A colleague emailed me today regarding some information I had sent him previously. Apparently, Lotus deleted all of his data which wasn’t archived. Why? Who knows. Anyways, I suggested that he simply ignore the company email system and use a...
Okay, maybe “death” is a bit severe. But certainly, I think in the next few years (if not months), Office will start to lose marketshare…significantly. Now don’t get me wrong; I love Office (okay, not really, but I work with...
My house backs a small forest. So from time to time, we get some interesting visitors. I saved these guys while I was mowing the lawn…I hope I didn’t kill any of their siblings :-S I briefly considered feeding them...
I spent bout two hours today tring to figure out why I kept getting a weird error while using prototype to call a WCF service. There are various other resources on the web regarding how WCF has a few quirks...
I’ve previously posted on how to move compiled binaries into a remote GAC automatically from your development environment to your SharePoint environment using SysInternal’s PsExec utility. But what about moving content files from your SharePoint environment to your development environment? ...
If there’s one man who could do this, it would have to be Venter. Newsweek has a story on how Venter is working to revolutionize the way we view energy: In a Maryland lab, he’s manipulating chromosomes in the hopes...
One of the most awesome features of WCF in .NET 3.5 is support for REST-style AJAX requests to the services. Rick Strahl has an excellent post on how to get it up and running with jQuery. Just some notes on...
I like this Kamen interview: Outfitting wounded veterans with dramatically better prosthetic limbs has been an emotional and rewarding journey for famed inventor Dean Kamen. But the project that has the biggest hold on his heart is a nonprofit called...
I like this story: China is banning free plastic bags common at shops and supermarkets and ordering customers to be charged for any they use, the government said Wednesday. Shops have been instructed to mark the price of the plastic...
Google’s new AJAX Libraries API should help quite a bit with developing web UIs. From Dion Almer: I just got to announce the Google AJAX Libraries API which exists to make Ajax applications that use popular frameworks such as Prototype,...