Book Review ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly Maarten Balliauw Packt Publishing I set out to learn ASP.NET MVC with this book with some trepidation, as the preview release of ASP.NET 2.0 was already available. My concern was that the book would be out of date. However, that proved not to be the case. Maarten Balliauw...
Remember a while back I was having a dig at Multimap , aka Bing Maps? One of my main criticisms was that the map area was too small compared to the advertisements. Guess what happened? Then Now Well, that’s a bit better. Now how about those very annoying and distracting flashing, blinking animated advertisements...
I’ve always felt that facebook was a useless waste of time and worse, was free and easy with people’s personal information. Recently there has been a series of prominent figures – Bill Gates for example - ditching facebook. I just saw this post from Steve Clayton about how Facebook is allowing third...
I was doing a map search today and started off in Bing, ending up in Microsoft’s recently-acquired Multimap aka Bing Maps. The screen shot shows the portion of my screen real-estate that is taken up by usable map display. That’s got to be about one fifth of my display. Compare that to Google Maps. Multimap...
Microsoft’s new Business Resource Centre provides personalised help, support, training, articles and tips customised specifically for you and the products you have. I particularly like some of the Office 2007 videos particulary the advanced version showing SharePoint integration. Share this post: | ...
If you live or work in Wales you might be interested in this free Microsoft event being held at Conference Centre, Technium 2, Kings Road, Swansea, SA1 8PH on 10th June. UK ISV Developer Evangelism Team : Announcing free Microsoft Web & Cloud Computing technical event in Swansea, June 10th 2009 The...
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I love the occasional humorous videos that come out of Microsoft and I love the fact that the company can still poke fun at itself. This cute video is actually a thinly veiled trailer for Internet Explorer 8, but Internet veterans will be amused. You’ve got to admire a company with a sense of humour...
Microsoft has realised that the world extends beyond Seattle and New York. Currently, the time zone within Windows Azure is Pacific Standard Time (PST). Soon, we will be migrating to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This is potentially a breaking change for applications which rely on local time. Windows...
Ray Ozzie delivered the keynote speech at PDC 2008 a few moments ago. He spoke about a number of interesting topics. Challenges of Virtualization & Distributed Systems Ray suggested that business continuity is a challenge not easily addressed by small and medium enterprises. The only real way to...
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I was fortunate to attend a Microsoft event in London today on the topic of Software plus Services, at which the keynote speaker was none other than Microsoft CEO Mr. Steve Ballmer. He was not what I expected - I was pleasantly surprised. He comes across as genuine but direct and to the point, humourous...
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