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You know your system is in trouble when… 07 Mar 2010 Tried to use my favourite short cut this morning (Windows Key + E), and I got this. [read more]... |
Scott Baldwin Senior Developer |
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What will May the 12th mean to you? 06 Mar 2010 As announced by @ArpanShah via twitter yesterday SharePoint 2010 will be available in RTM "in April" (no date yet) and the launch will be the 12 th of May. I'm assuming this means that customers will be able to start using SharePoint 2010 in production sometime in April, but I suspect not everyone will [read more]... |
Jeremy Thake Principal Consultant MCT, WSS+MOSS MCTS |
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My initial thoughts on SharePoint 2010 Certification 06 Mar 2010 I have commented on the SharePoint 2007 examples a few times in the past : The 12 factors to turn ASP.NET developers to SharePoint 2010 Microsoft Infrastructure Administrators need to face the facts…SharePoint is here to stay! The SharePoint Implementation Market needs to grow up! I've just read the [read more]... |
Jeremy Thake Principal Consultant MCT, WSS+MOSS MCTS |
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Speaking at Victoria.Net SIG 06 Mar 2010 Just a quick note to let everyone know that I will be talking at the Victoria .Net SIG on the Microsoft Sync Framework this coming Tuesday http://www.victoriadotnet.com.au/vic-victorianet-dev-sig-formed/vic-victorianet-dev-sig-events.aspx Hope to see you there. [read more]... |
Scott Baldwin Senior Developer |
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MSTest Sucks for Unit Tests 04 Mar 2010 Inflammatory title? Maybe. But I'm not the only person to complain that MSTest is bad and should only be used when no other alternative is available. But those who don’t know better will say that when you look at all the unit test frameworks they all do much the same right? So how can MSTest be that [read more]... |
Richard Banks Principal Consultant |
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SPoint.me is LIVE! 02 Mar 2010 Arno Nell ( @arnonel ) has been working hard for over 18 months to come up with SPoint.me which is a new social networking site just for the SharePoint community. He announced it here on SharePointMagazine.net which he also founded. Yes, the community already has: EndUserSharePoint.com for end users [read more]... |
Jeremy Thake Principal Consultant MCT, WSS+MOSS MCTS |
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Around the World in 90 Days 02 Mar 2010 Around 3 months ago, I packed up in the UK, and headed to the other side of the world, to Australia. Last Autumn I was chatting to Richard Banks over Twitter, and he mentioned that Readify were looking to hire good .Net developers in Australia. I joked that if they wanted to pay my air fare over I would [read more]... |
Jak Charlton |
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Twitual Studio 01 Mar 2010 On Episode 2 of the Talking Shop Down Under podcast (go subscribe!) I was talking with Matt Hamilton and saying how it would be nice to have a Twitter client inside Visual Studio, given that’s where we spend a large amount of our time. Well, I decided to not just talk about it, and actually do something [read more]... |
Richard Banks Principal Consultant |
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Presentation: Architecting Solutions with WPF at the Sydney Architecture User Group 26 Feb 2010 On Thursday, 25th of February, I gave a talk at the Sydney Architecture User Group. The topic was things architects and lead developers should consider when building applications that use WPF. Abstract: .NET 4.0 will mark the fourth release of Windows Presentation Foundation, and the take up continues [read more]... |
Paul Stovell Senior Consultant, Technical Specialist (WPF)
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Book review - Agile Project Management with Scrum / Ken Schwaber 22 Feb 2010 I just finished reading “Agile Project Management with Scrum”, but the Scrumm man himself (Ken Schwaber), so thought I would share a quick review: Book review - Agile Project Management with Scrum / Ken Schwaber This book uses a series of case studies to examine solutions to various complications that [read more]... |
Sly Gryphon Senior Consultant |
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Web Forms Model-View-Presenter on Hanselminutes 21 Feb 2010 Over the last few months Damian Edwards and myself have been spending quite a bit of time building out a Model-View-Presenter framework for ASP.NET Web Forms. Until now we’ve been pretty quiet about it all on our blogs because we were busy polishing off v1 and trying to get all the documentation in order [read more]... |
Tatham Oddie Senior Consultant, Technical Specialist (Web)
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Magellan Major Changes 20 Feb 2010 The latest CodePlex Magellan build includes a couple of changes that are worth noting: The new Forms controls No need to import the Magellan namespaces Various bug fixes That second item is worth focusing on. In previous builds, to use any of the Magellan classes in XAML, you had to write: <Page [read more]... |
Paul Stovell Senior Consultant, Technical Specialist (WPF)
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Magellan Forms 20 Feb 2010 Back to: Magellan Home Data entry forms are common in line of business WPF applications, and they can become repetitive to write. Magellan includes a new set of controls that you can use to rapidly throw data entry forms together. The goals of Magellan Forms are: Minimal XAML Abstract presentation concerns [read more]... |
Paul Stovell Senior Consultant, Technical Specialist (WPF)
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Announcing the Talking Shop Down Under Podcast 17 Feb 2010 Following on from my previous blog post where I wondered publicly wether I should create yet another podcast there was enough feedback and interest in it to convince me to have a crack at it. So that’s exactly what I’ve done. So I’d like to announce that the Talking Shop Down Under Podcast (the [read more]... |
Richard Banks Principal Consultant |
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MVP Summit 2010 16 Feb 2010 I am in Seattle for the MVP Global Summit 2010, and will be here till the end of this week. If any friends or fellow MVPs I know attending the conference, do give a shout out or drop me a mail and would love to catch up. [read more]... |
Prasanna Amirthalingam Senior Developer
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Does the World Need Another Podcast? 16 Feb 2010 Or do you for that matter? For those who don’t follow me on twitter (and why not!?) I’ve been doing an internal podcast in Readify where I interview some of our new staff. Anyway Dave (who is not Readify) suggested that I create a public podcast as well, which I have thought about before. Before [read more]... |
Richard Banks Principal Consultant |
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My last 30 days most favourite SharePoint Blogs 16 Feb 2010 I read A LOT of blog posts in Google Reader, at last count it was around 500 feeds. I try to get through all of them and the way I've built up priorities on what to keep up with has been a challenge. For the last few months I have been "starring" and "liking" posts that have been of value to me. Basically [read more]... |
Jeremy Thake Principal Consultant MCT, WSS+MOSS MCTS |
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Windows Mobile 7 the “meh” release. 16 Feb 2010 Look, I’m going to be that guy that doesn’t give a 100% positive review on the newest Microsoft toy, and its not that I hate its existence in favour of the iPhone (I honestly couldn’t care either choice), its for me a little bit of a disappointment. When I first saw the early specs of [...] [read more]... |
Scott Barnes UX Specialist
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Context and Experience Matters. 15 Feb 2010 Hold your hats folks, I’m about to praise Adobe and yes I’m now a confused UX soul as a result of it. What has got me all hot and bothered in the right way about Adobe, is the Adobe.TV site, as for me it just brought something to life in which I was often quite vocal [...] [read more]... |
Scott Barnes UX Specialist
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Tech.Ed in Sri Lanka 12 Feb 2010 I am down in Sri Lanka these days and was a speaker at Tech.Ed Sri Lanka held here at Waters Edge. I did the following sessions as part of the event. 1) WCF 4.0 Tips and Tricks This session went through features such as Routing, Discovery and explained how it can help overcome problems faced in the prior [read more]... |
Prasanna Amirthalingam Senior Developer
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