Archives: July, 2008
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going down for maintenance
well, i think i finally have enough info to migrate my blog to graffiti. i found out that both blogengine.net (my current blog engine) and graffiti both support blogml. this is a good thing and i have been wondering how i am going to accomplish the move without busting my posts. so today i am
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the new and improved msftguy
i am in the process of moving my old blog from live spaces to my new home here. i plan on adding all kinds of newness to not only this blog but the homepage at briangorbett.com (still not sure exactly what, but i have a few ideas). stop back soon since my blog is not
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breaking up with twitter
i have made a resolution to stop twittering this year and focus on more non-self promoting activities. i also noticed that a facebook friend of mine, molly, also made this resolution since she realized that it was taking away from her always interesting blog posts. so i am committed to facebook now and trying to
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what is codeplex?
i was having a conversation with a friend today regarding codeplex. he was telling me how many people don’t know about codeplex (or even sourceforge for that matter), and some of these folks he has talked to are developers. i was quite stunned to say the least. i guess why i was so amazed that
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don’t forget to finish yahoo! go for windows mobile
with all this talk about buying up yahoo!, all i hope is the team that is building yahoo! go finishes the 3.0 beta for windows mobile very soon. if you have not used yahoo! go on your smartphone, you are really missing out, especially if you subscribe to yahoo! services like flickr. yahoo! go is
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ready for a technical brain dump
i am preparing for a fun-filled week of in-depth technical training out in glorious old redmond. as i was putting together my agenda for what sessions i was going to attend, i was torn between what i was doing at msft (or i guess still currently doing) and what i am about to be doing.
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ballmer gets me fired up
i love listening to steveb at conferences… especially internal ones. no one can ever claim that he lacks the courage of his conviction. he has a way of exciting the crowd and promoting what is msft. i always walk away from listening to him feeling even more excited about being a part of this company.
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tricking my rss feed into using social bookmarks
i am pretty anal when it comes to details with my web properties and my blog is no different. i love the blogengine.net engine because of the ease of customizing some really great templates already available. but one thing has been irking me about my rss feed. i have added a really cool extension called
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dreamspark is dreamy
if you are a student and you have not heard of dreamspark, you need to check this out! under the dreamspark program, students will be able to download microsft’s developer and designer tools to jump-start their development. so what do you get? students can download visual studio professional edition (yah… that is pro, not express),
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