I popped this on the home page of my site last week, but forgot to link to it here. From my site: The recently released Volta CTP is an example of how Microsoft is helping desktop client developers build web applications. Promoted as a 'tier splitting' technology, the compiler helps spread out the application to client and server tiers, tied together with Volta created 'glue'...
Plenty of blogs about this little baby, but Scott's has some nice piccys. I want one, but I don't really think I'd use it… or is this one of those situations where we look back and wonder how we ever did with out it before…(a la the mobile phone)?
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It's always good to see a company use their own product, and when it comes to TFS Microsoft has really excelled. Brian Harry details the current stats, including 300,000 work items across 148 million files. Especially impressive (to me) is how transparent the company is – they detail the memory management issues they are having due to the server cache of over 5 million files putting a...
Ready for a chuckle? Try this new, comprehensive assessment tool for analysing your infrastructure. The gruelling, incisive, no-stone-unturned assessment (all 9 multiple choice questions of it) gives a totally bogus indication of your company's infrastructure state. Looks like someone on work experience came up with the 9 questions, but a whole team from marketing then present the in depth...
Looks like Microsoft is getting stuff out the door on time these days. The latest to be announced (well, rumoured) is Office 2007 SP1. The word on the street is that the SP1 will include a new feature to get rid of the ribbon interface (joke).
(Via Mary Jo)
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A nice summary from Scott Guthrie about where ASP.NET, Silverlight and IIS7 are heading. I'm continually stunned at how productive Scott's team are – they seem to be pumping out new (and useful) stuff all the time.
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Summary: Flex is to Adobe as Silverlight is to Microsoft Silverlight is often referred to as Microsoft's version of Flash, however it is more correct to say it is Microsoft's version of Flex. You could say the following… Silverlight 1.0 = Flash Silverlight 2.0 = Flex [UPDATE: Silverlight 1.1 has been re-branded as Silverlight 2.0] Here's a very basic comparison of Flex and...
Not wanting to be too much of 'well duh' post, but I thought it was worth reminding ourselves that in software we need to be focusing extensively on marketing and sales. It all too easy to get caught up in the development, to the detriment of the marketing. I've (finally) finished 'Partnering with Microsoft' by Ted Dinsmore and Edward O'Connor. It's a little dry, and...
I didn't realise there was a whole bunch of free stuff that you got when registering an Express product. Telerik, DevComponents, etc. Almost makes me want to ditch the full version :-)
(Thanks to Dan Fernandez for pointing this out at point 10).
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This is a pretty cool site for translating web sites. Here's an example translating my site into Arabic. We tested it at the office with the Elcom site into Korean and our Korean developers were pretty amused – there's still a way to go with artificial translation it seems…
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