There’s been some interesting articles about data centres lately. This one from ComputerWorld questions Microsoft’s plan to use container based data centres (yep, as in you stick a bunch of servers in a 40 foot container). There’s further follow up from Michael Manos here. And don’t miss the forest for the trees – they are talking about housing up to 440,000 servers...
Yep, half a billion. Not that anyone really needed convincing, but computer games are big business. This one eclipsed the record set by Halo 3 last year. And games are only going to get better. Interestingly – but I can’t find the reference (send me the link if you know it) – I was told last week that the average age of a gamer these days is 37 (this link from 2 years ago pegs...
Thanks to Rahul for linking to the BizTalk Server Roadmap. It’s nice to be able to get a summary of view of where the product has come from, currently sits (eg RFID is a big focus) and is going. Apart from a few marketing ‘guffettes’ (eg using terms like ‘People-ready processes’) the page (yes, a single page – Yay!) is easy to read and informative...
It will be interesting to see how this one pans out. INETA seems to cop a lot of flack in the developer circles I mix in, and from my perspective some of it is valid criticism. Chris Williams has his own thoughts on the matter along those lines, and rather than sit on the sidelines (as I and many other armchair critics do :-) – he’s keen to get in and fix things. Today he notes...
I continue to be impressed with how Microsoft is organising and presenting their online help. The Visual Basic site is a case in point. Beth Massi highlights some of the new features coming whereby you can create your own dynamic lists – ie tailor help to just your area of interest. Neat. But even in its current format it is useful and manageable. Being interested in more of the VSTO and...
When: 25-27 April 2008 Where: Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia This has easily been the best CodeCampOz I’ve been to (and I’ve been to all of them :-). Mitch and Greg have done another stellar job organising this event. All of the sessions have been high quality and relevant. Big thanks to Microsoft, Readify, IT Masters, SSW and CSU for their involvement. The Twitter coverage has been a...
Brad Marsh alerts us to this handy option in SQL Server 2008 – how to change the default result set sizes. They default to 200 for Edit and 1000 for Select, but can be increased to… everything if desired. Proceed with caution though – there’s a reason Microsoft put these new limits in.
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There’s a lot of noise about OpenID (it’s great, we can’t live without it, it’s safer, it’s the future, etc, etc) but very little actually happening (in terms of real adoption). TechCrunch has had a few thought provoking posts on the matter – decide for yourself whether OpenID has become little more than a marketing tool. But if you’re interested in...
I’m assuming you subscribe to Microsoft’s Press Release feed right? Well, for the one, or possibly two people world wide who don’t, I just wanted to make sure you are alerted to this highly important development. You will be overjoyed to learn that the Wireless Optical Notebook Mouse 3000 will be available in five colours as of May. And not any old colours. But...
I’m only a Twitter newbie (ie less than 1000 tweets), so I haven’t yet tried to convert anyone over to it… but that said, I’ll happily point you to a post like this one from TechCrunch. The value in Twitter for me is simply this: immediacy of information. In a few months I’ll elaborate a little more (when I perhaps have some credibility in the Tweetosphere)...