From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Windows 7 Launch

October 21, 2009Microsoft

Or more correctly: The Jeff Putt Show

What you would do if you had to organise a product launch? How would you structure it? You’d probably get marketing to pump out a few of the pretty videos, crank the upbeat motivating soundtracks and speed through the nice photo slideshows.
But then, what would you focus on? [...]

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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

October 20, 2009Visual Studio

I love the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 pitch – no namby-pamby here:
This is no namby-pamby beta. It’s a full-octane beta release with a “Go Live” license that you can use to concept, build, test, and deploy* your next project.

The Beta 2 has just been released, and whilst it seems to be downloading/installing OK, [...]

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TFS Basic 2010 – Team Foundation Server

October 16, 2009Microsoft

I missed this little announcement about ‘TFS Basic’ a few weeks back, but luckily Adam Cogan alerted me to it during one of our recent walks (can you tell where we stopped for lunch ). The news came from Brian Harry originally, but you could be forgiven for missing it since his blog [...]

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Microsoft, Cloud failure and T-Mobile

October 16, 2009Cloud

Society puts a premium on getting access to ‘news’ as quickly as possible. The person who breaks the story first gets the rewards. Speed to market trumps quality delivered to market every time. It’s a shame really.
Take the T-Mobile debacle as an example. The story kicked off two weeks ago, but hit fever pitch [...]

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WordPress Pretty Permalinks on IIS 7.0

October 16, 2009Microsoft

Just a quick tip if you run your WordPress site on IIS 7.0 and run into issues with pretty permalinks.
It’s pretty easy to configure: there’s a full tutorial here on the Learn IIS site and the WordPress Codex has a good overview too.
You just need to add a few lines into your web.config [...]

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SharePoint 2010 Extravaganza

October 14, 2009Microsoft

Perhaps you’ve been hearing a lot about SharePoint 2010 lately… or perhaps not! Most likely the latter because most of the juicy bits have been locked under NDA. Until the SharePoint conference in Las Vegas next week that is!
Yes, and once the NDA wrappers are off there’s tons of goodness to talk about.
Which is [...]

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Migrating from BlogEngine.NET to WordPress

October 7, 2009BlogEngine.NET

After too much pain with both BlogEngine.NET and GoDaddy hosting I moved this site over to WordPress (on DreamHost) last week.
I’ve been using WordPress and DreamHost for years on my other sites, so it was only a matter of time before my personal blog finally made the move. Recent issues with BlogEngine.NET – including [...]

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Predictably Irrational

October 6, 2009General

You’ve probably heard of Dan Ariely’s book Predictably Irrational by now. It seems to be garnering a cult like following of late, and will likely be one of those books that everyone has an opinion on (along with The Tipping Point, Freakonomics, Purple Cow, and of course Twilight )
Aaron Wall put me on [...]

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