What kind of enterprises would be willing to take a risk that fundamentally changes the way they work ?How do we get conventional organizations that believe in strong hierarchies to adopt SCRUM ?   Traditionally organizations that believe in experimenting...

Jusqu'à peu de temps, pour tester System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), il fallait disposer d'un contrat de licence relativement contraignant pour des petites entreprises. Désormais, il est possible d'acquérir l'édition pour...

It's been over a week since we released IronPython 2.0 Beta 1 which also contains the Beta 1 version of DLR. The release includes several favorites of mine in the area of expression trees and compilation, mostly invisible to users of IronPython, but of...

Content of Michael Kaplan's personal blog not approved by Microsoft (see disclaimer )! Reader Dana asked me (after reading [Turning]Into dust, aka 'Some feelings may not be available in this blog' ): Do you really prefer the Ashtar Command version of...

Server Farm Account To update the server farm account, run the following stsadm command on the server that hosts the Central Administration Web site. stsadm –o updatefarmcredentials –userlogin <domain/username> -password <new password> You...

ASP.NET MVC Source Code Now Available - ScottGu's Blog ASP.NET - Home (CodePlex) Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 and Beyond 역시나 예고된대로 ASP.NET MVC Framework (Preview 2) 의 소스코드가 공개되었습니다. 이번에 공개된 소스코드는 어셈블리들 중에서 System.Web.Mvc.dll에 해당하는 부분이며, 수정하여 만든 dll의...

The team over at iBloks have delivered a solution for Fox to promote the Alien vs Predator Requiem DVD sale . This is built on the iBloks Video Messenger infrastructure, so when you are on the site watching video, you just click on the video - it takes...

I am Jojo Koshy, working for Microsoft Consulting Services, India as Consultant on SharePoint....

Sometimes the answer to a question is so obvious that we skip over it looking for a fancier answer. Example: A chair at my house had a bunch of little indentations on the seat - kind of like what you'd expect if somebody took a math compass and poked...

During the latest release of the Tafiti Quick App we accidentally nuked some of the code which made Tafiti work with SharePoint. George Durzi ( Clarity Consulting ) has hooked this back up (I can tell because I get an RSS feed from the latest Check Ins...

http://ve3d.spaces.live.com Welcome to the Virtual Earth 3D blog, dedicated to the sharing of information about the Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D environment as seen on the Live Search Maps site . Here we will strive to keep you abreast of the latest product...

Sitting down tonight (I know) to work on some slides for a presentation I am doing in Australia to an audience of Asians and Australians about blogging. Well, I know enough about blogging in the US to get by, but I don't know much about how it's different...

One of my Colleagues happen to ask me how do we show the weather web-part on our Sharepoint Portal. The Solution was pretty simple and thought I should share this with you all. Following are the steps: 1. Add the RSS web-part on your sharepoint portal...

http://redplasticmonkey.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/notes-from-the-online-community-roundtable-312-microsoft/ I have to agree with Bill, there were some smart people there, and the conversation was lively. We'll have to do it again sometime. Some other links:...

Of the many interesting MIX things that I learned, saw, and brought home, one is a copy of The New Iteration . Subtitled  How XML Transform the Collaboration Between Designers and Developers in Windows  Presentation Foundation , I've found this...

In response to my previous post announcing the SilverlightDefaultStyleBrowser tool for working with default styles for Silverlight 2 controls , I got an email from Rob Relyea suggesting that I make SilverlightDefaultStyleBrowser available via ClickOnce...

El pasado miércoles 19 de marzo se llevo a cabo en Santiago el Architect Forum sobre Software + Servicios. Nos encantó realmente el interés y la discusión que se generó alrededor del tema. El material utilizado durante el evento lo pueden descargar desde...

I’ve put together a small demo on using PageMethods to bring data from the server to the client. I’m a big believer in PageMethods, as the definitely offer greater performance than an UpdatePanel, especially when used correctly. In the spirit of March...

Over the past year, we have gained quite a bit of momentum around Silverlight. Check out the following video, which was showed during MIX keynote, contains a montage of major early adopters of Silverlight. I used Expression Encoder 2 to encode the video...

I missed this last week, partly because I don't really care (does the age of your blog mean anything?) and partly because I'm under an avalanche at work and partly because I've got a lot of stuff going on outside of work that is clogging up my brain....

Quietly I've been suffering through an experience with Windows Vista on my laptop. I got my laptop, a HP/Compaq nc8430 , in October 2006 and had been running Vista on it since then. In the early days, I used a pre-release version of vista, but I switched...

Up until now, all of the Deep Zoom samples we’ve shown in this blog were of single high-resolutions images. This is the case where you arrange all of your images on the artboard, and during export, flatten everything into a large image before breaking...

It has been a long time since I have blogged (more about that in some later posts), but two recent articles that I read on the BBC website have motivated me to write again. The articles honor the creators of the BBC Microcomputer which along with companies...

We're going to create this control: It's called the ExpandoHeaderControl, and it does two basic things.  First, it has an area for a header, and a collapsible content area, with a ToggleButton to manage when the content is visible or not (e.g. collapsed)....

Breaking: Sony Won't Charge $50 To Remove Bloatware | Gadget Lab from Wired.com Peter Sayer of infoWorld noted noted in an article yesterday that Sony initially offered to remove some of the trial software installed on new laptops for a fee... "Buyers...