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Books Written by Brian Nantz |
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Microsoft is Spartacus |
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3/17/2005
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One person that I spoke with at Microsoft gave me this illustration. (Sorry I don’t remember his name!) At the end of Kubrick’s film Spartacus (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/) everyone stands up and says “I’m Spartacus.” Although I haven’t seen the film in years I remember this scene so it must have left an impression on me. After all these years I finally have found out that Microsoft is Spartacus. Here is why. Everything at Microsoft is about integration. For instance everyone wants to use webservices. Sql does, Biztalk does, ASP.Net does, WSE does, Indigo does, even Office does – when will they standardize on Indigo!!! Hopefully in my career lifetime. So exactly what product do I recommend for my clients? Biztalk Sql Integration Services (replacement for DTS) Host Integration Server Indigo Let me confuse you even more. Yes Biztalk adapters can use Indigo - eventually. Sql Integration Services can use the Host Integration Server provider just like any other provider. But how do these things help me ta
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Another Free Book |
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3/16/2005
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Thanks to Rory for this one (http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/13371.aspx). Looks like another great book and another great blog for reading: http://codingslave.blogspot.com/2005/03/q-wheres-it-going.html!!!
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Funniest post in a while. |
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3/16/2005
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I really like this post (http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=48621#48621) over on Channel 9! The Scoble bunny is great! By the way my son loves to play with the little Channel 9 squishy man.
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Microsoft Publisher's Summit - Fourth day First session |
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3/15/2005
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3/12/2005
Indigo: In theory and Practice
Session 17
Steve Swartz
Steve did a great job on this presentation. Too bad for him that the next session was giving away a Tablet PC among other things so the Q&A was cut short. His presentation was great and he was very knowledgeable. But coming from a guy whose next book is on Indigo, I didn’t see much different from the SDR (Software Design Review) that I attended a while back.
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Gotdotnet we demand your story! |
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3/15/2005
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Gotdotnet Workspaces are great.
Gotdotnet Workspaces suck.
Gotdotnet is down over half the time. Sourceforge has much better performance. Why? Is it the technology used? Is it the network infrastructure? What? We demand to know what it is, so we can learn from it. Ron Jacobs said he knows the guys who is newly taking over the responsibility for this. I feel bad for a guy who steps into a mess like that. But I greatly respect such a person as well. I want to see a patterns and practices article or study on this. Not only would it show that Microsoft is human (and sometimes makes mistakes), but it would help us learn how to design a site that will receive more hits than most .Net developers will ever see on their sites. Microsoft needs to make fun of itself every now and then as an entity. The worse thing to do is pretend that everything is fine.
I think the reference by Rory in Rory and Scott go to TechEd - A love story is absolutely hilarious.
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Microsoft Publisher's Summit - Third day Fourth Session |
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3/11/2005
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Developer Panel Q&A
Session 20
Brian Goldfarb
This was a great session on many different topics. The panel consisted of a C# PM, VB.Net PM, Indigo PM and a few others which I can’t remember right now. Their laid-back honesty was very refreshing. Many dogfooding questions, release date inquiries and interoperation were also asked. I stuck around after to talk to the C# PM about everything from Object Spaces (See Anders Channel 9 episode on Data in C# 3 - http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=10276) to Major Nelson (http://www.majornelson.com/wp/index.php) and XBOX!
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Time to Catch up |
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3/11/2005
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I am so far behind in my posts. I have been busy at the Microsoft Publishers Conference. I have met so many wonderful and intelligent people. This is by far the best conference I have ever been to. I think PDC and Teched are very helpful but they are too big. The Publisher’s conference is open to MVP’s, Authors and Publishers. So the people that you interact with are very high caliber and the in-depth interaction with Microsoft Teams is what is almost impossible to do at other conferences. www.MicrosoftBookStore.com is podcasting (http://geekswithblogs.net/jjulian/archive/2005/03/06/25461.aspx) so tune in over there and listen in.
I see other people are blogging about the Microsoft Publisher's Summit as well: http://p2p.wrox.com/blog.asp?BLOG_ID=81.
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Microsoft Publisher's Summit - First Day First Session |
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3/11/2005
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3/9/2005
Session 50
First day, first session. John Roskill – US Business and Marketing Officer, Microsoft Corporation.
This was a fascinating presentation for me. It was more on the business side and the statistics were amazing. He had a trend for IT and books for the last 5 years the projections for the next year and it was very eye-opening. He stated that Microsoft.com has over 100 million hits a week and reaches about 65% of IT people per month.
He metioned that Microsoft has done a developer tracking study over the last 10 years and found that 96% of all systems use a database. Then he asked, “What do the other 4% do?” An excellent reason, by the way, to take a look at the Data Access Block portion of the Enterprise Library from Microsoft Patterns and Practices.
Most interesting is that last Publishers Summit I remember quotes and numbers for SQL Server vs. Oracle. I think the statement was made something like “You would be crazy to deploy anything other then MS Sql
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