An Introduction to Blogs and Wikis in the Business World

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CIO has an interesting article providing a good explanation of blogs and wikis and why you should care about them in the business world. From the article, blogs and wikis are an Indispensable business collaboration tools and a powerful means of communicating with customers, partners and employees, wikis and... Read more

Only Chalk Talk at Tampa Code Camp

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As I was building the Internet Calendar for Tampa Code Camp, I realized that I have the dubious distinction of being the only Chalk Talk session. I am a little bit surprised since this format (which is very similar to the Birds of a Feather session format from TechEd) provides... Read more

Visual Studio 2008 release date

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At the Microsoft® Worldwide Partner Conference today, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner announced that Windows Server® 2008, Visual Studio® 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server™ 2008 will launch together at an event in Los Angeles on Feb. 27, 2008, kicking off hundreds of launch events around the world. Also in... Read more

Tampa Code Camp Session Calendar

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In keeping with the work I did for TechEd 2007 to create Internet Calendars for the different technical tracks, I have created a similar calendar for Tampa Code Camp. The calendar is available from Microsoft Office Online as an Outlook 2007 Internet Calendar Subscription. If you are still using... Read more

Development Managers

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Recently, Jason posted about bad development managers. Like Jason, I was also told early in my career that “Sales and Marketing is the natural enemy of Development”. I also learned early on that this isn’t entirely true. While it is true that the sales team will sell products... Read more