An interesting article from Computerworld on the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) space (of which my employer – Elcom – is a major player). Elcom is an ECM company, and we are always grappling with where to best extend our product. Lately we have seen the value of our systems being the platform for a business to run on. Our customisation tends to be in the building of Line of...
I continue to be stunned by Google's reach. Whilst I'm not one of the 'be wary of Google having too much power' brigade I can see how incredible their power is becoming (trust is a different matter). Name me an area they aren't tapping into… This latest news is exciting for its sheer geekiness factor. It is suggested they will be making 120 terabytes of data available...
After a few weeks off from posting my links, I'm back for 2008. (Note: my main blog has been continuing on without a break) Admittedly there were a few gems that came along last week that I just had to note, but for the most part, it's been good to take a break. And, as 'distance makes the heart grow fonder' I'm pleased to be back into my blog reading in full force. FeedDemon...
Earlier this week I mentioned Elcom had moved everything over to 2008 (that is, our product – Community Manager.NET – is now targeting .NET 3.5 in Visual Studio 2008, and our site is running on Windows Server 2008 with SQL Server 2008 on the back end). Initial thoughts were that the site was running a bit quicker. Turns out we were wrong. The site is actually running a lot quicker...
I can’t always remember where I learn my favourite tips, but I think this one came from Adam Cogan at a recent .Net User Group meeting. In any case, it is covered via my usual Disclaimer. Here’s how to run a quick performance monitor check on your Vista machine. Go to the orb, and type in perf in the Search box Choose the Reliability and Performance Monitor application. When it opens...
Good to see some more investment by Google in targeting climate change and other environmental initiatives.
(via TechCrunch)
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Brad Marsh has a good post on Windows 2008 firewall settings
Angus McDonald discusses new VB9 stuff
Sam Fu considers the Application Domain
Summer Hu has stacks of stuff, here's an example talking about System.AddIn
Alan Lee talks about Windows Server 2008 RC0
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Only two weeks until The Sydney Business & Technology User Group (SBTUG) kicks off for 2008. And what a great return meeting we have lined up. Business On the business side of things, Cecelia Haddad will be giving us an overview of PR. The whole public relations side of business is a mystery to many, so this session will be especially relevant for business owners. Cecelia has more than 15...
Just in case you missed the announcement last week, you can now get FeedDemon for free. Thanks Newsgator.
I've been using FeedDemon for over 3 years now and swear by it.
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Scott Guthrie has announced the release of source code for some of the .NET framework libraries. This is fulfilling his promise from October last year.
Shawn Burke has a detailed post on how to set up debugging in Visual Studio 2008.
Scott Hanselman has a few pointers on what to expect.
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