From the monthly archives:

November 2007

Silverlight 1.1 is now 2.0

November 29, 2007Silverlight

Tim Sneath give us the lowdown on why Silverlight will be released as 2.0. Personally I think it is the right decision. There is heaps of new stuff coming and calling it 1.1 is misleading.
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CLARITY: Flash versus Flex versus Silverlight

November 28, 2007Clarity

Summary: Flex is to Adobe as Silverlight is to Microsoft

Silverlight is often referred to as Microsoft's version of Flash, however it is more correct to say it is Microsoft's version of Flex.

You could say the following…
Silverlight 1.0 = Flash
Silverlight 2.0 = Flex

[UPDATE: Silverlight 1.1 has been re-branded as Silverlight 2.0]

Here's a very basic comparison of [...]

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Google’s renewable energy initiative

November 27, 2007General Tech

I'm hoping this is more than just green-speak. Press release here.
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CLARITY: SharePoint – WSS versus MOSS

November 26, 2007Clarity

There's still plenty of confusion out there about SharePoint, particularly around what is included in WSS versus MOSS. Part of the problem is that there is soooo much information about SharePoint that the simple details get lost…

So, let's go through the various options, comparing WSS with MOSS Standard and MOSS Enterprise as simply as possible. [...]

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Zoho now working offline

November 26, 2007Technology

A step in the right direction, and again Zoho leads the way. They've Google Gears enabled their Zoho Writer, so that it can be used offline.
One day all 'online' apps will work offline seamlessly and we'll look back and wonder why this whole 'need to be connected' hurdle was ever designed in the first place. [...]

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Stephen King loves Britney Spears

November 26, 2007Humour

Well, not really. This wonderful interview with Stephen by Time magazine is a nice rebuke to what the media tells us is important news. IF the media is right about what is important to the public, then we should be making Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan the Time Persons of the Year. Or so claims [...]

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The Blogger’s Guide to SEO by Aaron & Giovanna Wall

November 26, 2007Blog

A great article for bloggers on how improve their SEO.
Technorati Tags: SEO, Blog, Aaron Wall, Giovanna Wall

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SBTUG: This Wed with Social Networks, and Silverlight. Plus a great Prize

November 25, 2007Community

Another (!) big night this Wed 28 November 2007 with Laurel Papworth and Michael Kordahi presenting.
Both sessions will focus on the business value of their respective topics – eg is social networking of use to businesses? Is Silverlight really of interest to companies at this stage? The answer to both is Yes. Come along and [...]

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CLARITY: Microsoft is a marketing company

November 24, 2007Clarity

Not wanting to be too much of 'well duh' post, but I thought it was worth reminding ourselves that in software we need to be focusing extensively on marketing and sales. It all too easy to get caught up in the development, to the detriment of the marketing.

I've (finally) finished 'Partnering with Microsoft' by Ted [...]

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CLARITY: SaaS versus S+S

November 23, 2007Clarity

If, like me, you'd just assumed that Software + Services (S+S) was Microsoft's way of trying to take over and re-brand an existing concept – namely Software as a Service (SaaS) – then the following diagram is a helpful corrective.

It's taken from page 18 of Issue 13 of the Architecture Journal (download here), and is [...]

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Benefits of registering Microsoft Express versions

November 20, 2007Microsoft

I didn't realise there was a whole bunch of free stuff that you got when registering an Express product. Telerik, DevComponents, etc. Almost makes me want to ditch the full version
(Thanks to Dan Fernandez for pointing this out at point 10).
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Wiki-hacking

November 20, 2007General Tech

A great post by Rand (from SEOmoz) on the how Wikipedia is manipulated (and how it is protected). Interesting reading.
Note: Wiki-hacking is his term.
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Windows GMail

November 20, 2007Humour

From Google Blogoscoped comes this gem on what GMail would look like if Microsoft had designed it. It's too close to reality to be funny…
Technorati Tags: Microsoft GMail, Blogoscoped

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Visual Studio 2008 and .Net 3.5 Training kit

November 20, 2007General Tech

Thanks to Grant Holliday for alerting me to this – a great collection of labs, presentations, and demo projects for understanding VS2008.
Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2008 Trainng kit

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Amazon Kindle

November 20, 2007Technology

Amazon has announced their new electronic reader, named Kindle.
What can I say? I want one.
Newsweek talks about it, as does Guy Kawasaki.
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SQL Server 2008 November CTP is released

November 20, 2007General Tech

Just a few hours after Visual Studio 2008 was made available, up comes the latest SQL Server 2008 CTP.
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Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition available

November 19, 2007General Tech

Yep, it's here. Adam Cogan IMed me to let me know that VS2008 Team Edition is now available on MSDN for download. All 3921 golden MBs. I'm currently downloading it, and am surprised that I'm getting over 600KB/s – pretty good for a download site that is no doubt getting hammered at the moment.
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