My first post in the Fail Tales series is now available at http://techblog.rga.com/fail-tales-1-the-highlander-constraint-designing-for-65-availability...

As I mentioned in my last post, I got WordPress up and running in Azure using the Windows Azure Companion . I used one of the prebuilt packages, it was drop dead simple. I then proceeded to play around with Azure Remote Desktop access following Maarten Balliauw instructions which was simple enough. It...

OK, part of my goal for the holiday weekend was to start digging a little deeper into Windows Phone development (amongst other things). Right off the bat, I sidetracked myself and decided to play around with deploying WordPress in Windows Azure/SQL Azure. Both of you who read this blog know that I have...

This past 2 months has brought a slew of new technologies into my life. The biggest surprise was the families new Epson Artisan 725 All-in-One   inkjet which replaces the retched Epson R800 . ThatR80was crap from the moment I got it, but I suffered thinking that when it did print well, I was getting...

So, here is the deck – embedded. To get real context, watch the presentation video at the Mix site....

This is a silly example – but I only had 2 minutes to get it done. You have to be on the full post page – not on the home page...

Angus Logan continues his torrential blogging spree - with a ton of details on Messenger Connect Check it out. Messenger Connect is now available - Angus Logan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs This post has links to the posts which are housed at the Windows Live blog...

Angus Logan has posted about Microsoft’s effort to allow for data portability over the net with Windows Live Messenger Connect. From what I remember from conversations with Angus, the point is not creating YASN (yet Another Social Network) but giving you some tools to thread the ones you belong to together...

I will be delivering a presentation titled Peanut “ Butter & Jelly: Putting Content Management Back into Context ”. The talk is not really about Content Management Systems themselves – but rather how the mere discussion of them can be a symptom of a larger problem. The talk will deal with the current...