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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
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 I have upgraded the tool I created for reverse engineering SharePoint 2007 and 2010 into HTML, Text, and DGML Sitemaps to work with SharePoint 2013. The tool is now versioned at 1.5. You have to copy the appropriate folder instead of just the file (Version 1.0 was only one file) becau...Apr. 4, 2013 09:23 AM EDT Reads: 1,010 |
 A move to the cloud brings serious benefits, particularly for startups who often need to ramp up their IT capacity quickly without the burden of investing in new hardware or training staff. If your company is ready to offload its applications to the cloud, how do you decide which provi...Mar. 23, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,813 |
 When people think of "compliance" from a Microsoft SharePoint perspective, it can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people. Every organization will have different considerations for compliance: Essentially, which regulations they need to comply with according to their specific...Feb. 25, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,514 |
 To continue this series, I want to focus on another key area called Discoverability. What does this term mean?
Now, you would think with an enterprise search engine, managed metadata service application, content types with site columns, and versioning that this wouldn't be so difficul...Feb. 18, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,881 |
 SharePoint Gone Wild: When Governance Lacks Training will give a look into how training requirements - or lack of them - can affect governance for SharePoint.
So far in this series, we've looked at business requirements that drive governance - including accountability, quality, approp...Feb. 8, 2013 09:15 AM EST Reads: 1,312 |
 Over a series of posts, I will focus on horror stories, from some of our 8,000+ customers we have here at AvePoint, which provided the genesis for these business drivers. The intention of this series is to proactively help your organization understand what "could happen" and what the b...Feb. 2, 2013 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,479 |
 Not long ago, customers and prospects had to find a computer to visit your website. But today they’re online 24/7 via mobile devices. Serving your customers is now a continuous interaction, and this phenomenon will only grow in the coming years as customers and prospects demand reliabl...Jan. 21, 2013 02:45 PM EST Reads: 2,538 |
 I’ve been doing a lot of work with Windows Azure Mobile Services (WAMS). It’s a brilliant technology that allows you to stand up powerful OData compliant services to support your Windows 8 Store Apps, Windows Phone 8 Apps, and even iOS apps in just a few minutes. It’s hard to oversel...Jan. 10, 2013 09:15 AM EST Reads: 2,247 |
 I did not look closely at the description of this book before acquiring it. I mistakenly thought it was going to be about the Core Frameworks iOS has to offer. I thought that because I own the previous version of the author's book The iOS 5 Developer's Cookbook: Core Concepts and Essen...Jan. 2, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,680 |
 This is the book for anyone looking to get started with Visual Studio 2012 Professional. Over the years Visual Studio has become a sizable integrated development environment. The Ultimate version combined with Team Foundation Server (TFS) is a beast. This book only covers the Professio...Dec. 12, 2012 10:30 AM EST Reads: 2,463 |
 This book is the perfect size and the perfect depth for getting up to speed quickly with building Windows 8 Store Applications.
The book starts by introducing WinRT. This introduction includes a really nice history of how Microsoft got to where they are now. It starts with a look back...Nov. 26, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,872 |
 Used in IT departments for a number of purposes, virtualization is starting to attract interest from home computer operators. Perhaps you already use a virtualization application such as VirtualBox, VMWare, or XenSource at home so that you play with programs on different operating sys...Oct. 19, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,579 |
 This book is much more than just a cookbook with a bunch of recipes in it. I have used plenty of cookbooks and they are never readable from cover to cover. I usually just familiarize myself with the recipes that are available, read the ones interesting to me at the time, and throw them...Aug. 20, 2012 11:27 AM EDT Reads: 2,078 |
 Whether you choose to embrace it or you try to resist it, the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend is set to grow. The Cisco IBSG Horizons Study found that 78% of white-collar workers in the U.S. use a mobile device for work purposes and 41% of respondents indicated a majority of smartph...Aug. 13, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,297 |
 Everything about this book rocks!!! It is in color which makes for a great read. Being able to see the code and screenshots in color doubles the value of a book like this. I wish all programming books that included coding client UIs were in color.
Although the chapter names usually hi...Jul. 10, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,213 |
 Being pretty new to Xcode I found this book to be just the right girth and depth of topics. It covered everything I was looking for, at the right level.
The book is broken up into five parts First Steps, The Life Cycle of an iOS Application, Xcode for Mac OS X, Xcode Tasks, and four A...Jul. 6, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,697 |
 Head First C is a cool learning experience that will show you how to create tools and programs in the C language.
I wanted a refresher on C in order to get the basics back for coding Objective-C. I tried several of the older books I had but because I have used it in the distance past ...Jun. 5, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,019 |
 Are you the one to decide on implementing your next project based on public cloud platforms such as Windows Azure? Is it going to be HTML5, Flash or Silverlight for your rich end-user interface? Have you thought about the costs running on cloud services that seem cheaper than hosting o...Apr. 18, 2012 12:07 PM EDT Reads: 2,479 |
 I’ve been discussing HTML5 for some time now. In July of 2010, I mentioned that I wasn’t particularly concerned about PowerBuilder supporting HTML5 in the initial PowerBuilder.NET release (12.5) because:
“HTML5 is largely still in its infancy, and there appears to be too much opportu...Apr. 13, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 14,947 Replies: 1 |
 When we aren’t fighting crime, taking over the world, or enjoying a good book by the fire, we here on the eEye Research team like to participate in the Any Means Possible (AMP) Penetration Testing engagements with our clients. For us, it’s a great way to interact one-on-one with IT fol...Apr. 5, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,965 |
 It has been reported that one third of the world’s top 100 websites have already adopted HTML5, a percentage we expect to grow with the ever-increasing amount of traffic coming from smartphones and tablets and, more importantly, the amount of conversions and revenue-bearing transaction...Mar. 31, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,462 |
 There’s been a lot of discussion since Microsoft’s BUILD conference on the fate of Silverlight. (Something that is an issue for us because Sybase was originally looking at supporting it for web app development in PowerBuilder 15.) Contrary to what a number of the pundits and would-be p...Nov. 25, 2011 03:00 PM EST Reads: 13,387 Replies: 1 |
 We have decided to push forward with the one of the Silverlight projects and the WPF project in order to introduce XAML into the environment. With METRO on the horizon you will have no choice but to learn XAML.
Most of my posts lately have only been delivering bad news about BUILDS a...Sep. 22, 2011 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,512 |
 The Good, Bad, Ugly of Microsoft Windows 8 METRO and the BUILD Conference.
Microsoft considers the enterprise line of business environment owned by them and not losable. Their full attention is on the mobile world. They not only do not own that, they don't even own part of it.
I have...Sep. 19, 2011 10:01 AM EDT Reads: 2,445 |
 I believe Silverlight within a year will be known as the “S” word, and we won’t be using it anywhere except in conversations about how painful Microsoft made that initiative.
Let us say MS supports Silverlight for the next 10 years. That is great. But that means nothing to the custome...Sep. 16, 2011 12:12 PM EDT Reads: 4,423 |
 As you may be aware, the company I work for does both PowerBuilder and RIA (Flex) application development. We actually create client/server and web-based front ends for the same application. Doing that has really emphasized just how much faster we can do development using PowerBuilder....Jul. 22, 2011 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 5,013 |
 If you’ve been following my recent editorials, you’ll know I have some concerns with HTML5 as the silver bullet for all web / mobile development. As a result, I’ve been a proponent of rich GUI applications for both web and mobile. To that end, I’ve been supportive of adding Silverlight...Jul. 8, 2011 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,000 |
 If you’ve been following Sybase’s announcements concerning their plans for future versions of PowerBuilder, you’ll know that they are planning for PowerBuilder 15 to be able to generate a Silverlight application and are looking at having it generate applications based on HTML5 as well....Dec. 28, 2010 11:15 AM EST Reads: 7,290 |
 Many people have wondered what has taken Microsoft so long to update its lackluster Windows Mobile platform. It finally did it! At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft introduced the Windows Phone 7 Series, its latest operating system for phones. The Software giant’s Windo...Feb. 17, 2010 10:00 AM EST Reads: 7,031 |
 In order to ensure that end user response times are acceptable at all times it is necessary to measure the time in the way the end user perceives performance. Measuring and monitoring your live system is important to identify problems early on before it affects too many end users. In o...Jan. 13, 2010 11:45 AM EST Reads: 9,146 |
 Well, for various reasons you may be willing (wanting) to place a part of your stuff on Microsoft Azure and part on the Amazon Cloud. In fact it is a repetition of the same story of the bygone era, some data on Microsoft platform, some on Oracle etc. Sooner or later you want to move da...Jan. 10, 2010 01:30 PM EST Reads: 5,090 |
 I’m really not one of those vocal Operating System lover/haters. My dad worked at IBM for 30 years and so I grew up with computers and even took a PC Jr. with a whopping 128k of RAM and a color (what we called color) monitor with me to college in the 80’s. My first work computer was a ...Dec. 3, 2009 08:45 PM EST Reads: 3,533 |
 If you want the full gory details, check out the .NET Services team blog post here. What follows below are some of the things that I think are most crucial to understand both for new developers and for developers unfortunate enough to be in a position of having to migrate a lot of code...Nov. 24, 2009 11:15 AM EST Reads: 5,377 |
 Yesterday, Microsoft released another update to the Windows Azure SDK. This update includes a truckload of new goodies that I will be covering in additional blog posts. For this blog post, however, I want to walk you through getting an ASP.NET MVC 2 application working on Windows Azure...Nov. 17, 2009 01:30 PM EST Reads: 7,457 |
 If you've been working with Azure for a while then you've probably spent some time using the StorageClient sample that came with previous versions of the SDK. With the November 2009 release of the SDK (the one they'll be using at PDC 200... Nov. 17, 2009 12:00 AM EST Reads: 8,451 |
 Here’s when and where you can find me in Berlin this week:
Microsoft Online Services booth (Unified Communications area) in the TLC area (3.2)
I’ll be there tomorrow (Tuesday) during the evening reception – 6:15-8:00 pm. Obviously, I will be happy to answer any qu...Nov. 9, 2009 09:18 AM EST Reads: 3,753 |
 With MOSS 2007, I often got asked what order do I install these solution packages in. Oftentimes, it was critical that they get installed in a particular order. With features, we have had the ability to set dependencies, but we really didn’t have anything like that for solution packa...Oct. 31, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,605 |
 The developer dashboard is a great new feature that developers can use to aid them in tuning performance on a page. This new functionality adds information to the bottom of any page in SharePoint that displays performance information and what SQL queries were executed to display the p...Oct. 31, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,669 |
 So what does this mean? For some reason, Microsoft has not given us desktop virtualization software that can run 64 bit guest (even though Hyper-V can). So I think this left Microsoft a choice. Get 64 bit guests added to Windows Virtual PC, recommend developers use a non Microsoft v...Oct. 31, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,903 |
 Back in July I wrote my post about databases in the cloud. The big surprise that I discovered at the time was that the only “Native” RDBMS offering in the cloud came from Microsoft. Microsoft SQL Azure (launching formally at the PDC in a few weeks) is a mostly-compatible SQL Server as...Oct. 28, 2009 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 8,599 |
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