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Attend one or both days of our FREE event for Windows Phone 7 Developers on Wed, Sept 29 and Thurs, Sept 30 in Costa Mesa, CA. Windows Phone 7 Development Launch: Jump-Start Your Mobile Development (Day 1) In the first of this two-day launch event, we’ll take you under the hood of Windows Phone 7 and the Windows Phone 7 platform with a progressive set of learning sessions. We’ll start with the basic tools and fundamentals of Windows Phone 7 application development, plus key design guidelines and...

I’m happy to announce an addition to Sueetie’s Tags Everywhere Platform. All Media Albums and Media Objects now support tagging and are online at Sueetie.com .  Media Album and Object tags are fully integrated in the Sueetie Global Tagging architecture and Sueetie Search. Media Tagging uses the Sueetie Tag Control and is an example of how the Sueetie Framework adds functionality sometimes not available in the base application, in this case, Gallery Server Pro. Roger Martin's Gallery Server...

I told you how I re-architected Sueetie CMS to be integrated into Sueetie Data Core for coming coolness.  This is one of the early pay-offs: Sueetie CMS Pages are now indexed by the Sueetie Lucene-based Search Engine.  Here’s a sample search for you shown in the screenshot below.  You’ll notice the new “Content Pages” area circled as well as a description of the Content Area shown under the result title, here “Sueetie CMS.” There are a few aspects of Sueetie CMS Searching that I think...

Transmedia and the Distributed Story. Heroes Creator Tim Kring in a Fast Company article on using multiple platforms to tell a story. “Kring believes one-channel storytelling has become archaic. Shows should no longer be designed around a platform; instead, platforms ought to be designed around a show. ‘You have to take the concept and put it at the center of the paradigm,’ he says. ‘You have to say: This is an idea. Part of it can live on television, but part of it isn't designed to be a television...

I’ve been learning more and more about Agile software development lately.  I am thinking that you (my .NET developer reader) might benefit too. If you live in the OC – attend the local Agile Developer UG in Irvine – here’s the link .  I had fun and learned at the interactive presentation there this evening entitled “ Is It Time to Ditch Your Product Backlog? Using Story Maps to Visualize Product Vision”.   I worked with two Scrum Masters to create a Story Map around a given backlog...

Death by Facebook. Jay Baer describes three ways Facebook is killing your website. This is definitely something affecting my business of building and customizing online communities, especially in this tough economy. Small businesses aren’t investing in their own community sites, they’re throwing up a Facebook page.  For free.  And why not, according to the article, Facebook changes information exchange from web pages to social objects permeating the web. You “like” me!  On operations...

DBVT.COM is running the latest Sueetie bits, and in the process I converted my Services area from using ScrewTurn Wiki to the new Sueetie CMS coming in Version 1.4.  Using ScrewTurn at DBVT.COM for only a few pages to describe my services was a waste of a great Wiki. And besides, we’ve got a sweet CMS now! You can see the Sueetie CMS-powered Services area at http://dbvt.com/services . Setting up my services pages with the Sueetie CMS is a good opportunity to walk through the process step-by...

Here are my updated slides for August 2010.  I will be delivering talks based on these slides at user groups around SoCal in August and in September (see my previous blog post for my fall speaking schedule). SharePoint 2010 for NET Developers View more presentations from lynnlangit . Read More...

Startup Failure Simply Stated. The question “Why do you think startups fail?” was posted on quora.com with three possible reasons. 1) No one needs the product, 2) Management unable to change direction, and 3) Resources poorly managed. The most voted on answer was “inability to acquire and retain a substantial number of users.” That pretty much nails it, but there were other good answers, including this one even more simple in its truth than not getting enough users. “The ONLY reason any company ever...

I mentioned the other day when telling you about the beefy new Sueetie Content Part Control that it was a possible stepping-stone to a Sueetie Content Management System. Well, the CMS is here! You can see it online at http://sueetie.com/cms .  The CMS will be available in Sueetie v1.4 planned for an October release. Sueetie CMS in a nutshell starts with Content Page Groups. You can have as many groups as you want.  Each Content Page Group contains Content Pages.  A group can have unlimited...

I rewrote the Sueetie Content Part Control from the ground up over the weekend, something I wanted to do for a long time.  Some of us on the Sueetie Forums have been talking CMS and I knew that the first step in forming some sort of CMS functionality in Sueetie was to build a more robust Content Part Control for inline page editing.  The new Content Part will be part of the Sueetie Version 1.4 release planned for October. The Sueetie Content Part Control was one of the first Sueetie controls...

This is the fourth Sueetie Going Mobile Series post and the third on a Sueetie Application. We covered BlogEngine.NET and Gallery Server Pro. Here we'll look at how a mobile YetAnotherForum.NET came into being. The Sueetie Wiki document from which this post was taken is located in the Sueetie Patterns and Origins area. _________________  Extending YetAnotherForum.NET by Creating New Pages and Controls To create a mobile version of YetAnotherForum.NET we added new pages and controls to remove...

Recently I attended the annual Most-Valuable-Member celebration at the Inland Empire .NET Developer User Group in San Bernardino.  It is such a pleasure to participate in this UG, most especially at this event, so I’ll describe it in more detail here. What makes a great User Group? A big part of my job is to support the local developer User Groups.  To do that I attend and speak at a large number of these groups.  Because of this I get a unique perspective about what is working in...