What type are you? is a little piece that – via the power of psuedopsychoanalysis helps you determine what “type” you are – as in typeface… from the enduring design powerhouse. The password is Character

a couple of weeks ago, Rob and Scott , shared the news (via Twitter and email) that Telligent’s Graffiti CMS would be Open Sourced and that more news would be out on Dec 11. As promised, a few more tweets were made and the Graffiti CMS (presently powering this humble blog) is now on CodePlex . It is...

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There have been a few people chipping in trying to hit the LinkedIn API via .NET. There have been some issues with oAuth. Faith Yasar has posted the the most complete example I have seen . I am looking forward to giving this a spin tomorrow morning! Thanks in advance Faith....

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Tim Heuer has the definitive post on getting started with Silverlight 4 Beta – A guide to the new features . There was a bunch of stuff I am still digesting from PDC 09 – I need to get some time to think about OData – I know Pablo Castro was speaking about it in a session I think it was this one . All...

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Updated to include most of the Bob Muglia half – this is really just quick and dirty coverage. Ozzie Keynote Seesmic – Loic Lemur - will now be a development platform – Windows version you will be able to write plugins – also will release a Silverlight version, replacing their AIR app. Azure – will demo...

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I went on vacation in August and hit a little blogging dry spell. On the technical side, I was waiting for some things like SQL Azure and the F1 scene, well the whole Piquet/Briatore/Symonds cheat-o-rama really made my blood boil. Watching Nelson “just following orders” Piquet Jr. and his loving dad...

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  SQL Azure Team Announced the availability of the SQL Azure Database CTP. I am waiting, oh so patiently, for my token to arrive. For those who are not aware, this is a cloud implementation of SQL Server – yes a relational database in the cloud. Pricing you ask? 1GB database will run you $9.99....

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I have been running Windows 7 beta and RC bit for a while and my only real complaint was problems with the tablet rotation. The problem was the button on the bezel that that rotates the screen and the auto-rotate that would kick in when you put the screen in tablet mode just wouldn’t work. Today I did...

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Just finished setting up an HP Mini 110 (32GB SSD, 1GB RAM, 1366x768) with Windows 7 Home Premium. First I set up a 4GB thumb drive using these great instructions http://blogs.technet.com/aviraj/archive/2009/02/01/installing-windows-7-using-usb-thumb-drive.aspx Then I did a Custom install which blew...

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So I haven’t been blogging a lot lately. I know. Since Massa got bonked on the head, it has been hard to concentrate. Thankfully, he is recuperating well and we will get to see Schu do his thing again. On the tech front, I have been very impressed with some of the stuff in Blend 3 with Sketchflow and...

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