Why you should attend Microsoft PDC 2008

danrigsby.com — A summary of why you should consider attending Microsoft PDC 2008 what what it is. read more...

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Convenience Kills, or the Case Against RAD Tools

kohari.org — A rather heated discussion erupted last week on Twitter and IRC concerning so-called “drag-and-drop demos” — point-and-click demonstrations of “software development” that just involve dragging controls around on a graphical designer without a lot of actual coding involved. Being entirely unable to resist joining in on debates, I had to chime in and give my two cents. read more...

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130 Microsoft blogs from one Microsoft source

submitted by wisemx 2 days, 12 hours ago

blogs.msdn.com — About BlogMS - Team Blogs at Microsoft Hi All, BlogMS was started in May 2008 in response to customers who wanted to feel closer to the product groups. The overall goal was to improve satisfaction levels among our customers and partners. From this site you will be able to receive regular weekly and monthly updates from product, support and other specialist teams within Microsoft - over 130 blogs in total ! Each week and calendar month a full summary of all the latest articles will be aggregated onto a single post on this site for you to review quickly and with ease. A report will also be attached which you can download with the same information. You will also be able to find a definitive directory of blogs for these teams. Announcements for additions or removals will be made through individual posts. Historically finding and keeping up to date with all the Microsoft teams has been a challenge. I hope you find this new resource valuable saving you both time and energy, and most importantly keeping you up to date with the wide-range of activities and announcements. Once you have identified articles of interest from a particular team - don't forget you can subscribe to RSS syndication feeds directly for that blog, or bookmark your favourite site. This blog site is focused on Microsoft team blogs. It currently does not include Microsoft individual employee or community based blogs. The value of these is well recognised within the community, however adding all of these would become overwhelming very quickly. A full directory of all Microsoft blogs can be found on the following website http://www.microsoft.com/communities/. Sign up and view via webview or directly via RSS. Nick. read more...

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Professional look at Microsoft Tecnical Searches

submitted by wisemx 3 days ago

blogs.msdn.com — Technical pros impressed with MSDN & TechNet Search After several releases focused on improving our site search's usability and usefulness (see posts here and here), and after seeing both the reaction to demos at TechEd and a few positive blog posts (like this one), we felt like our search app was ready to be put through the gauntlet. We asked 12 IT Pros and developers, both from within our MVP ranks and from without, to use our search engine as their default search for 12 days. For any Microsoft-related search, they used http://search.msdn.microsoft.com or http://search.technet.microsoft.com instead of Google or Live.com and let us know how it went. (Note that MSDN and TechNet search is powered by Live Search results, but with added features.) read more...

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Free Edition of Kentico CMS for everyone!

submitted by wisemx 4 days, 20 hours ago

blogs.msdn.com — Kentico CMS Free Edition Since the free license for .NET User Groups was very successful, we decided to release a Free Edition of Kentico CMS for everyone! It can be used for both personal and commercial projects. It’s intended for smaller corporate sites, on-line communities and personal sites (it also supports blogging). read more...

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Technical Communities Portal and finding Microsoft blogs

submitted by wisemx 5 days ago

blogs.msdn.com — If you are looking for blogs by Microsoft Employees on specific topics then a good place to start is the Microsoft Technical Communities portal. This portal is an entry point for Blogs, chats, newsgroups and webcasts. If you click the link for blogs you can then search for blogs by category and keyword. For example, here are the search results for the "Debugging" category. Having a blog listed there requires the Microsoftie to register their blog in an internal tool and specify the various categories which apply. I thought I had registered mine some time ago which but I recently learned it not was showing up as my colleague Carlo brought to my attention. Turns out I had accidentally somehow registered my blog as being in Estonian (comes after 'English' in the alphabet)! read more...

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SW Florida Code Camp Sept 2008

submitted by catto 6 days, 11 hours ago

geekswithblogs.net — SW Florida Code Camp Sept 2008 Scott Dorman post read more...

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An Open Letter to Scott Guthrie

elegantcode.com — Thank you for your team’s contributions to the software development industry. ASP.Net, the CLR, and your other significant additions to the .Net platform have genuinely advanced the state of software development. Although it may seem that you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t, most of us developers out here do appreciate your work. read more...

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