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October 2007 - Posts

Tim Rayburn's Blog - Oslo Announcement

Dallas-area BizTalk MVP Tim Rayburn gives us the scoop on the newly announced Microsoft Oslo project, which will bring further technological advancements to Microsoft's Software+Services, SOA, MDD and Composite Application platforms. Check out Tim's reaction Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:07 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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So, you wanna be a game developer?

For those of you that have been following the tidal wave of interest in XNA Game development , there's a conference coming up soon that you might find interesting.  This year's Indie MMO Game Developers Conference is happening at the Minneapolis Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:21 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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CoDe Magazine - Article: Use the ASP.NET MVC Framework to Write Web Apps without Viewstate or Postbacks

CoDe Magazine recently published an article by Microsoft Solution Architect MVP Jeffrey Palermo about the new Microsoft MVC Framework for ASP.NET: On October 6, 2007, Scott Guthrie officially unveiled the ASP.NET MVC Framework at the AltNetConf in Austin, Read More...
Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 10:57 AM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments
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Blog Series - ASP.NET Futures

I spoke last week at the Dallas ASP.NET User Group meeting about IIS 7.0 . The talk ended a little earlier than I expected, so we opened things up to general questions, and just started discussing whatever came up. One question I asked the group was "have Read More...
Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 12:53 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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Code to Live - Rob Howard Interview

I totally forgot! Code to Live posted the interview I did with Rob Howard about Microsoft releasing the Source Code for much of the .NET framework - here's the snippet from the Code to Live web site: In this show, Rob Howard and Richard Hale Shaw discuss Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:43 AM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments
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SilverlightAddict.com - a new Silverlight Developer Portal

If you're interested at all in Microsoft Silverlight , then you MUST start following and contributing to SilverlightAddict.com .  This Community Server based site, run by Roger Guess, is a new Silverlight developer portal containing a blog and forums Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:48 PM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments
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Community Guy - Jake McKee » Community Contest 2007: Learning to Share

You guys care about community, right?  So does Jake McKee, a.k.a. "The Community Guy".  Located here in Dallas, Jake is all about Community - and not just the developer community...  If you're interested in learning more about Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:52 AM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments
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Tulsa TechFest 2007

This past weekend saw the Tulsa TechFest come back to the OSU Campus in Tulsa.  Tulsa TechFest 2007 was held over a 2 day period this year (Oct 19-20) instead of one, and contained 16 session tracks that included topics ranging from development on Read More...
Posted Monday, October 22, 2007 4:25 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Microsoft Popfly - The Open Beta

Microsoft announced today at the Web 2.0 Summit that Microsoft Popfly , our Silverlight -based Mashup Editor, will enter a Public Beta, and no longer be invitation-only. This is great news for fans of the popular Popfly as they will no longer have to Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 18, 2007 5:39 PM by Chris Koenig | 4 Comments
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Tim Rayburn [BizTalk MVP] on C# 3.0

If you've ever seen Tim present on this topic, you know how cool his presentations are.  Here's a screencast of Tim doing is much requested "New Features in C# 3.0".  http://flash.timrayburn.net/introtocsharp3/ Technorati Tags: .net Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 11:04 PM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments
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Live Search Maps

Have you seen the new Live Search Maps ?  Launched today, the new interface is a LOT simpler to use, and a lot faster (it seems) to load and find results.  The Windows Live Search team has really been busy getting and incorporating all the feedback Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:21 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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Virtual PC Guy's WebLog : Using Shared Networking (NAT) with a Windows Server 2003 virtual machine

This post just saved my life.  I've been working on getting a VPC image set up for use in our upcoming Silverlight DevCamp , but wasn't able to get the networking working.  I'd used VPCs before, and they'd worked great - but I hadn't tried Windows Read More...
Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 4:26 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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Upcoming Dallas Silverlight DevCamp

Registrations are on the rise!  Make sure you get your name out there for the upcoming Silverlight DevCamp here in Dallas!   Technorati Tags: Silverlight , .NET , Events Read More...
Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 8:45 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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Code to Live: My Interview with Rob Howard

Check out the latest Code to Live show on Channel 9 - this episide contains an interview I did last week with Rob Howard , CEO of Telligent Systems , and Microsoft Regional Director . Our topic was the recent announcement by Scott Guthrie of the release Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:09 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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Microsoft ZendCon/PHP Announcements

Microsoft and Zend announced this morning at the Zend/PHP Conference in San Francisco a couple of new initiatives that PHP and Windows developers will find interesting: First, Zend and Microsoft announced they will continue work on FastCGI and scalable Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:39 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

ALT.NET Conference 2007

Last weekend I had the pleasure of participating in the first ever ALT.NET conference , held in beautiful Austin, TX. Not only was it a great excuse to visit one of my favorite cities in the US, and see my Mom (who never thinks we bring the kids over Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:37 AM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

Quick update on what's going on

I just got back today from the ALT.NET Open Spaces Conference in Austin, and haven't had a chance to catch up on too much as I'm flying out tomorrow to the Zend PHP Conference in San Francisco.  At the risk of embarrassing myself (which, for me, Read More...
Posted Monday, October 08, 2007 1:31 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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Agile Development Center on MSDN

I didn't know about this today, but there is (and has been for some time apparantly) an Agile Development Center on MSDN.  Please check it out! Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 07, 2007 1:37 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

AT&T Unveils 'Tilt' Smartphone

Perhaps this could be my new cell phone.  Yes I know that I just got one recently, but it's never wrong to buy a new phone-toy to play with. AT&T today unveiled its first Windows Mobile 6-enabled smartphone, the Tilt. Named for its 2.8" Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 07, 2007 12:32 PM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments
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Webmaster Jam Session 2007 - a photoset on Flickr

I just posted all my pictures from WMJ07 on my Flickr site .  Read More...
Posted Friday, October 05, 2007 2:24 AM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

BarCamp Dallas

BarCamp Dallas was a BLAST!  I didn't get to stay there nearly as long as I'd have liked, but I did manage to have fun talking with several people about Silverlight .  Most of the questions were around "what's the reality behind the hype" Read More...
Posted Friday, October 05, 2007 1:03 AM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

Article on Windows Vista Security

Security researchers look beyond Vista | InfoWorld | News | 2007-10-02 | By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service Here's a couple of fun quotes from the article: The improved security in Microsoft's newest software products may leave some security researchers Read More...
Posted Friday, October 05, 2007 12:23 AM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries

Today, at 9am PST, Microsoft announced here and here that we will be releasing the source code to some parts of the .NET Framework Libraries under the Microsoft Reference License .  I'm no licensing expert, so I've grabbed a snippet from the license Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 03, 2007 12:02 PM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments

Webmaster Jam Session 2007 - It's a Wrap!

A few weekends ago Phil and I attended the 2007 Webmaster Jam Session here in Dallas. The conference was targeted at web developers, designers and webmasters from various technological backgrounds to get everyone together to talk about web design and Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 02, 2007 1:09 PM by Chris Koenig | 3 Comments
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