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I had posted more than 3 months ago about my
little port from WM6.0 to WP7 of my GeoBlog application. This successful
port was not made available in the Windows Phone Marketplace as I had s...
After so many months of starts, stops and many distractions, I finally took the time
over the (long) weekend to port my Windows
Mobile 6.0 GeoBlog application over to Windows Phone 7. I had searched ...
This might be a little bit different from what this blog is themed towards but it
still has a slight tinge of software flavour to it.
Those that know me well will know that I have been dabbling in ...
Time to do my sporadic updates on this blog again. I have been making quite a few
presentations on Business Intelligence recently and my next presentation will be together
with Panoroma on
the 17th A...
For those old WP7 faithfuls
who are trying to get WP7 update 7.0.7392.0 to work on their Omnia7 without any success
and thinking you have bricked your phone, I have managed to get mine to work succes...
The better-than-expected response to my SG-Drive in Windows
Phone 7 Marketplace has resulted in some user feedback for a leaner version of
the application. Feedback collected suggested that there ...
It has been about 4
months since I released SG-Drive into
the Windows
Phone Marketplace. v3.0
onwards has been a popular hit, judging by the user requests coming in via email
and the good and not-so-...
Pretty darn sneaky GOOG. Do you really have to resort to this to hijack someone to
Chrome? Accuracy of GOOG search is definitely questioned here and gives rise to how
much truth is actually tweaked.
...
Just got alerted that the independent
review of WP7 App: SG-Drive just appeared on Mobinauts.
William Tay 2000-2010 | Swinging Technologist
http://www.softwaremaker.net/blog...
With reference to a this:
SG-Drive v3.9 is out and this incorporates more visuals.
v3.9: More and More Visualizations
Image of each Step of each Direction of each Route.
I do not have nor colle...
I think I should stop apologizing for letting weeds grow all over this blog because:
I will probably do it again after this post.
No one comes here anymore anyways.
I am back to post about a Win...
Gotta like the results from this
test.
William Tay 2000-2010 | Swinging Technologist
http://www.softwaremaker.net/blog...
Gosh, it has really been long since this blog saw some action and probably need
some attention (weeding, trimming, re-planting, etc)
After a long hiatus, I will be speaking again at a big event in M...
Via here:
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 SP1 is now available !!!
These 2 factors are great improvements, or rather - fixes:
Better reliability, performance, and scale for the following key features
T...
Q:There is a Windows
Workflow Foundation (WF)workflow
service which contains only one pair of Receive and SendReply. Data will be sent through
the Receive activity andhow do I get theworkflow service...
Q: Does BizTalk Server WCF Custom Adapters support Identity Federation
?
A: Yes, it does. The WCF adapter supports the ws2007FederationHttpBinding.
BizTalk MVP Yossi Dahan blogs about it extensivel...
For years, I have expanded my brains to learn on different skills and topics as I
have always believed in the principle of constant learning and experimenting. The
day where you stop learning is the ...
I read with amazement at how Google
is allowed and could be bestowed a patent for their iconic search home page.
No, dont get me wrong, this is not about Google and I always give credit where ...
Kirk has got a great series on Sharepoint for
the developers on his blog here.
There is a whole wealth of information there and I am book-marking it here for my
own reference as well. Great work, Kir...
Both references are good reads and would propbably be a good debate topic for many
but lets not do the religious cult thing:
At
This Point, Id Prefer Java Developers Over .NET Developers
... an...
This is a good tip for all who are who are running Windows 64-bit:
To be able to host a Silverlight 3.0
in a frame in a Windows
Presentation Foundation (WPF) Application on 64-bit Windows, you may ...
The latest prized beauty in my collection: BOSPHORUS Stanton Moore 22" Wide
Ride Hand Hammered Cymbal (2560g). Technology with Silverlight and DeepZoom.
Of course, nothing for the best BUT t...
Yes, really. No fluff. C'mon - has there ever been on this blog i_wink.
SQL Server 2008 really does go well with our Windows Server 2008, especially when
you are replications across Wide
Area Netwo...
Ahhh ... it has been a while, hasnt it ?
My life is just torn between working with bits of 2, beats of 4 and nucleotides of
4. But while challenging, it has been really fun.
As spoken to a friend t...
I was recently pointed to this post that
highlights a "successful attempt" by some students
in Germany to crack Microsoft
Cardspace.After reading through the post several times, I became ...
One cannot run away from understanding infrastructure needs when one is pitching or
designing software solutions in the enterprise (which I do a lot of) and it is sometimes
strange (in a pleasan...
I remember back in 2005/2006 when I was still touring the APAC circuits such as Sydney
(Australia) and Kuala
Lumpur (Malaysia) doing training and consulting gigs for customers, partners about Windows...
If you make your living installing, deploying, managing and operating Microsoft
BizTalk Server 2006. I guarantee that you will be excited and be thankful for
the availability of the BizTalk Server Op...
Problem: If you are in the configuration screen of Microsoft
BizTalk Server 2006 and you are configuring Business
Activity Monitoring (BAM) Portal,
you checked 'Enable BAM Portal" and you noticed th...
Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) has seen tremendous
take-up rates, not just here in Singapore, but all over the world. I came across
many kinds of architectural topology designs during...
With the impending release of the Microsoft
BizTalk Server Adapter Pack (Beta 2 available here),
there are some confusions as to the differences between the BizTalk Adapter Pack, Microsoft's
WCF...
I know I havent been posting deep technical stuff that I used
to do. Contrary to what people think my current role entails, keeping abreast
of the technology landscape is what I am supposed to do and...
It was not so long ago when I
made my intentions known that the .svc extension in Windows
Communication Foundation (WCF, previously - Indigo) is really a clutz. It is obstrusive
and really unnatural,...
Following up on this,
here are some more aggregated shareable details with regards to the Compact
Framework 3.5:
Feature
Desktop WCF
Compact WCF
Bindings:
&nb...
To keep up with the little
legacy I have with the Annual Enterprise
Architecture Summit in Singapore, I am speaking in this year's event as well.
This year, I am honoured to be sharing the same ...
Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) has the term "Portal" dropped for a reason. Unfortunately,
just like everything else, we have to carry our legacy along and that means that customers
today...
Postponed. Why
?
(c) William Tay 2000-2006 | Solution Architect Consultant
http://www.softwaremaker.net/blog...
I had talked about Yahoo!
Pipes here.
It didnt take long (well, maybe longer than some of us would like ..) before MSFT
Corp came up with something
even better ... AND I mean real better with Si...
Finally, OASIS announced
last week that it is calling
for participation for Web Services Federation. The formation of the WS-Federation
Technical Committee is announced here.
WS-Fed is an important...
While I was still an Microsoft
MVP and a Microsoft
Regional Director, one of the things I have always requested is to have Windows
Communication Foundation (WCF, previously - Indigo) run in the ...
I still get questions from many people on the field on why the fuss about mashups
and why the need for it. Sometimes, it is really hard to explain when you know that
the customer doesnt have a need y...
This is a continuation of my previous post: WS-ReliableMessaging
Simplified - WHY
While this blog sits in my draft folder while I am busy solving and fire-fighting other real-world
problems, I just...
These are just some of the tabs that can be found if you expose a Microsoft
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 process via a Windows
Communication Foundation (WCF, previously - Indigo) Service.
The inte...
While there has been much talk everywhere in conferences, events, blogsphere about
Web 2.0 and such, this
video touched me more than anything else. It was created by Michael
Wesch, the Assistant Prof...
I have been involved in a couple of pretty good competitive bids in some public
tenders recently and am thoroughly enjoying it. I have come head-to-head with the
usual suspects of heavy hitters ...
It is amazing to note the reach to the masses of a single MSDN Webcast. I had conducted
a MSDN Webcast titled: "Acks
and NAcks: Why We Need the Principles of TCP/IP Reliability in SOAP" in mid...
The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC), the premier definitive developer
event focused on the future of the Microsoft platform, returns in 2007 after a short
2 year break ...
... an...
Just been given an invitation to test out the new SoapBox (Beta) on MSN. Therefore,
I thought I upload one of my favourite commercial clips here. So far, so usable. Fast
and smooth as well. Now ...
Some people are still questioning my thoughts about what's
so good about GUI, WCF and such.
Take a look at http://firstlook.nytimes.com/ and
see what I mean. This NY Times Reader appears ...
I dont think the world has seen so much emphasison afeature of product
even before pre-launched. In this context, I am talking about _WF_ and the emphasis
on a non-feature, actually...
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