Daniel Larson’s new Service-Oriented AJAX Book – First Preorder Wins!
Many of you probably have seen Daniel Larson speak at one or more SharePoint conferences and know that he is big into Ajax. Daniel’s newest book from MSPress – “Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft Platform” is now available from Amazon for preorder. Check out Dan’s blog post “Pre-order on Amazon: Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications...
July 14th, 2008 by Darrin
A Problem Is Preventing Windows From Accurately Checking the License for this Computer
Instant Karma for taking a break from work to attend Tech Ed 2008.. Return my “office” which is affectionately known as the Data Center to find the R & D computers acting strangely. A reboot of all the machine is in order which fixes all but one virtual machine. The offending VM is the R & D Performance Point and ProClarity server and the error message is a ambiguous: “A...
June 23rd, 2008 by Darrin
Sometimes You Just Got To Laugh
Yes, I have been patiently waiting for two must have gadgets 1. 8 Gig portal laptop – not one the size of an ice cream truck. 2. Solid State Express Card Flash drive faster than said ice cream truck Can’t do much with the Express Card flash drive but at Tech Ed 2008 Ben Curry of MindSharp pulled out his shiny new Dell 8Gig Laptop. Of course it was the size of an ice cream truck...
June 18th, 2008 by Darrin
4 Gigs on the Laptop
In the last couple of months I finally upgraded my Dell XPS M1330 from 2 GB to 4 GB and what a difference it makes! Yes, since I am running 32 bit Vista my machine only sees about 3.5 gig of the total 4 gig. With 4 GB of memory (and a 4 GB SDHC card for ReadyBoost) I see a remarkable improvement when using my Virtual Machines on the 1330. Now that I actually have enough RAM to run my Vista host...
December 6th, 2007 by Darrin
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Commands in PowerShell
Commands do the work in PowerShell. Its that simple yet when I speak about PowerShell and SharePoint there always seems to be some confusion on what a command is. That’s understandable because in PowerShell there are many ways to execute a command. Yesterday I was speaking with someone and started talking about functions and filters in PowerShell. The person whom I was speaking with had not worked...
November 27th, 2007 by Darrin
My New Dev Environment
Finally got around to creating my new basic Dev virtual machine. Right now I am doing most of my development using a single Virtual PC machine running Windows Server 2008, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Office 2007 and Visual Studio 2008. I stuck with SQL Server 2005, SP2. So far I have not run into any major issues and it appears that all my development utilities run as expected.
July 24th, 2007 by Darrin
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Microsoft Surface
I stumbled across this today – Microsoft Surface – computing on a surface . If you like gadgets you got to like surface computing, its worth the click to check it out.
June 10th, 2007 by Darrin
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Office 2007 Trial – Usted habla espanol
Editor’s Note: The Spanish-only download issue noted in this post appears to been addressed and is no longer an issue. Want to try Microsoft Office 2007 products? Microsoft has provided 60 day trial downloads for many if not all of their Office products. Just head to Microsoft Office Online site and select the trial product, enter some information and download. Oh, just a little note –...
May 4th, 2007 by Darrin
What Books are on Your Shelves?
Admittedly the stack of books I grabbed for the Books and Legos post was not my most recent wave of books. As I look over to the shelves I keep my more interesting books on, I can say that the stacks of books are predominantly SharePoint (2001, 2003 and 2007), .Net, ASP.Net, history, math and management. Care to share? What is on your shelves or what do you suggest as required reading?
May 3rd, 2007 by Darrin
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Books and Legos
Those of you who really know me know that always in the middle of more than one book. Books are a kind of hobby for me. Recently I picked up a interesting Adobe Photoshop book – photography is another one of my hobbies. Someone once commented to me that just putting the words Adobe Photoshop on the cover of a book automatically allowed the stores to charge you more for the book. Looking at...
May 1st, 2007 by Darrin
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Darrin has been around SharePoint since the Tahoe days. For those that have not been working in SharePoint that long, Tahoe was the code name for SharePoint Portal Server 2001.
Lately Darrin has been working with SharePoint with Windows Phone 7 and Azure. His blog is primarily about SharePoint along with some WP7, Azure and other topics such as Data Entity Framework and Silverlight.
Darrin is a founding member of Aptillon along with Todd, Matt, Maurice, Gary, Dan and Dave. We all work together on some really interesting projects along with some of our trusted partners.
Need to contact Darrin? Drop him a line at www.aptillon.com.
