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September 9, 2008

IE8: Compatibility View Settings – set for all sites

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09September

Less than a day on IE8 I’m really getting frustrated. It’s not IE8’s fault of course, but the majority of sites I visit have problems rendering (my own included). Yes, it is up to the site owners to fix their sites, and yes they should have been more standards compliant in the first place, etc, etc, but hey, then there’s reality! Anyway, I’m going to try and stick with IE8 (at least for...

September 9, 2008

RECAP: Ray Ozzie on Internet Services and Mesh

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Just a quick post to note these links to Ray Ozzie’s previous memos: From November 2005: The Internet Services Disruption From April 2008: Services Strategy Update As I re-read them this morning, I was struck by how much easier it is to understand ‘vision’ in hindsight :-) Well worth reviewing yourself if you glossed over their impact the first time (as I did). (Thanks to Grant for...

September 9, 2008

PDC: Understanding Microsoft priorities

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Oh how I wish I was going to PDC, but no, sadly I won’t be there :-( However that hasn’t stopped me going ‘window shopping’ on the PDC agenda page. The first thing that strikes you when you land there is the breakdown of sessions – I’ve highlighted the tags I see as unusual: Six sessions on Oslo (ie BizTalk) and seven on Parallelism should tell you something about the focus Microsoft...

September 7, 2008

TECHED: Lock note – Predicting the next 10 years in IT

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07September

Easily the best TechEd lock note I’ve seen (but then again I’ve only been to TechEd 4 times). Miha Kralj talked us through the technology changes we’ll be seeing over the next few years. If you get a chance to see his presentation (I’m sure it will be repeated at other events, or put up on a video site somewhere) make sure you do – it is well worth it. It’s difficult to do the session...

September 4, 2008

TECHED: Web futures, SQL tips, LINQ to Entities, The future of IT

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04September

Back for the final day at TechEd and I’m in good spirits – it has been a good event. Web futures (Mixed panel) Sorry folks, this was just too disorganised and ill-informed opinion for me. Seemed as though the panel hadn’t been prepped on any of the questions, and there wasn’t any overview or structure for where the discussion was headed. I left pretty quickly. FAIL.   T-SQL Tips and...

September 4, 2008

Michael Kordahi’s Delicate Genius blog stolen

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I’m really feeling for Michael Kordahi at the moment. His Delicate Genius domain has been stolen and his blog is now getting choked up with spam. This is really sad. (I’ve deliberately not linked to it here) I caught up with him for a few minutes tonight and he was pretty cut up about it. At this stage it looks like a complete stuff up by his domain registrar, and he’s been trying...

September 3, 2008

Two little things

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03September

Andrew Coates on Facebook If you are on Facebook, and haven’t already, please join the ‘Convince Andrew Coates to join Facebook’ group. We need 250 by this Friday afternoon. Click here to join. TechEd Windows app for checking sessions :  What’s on Now? Here’s the little Windows app I use for checking what sessions are currently on. It’s very simple. Technorati Tags: TechEd...

September 3, 2008

TECHED: PowerShell, WMI, Web high availability, SQL fulltext, REST

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It was great to start the day catching up with a few people I hadn’t seen in a while (Castro powering on with SQL, and best of luck to Luis for your wedding in a few weeks). Then, onto a few sessions… Windows PowerShell and WMI (Mitch Denny) Mitch covered the basics of PowerShell (blog), which was a real eye opener for. I was lucky to have Rob Farley sitting next to me giving me pointers and...

September 3, 2008

TECHED: Office, SharePoint, User experience

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A great first day at TechEd 2008. Keynote I missed the keynote. And deliberately so. The reason being: I slept in. I had a late-ish night and wanted to ensure I was fresh for my session in the afternoon. So I had a full 8 hours sleep and great breakfast. Sadly, this meant missing the keynote, so I’ll be reading other accounts of that later.   Evolution of the Office System User Experience...

September 2, 2008

TECHED: TechEd 2008 is on

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02September

Just home from the TechEd 2008 Welcome party. It was great to catch up with a few friends. Here’s a couple of piccys. First up, the Breeze gang in the RFID boiler room. Scott Scovell (Breeze), Rahul Garg (Microsoft) and Mick Badran (Breeze). Scott and Mick are the guys making all the RFID palava happen. Here they are looking cool, calm, well rested and non-stressed. Pictured here are Mitch...

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