Interesting article on the inner workings of eBay. I really like the functionality of this site btw. Dan Pritchett gives us an inside look into the decisions behind on of the largest scale architectures in the world: eBay. In explaining how the scale of eBay turns simple requirements a complex engineering problem, he walks us through the technical and organizational challenges of managing...
Ron Mannix pointed out this cool invention that can charge devices wirelessly (from March this year). A transmitter plugs into the wall, and a dime-size receiver (the real innovation, costing about $5 to make) can be embedded into any low-voltage device. The receiver turns radio waves into DC electricity, recharging the device's battery at a distance of up to 3 feet. Technorati Tags: Wirless...
I'm really excited about the release of the new Halo game – Halo 3.
Now I just need to get an Xbox 360…
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From Tom Rizzo, news about a change to MOSSFIS licensing:
I'm happy to say that beginning Sept 1st, we made a change that makes running MOSS Server Licenses and MOSSFIS legal in the same farm.
(via William Cornwill)
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Everyone knew it was going to be popular, but selling $300M US worth of Halo 3 in the first week, just stagggers me.
"Halo 3 is truly a cultural phenomenon," said Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, in a statement.
No kidding!
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Deployment guide for Silverlight (via Tim Sneath)
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Mick Badran tables the different versions, along with costings:
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James has posted links to his notes from Wednesday night's ACS meeting in Sydney. A good overview of .Net 3.5, VS 2008 with a nice Recipes demo
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Brian Harry notes: Overall adoption continues to grow rapidly. We passed some notable milestones this month: We have 1,160 Team Projects in production, passing the 1,000 mark We topped 1 million work items (across all TFS instances) with 1,023,088 We now have 24 TFS servers in production. 3 are running a preliminary Rosario build. 17 are running TFS 2008 Beta 2 (see when we say...
Microsoft Interactive Media Manager is a collaborative media management solution that extends Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007 for media and entertainment companies. The solution builds on existing technology investments, and helps companies create an end-to-end content production system accessible by everyone. In addition, Interactive Media Manager easily integrates with Microsoft...