Another Microsoft Blogger https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cameronreilly/feed.xml a weblog by cameron reilly Wed, 17 Apr 2019 03:19:08 GMT en-US hourly 1 Why I resigned from Microsoft today https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cameronreilly/why-i-resigned-from-microsoft-today Thu, 01 Jul 2004 18:32:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cameronreilly/2004/07/01/why-i-resigned-from-microsoft-today/ I resigned from Microsoft today after six great years. I hope some of you will subscribe to my new blog (see URL below). I know this blog has been very quiet over the last couple of months and I intend to blog a lot more frequently from now on!

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Cameron Reilly

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]]> information technology evolving similar to how American cities have evolved? https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cameronreilly/information-technology-evolving-similar-to-how-american-cities-have-evolved Tue, 20 Apr 2004 11:27:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cameronreilly/2004/04/20/information-technology-evolving-similar-to-how-american-cities-have-evolved/ I love essays like this that stretch my thinking and give me new conceptual models for understanding what I see happening each day. According to Pat Helland's “Metropolis“ article, “we are at approximately the early 1880's in urban development in our parallel IT shop's growth!“ I also like his explanation of why “shared services will not be achieved by trying to put all of your applications on one version of one platform”.  I'm going to use his material for my next series of discussions on “why SOA“.

Source: Steve Kirk

]]> Making web forms easy with InfoPath and "InfoView" https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cameronreilly/making-web-forms-easy-with-infopath-and-infoview Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:31:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cameronreilly/2004/04/16/making-web-forms-easy-with-infopath-and-infoview/ InfoPath makes developing XML forms much easier than ever before. But how do you quickly make those forms available to people external to your organisation who may not be running InfoPath on their desktop yet? Enter InfoView.

A partner of ours in Sydney, Unique World Software, has recently released an exciting new tool called “InfoView”. InfoView uses the files created by Microsoft InfoPath to convert the InfoPath form to an ASP.NET web form able to be delivered through the browser. The XML data generated by InfoView is identical to the XML created by InfoPath, so  BizTalk can easily be used for routing and workflow.

The CEO of Unique World and I were talking last night about potential applications of InfoView for our customers. I particularly can see lots of opportunities for enterprises who have customers they want to complete browser-based forms (let's say a telco who wants an online customer self-service system) and then route the data in those forms to back-end transactional data systems such as their ERP and CRM using BizTalk 2004.

]]> Activewords scripting guide in PDF https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cameronreilly/activewords-scripting-guide-in-pdf Sat, 10 Apr 2004 22:46:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cameronreilly/2004/04/10/activewords-scripting-guide-in-pdf/ I might actually figure out how to make this scripting stuff work! AW have recently released a guide in PDF format.

Source: Marc

]]> VoIP Now Available on Pocket PCs For Free https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cameronreilly/voip-now-available-on-pocket-pcs-for-free Wed, 07 Apr 2004 16:11:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cameronreilly/2004/04/07/voip-now-available-on-pocket-pcs-for-free/ Skype for Pocket PC mentions that Skype was founded by the two guys who in vented Kazaa! That's news to me. Wow, talk about two guys changing paradigms... ]]> Channel9 gets media coverage down under! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cameronreilly/channel9-gets-media-coverage-down-under Wed, 07 Apr 2004 15:57:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cameronreilly/2004/04/07/channel9-gets-media-coverage-down-under/

Great to see ZDnet Australia giving Channel9 some early coverage!

]]> a look under the covers of Gmail - Google's new email service https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cameronreilly/a-look-under-the-covers-of-gmail-googles-new-email-service Mon, 05 Apr 2004 19:06:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cameronreilly/2004/04/05/a-look-under-the-covers-of-gmail-googles-new-email-service/ I'm all excited reading miscoranda's drill-down into Gmail. This is big. As big as OutlookMT, Scoble? I dunno. But it's big. Oh, I know, web mail is old hat. Yeah but so was “search” when Google jumped into the pond.

Also laughing at Kevin Fox's post assuring everyone Gmail wasn't an April Fools Day joke and about why he loves working at a company like Google. Hey Kevin - if you're looking for more testers... give me a yell!

Source: https://weblogs.asp.net/pleloup/archive/2004/04/04/107442.aspx

 

]]> why migrate from Microsoft ASP to Microsoft .NET https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cameronreilly/why-migrate-from-microsoft-asp-to-microsoft-net Mon, 05 Apr 2004 18:58:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cameronreilly/2004/04/05/why-migrate-from-microsoft-asp-to-microsoft-net/ A few months ago I linked to an article in a local paper which mentioned that one of Australia's largest e-tailers was still running on Microsoft ASP and SQL 7. Nothing at all wrong with that, as far as I'm concerned - plenty of businesses out there are happily running on even 20 year-old technology. The challenge for vendors, though, is to make the new technology compelling enough to create a business justification for organisations to upgrade their infrastructure.

Today one of the developers at this e-tailer, Paul, posted a comment making the point that “any form of radical technology shift is going to require a pretty compelling business case to justify the expense (and, in the case of the SQL 7 -> SQL 2000 migration, it's a fairly enormous expense)“ and letting me know that they are “doing pretty amazing things with the old technology“ and I'm sure he's right on this last point. The folks at Wishlist are a very smart bunch who have a great site and an even better business model. Let's face it - any “dot com“ who survived the crunch are smarter than your average bear.

So anyway, I was wondering - what business justification have other organisations have used to migrate from ASP to ASP.NET or from SQL7 to SQL 2000? Is it compelling enough? Do we need to do more to either make the new technology compelling or to communicate the more compelling features of the new technologies? Is it really to do with price? Or with the cost and complexity of the migration?

]]> the customer is in charge https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cameronreilly/the-customer-is-in-charge Mon, 05 Apr 2004 15:51:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cameronreilly/2004/04/05/the-customer-is-in-charge/ McNealy (about why the deal came about): “What I think is happening, is that the customer is getting more in charge. I challenge you to find large enterprise customers who are unhappy with this deal”.

What do customer's think of the Sun - Microsoft deal? Does it matter to anyone besides Sun and MS? Does anyone else care? I've just spent ages scrolling through the comments on /. and I can't see much analysis or opinion worth anything. I've read a few press comments and, again, no analysis which sparks my interest.

]]> Bungie announces HALO 2 product placement. Allegedly. https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/cameronreilly/bungie-announces-halo-2-product-placement-allegedly Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:05:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cameronreilly/2004/04/02/bungie-announces-halo-2-product-placement-allegedly/ Revealing a brand synergy unprecedented in next generation gaming, Bungie today announced a list of vendors to be featured in-game in "Halo 2" the exciting sci-fi adventure heading to Xbox game systems this fall.

Gee, I can’t seem to find “Mungo McIver, a Microsoft marketing expert” in the GAL. How about that….

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