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Archive for November, 2008

Microsoft TownSquare

Posted in Analytical, Technical, tagged on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

While browsing the web over the weekend, I happened to stumble across information regarding Microsoft TownSquare (see picture below); a Facebook-type social networking tool built on top of SharePoint 2007 that is being used within Microsoft by about 8000 employees since January 2008.
TownSquare was built by a prototyping group within Microsoft called Office Labs that drives innovation in some Office Products. [...]

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C# 4.0 “dynamic” versus “var”

Posted in Technical, Theoretical, tagged , on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The C# language is evolving so fast that it does take effort to keep up with Anders Hejlsberg, C#’s designer at Microsoft  
Talking about the next version of C# in this video, Anders describes implementing a runtime operation called “dynamic” that eliminates all type safety for a variable. This essentially means that until the code is run, [...]

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SharePoint Development Utilities

Posted in Technical, tagged , , on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Below is a list of development utilities that were discussed at the Sydney MOSS 2007 Solution Day at Microsoft:

WSS and MOSS Software Development Kit
Visual Studio Extensions for WSS
WSP Builder
STSDev
Caml Query Builder
Event Handler Explorer
SharePoint Manager 2007
Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
FireFox Firebug
SharePoint Log Parser
SharePoint Designer
SharePoint Spy
SharePoint 2007 Features

Update: A colleague from work, Eilidh, recommends the following stsadm extensions http://stsadm.blogspot.com/2007/08/stsadm-commands_09.html

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High Availability Theory and the 9’s Measurement

Posted in Analytical, Theoretical, tagged , on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

High availability is an indicative measure of the “up time” of an application. The moment a host application/service stops servicing requests initiated by users or other application processes, the host application/service is termed to be unavailable and the “down time” clock starts ticking.
While negotiating availability with clients, non-functional requirement documents should clearly highlight the high availability quantifiers; Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and Mean [...]

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Notes from Microsoft’s “Developer Liberation Day”

Posted in Analytical, Technical, Theoretical, tagged , , on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I attended “Developer Liberation Day” on the 6th of November in Sydney to watch the 15 billion dollar man, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft profess his company’s vision for Cloud Computing; the new paradigm that has the software industry agog with excitement. Since the beginning of the year several startups have been formed around the world with executives of large companies (like [...]

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