Just got done with attending the TriNUG SharePoint group meeting.  Mike Gannotti presented on how to adopt SharePoint in an organization.  Lots of good stuff, and this was far more about social media tools adoption in orgs rather than much that was specific to SharePoint.  The biggest kerfuffle tonight was Mike’s bombshell statement that “if [...]

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Obviously I rubbed some people the wrong way, and didn’t explain my question(s) clearly enough from the outset, then got wrapped up in taking some offense from some of the responses.  Reviewing everything today I can see where I could have responded differently, and more clearly, earlier on.  Apologies to anyone who was offended (if [...]

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I’m getting ready for codestock this coming saturday.  I’m going to be giving a talk on Grails, the Groovy/Java web framework.  I’d put together a set of slides and prepared a presentation, but I read the times wrong.  I thought I had a half hour - it’s more like 70 minutes.  So I’m having to [...]

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I just stumbled on this article Sunday morning.  This snippet sums up the product:
There is a way of marrying the advantages of .NET development with Java deployment. Using Mainsoft for Enterprise Edition (EE), Visual Studio developers can write code in .NET and cross-compile it to Java. Not only code, but pieces of the Framework; Mainsoft [...]

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For anyone that has struggled with using PHP and MSSQL over the years, this one may come as some pleasant news (if you’re still in that situation).  Microsoft has put out a preview of “SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP” back in October 2007 (yeah, I just found out this morning!).  Ehh… not as impressed [...]

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I’ve not done any major development work specifically inside MS Windows for a few years now, and I’ve forgotten what some of the hassles are.  Today I revisited that world, looking to play with the new ASP.NET and .NET 3.5 framework.  Whew what a hassle.  Let me start by saying I can only run Windows [...]

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Looking for an Excel macro or whatever it’s called that would record the time/date a row was changed in to a column in that row.  That might be recursive if not handled properly.  This seems like it would just come standard in Excel - have a cell indicate the last updated time/date of something in [...]

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I had a good conversation with Joe Fiorini about balancing his daily work in .NET with a passion and enthusiasm for Ruby on Rails.  Have a listen.

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I had a fun time recording this ‘open spaces’ meeting at Codemash last week.  This was led by Joe Brinkman from the DotNetNuke project, and joining us was Kevin Devine from the Euclid Public Library, Sara Ford from Codeplex @ Microsoft, Steven Harman from the Subtext project and - shoot - I do not have [...]

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The same discussion for ’standardizing’ on MS Office came up yesterday (again).  The big issue is that going between OpenOffice and MS Word will sometimes lose certain formatting.  However, I’ve also heard of (and seen) MS Word losing formatting with itself.  A bit of digging turns up this little nugget:
Printer hardware and configuration can affect [...]

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