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Jan-272008

Coming down to the wire.

Well, I should have been blogging all night, but it's coming down to the wire for our Sleepless in Dallas session.  We've got our teams huddled in their rooms, and it's 35 minutes until "code freeze" and then presentations and awards.  So far everyone's still pretty lucid for going on 24 hours of non-stop coding, I guess it's the rewards.  We'll be posting the winners that are going to end up at the Office Developer's Conference on the event site - http://www.infusion.com/sleepless/Home.aspx.  Keep an eye out to see what these guys have done in a very short time - every solution has been interesting.  Between this and https://designchallenge.phizzpop.com/finale.aspx there's been a huge amount of creativity that's been happening around here.  Chris made a second weekend of it after camping out all night last weekend with http://www.wearemicrosoft.com/WAM/Home.aspx - you've got to admire his stamina!


Published: Jan-27-08 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post
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Jan-242008

ArcReady Dates

For those of you that haven't seen the schedule yet, we have the dates for the local ArcReady tour now.  It will be a little more spread out than the previous ones, mainly because we have so much going on right now.

 

Registration is at ArcReady.com as usual, and the local dates are:

Austin - Feb 18th, Microsoft Office 9-12,

Houston - Feb 22nd, Microsoft Office, 9-12,

Dallas - March 3rd, Microsoft Office, 9-12

 

We're going to have William Oellermann speaking on Service Lifecycle Management.  His team is the one working with the Managed Services Factory project to enable not just supporting adopting SOA, but working with a SOA environment for the long haul.  If you've ever looked at the loosely coupled model and asked "That's nice, but what happens in 5 years when we've got a bazillion of these things?" then this is the session you want to attend.


Published: Jan-24-08 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post
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Jan-232008

If you want to know about Virtual Earth and GeoCoding...

then you need to go read Spencer's Blog.  I chatted with him all too briefly before the last Austin IASA meeting and we discussed some of the things he's doing with Virtual Earth and his GPS information.  Get the full information over at his site - http://spencerwilliams.net/blog/ there's a lot of great observations about what he's doing and what can be done with the platform!

(updated to correct my overenthusiastic spell checker.)


Published: Jan-23-08 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post
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Jan-222008

Mobile devices and SharePoint

One of the most interesting things that SharePoint 2007 brought out was mobile support being built in.  Each list has it's on default mobile page that you can use to access information, but there's a good bit more functionality there to handle redirecting mobile browsers to the right page when they get to your SharePoint implementation.  I've been going through some of the updated MSDN documentation on SharePoint (See previous SharePoint post) and there's a nice overview for development for mobile browsers at (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms464268.aspx).  Additionally there's a good location to answer that ever present question "What can I actually use" when thinking about mobile browsers - the list of Mobile Controls that you can use is at (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.mobilecontrols.aspx)


Published: Jan-22-08 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post
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