Not a release, not even a launch, but a readiness event. Boy, they do get the machine going early these days. That said I'll be at the Business track that Dave Lemphers is blogging about. We've got to keep up with all these new things, and I have a feeling Microsoft may be starting to get the CRM product sort of functional at last (we have CRM 3 at Elcom and everyone hates it!)...
Courtesy of Peter Ward at WardyIT, SQL guru Kalen Delaney is running a 5 day SQL course in Brisbane and Sydney. Peter has the details here.
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Over at Atlassian (they of the recent Microsoft partnership announcement) they're asking for feedback on whether to build a TFS plugin for JIRA. Add your comment here if it is of interest to your situation.
I've been playing with JIRA and Confluence today – they are both sweet experiences.
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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...
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.
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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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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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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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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...
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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