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Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services – epic fail

I think it’s really about time that VS2008, which is the development flagship, gets up to speed and starts enabling developers! The push from MS has for a long time been 64-bit…go 64-bit OS…64-bit, 64-bit and then a bit more 64-bit. But where is the support...

Published Wed, Jul 02 2008 8:32 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Visual Studio 2008, MOSS 2007, SharePoint Designer
Visual Studio SharePoint Tools Blog Launched…phenomenal!!

Yeps – as the title indicates a new blog has been launched over at MSDN! It’s good to hear that the Visual Studio Business Applications SharePoint Tools QA team has joined us in the blogosphere (phew, long name for that team!!). They are promising a range...

Published Wed, Jul 02 2008 8:03 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Blog Fun, Visual Studio 2008, MOSS 2007, Cool Guys
Community Server has a bug? WLW not getting categories when updating/editing a post

I noticed lately that WLW wasn’t getting the “Categories” from Community Server when I was editing a post i’d published. At first i thought it was a problem with WLW, but i have it from reliable sources that it’s only Community Server which seems to behave...

Published Thu, Jun 26 2008 9:27 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Handy Tools
sleeping issues….

I’m having more and more trouble sleeping through the night at the moment and i honestly don’t know what the problem is. Over the last couple of weeks, and especially this week, i’ve been getting less and less sleep. I have no issue actually falling asleep...

Published Thu, Jun 26 2008 9:23 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Personal
How To Write Unmaintainable Code – still my favourite

Waiting for a colleague to come in for a meeting, i decided to quickly read up on one of my most favourite white papers out there today. Namely, how to write unmaintainable code…even though it was written a long time ago, i’m still enjoying the pun and...

Published Thu, Jun 26 2008 8:59 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Have a laugh - c'mon you know you want to.
is it myth or is it real?

A colleague of mine, named TM (in context, not making this up..honestly) is an American that’s decided to move to Australia. After having worked with him on the current project i noticed a trend….his lunch…pizza..he always seems to be eating pizza. So...

Published Wed, Jun 25 2008 9:47 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Something
One of those moods….

Today i’m in one of those moods that could swing either way…i’ve slept really badly the last two nights and had hoped to get at least 5hrs (just to catch up on some of the lost time earlier on) but that didn’t happen. A few things contributed to this...

Published Wed, Jun 25 2008 8:06 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Personal
Why VMWare Workstation is as useful, in my opinion, as wet card board!!

Yes, this is a rant…after having had nothing but problems with VMWare Workstation ACE edition all morning i’m about to contemplate uninstalling it and never use it again. Scenario: I run a windows server 2003 MOSS environment virtually (durr, go figure...

Published Tue, Jun 24 2008 11:21 AM by Brian Madsen
Sahil Malik – Adv. Developers SharePoint 2007 training in Norway

Sahil is as always a very, very busy man and right after the launch of his SharePoint 2007 Training DVD he’s taking it a step further and delivering hands-on training in Norway . It’s a 5 day training course and i wonder if we couldn’t get him down under...

Published Thu, Jun 12 2008 8:00 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Aussie Development, MOSS 2007
New blogger added to CSharpZealot – Paul Rosser

Yeps, blogging is still growing and another of my colleagues has joined the CSharpZealot community. Paul Rosser , one of the best infrastructure consultants i’ve ever worked with finally got around to spill the first couple of posts on his new blog. Here...

Published Thu, Jun 12 2008 7:50 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: CSharpZealot.com, Blog Fun
RDN - virgin event in Perth a success

Last night saw two excellent presentations done from the Readify Developer Network . Alastair Jones and Paul Stovell delivered a 1 1/2hr entertaining event and we got to see what RDN is about. I definitely enjoyed the event and can't wait to see what...

Published Fri, May 30 2008 8:40 AM by Brian Madsen
Visual Studio 2008 error notification...when not to make sense

A colleague of mine who's working on the same project as I am, got an error today in Visual Studio 2008 (when he was building the app) which just made a lot of sense...or..did it. Brilliant!!! "The operation completed successfully" is registered...

Published Thu, May 29 2008 12:45 PM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Have a laugh - c'mon you know you want to., Visual Studio 2008
Readify Developer Network in Action - solid technical event hits Perth on the 29th of May, 2008

Note: Change in venue Cliftons Mezzanine Floor, Australia Place cnr St Georges Tce & William Street Perth WA 6000. what can i say?? FINALLY!! Readify's presence in Perth is hardly a secret and now us "westerners" gets to profit from...

Published Thu, May 22 2008 6:39 PM by Brian Madsen
This survey i trust - Apple perceived as gay-friendly

A colleague of mine, SE, who knows full well that i'm slightly biased when it comes to technology (and no, we're not just talking my love for C# here), sent me a link today for an article published over at Gizmodo Australia. When i saw the link...

Published Mon, May 19 2008 9:37 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Have a laugh - c'mon you know you want to.
I can has loose weight!

I've decided that i'm going to loose weight. Everybody seems to be getting into shape these days and i'm the only one that hasn't jumped on the health-wagon yet. So, decision is made - i want to loose 20kgs...i don't quite know how...

Published Fri, May 16 2008 9:45 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Personal Development
Nigel Watson - compassionate geek

I was surfing around this early morning as my virtual image was taking yonks to boot up and i came across this post over at Nigel Watson's Blog . What I liked about this post is that it shows an almost uncommon compassionate behavior. Nigel was out...

Published Fri, May 16 2008 7:59 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Personal, Microsoft, Cool Guys
Miss Bonita joins MCS - way to go girl!

A colleague of mine, Anita "Bonita" R. is about to embark to the other side of the country. She's joining Microsoft Consulting Services as a consultant with primary focus on SharePoint. Bonita is a very well rounded SharePoint consultant...

Published Wed, May 14 2008 11:00 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Microsoft, Cool Guys
A new drug is out there - Sarcasma

I received this today from a colleague - appropriate as it is :) it had me seriously cracking up!!! especially the testimonial "I no longer shoot my co-workers".. Here's a link to the web site - www.sarcasma.net - absolutely hilarious!!...

Published Thu, May 01 2008 1:43 PM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Have a laugh - c'mon you know you want to.
The Facebook that launched 1000 ships - Success Box

Melbourne IT recently released an article on FaceBook - talking about the success story behind this phenomenon and highlighting some of the more frequently utilised features. With thousands of new users signing up each day to the social networking powerhouse...

Published Thu, May 01 2008 12:35 PM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Non-IT Articles
Happy Anniversary Sweetheart - 9 years today

today is exactly 9 years ago that my wife accepted me as her husband. We got married in Ayr, Scotland as my wife is Scottish. My wife is the stability in my life - consistently there to support me. It's been 9 years of learning about life, love and...

Published Wed, Apr 30 2008 2:34 PM by Brian Madsen

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