Entries from August 2006

August 29, 2006

The Pirates of Silicon Valley Pt. II- Electric Boogaloo

What the heck does this title mean? Well, it means that they’re dancing a jig down in Sunnyvale because Dr. Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, has joined the board of Apple.
Welcome to the software business Eric, and best of luck to you in your future work with Steve Jobs.
UPDATE- An excellent analysis by Don Dodge. His [...]

August 24, 2006

32-bit Vista and Protected HD Content

Windows Vista Team Blog: Clarifying Windows Vista Support of Protected HD Content in 32-bit Systems
I’m glad to see a quick response to this story spreading on the meme trackers earlier today. The only question I would pose is has Microsoft provided any guidance to ISVs related to this issue or do we know what any [...]

August 24, 2006

Arch 2.0

Just Shelley: “I’m trying a little behind the scenes recruiting to get O’Reilly to put on a scripting, Ajax, and web development conference here in St. Louis.”

August 23, 2006

Microsoft reaching out to Firefox developers

Not exactly a brand new story, but definitely worth sharing. Via arstechnica: “Microsoft wants to help aid in the development of Firefox. It sounds pretty scary, doesn’t it? If you’re still here, let me tell you that it’s not as bad as it seems. Sam Ramjii, Director of Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab, has extended [...]

August 20, 2006

Windows Live Contacts now in beta

People Ready in St. Louis: “Windows Live Contacts is a new service that enables you to integrate your customer’s Windows Live Contacts information (Hotmail and Messenger contacts) into your web site. There is some good feedback coming in from the online community following this announcement. If you want to make it simple to let your [...]

August 14, 2006

Console game development for the masses

NY Times: “[T]he development kits needed to create games for the consoles made by Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo cost thousands of dollars, and those companies usually send the kits only to established producers.Microsoft is trying to change that. Today the company is expected to announce the fall release of a product called XNA Game Studio [...]

August 13, 2006

How broadband is changing people’s lives

Om Malik: Broadband In The Boonies

August 13, 2006

A “new” BizTalk developer resource

Although this blog clearly isn’t new (I saw a count of 114 BizTalk-related posts), Richard Seroter’s BizTalk blog is one of the best BizTalk resources I’ve run across. Ever. Case in point, check out his post on processing binary documents via BizTalk Web services. What I like about his blog is how he provides detail [...]

August 13, 2006

BizTalk Server 2006 and Web services

The BizTalk Server team maintains an FAQ for BizTalk Web services features that has been updated since the BizTalk Server 2006 release. The FAQ references great documentation on creating web ports, adding references, and publishing Web services from BizTalk. You can also find more on orchestrations of Web services with these links. If you’re a [...]

August 13, 2006

Don’t even try to “google”

Steve Rubel: “Google has fired off a series of legal letters to the media, asking them not to use the name of the company as a verb… This has to go down as one of the worst PR moves in history.”