I bought NewsGator Outlook Edition (or whatever it was called at that time) about 2 years ago for around $30 and plugged into Outlook and have been very happy with it to this point. Since that time, NewsGator has switched from a “selling” model to a…
I’m not at TechEd this week, but between the web simulcasts of some sessions and stories like this one (from Eric Sink ), I feel like I am. http://software.ericsink.com/entries/teched_07jun2005.html This may be one of the funniest stories that I…
Just finished up my first “real” project with DotNetNuke : http://www.gettingconnecteddc.org I have played around with it for a while for some internal stuff, but this is the first one I’ve actually built for a client. We traditionally build our…
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/06/01/424085.aspx I think there are 2 points here that may affect us. Probably the coolest – word documents, xl spreadsheets and even powerpoint files will be stored as XML with the format being fully…
I have this theory that from the time you can understand the concept of death you start preparing yourself for the day when a parent will pass away. As the years go by and you get older and your parents get older you realize that day is closing in…
We, Onlinefocus, have been looking into Macromedia Flex recently and are considering it for some upcoming projects. It is an interesting technology and I’m having fun working in it right now (again more on this later). Interesting blog posting…
A few months ago my wife and I purchased a new GM vehicle - our first minivan to be exact. I know, like all of you I said that I would never do such a thing. I was shocked by my actions, but it makes a lot of sense. Since we want to keep the…
My workstation is a Dell 4600 that I got about this time last year. It originally came seriously underpowered with only 256 MB of PC3200 DDR RAM so I immediately bought an additional 512 and have been running 768MB for the last year pretty well…
Rory posted yesterday about his vacation revelation . It was interesting reading for me as I had the same experience last summer while taking two weeks off to visit Charleston, SC. I checked my email twice while I was away - just to make sure…
About a month ago I was doing some R&D for a project we were contemplating taking on. Our portion of the project was to design the front end of a kiosk application for a large national retail company. They wanted to do a pilot of a couple of dozen…
