February 2009 - Blog Watch

The Value of the Client – In the past, the choice of how an end user interacts with an application has been dictated by IT and often without regards to the usage.  Recently, as the population has become more tech savvy and are experiencing interactions on the web, computer, and the phone their expectations have increased tremendously.  Many organizations now have to support multiple standards and technologies to accommodate their user base.  We will discuss the opportunities...

Here's the Azure for .NET Developers deck from today's presentation in Anaheim.  Thanks to everyone who came out the the Event. Windows Azure for .NET Developers View more presentations from llangit . (tags: services azure ) Here's a link back to my earlier blog post on 'how to get Azure tokens' Below is a link to the 'How do I...Azure?' screencasts -- happy coding!  Azure Services Platform Videos Read More...

This post was originally posted on Dave Burke's blog. It is reposted verbatim here. Yeah, that's right. Sueetie Groups, as in… Groups! Groups within a .NET-based Online Community Application, sharing a single website, a single membership system, a single database, a single license. Oh, wait. It's Open Source, so there is no license. Scratch that last part. Groups were one of the capabilities of the Sueetie architectural model that I wanted to demonstrate early on, as I've spoken...

Introduction To Sql Services View more presentations from llangit . (tags: windows azure ) Introduction To SQL Services   - these are the slides from my talk at MDC Conference in SFO yesterday.  Thanks to all of those who attended! Read More...

We're making good progress moving Sueetie from Windows Server 2003 and IIS6 to Windows Server 2008 and IIS7.  When my Awesome Host Provider migrates my virtual server to Windows Server 2008, Sueetie will be ready. Moving Sueetie to Windows Server 2008 and IIS7 was always an important goal because it symbolized that it was time to get to work.  For the last couple of months in Sueetie's short existence we've demonstrated that a solid community platform was possible using Open...

About a week ago we learned that the author of the WSAT Membership Administration project pulled the source code from CodePlex. This was certainly a suprise, but is actually a good thing for Sueetie. Sueetie uses very little of the WSAT source and the DIFF work for that project was pretty extensive. This will allow us to incorporate membership into the Root Web project and eliminate a separate membership/administration project altogether. One less thing. One of the principles of Sueetie is that we...

And I'll be delivering lots of them over the next two weeks.  Here, we go.... Wed, Feb 18 - live at noon PST MSDN geekSpeak w/Jon Flanders on M / Oslo - register Thurs, Feb 19 - live at MS San Diego, 6pm - SQL Server 2008 Data Mining at the SQL Server UG - ping AndrewdotKarcherAtClarityDotCom to attend Fri, Feb 20 - at ZuneLA, PhizzPop for Designers - ping me if you'd like an invite Mon, Feb 23 - live at Hyatt Regency in San Francisco (8:30 to 5), Microsoft Developer Conference and WomenBuild...

I do so much weird stuff in Community Server, like today when I needed to style selected sidebar widgets different from others.  Sidebar CS Widgets share the same CSS classes in a single ContentFragmentList control <LeaderTemplate />, like so.   <CSControl:ContentFragmentList runat="server" Property="WikiWidgets"> <ItemTemplate>     <CSControl:ContentFragment runat="server">         <LeaderTemplate>...

You and I probably subscribe to many of the same RSS feeds, so you may have seen the above title on a recent post from Ken Robertson.   I'm using the same title to reinforce Ken's message that he really does provide awesome virtual server hosting. I've been a happy customer of Ken's for nearly two years and I have NEVER had a better hosting experience or enjoyed better value.  Ken is one of those guys who can do it all well.  I won't go into detail of what Ken provides...

It’s been a week since we lost Murphy. Murphy came into our lives 12 years ago through a Pittsburgh Gazette classifieds ad titled “Golden Retriever-Mix Puppies.” It lead us to a trailer on a dirt road outside of New Stanton, PA where Murphy was among 10 or so other puppies in a make-shift wire-fence pen. We chose Murphy from the other puppies because he was the sweetest. Murphy lived his first 4 years in the great city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We took occasional evening walks at Frick Park and...

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I saw this interesting collaborative site recently.  From their website " Pazom is a FREE next-generation video chat service.  With Pazom, you can hang out with a group of friends, see and hear each other with webcams and audio, share photos, music, videos, or stuff from the web like YouTube videos or iMeem music or videos. " Anyone else taking a look at Pazom? or anything similar - what features do you like?   Pazom Read More...