November 25, 2008 - 14:47, by Dostalek, Kevin
This is Richard St. John from the TED conference 3 years ago. He defines success in 8 simple words in under 3 minutes.
Ted Video
Passion, Work, Good, Push, Ideas, Focus, Persist, Serve
I especially like the term "workafrolics" :)
November 24, 2008 - 21:13, by Dostalek, Kevin
From Typemock and Roy Osherove earlier today:
Typemock are offering their new product for
unit testing SharePoint called Isolator For SharePoint, for a special introduction price. it is the only tool that allows you to
unit test SharePoint without a SharePoint server. To learn more
click here.
The first 50 bloggers who blog this text in their blog and tell us about it, will get a Full Isolator license, Free. for rules and info click here.
November 24, 2008 - 10:42, by Dostalek, Kevin
Here's a fun little video that teaches the basics of Pointers in C. I love lo-tech/hi-concept productions!
YouTube Video
The video was made by Nick Parlante, and you can find it and other supporting materials at the
Standford CS Ed Library site. Another series that I love that falls into this categoy is all the stuff at
Common Craft. Does anybody have other favorites in this particular genre?
November 23, 2008 - 17:21, by Dostalek, Kevin
I needed to install the Java JRE last night (it's been awhile, and my tablet's been somewhat of an experimental OS platform lately). So I went over to java.com to grab it (by the way, I always thought it was ironic that the Java installer uses an ActiveX control if you are using IE).
So the installer starts and here's what I see:
After a quick doubletake, I realize what this is actually asking me and I'm baffled for a moment.
Does this represent some new found love between Sun and Microsoft. I doubt it, and after some quick web research, sure enough they still pretty much hate each other, but will of course do business with each other. What this really represents is another move on the field of battle betwen Microsoft and Google (remember, what the JRE used to try and install here? The Google Toolbar).
Anyway, I thought it was a remarkable enough sight to remark on it. ;)
November 21, 2008 - 11:53, by Dostalek, Kevin
Last month I posted about the
Foldershare Beta which solved a big problem for me, as well as doing it in a very simple yet robust way. I knew then that it was using Microsoft's Mesh Framework, but I had no idea what that was.
Now after attending the MS PDC, I know exactly what the Mesh Framework is, as well as Live Services, and the whole Windows Azure platform (ok, well that last one is still blurry for me). And for those that were just assuming that all of this stuff was 2+ years off from reality, it's not.
I just received an email from the Windows Live FolderShare group letting me know that "In December, we plan to announce a product called Windows Live Sync. You can think of it as FolderShare 2.0." Some of the new features they are promising are:
- More folders and files - sync up to 20 folders with 20k files each.
- Integration with Live ID
- Integration with the Recycle Bin
- Unicode support - sync files in other languages
So this represents one of the first real big product releases on top of the some of these new platforms (ok, granted, some have been out for awhile, like Live Messenger and the other Live stuff)-- but this is a real Meshified app. I'll be interested to see how our apps that are also Meshified will be able to integrate with Live Sync.
I am a little confused though since Live SkyDrive doesn't look like it's going to be replaced by Live Sync (although certainly it could)... in fact I saw rumors that SkyDrive's were going to be upgraded to 25GB in the near future!
Last word of warning from the email I received. During the upgrade from FolderShare to Live Sync, it will automatically rebuild all your personal folders and device relationships. However, it will not rebuild your shared libraries. So if you have some, you should copy all of that information to some local storage pronto to make sure you don't lost it.
I'll post an announcement and review here when Live Sync goes live next month!