CLaueR's BlogNew Feeds on the BlogHard to believe, but true - How a very large project fails- August 30, 2004 Seen this posted on MrDave's Blog. It's about a large project in Colorado that has started in 1995 and that as of today an estimated cost of $199 million. You have to read the whole story in Gazette.com, just hard to believe. My favorite: It is my understanding that the CBMS system as presently formatted still requires counties to make up certain data, including Social Security numbers, birth dates, alien status and other personal data in order for some cases to be processed for...http://weblogs.asp.net/clauer/archive/2004/08/30/222495.aspx What is so exciting about GMail- August 30, 2004 I see a lot of posts about GMail, either people offering GMail invitations, or others who look happy to have gotten one. I just don't get why there is so much excitation about a free webmail service with 1 Gb storage. May be someone can tell mehttp://weblogs.asp.net/clauer/archive/2004/08/30/222491.aspx From France ISV, Partners and Customers: Join the "Whidbey Ascend" Program!- August 27, 2004 Editeurs de Logiciels, Clients finaux et Partenaires Microsoft, nous vous proposons de vous inscrire avant le 30 Septembre 2004 pour participer un programme de type "Early Adopter" autour de Visual Studio 2005 "Whidbey". Ce programme - nomm "Whidbey Ascend" - vous permet daccder aux btas, de bnficier dun support technique via un newsgroup priv et galement de participer une semaine de formation dbut octobre Paris. En contrepartie, nous souhaitons pouvoir communiquer avec vous sur la...http://weblogs.asp.net/clauer/archive/2004/08/27/221636.aspx From France Learn to know your contacts in Microsoft France DPE Organisation- August 26, 2004 La division "Dveloppeurs et Plate-forme d'Entreprise" de Microsoft France - ex "Division .NET" - compte un trentaine de personnes rparties en diffrentes populations, principalement un groupe Marketing et Evnements dirig par Alain le Hgarat, et deux quipes d'Evanglistes, les Evanglistes Architectes sous la responsabilit de Marc Gardette et le groupe des Evanglistes Dveloppeurs - dont je fais parti - sous la responsabilit de Daniel Cohen-Zardi. Cette division est dirige par Olivier Ezratty...http://weblogs.asp.net/clauer/archive/2004/08/27/221187.aspx 64 Bit laptops available in food stores- August 5, 2004 You do not have an AMD64 laptop yet Stop by the grocery around the corner and grab one ;-) In fact, this shop is known in France and Germany as a hard discount food store. A couple of month ago, they had an offering for an AMD64 desktop machine. May be in two month or so they will have a 64 bit Tablet PC ;-)http://weblogs.asp.net/clauer/archive/2004/08/05/208919.aspx Running Windows XP for 64 Bit Extended Systems as my default machine- August 2, 2004 In the same "dogfooding" spirit as the previous experiments done by some of my colleagues how chose to switch to a Tablet PC, a Windows Server 2003 or running as non "Admin" on their default machine, I will start in September the experience of using an AMD64 laptop running Windows XP for 64 Bit Extended Systems as my default machine. I have this Compaq Presario R3160US for a couple of months now, and I've installed nearly all what I need on it. It's running a Microsoft internal build of...http://weblogs.asp.net/clauer/archive/2004/08/02/205779.aspx |