
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Unified Communications

It won't be long before UC is just another generally accepted business process, with every all linked together. Remember when mobile phones were just… phones. Yep, it all changes so fast. Microsoft's unified communications strategy is now getting mature.
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ADO.NET 3.5 Entity Framework

Due for release in the second half of 2008, the ADO.Net 3.5 Entity Framework aims for to fulfill the following statement: Visual Studio Orcas will include the first implementations of Language-Integrated Query including LINQ to SQL and LINQ to DataSet. The release of the ADO.NET Entity Framework will focus on raising the data programming level of abstraction with the Entity Data Model and LINQ to...

Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2 released

Milind Lele has announced the release of Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2 (VFP9SP2). You can download it here, and check out the fix list here.
Visual FoxPro homepage.
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PERSONAL: Elcom – The first month

I’ve managed to make it through the first month of my new job :-). And I love it. I’ve held off posting about the new role until I felt I had a good understanding of the company, people and clients. First off, the job. I’ve joined Elcom Technology as their new Technical Director. This means I’m looking after their Dev and Tech teams, and responsible for the technology...

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