Random Technology Ramblings

This is a email test post… If this works then I can now do posting from e= mail. I am not sure that is a good thing but it’s cool! 🙂

I have just upgraded to dasBlog 1.8 from 1.7 as I was just getting hammered with track back spam. I will re do my skin soon sorry for any problems.

Quite interesting and good add-in for office to allow anyone to produce files that have the Creative Commons license into a document. Go get it and produce something great for the world! Office Add-in: Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office

WOW I went to a MSDN event today… all I can say is wow if you have not been to a MSDN event you need to experience this type of event. You can see all kinds of geek information all in a movie theater. And yes if you try hard you can sneak in to […]

I know I am a coder so I should not care about infrastructure stuff but I do… I have see way too many developers blamed for infrastructure so I guess it has been an issue of self preservation but if you can get your servers monitored! Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Beta 2

Yes this job has had some strange twists for me but I think this one takes the cake. I was going to Las Vegas to attend and work the booth at JBoss world and in the week before I came I was asked to attend the eBay Developers Conference. So here I am at lunch […]

Yesterday Microsoft made Windows Vista available to anyone who wants to pay for shipping or download it. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/default.mspx and see if you system can run Vista… Note for me on my slow DSL the estimated time for download is 54 hours . Have fun!

The PAG group has just released a CTP of the Mobile Client Software Factory. I have yet to read and play with the code but I am told it is great. Please let me know what you think of it if you decide to play with it.

OK I know this is going to be a pain in my side but I want to do it so I can stay current on Compact Framework development. On the suggestion of Scott Kerfoot I have stated to develop a small test Compact Framework application. I have setup a new site to host it and it’s […]