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From my Office to Yours
BUILD Windows 8
I'm down in LA (OK, Anaheim actually...) for the BUILD Windows 8 conference - what was previously...
Date: 09/12/2011
Getting BidNow to Work
For the auction at my kid’s school, I volunteered to set up a simple web site to be able to review...
Date: 02/07/2011
VMWare and Hyper-V
For a client engagement, I was provided VMWare images. I don’t have VMWare, but have a server...
Date: 01/09/2011
Excel Pivot Table Missing a Column from Source Data?
I have a large spreadsheet I’ve gotten from a colleague. To help categorize it for a pivot...
Date: 11/19/2010
Windows 7 Homegroup and Domain
For a consulting project, I recently had to join my laptop to an Active Directory domain at a...
Date: 10/01/2010
Outlook 2010 Always Trying to Send Messages
I noticed a while ago that my Outlook 2010 connected over IMAP to my company email and Outlook...
Date: 09/17/2010
Serializing to XML
I’m doing some performance testing on Azure tracing to figure out the overhead of trace statements...
Date: 08/03/2010
Virtual Memory and Performance
There’s an interesting article about performance of server apps in the July 2010...
Date: 07/16/2010
Outlook Mailing Addresses
To fix a problem with a corrupted Outlook profile, I created a new profile which caused all my...
Date: 07/12/2010
Help With Outlook Connector Errors (80004005 and 4350)
I use the Outlook Connector for MSN to access my MSN mail, calendar and contacts in Outlook...
Date: 06/30/2010
Using Custom Performance Counters with Windows Azure Services
Windows makes available a wide variety of performance counters which of course are available to your...
Date: 06/22/2010
Leveraging Azure Diagnostics to Troubleshoot Intermittent Problems
One of the practices I advise with Windows Azure services (and really any service) is...
Date: 06/17/2010
Diagnostics and Logging in Windows Azure
My MSDN Magazine article on diagnostics and logging in Windows Azure is now available in the June...
Date: 06/07/2010
Skype App-to-App Channels and Microsoft Robotics Studio
For a consulting project, I’ve been playing around with getting the Skype public API to work with...
Date: 04/28/2010
Robotics Studio R2
As part of a project I’m doing for a Seattle startup, I’m playing with Microsoft Robotics Developer...
Date: 04/09/2010
Windows Azure Panel Discussion Q&A
I am at the Azure Firestarter event in Redmond today which just finished with a panel discussion and...
Date: 04/06/2010
Building Applications for the Cloud
I am at the Azure Firestarter event in Redmond today and just heard David Aiken from the Azure team...
Date: 04/06/2010
Windows Azure SQL Notes
I am at the Azure Firestarter event in Redmond today and just heard David Robinson from the SQL team...
Date: 04/06/2010
Windows Azure Storage Overview
I am at the Azure Firestarter event in Redmond today and just heard Brad Calder give a quick...
Date: 04/06/2010
A PowerShell Cmdlet for Managing Windows Azure Diagnostics
I decided to write a PowerShell cmdlet to manage Windows Azure diagnostics. This cmdlet will...
Date: 03/05/2010
XBox 360 Media Center Extender Error – SymAddin
Every time I start my XBox 360 as a Media Center Extender (i.e. select “Windows Media Center” from...
Date: 02/28/2010
ASP Forms Authentication in myFerry
As a previous post mentioned, I’ve added the AspProviders Azure sample to the myFerry app to provide...
Date: 02/10/2010
Don’t Assume
Just fixed a bug where a query being issued from my service to Azure table storage was returning no...
Date: 02/07/2010
Timed Update to a Page
One of the features in my ferry app is to show the time remaining until the next ferry. This...
Date: 02/04/2010
Updates to my Azure Ferry App
I’ve been working on getting my ferry times app running and have recently been motivated to step it...
Date: 02/04/2010
Backing up a MacBook Running Both Windows 7 and Mac OS X
I have a MacBook on which I use Boot Camp to dual-boot to Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. ...
Date: 01/04/2010
Everyone I’ve Sent Mail To
For a farewell mail to my colleagues at Microsoft (I’ve decided to move on, but will continue...
Date: 12/20/2009
Top Ten Things at PDC 2009
P.main:first-letter { COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-SIZE: xx-large } I’m sitting at LAX writing this summary...
Date: 11/19/2009
Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC 2009) : Tuesday
This is the first time I’ve been to PDC in a number of years, and it is fun to be back. Here...
Date: 11/17/2009
Azure – from July CTP to November 2009 PDC Release
Well, the official PDC 2009 release of the Azure SDK is out and there are a lot of changes. ...
Date: 11/17/2009
DevDays Seattle – Scott Hanselman
Lolcode.net – funny site with a domain-specific language that mimics IM syntax. Actual code...
Date: 10/21/2009
DevDays Seattle – Joel Spolsky
We get interrupted too much by a computer that has an agenda of its own for ourselves. Examples:...
Date: 10/21/2009
DevDays Seattle
I’m at DevDays Seattle, an event sponsored by Stack Overflow and Microsoft. I look at it as a...
Date: 10/21/2009
Azure Service: Moving Storage from Development (local) to the Cloud
As part of the process of moving my Azure test service from running entirely locally (on what's...
Date: 10/13/2009
MVC and CSS
I've spent some time trying to figure out why my simple MVC site (built on Azure) isn't rendering...
Date: 10/12/2009
Simple Azure Service Experience
I started a couple of days ago working on my first Azure service and have learned a lot. It's a...
Date: 10/08/2009
PDC 2009
I registered for PDC 2009 today, getting in under the wire for the pre-September 15 discount....
Date: 09/14/2009
Unix Time and Windows Time
A little note in Portfolio magazine caught my attention: On Friday, February 13, at 23:31:30, the...
Date: 01/17/2009
Excel Conditional Formatting Against a Goal Value
Today, for a metrics worksheet I'm doing, I had a conditional formatting problem with Excel. I...
Date: 12/30/2008
Business Contact Manager and Outlook 2007
My group at work has decided to use Business Contact Manager (BCM) for tracking engagements we're...
Date: 11/26/2008
Don't Forget Those Passports!
As an experienced international traveler, I am embarrassed to admit that on a trip this weekend, I...
Date: 01/15/2008
Lost Vista Password
My son has an HP laptop and playing around, changed his password and then couldn't get into his...
Date: 11/25/2007
Windows C++ Exception Handling
Good post on how to see the stack when an exception is thrown on Windows at...
Date: 10/11/2007
Update on Windows XP Install over Windows Server 2003
I wrote about most of the issues I encountered with installing Windows XP on a machine that...
Date: 10/11/2007