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Azeri serious bug for non-Unicode SQL Server columns?

So it all started in a conversation with some of the folks from the SQL Server team when I was at PASS. What did they expect? Send 600 Microsoft employees to an event and you are bound to run into some of them just in the act of walking around! They were Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

If you say I'll PASS, that means you'll be there!

Warning: Excessive PASS puns follow; if you don't like that sort of thing, then do not PASS... It was one of those fun conversations that I find myself in from time to time. Over IM, I was talking to my friend Rachel (a very smart ASPNET developer I know Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

I think we're taking the wrong approach, mostly

In the past, I've done a lot of presentations on globalization and localizability issues. In different companies where I was brought in to do this, they were very well received, because generally a company is being asked to do the work to support another Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

Je suis prêt

Happy Halloween, everybody! Over on Suzanne Vega's Blog yesterday, in her blog je suis pret! , she describes an interesting phenomenon about language: One thing that has been a growing phenomenon on this tour is that at some point in the show, usually Read More...
Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 8:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

From ____ to ____ to MUI to ELS -- World Ready @ the PDC!

If you are the PDC in Los Angeles, you may have seen Yaniv Feinberg from the Globalization Services team and Erik Fortune from the Multilingual User Interface team, who did a 75-minute presentation entitled Windows 7: Writing World-Ready Applications Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:00 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 5 Comments

Shine a Little [Silver]Light

Not a blog about VanVelzen, sorry to disappint any fans of his! Just in case you have been too busy following the presidential race in the USA to notice, Microsoft did just release Silverlight 2.0 . Which is pretty cool in most respects. One piece of Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:31 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Behind the Proposed Change to Tamil in Unicode (five different ways)

So, I had that Behind the Proposed Change to Tamil in Unicode presentation: The encoding of Tamil within Unicode has been the subject of displeasure by the government of Tamil Nadu for as long as it has been there. It has led to a proposal (built up over Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments

Johab to be kidding me!

From the list of bugs from that cool presentation from the folks over in Intel localization.... The bug? Well, it seemed that Korean was "randomly" not working! By randomly I mean it was not working on some machines but everything was just fine on others. Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 14, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

One small step for me, and one big leap for Microsoft?

Okay, I know I promised I was done, but after It is the [unexpected] gratitude from people you respect that makes a [stubborn] Bulldog feels best! , where I mentioned: Rick then said some very nice things and I accepted the award that I think I was too Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 13, 2008 8:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments

U+1d31d -- "She's So High" lyrics, as requested

It came about as a result of The issue became moot as I decided to stand mute , when I commented about the songs that I was thinking about singing: Tal Bachman 's She's So High -- the theme was going to be about a Unicode character with a lower number Read More...
Posted Friday, September 12, 2008 8:59 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Getting a globe through the airport

So anyhow... You may recall how I won that award the other day . It came in a box. Well, actually, it came as an award. Magda put in a box so as to make taking it home easier. Here is the box: I was thinking about how lucky I was that I couldn't find Read More...
Posted Friday, September 12, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

Best in Show, according to me

I had somebody ask me what I thought was "best in show" at this last IUC that I was at (and whether I thought it was my presentation). No, I explained, my talk was interesting and there are several other interesting issues that could get a lot of benefit Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 11, 2008 2:31 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 7 Comments

The issue became moot as I decided to stand mute

It was yesterday in It is the [unexpected] gratitude from people you respect that makes a [stubborn] Bulldog feels best! where I mentioned that I was $20 in the trivia contest. Without explaining what I meant. Basically it was part of the evening's excitement, Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 11, 2008 2:31 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments

It is the [unexpected] gratitude from people you respect that makes a [stubborn] Bulldog feels best!

It turns out everybody knew. Rick McGowan had sent me mail a few days ago asking if I would definitely be at the Internationalization and Unicode Conference. I said yes to do my talk. I mean of course I did, I promised I would do the Behind the Proposed Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 13 Comments

The super-cool panel about Windows, .NET, and SQL Server -- now live!

Last night, at the .NET Developer's Association meeting, I got to see Kimberly Tripp and her husband do a pretty awesome talk about SQL Server index internals and fragmentation. In the conversation after I was reminded of a whole pile of SQL Server blogs Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments
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