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Posted by Sumeet Agarwal on 12 March 2010 in Sumeet AgarwalVideo: Ping’s scrape.py Lightning Talk (PyCon 2010) Ka-Ping Yee gave a five-minute lightning talk at PyCon 2010 about scrape.py, his awesome and intuitive web scraping Python module. Not only is scrape.py cool, but Ping’s presentation is fantastic. It’s the best technical demonstration I’ve ever seen. Seek to 2:41.
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Posted by Sumeet Agarwal on 5 March 2010 in Sumeet AgarwalVideo: Snakes on the Web (PyCon Argentina 2009) Jacon Kaplan-Moss’s (Django developer) famous Snakes on the Web (transcript) talk from PyCon Argentina 2009. He gives a brief history of web development and then explains why it still sucks – now, more than ever. Parts of the talk are specific to Python, but most of what Jacob […]
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Posted by Sumeet Agarwal on 26 February 2010 in Sumeet AgarwalVideo: Gates and Jobs Look Into The Future Of Personal Computing (2007) I started spreading this interview around after I found it about a month ago, and I still continue to because I found it so inspiring. I feel bad for any IT or software professional, or someone with any sort of interest in computing or […]
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Posted by Roy Davis on 22 February 2010 in Roy Davis's BlogIt looks like I might be speaking again at this years TechFuse. I’m planning on doing a session on Microsoft Forefront implementations and integration with Exchange and Sharepoint. Anyone interested in signing up as a speaker should visit http://www.benchmarklearning.com/TechFuse/Default.aspx
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Posted by Michael Hacker on 18 February 2010 in Mike HackerNot too long ago I jumped in on a debate about running SharePoint 2010 directly on a Windows 7 laptop for development purposes. One of the main issues with doing this is that all of the services will have a negative impact on the performance of your laptop. I mentioned that I use a series […]
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Posted by Andrew Douglas on 16 February 2010 in Andy DouglasThe best programmers that I know are knowledgeable about agile (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development) and practice one or more aspects of agile programming. On Wednesday, 2/17/2010, I gave a short presentation to the Sogeti Cincinnati Microsoft Practice to provide an introduction to agile concepts, and to generally talk about how programmers can improve their programming skills. I certainly […]
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Posted by Scott Williams on 16 February 2010 in Scott Williams's RamblingsMapping data between types on a Web Service can be a collosal pain. There are various frameworks out there that can speed things up, but sometimes you just need to do it by hand. Fortunately some of the features introduced with C# 3 can help speed things up. Say the type on the server looks like […]
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Posted by Melia Cooper on 11 February 2010 in Omaha SharePoint Practice BlogHere is a copy of the slides we presented on in our Overview Session today. We hope you had as much fun watching our presentation as we did! If you would like Sogeti to come in and present a lunch and learn on a specific topic of SharePoint 2010 or even SharePoint 2007, we would […]
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Posted by David Delella on 10 February 2010 in David DeLella's Sogeti BlogThis is my first post to the Sogeti blogs. I just wanted to let everyone know I will try to add information here whenever possible. For those who do not know me, I am one of two individuals who are heading up the Ajax specialization role in the Cincinnati Microsoft Practice. I am giving an […]
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Posted by Roy Davis on 9 February 2010 in Roy Davis's BlogThe project I’ve been on for the past 8 months, formerly code named “Cobalt”, is a total redesign of the Thomson-Reuters legal research site Westlaw.com. After 2 years in development, and countless millions spent, the site went live on Feb. 8th 2010 to much fanfare and marketing. You can learn more about it at www.westlawnext.com.
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Posted by Michael Hacker on 4 February 2010 in Mike HackerI read Joel Oleson’s recent blog post called The Great Virtualization Debate: What to do? SharePoint 2010 for Laptops and thought I would chime in with a few comments. So far my personal preference for developing SharePoint 2010 solutions on my laptop is to install it directly on Windows 7. Unlike running it virtualized I can […]
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Posted by Eric Swanson on 4 February 2010 in Eric Swanson on Technology ServicesMSF-Agile plus Security Development Lifecycle Process Template for VSTS 2008 MSF-A+SDL is a TFS process template that incorporates the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) for Agile process guidance into the MSF Agile development framework. With the MSF-A+SDL template, any code checked into the Visual Studio Team System source repository by the developer is analyzed to ensure that […]
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Posted by Scott Williams on 2 February 2010 in Scott Williams's RamblingsDisclaimer: I have not worked as a full time software tester, so this point of view is from a developer who would love to see the following qualities in QA personnel that I work with. Sometime early in my career as a software developer, I learned that my code was not perfect and needed […]
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Posted by Melia Cooper on 2 February 2010 in Omaha SharePoint Practice BlogThe Sogeti Omaha SharePoint practice will be presenting on the new SharePoint 2010 platform. Come hear how the new features in the upcoming SharePoint 2010 release can benefit your organization and the people you serve. Click on the link below to register for this event: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=144934
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Posted by Eric Swanson on 27 January 2010 in Eric Swanson on Technology ServicesMulti-Touch for Windows 7 Emulate a touch screen without the screen! Multi-Touch is a user input management layer that handles input from various devices (touchlib, multiple mice, TUIO etc.) and normalises it against the scale and rotation of the target window. (tags: multitouch touch multi-touch windows7 codeplex)
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Posted by Eric Swanson on 21 January 2010 in Eric Swanson on Technology ServicesInfragistics Quince: UX Patterns Explorer Quince is a rich UX patterns, sometimes called UI patterns, explorer. (tags: patterns interface designpatterns userexperience interfaces usability ux ui gui webdesign development)
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Posted by Roy Davis on 20 January 2010 in Roy Davis's BlogA new vulnerability has been identified within MSFT IE versions 6 through 8 involving an invalid pointer reference. Exploit code has been released for MetaSploit and is available freely on the web. MSFT has issued a statement saying that it will release an “out of band” hotfix for the issue ASAP. In the mean time, use […]
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Posted by Michael Hacker on 20 January 2010 in Mike HackerMicrosoft has replaced the Single Sign-On service in SharePoint 2007 with the Secure Store Service (SSS). With this change also comes a pretty big overhaul of the API set. If you have written any custom applications, web parts or utilities that used the SSO service in 2007 you may be required to rewrite or update […]
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Posted by Jeff Shaver on 19 January 2010 in ShavePointThanks everyone for coming out, I hope you found the presentation enlightening. I misspoke in the presentation when I stated the BCS feature was not available in SharePoint Foundation Server. There are certain features available in Foundation Server, such as External Lists which I demoed. Features in BCS only available in SharePoint 2010 Server are: External Data […]
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Posted by Eric Swanson on 15 January 2010 in Eric Swanson on Technology ServicesREBOL Technologies Relative Expression Based Object Language: It uses "relative expressions" (lean, domain-specific languages) to create a powerful new method of creating Internet programs, scripts, and applications. (tags: languages programming-languages programming development language framework) Microsoft Virtualisation Technologies videos A tv channel aimed at Microsoft Partners and Customers, devoted to Microsoft Virtualisation Technologies. Server, Desktop, Application and Presentation Virtualization, along […]