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Conversion to WordPress 2.7

December 15, 2008

I spent the last few days converting my blog from my homegrown blogging platform, Neutonium, to WordPress 2.7.  Why?  The vastly improved WordPress Control Panel was one reason.  It finally makes sense to me now.  But the real reason is I never fully finished Neutonium.  It was sorely missing administration tools to make using it [...]

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SOA is not a Technology, not a Reason… it’s an Evolution

April 4, 2008

I was just catching up on my RSS feeds when I ran across Dana Gardner’s latest post, “WOA may soon eclipse SOA as most impactful business transformation agent” which evoked an odd sense of anxiety and the need to immediately jot down some of my SOA thoughts.  In short, Service-Oriented Architecture is a software design [...]

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Microsoft Convergence 2008 Wrap-Up

March 16, 2008

Last week I attended Microsoft’s Convergence 2008 conference at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL.  Convergence is focused on Microsoft’s Business Solutions division which includes applications in the Dynamics family — CRM, GP, AX, NAV and SL — but also touches on related technologies such as SharePoint (WSS and MOSS) and SQL Server. [...]

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Tech-Ed 2007 in Orlando

June 6, 2007

This week I’ve been attending Microsoft’s Tech-Ed 2007 conference here in Orlando at the gigantic Orange County Convention Center.  A group of us from work ascended upon Orlando on Sunday and Monday to check out new Microsoft technologies, do some recon on products we’ve recently brought into our “enterprise” and to get out of the office fray [...]

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