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After reading a couple Stack Overflow articles about interviewing and hiring , I've been reflecting a lot about what I look for and the process by which I use. I won't talk about a great deal of specifics of what I ask, as I consider that to be intellectual...
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Last May, Atalasoft released 31 apps in 31 days , each free, with full source available, and made with DotImage . I wrote App #7 which was a desktop application to scan, clean, OCR and upload your documents to Scribd . This month, I went back to the project...
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Recently Ralph Gammon from Document Imaging Report interviewed Jack Berlin, the CEO of Pegasus Imaging, about the new release of their Prizm Viewer, a heavy client 25MB ActiveX Document Viewer. Ralph asked about the new wave of AJAX based zero-footprint...
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The blog CMS we use is great in a lot of ways but it’s built in editor is really, really bad. Initially, I had used Microsoft Word to fill the gap, with disastrous results . Since then I have moved to using our blog software’s horribly antiquated text...
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Over at the Document Imaging blog, there's an interesting post on 5 considerations for using SharePoint with document images. I don't agree with the first one, however: In many organizations, SharePoint projects are departmentalized and are outside of...
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Microsoft Blueprints, or the plans to a new interstellar hydro-combustion miracle-patented micro-teflon nuclear gamma strato rocketship-grade missile. As part of the PDC 2008 Expo, Steve and I watched a demo of the new Microsoft Blueprints . If they work...
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Just saw a report on Microsoft and Open-source stack usage in the enterprise . Its goal was: The goal of this survey is to research how open source is used within the enterprise, as well as examine the growing impact of Enterprise 2.0technologies and...
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Succinct and effective . Here's the long version , if you want to know why. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...
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Over at the AIIM Blog, John Mancini shares some SharePoint observations . I was struck by the last one: I am convinced that in the end analysis, “the elephant” is not really SharePoint. I think “the elephant” is really the “mainstreaming” of this industry...
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This weekend I attended Code Camp in Stamford. It was generally at the high quality that I have seen in the past. One note to presenters -- if you have a demo, make sure you get to it -- I went to a couple of presentations where I feel like a demo would...
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Atalasoft Across the Nation in November Atalasoft has been busy during the past couple months traveling around the US and Europe to show our latest and greatest demos of DotImage for developers and Vizit SP for SharePoint. Since September, we have exhibited...
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In getting to PDC, I took a flight out of Hartford to LA with a stop in DC. When I did the self-checkin, I was told that my originating flight was delayed and that I wouldn't make my connecting flight. I was asked if I wanted to look for other flights...
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Microsoft’s Professional Developer’s Conference 2008 – Pretty Darn Cool. So, sports fans and software enthusiasts, I haven’t updated in a few weeks. I’m here now to tell you all about this year’s PDC conference. The main course on the table was Windows...
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Disclaimer: I was a tech reviewer for this book and contributed some text. Whenever I ask Elaine which book I should get about a random .NET topic, she says to " get the one that Jesse Liberty writes ." So, I was happy the one he co-writes about ASP.NET...
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Finally had some time to start looking at Azure today -- I decided to start with the data services, because the rest looked like what I expected. I was struck at how different it was from BigTable, but still based on two core principles: 1. Joins make...
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This is the last day of PDC. So far I've been to a Silverlight 2 talk and an unmanaged interop session. I'm currently sitting in a future look at AJAX, the last session. One thing that really makes these sessions valuable and ultimately makes the worth...
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Yesterday, I went to a number of sessions about the features in Windows 7 - specifically I wanted to look at the APIs surrounding text and graphics. They don't exist in a usable form yet from managed code (but they can be wrapped well enough). They're...
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Last night I was asked what the difference was between managed and unmanaged code by a non-coder. I came up with a metaphor which works and Bill asked me to post it. Unmanaged code is an Erector set. Not a current one, but the old kind that has lots of...
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Went to a couple nuts and bolts presentations - one about packaging and deploying ASP.NET applications (looks better, but is apparently still has room to grow) and one about the architecture and scalability and support levels for cloud computing. Many...
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The big presented at the keynote was cloud computing. In MS' view, cloud computing is heavyweight, consistent, reliable support of distributed ASP.NET applications. They've tried to make the process of running and upgrading apps as robust as possible....
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There are a lot of different standards I work with every day -- I want to talk specifically about standards that are implemented by running services (rather than libraries). For example, HTTP is implemented in my web server, SQL is implemented in my DBMS,...
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After some unusual flight conditions and horrible airport UI, I managed to get to Los Angeles for PDC. The first day, I spent and entire day in a session about multiprocessing. This was a very good session with a lot of good information. From it, I think...
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This blog entry is about design and design process using Hallowe'en as a delivery vehicle. In early September, I started thinking about Hallowe'en. I've always loved the holiday with its unbridled opportunity for creativity. Unfortunately, with my active...
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I read an interesting article this morning by Reinier Zwitserloot on the topic of null subtypes in statically typed languages . The issue is that in Java and C# there are a number of different type modifiers for dealing with the concept of nullity. Because...
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CMIS is an emerging standard for defining an interface for basic document repository interaction. It is proposed by Microsoft, EMC, and IBM, who with SharePoint, Documentum and FileNet make up a big part of the Enterprise Content Management market. If...
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