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  • Microsoft UK ISV Design Reviews

    Are you an ISV in the UK? Are you interested in working with Microsoft architects around the technology choices and design decisions that you're making in your applications? If so then my colleagues that work directly with ISVs are offering design reviews ( both virtual and face-to-face ) that could be of great use in validating the decisions that you're making. Go here to find out more and apply.
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  • Broken Feed?

    Apologies if you've been visiting my RSS feed over the Xmas period and getting an error from FeedBurner. I've been trying to set up FeedBurner to count my blog traffic and I had it set up before Xmas and it was counting away nicely but it looks like it somehow got confused about which URL my RSS feed came from. Service should now be resumed - if you get errors I'd be most obliged if you mail me.
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  • Christmas: Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and Many-Core

    I've always been a big fan of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and I was surprised to see that this year they were being given by Microsoft's own Chris Bishop; I've been recording them on the Media Centre and, so far, I've only seen the first one which was about the push for computing speed. The audience looked to be approximately 10 years old or so and by the end of the first lecture Chris had got to the point where he'd explained why Moore's Law wasn't going to really hold for single-core computers any more and that many-core was the way forward. This made me feel a little old and I decided the only sensible response was to go and eat another mince pie :-)
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  • Live Framework SDK - More Steps

    Following up on this post , I thought I'd see if I could share some files through the Live Mesh and perhaps move on from writing a console application. Photos seem to be the most obvious choice so I thought I'd start there. What I figured was that I would just want a very simple way of storing the data so I figured I'd use a single MeshObject with a single DataFeed hanging off it and into that DataFeed I would add my photos. I also figured that I'd want to work against the Local Live Operating Environment all the time because I don't really want to have to figure out network status and connect/disconnect from the Cloud Live Operating Environment - that's too complex and seems unncessary to me unless I'm running in a situation where I don't expect the user to have installed the Local Live Operating Environment ( i.e. the "Live Framework Client" ). So...easy. Or not :-) What I got stuck with was how to deal with the various interleavings of synchronisation. Imagine the scenario; My application runs up on Machine1...
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  • (Very) Tentative Steps with the Live Framework SDK

    I made my first foray into the Live Framework SDK today and thought I'd share. Warning - apply a fairly large pinch of salt in reading this because I'm stumbling around in the Live Framework SDK at this point just to try and get something working. I'm a long way away ( i.e. even further than usual ) from knowing what I'm doing with this SDK :-) Firstly, I'd say that you might want to start here; The What and Why of Live Framework to understand what Live Framework is trying to do. The Live Framework SDK is in a limited CTP at the moment so you can only get it if you can get access to it. The best page to start for this is here but that'll then lead you to the Connect site . Once you get access, you can download a few bits and pieces. The Live Framework SDK. This is just a zip file that you extract into the equivalent of c:\program files\Microsoft SDKs The Visual Studio Tools for Live Framework - I haven't got to the point of using these yet but my understanding is that they help in building Mesh enabled web applications...
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  • Stuck on Community Server 2.0

    Update: Thanks to all the people who mailed me about this and thanks to Telligent who gave me the right bits to do the upgrade. I'm no longer stuck on Community Server 2.0 and have moved to 2.1 - might even be brave and move to a newer version by next year. On the off-chance that anyone reading this post might happen to know. This site runs on Community Server 2.0 which turns out to be very old :-) I'd like to get to something more modern like Community Server 2008 or maybe Graffiti but it seems that I need to first get to Community Server 2.1. Does anyone reading know how to do that upgrade? I've asked here; http://dev.communityserver.com/forums/t/503626.aspx because there doesn't seem to be a upgrade package that goes 2.0 -> 2.1 which would let me leave 2.0 behind and move on to more modern versions. Drop me a mail ( mailto:mtaulty@hotmail.com ) if you know how to go about it, I'd be much obliged.

  • A short break in service...

    I've been out on holiday for a couple of weeks - "normal service" is now resumed although I've yet to figure out exactly what "normal service" means as we head into 2009 :-)
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