So far, I have received some very warm comments and reviews on my book "ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Unleashed" on the Amazon site (located here). I was checking my email today and I had received an email from my publisher telling me to go check out this review of the book that was done for ASP.NET Pro Magazine. Click here for the review. I have been writing books for about 7 years now and this is one of the best reviews that I've ever received and just wanted to share it out to the world! To Mike Riley (the ...
In Episode 15 of the SharePoint Pod Show, we discussed the preliminary results from the Big SharePoint Survey that was conducted by Lightning Tools. The results are in and you can get them here: SharePoint Survey ...
You can download Episode 12 here. In this episode, Nick, Brett, and I discuss the SharePoint 2007 Business Data Catalog, how to use it, and how it can save you a bunch of money. :-) Check it out
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This morning, Microsoft Corp. announced that it will be giving away Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server Standard Edition, XNA Game Studio 2.0, and its Expression suite of products to college students worldwide -- and eventually to high school students. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced the program, called DreamSpark, today on the company's Channel 8 site
This isn't really related to technology, but I'm just wondering...I was riding the elevator up to my hotel room tonight and noticed that I really don't think that the close door button is wired to anything. My current thinking is that it's a conspiricy for us to feel like we are in control of the elevator doors, but really aren't
Ok, so I've been pretty hard on Silverlight here lately. Yes, a lot of my 'softie buddies have given me grief, but the truth is the truth: Microsoft doesn't dogfood Silverlight technologies enough right now for me to be comfortable. BUT...I came across a site today that really has some potential. It is http://www.tafiti.com/. It is a freaking rocking front end for searching using the Live.com engine. Well done ...
Check out Jott.com. It is a really cool transcribing service that you can call and have voice messages transcribed and emailed to your contacts. It appears to work well with English, but not so well when you speak in Russian. :-)
It's called PhoneFactor and it's free! Not to mention, it is just flat out cool. Get it here