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October 16, 2009

TFS Basic 2010 – Team Foundation Server

By Craig Bailey

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16October

I missed this little announcement about ‘TFS Basic’ a few weeks back, but luckily Adam Cogan alerted me to it during one of our recent walks (can you tell where we stopped for lunch :-) ). The news came from Brian Harry originally, but you could be forgiven for missing it since his blog post was extensive (that’s a good thing!) and covered a history of SourceSafe before mentioning TFS Basic...

October 16, 2009

Microsoft, Cloud failure and T-Mobile

By Craig Bailey

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Society puts a premium on getting access to ‘news’ as quickly as possible. The person who breaks the story first gets the rewards. Speed to market trumps quality delivered to market every time. It’s a shame really. Take the T-Mobile debacle as an example. The story kicked off two weeks ago, but hit fever pitch last Saturday with news from TechCrunch of T-Mobile losing all customer data and...

October 16, 2009

WordPress Pretty Permalinks on IIS 7.0

By Craig Bailey

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Just a quick tip if you run your WordPress site on IIS 7.0 and run into issues with pretty permalinks. It’s pretty easy to configure: there’s a full tutorial here on the Learn IIS site and the WordPress Codex has a good overview too. You just need to add a few lines into your web.config file. [If you don’t know what a web.config file is don’t get too concerned. All you need to do is copy...

October 14, 2009

SharePoint 2010 Extravaganza

By Craig Bailey

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14October

Perhaps you’ve been hearing a lot about SharePoint 2010 lately… or perhaps not! Most likely the latter because most of the juicy bits have been locked under NDA. Until the SharePoint conference in Las Vegas next week that is! Yes, and once the NDA wrappers are off there’s tons of goodness to talk about. Which is why we’re having a special SharePoint 2010 Extravaganza at the Sydney...

September 21, 2009

CodePlex.org versus CodePlex.com

By Craig Bailey

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21September

At one time in the not-too-distant past, the mention of ‘open source’ carried a stigma with it. Perhaps an inkling that it was not high quality. Or managed by socially inept geeks. Or not well supported. But those days are long gone, and the adoption of open-source in the enterprise is high. And while this in itself is not particularly new, what is new is that it is finally being acknowledged...

July 4, 2009

Why does Microsoft bother with Internet Explorer?

By Craig Bailey

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04July

For a while* now I’ve been wondering what value there is in having web browser market share? Or more specifically, why does Microsoft continue to invest in building their browser. And further, why do they spend money promoting it? You’ll see here in GP’s post that IE8 is a significant strategy for the company (in Australia at least). In a nutshell the question is: What value is there in...

May 19, 2009

Sydney Windows User Group covers Windows 7 and Touch

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19May

Last Wednesday (13 May 2009) we had the first meeting of the newly formed (reformed?) Sydney Windows User Group (SWUG). Nick Rayner and I are leading the group, although to be fair Nick is doing 90% of the work. He’s the initiative, drive and main organizer. And doing a fantastic job I must say. The first meeting was packed and had more interaction amongst attendees than I’ve ever seen in a...

April 29, 2009

A change of scenery

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29April

It’s been a little while since I posted here, so I thought I’d mention that I’ve been blogging over on Tech Repeater lately (RSS feed here). It hit the 50 posts milestone today, so I thought it might perhaps be of interest. It’s mostly a fun side thing for now, although I do have some business related plans for it later in the year. Tech Repeater is more general than this blog, and is...

March 15, 2009

Microsoft location on Live Maps

By Craig Bailey

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15March

Here’s something that would be good for Microsoft to update: I’d like to put a Live Maps link on the SBTUG home page so that people can get directions to the meetings (they are held at Microsoft Sydney Office at 1 Epping Road North Ryde). Unfortunately Live Maps makes this difficult. Here’s what gets returned from a search of the address. The Red box is what Live Maps thinks the location...

March 15, 2009

Virtual Earth Developer Contest

By Craig Bailey

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Over on the ViaWindowsLive site they’re running a Virtual Earth contest. Simply submit an article or video about something cool you’re doing with Virtual Earth and you’re in the running. You get a T-shirt just for entering (assuming your entry is valid :-), and there are a bunch of other prizes if yours is up the higher end on the awesomeness scale. You can contribute your article or video...