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- Zune pass is now officially beyond awesomeNovember 24 2008
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I already subscribe to Zune Pass and love it for the ability to discover music using a subscription service. You just download whatever you like and don't have to worry about the cost. Don't like the music? Doesn't matter … just ditch it.
It just got better!
Now you get 10 songs a month (MP3 DRM free to boot) to keep forever included!
This has got to be the BEST deal out there.
For $14.99 a month you get $10 worth of music to keep AND all the music you want to download on subscription.
So if you are buying 10 songs a month anyway its like getting all the rest for $4.99 a month!
You don't need a Zune to use Zune Software (which I find WAY better than other stuff out there). At the moment you can get a 14 day trial of Zune Pass here.
- BB13: SharePoint 2007 Creating SharePoint Applications with Visual Studio -- Sample CodeNovember 4 2008
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Here are the code samples I demonstrated in my PDC Session last week as promised.
You can watch the recorded session here: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/BB13/
(Silverlight streaming Video & slides + demo side by side)Please read the “Contoso Sample Setup.rtf” file for setup instructions.
There are a few things you need to do!
The best place to start is to download the WSS developer VPC from here. The PDC session was conducted on this VPC and the setup instructions are built assuming you are using that VPC. Of course you can use this on any machine, but the setup instruction may vary slightly.
Please leave a comment or use the “Email” feature of my blog if you experience any setup issues.
- Packin for PDCOctober 25 2008
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Its always a geeks worst nightmare packing for a conference and getting the balance of gadgets, clothes, number of bags and weight.
Do you go for a gadget for every occasion? or carry on only? dilemma!
I personally prefer the minimal approach to things … but my limit for carry on only is a 2 night trip, so that means another bag.
As for geeking techy stuff… I am having to take a bunch of kit down with me for my session and related stuff which is adding to my weight big time :(
Thankfully I have a lightweight Lenovo X60 lappy and not one of these poor souls I see lugging portable desktops around with them.
You can follow my PDC experience via the following:
http://friendfeed.com/loungeflyx (will get updates from all the below)
- PDC 2008: SharePoint 2007: Creating SharePoint Applications with Visual Studio 2008October 21 2008
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I hope everyone is getting as pumped as I am for the PDC next week. So much dev geek goodness in one week … its all good!
Plug for my session:
SharePoint 2007 Creating SharePoint Applications with Visual Studio
Thursday 8:30amAbstract: “Learn how to use Microsoft Silverlight and SharePoint together. See us build a SharePoint application using the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint.”
Put it in your calendars:
That is this abstract from the PDC site … here is my more detailed version…
We wont be sitting watching slides .. 10mins MAX. After that we will be jumping head long into a 50min demo that builds out a full application. None of this cake in the oven nonsense
We are going to do that in 5 bits:
- Design – Do the branding stuff
- Extend – Extend SharePoint to add the things we need
- Integrate – With other systems using WCF
- Social – Everyone loves social stuff!!
- Visualize – Use Silverlight to show stuff(Come and learn about new Silverlight stuff that has not been released yet! no … its not Silverlight 2.0 that is already out)
-Chris
- RoundTableOctober 16 2008
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So i was in a meeting today and we had a remote participant. We were using Live Meeting to do the presentation and demo. We were in a meeting room with a Round Table … so i decided to plug it in and see what happened :)20 seconds later the video popped up and we were up and running.
I had been in a meeting using this before … but not tried using it myself.
Very cool stuff … and greatly helped with the meeting.
PS: I am the guy second from the left.
