After hunting around for the umteenth time trying to find yet another Microsoft server product version number, I decided to throw the list I keep in OneNote into an article and post on my site.  Now …

[via Spencer Harbar] Spence nailed is on the head… installing MCMS 2002 SP2 and making sure everything still works is a royal PITA… Microsoft definately dropped the ball on this one. In an effor to …

Ironic I was just discussing this subject with one of our DBA’s earlier this week… I was a bit miffed when I realized there was no longer a SQL Service Manager in SQL 2005 like we had in SQL 2000.  …

In the beta days of .NET 2.0, I saw Nikhil Kothari’s Web Development Helper. It’s an IE AddIn that displays a ton of extra information about a webpage.  I didn’t install it because it (1) was …

Are you currently using MCMS 2003, WSS, or SPS 2003? If so, you want to make sure you’re going to be in good shape for a migration path when the new versions of these applications are released in …

Atlanta 27 (-3) vs. Detroit 7 (42 O/U) Denver 24 (-2.5) vs. Dallas 21 (41.5 O/U) Baltimore 29 vs. Cincinnati 42 (-9) (37 O/U) Carolina 13 (-4) vs. Buffalo 9 (36.5 O/U) Chicago 13 vs. Tampa Bay 10 …

The November issue of Forbes has a cover story titled “Attack of the Blogs!” with subtitles of “They destroy brands and wreck lives” & “Is there any way to fight back?” The whole article deals with …

For the purposes of this post, when I say feed, I mean blogs or anything that syndicates their site via RSS, ATOM, RDF, or carrier pigeon. Readers of this blog will no doubt know that I have …

[via Jan Tielens] Another great update to the SmartPart has been released by Jan.  This will give you the ability to run ASP.NET 2.0 User Controls and Web Parts in a WSS v3 SP2 site. » GotDotNet …

[via Brian Jones] Living up to the promise, Microsoft is pushing to make their new XML document formats in the new Office 12 to eventually be an ISO standard.  Brian puts it best: This should …

Arizona 38 vs. St. Louis 28 (-9.5) (49.5 O/U) Carolina 3 (-2.5) vs. Chicago 13 (34 O/U) Detroit 7 vs. Dallas 20 (-7.5) (39 O/U) Indianapolis 45 (-5.5) vs. Cincinnati 37 (47 O/U) Jacksonville 31 (-4) …

[via Arpan Shah] Arpan talks about his WCM session @ IT Forum and mentions a few of the new features coming in the next generation of MCMS: - Richer Web Authoring- better site deployment tools- …

At IT Forum this week, Microsoft announced an enterprise version of their Desktop Search program for organizations.  Arpan Shah has a great writeup about it on his blog. » Microsoft Enterprise …

[via Angus Logan] Congrats are in order to Angus Logan, former fellow MCMS MVP not to mention esteemed co-author of our new book.  Angus has left his current employer to join Microsoft Australia as …

The EU “gets it” Viviane Reding, who is the European Union (EU) Commissioner for Information Society and Media, wrote an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal1 that convinced me the EU “gets it”. In …

If you don’t have the Windows Script Host v5.6 installed, when you run through the MCMS Database Configuration Application (DCA), towards the end of the process (either at the very end or in the “ …

[via BoingBoing] Interesting how markets can cause such a backlash.  Sony started installing rootkits on PC's when you insertted one of the rootkit enabled CD's.  The rootkit keeps you from copying …

Recently I’ve had a few discussions with some coworkers about some optimization & management tips/tricks/techniques in using Virtual PC 2004. After explaining what I do a few times, I thought “ …

[via Scott Guthrie] ASP.NET 2.0 offers up a new feature called “URL Mapper” where you can map specific friendly URLs to parameter based URLs. For example, you can map http://www.foo.com/products/ …

Thanks to Patrick, Mark, and Mart for noticing that Packt (our publisher) has provided Chapter 5: Searching MCMS with SharePoint from our new book, Advanced Content Management Server Development, as …

This week the first ever meeting hosted by the United Nations International Telecommunication Union in Tunisia. “One of the goals of the summit is to advance the ‘internationalization’ of what is …

Arizona 21 vs. Detroit 29 (-3.5) (39.5 O/U) Baltimore 3 vs. Jacksonville 30 (-6.5) (33 O/U) Houston 17 vs. Indianapolis 31 (-17.5) (44.5 O/U): Has Indy held back all season JUST for the NE game last …

[via Victor Vogelpoel [Macaw]] Victor has come up with an way where you can use his debugging Web Part, which you can place on any Web Part page, and view all the trace output, all with zero-server …

A few days ago I noticed in a post on Scott Hansleman's blog regarding MSBuild... specifically he points to a post on Jomo Fisher's MSBUILD blog (btw: <subscribed />) that documents how you can use …

[via Stefan Goßner] Service Pack 2 for MCMS 2002 is now available.  Don't look for this to be a feature pack, but instead you can now use ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 in your MCMS 2002 projects.  …

I saw it mentioned on Scott’s blogmentioned on Scott’s blog a few weeks ago and jumped at the pre-order discount. I've always been a fan of WROX books. Back when the v1 of the Framework came out …

Finally the moment I, and the rest of my fantastic co-authors, have waited for.  Our book, Advanced Content Management Server Development by Packt Publishing is now available.  Here’s what the Packt …

Atlanta 17 (-2) vs. Miami 10 (40 O/U)Carolina 34 vs. Tampa Bay 14 (-1) (37 O/U) Chicago 20 (-3) vs. New Orleans 17 (34 O/U)Cincinnati 21 (-3) vs. Baltimore 9 (36 O/U)Detroit 17 vs. Minnesota 27 (-1) …

Do you have a blog? Do you get slammed by comment spam or referrer spam or even trackback spam? If you’re like the rest of the world, you probably do. Some of us combat comment spam by adding …

It’s something else… isn’t it always that way? Well I fixed my video issue.  Ends up I was fighting with the ATI Control Center, a special app you can get with the latest Catalyst v5.10 drivers that’ …