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Klaus Hartl - Stilbüro : Cookie Plugin for jQuery

BizTalk Visionary — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:46:09 GMT

Recently discovered the following:

Klaus Hartl - Stilbüro : Cookie Plugin for jQuery

Azure Services Platform

BizTalk Visionary — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:06:29 GMT

The resources for Azure Services platform are looking better by the day. If you’ve not started yet have a look at : Azure Resources

Flot: Attractive Javascript plotting for jQuery

BizTalk Visionary — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:30:13 GMT

Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client-side.

The focus is on simple usage (all settings are optional), attractive looks and interactive features like zooming and mouse tracking.

The plugin is known to work with Internet Explorer 6/7/8, Firefox 2.x+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Konqueror 4.x+. If you find a problem, please report it. Drawing is done with the canvas tag introduced by Safari and now available on all major browsers, except Internet Explorer where the excanvas Javascript emulation helper is used.

http://code.google.com/p/flot/

Apple confuses world over 3.0 launch

BizTalk Visionary — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:11:38 GMT

So the nice man at the Apple WDC declares the 3.0 will be available on the 17th June….

What he failed to say is that it would be avaiable at 10 am on 17th June in the US PDT.

So that shifts the time to 6pm in the UK

And worse still 3 am on the 18th in Sidney, Australia

What Apple did on the QT was then to add differing dates to the relevant Apple pages for each country.

Unfortunately most people end up at Apple.com (US) long before they hit their own (for example Apple.com/UK)

There we have it: OS 3.0 is available on the 17th/18th!!

VHD Mounting under Windows 7

BizTalk Visionary — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:48:54 GMT

Windows 7 has native support for VHD mounting. Either use Disk Management from the Admin tools or diskpart utilitiy from command line.

To mount a VHD file in scripts using diskpart.

Create a text file with this content:

SELECT VDISK FILE=”filename.vhd”

ATTACH VDISK

2. To attach the VHD image in a script, Use: “diskpart -s scriptfile”

For example:

Master file: VHDMount.cmd

diskpart -s "C:\Scripts\Mount.s"

Mount.s:

SELECT VDISK FILE="C:\DataVHD\ImageVHD.vhd"
ATTACH VDISK

El Nino!!

BizTalk Visionary — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:41:40 GMT

A sensational 11 minute hat-trick from Fernando Torres was the highlight of Spain's 5-0 win over New Zealand in their opening Confederations Cup match on Sunday night.

See more at: Liverpool FC TV

Statement from Anfield

BizTalk Visionary — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:22:12 GMT

Liverpool Football Club has today released the following statement.

"Despite repeated media speculation on the futures of Xabi Alonso and Javier Mascherano, Liverpool has received no official approach or offer from any club regarding the players.
"Neither is for sale and furthermore Liverpool has no interest in the long list of Spanish based players being linked with a move to Anfield as part of any deal."

OS 3.0 - Update

BizTalk Visionary — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:20:26 GMT

I’ve been using 3.0 on my iPhone for a few weeks now and have yo say – in the main – it is very stable.

Issues I’ve had:

The icons for some of my apps lost their icons

With iTunes 8.2 beta I couldn’t sync with my existing library when I upgraded iTunes ( release appears better)

Very occasional lock up on Pin screen.

All new features work well but with Beta 5 tethering and MMS disappeared :-(

Tomorrows the big day

BizTalk Visionary — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:09:45 GMT

So will we see new iPhones?

Will the iPhone OS shift to 3.0?

Will Leopard be launched?

Lets all wait and see!!

Groove becomes SharePoint Workspace 2010

BizTalk Visionary — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:05:14 GMT

The next version of Groove is getting a new name; the successor to Microsoft Office Groove 2007 will be SharePoint Workspace 2010. Microsoft claims that this is a natural progression since Groove is to SharePoint like Outlook is to Exchange. SharePoint Workspace 2010 won't just be the same product with a new name: Microsoft plans to add features that make it easier to deploy and manage. At the same time, Microsoft says that SharePoint Workspace will make it easier to access SharePoint content (or content from any server that implements the publicly documented protocols).

Watch this space for more news….

Microsoft Cuts: Latest news

BizTalk Visionary — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:21:12 GMT

As news leaks out where the latest round of cuts are:

MSDN and Technet Editorial teams
SMSG (Sales Marketing and Support Group)
MSN Direct
.Net Micro Framework team
Response point team
Little-Microsoft (Microsoft india) 1% cut

References:

Techflash Blog

Liveside.net

Mary Jo Blog

iTunes Certificate Scams – Do not use http://www.itunesvendor.us

BizTalk Visionary — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:10:50 GMT

Anyone who has ever bought something online where the sale seemed to good to be true usually discovers that it is!! The last scam for us poor punters is the sale of iTunes certificates on line – particularly US ones for use by us folks in the UK!!

So to be clear

http://www.itunesvendor.us

Is bad, very bad….

SharePoint: 10 Best Practices For Building SharePoint Solutions

BizTalk Visionary — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:01:28 GMT

SharePoint: 10 Best Practices For Building SharePoint Solutions

MOSS 2007 Training Videos

BizTalk Visionary — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:53:54 GMT

Module 1 - Developing Solutions on the SharePoint Platform

Module 2 - Web Parts

Module 3 - Page Navigation

Module 4 - Page Branding

Module 5 - Data Lists

Module 6 - Web Services

Module 7 - Event Handlers

Module 8 - Content Types and Site Columns

Module 9 – Workflow

Module 10 - User Management

Module 11 – Silverlight

Module 12 - Deployment

Microsoft Enterprise Search Training Videos

BizTalk Visionary — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:52:46 GMT

Enterprise Search Training Videos

14 Training Videos on Enterprise Search:

Module 1: Workshop Overview

Module 2: Enterprise Search Overview

Module 3: SharePoint Search 2007 Walkthrough

Module 4: Search Architecture and Deployment Scenarios

Module 5: Crawl and Query Processes

Module 6: Relevance Ranking

Module 7: Customizing the End-User Experience

Module 8: Developing Search Solutions

Module 9: Business Data Catalog Search

Module 10: Extensibility and Integration for Search

Module 11: Search Administration

Module 12: Security for Search

Module 13: Performance Scalability and Capacity Planning for Search

Module 14: Search Operations

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server | Developer Best Practices | Develop | tips, customization

BizTalk Visionary — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:45:10 GMT

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server new site for Developer Best Practices, tips, customisation

BizTalk: Hotrod magazine latest issue….

BizTalk Visionary — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:44:21 GMT

The next issue of BizTalk Hotrod magazine (April 2009) is ready.

This issue has articles about EDI, AS2, Mapping Tips and Tricks, Business Rules, Naming conventions, Tools like BizTalk Terminator and BizTalkCop for Static Code Analysis for BizTalk. As BizTalk 2009 hits the streets 'Hotrod' offers some great help.

Get Hotrod here...

Book Recommendations: MVC 1.0

BizTalk Visionary — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:11:53 GMT

Below are links to a few good MVC books….

ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed

Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0

Book Recommendations: MVC 1.0

BizTalk Visionary — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:00:55 GMT

Below are links to a few good MVC books….

ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed

Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0

Books: MVC 1.0

BizTalk Visionary — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:59:15 GMT

Below are links to a few good MVC books….

ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed

Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0