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August 2007 Blog Posts

Wicked Cool: AC's VS CodeRush/Refactor Tools for SharePoint heads.

Right, so I really am not turning my blog into a pimp vehicle for my friends stuff.... But (!)... If you haven't seen this yet - you absolutely must check it out. http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2007/08/21/6095.aspx AC is a real super smart cookie - he's not just a smart developer - he *knows* how to articulate problems, tradeoffs, compromises and he knows how to use his keyboard for maximum effect. If you know me, or have worked with/for me you know I don't tolerate lame developers, but when I come across a decent one I will make that very clear. After 15 years in the business I haven't...

Dustin Miller Kicks ASS!

Dustin, a fellow SharePoint dude, and impresario of SharePoint Experts, is an excellent presenter. I know all about the sleep inducing nature of some TechEd sessions (some even when you're working the show) but this is not one of them. Not only are his presentation skills excellent - with a strong, clear and articulate voice to prevent you from nodding off, he can actually use his computer. For real! So there's no mishaps during the demos and what not to make you cringe or otherwise search for rotten fruit. "But wait, there's more"... Imagine if you will a list of the most popular TechEd sessions....

Commerce Server 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007

  From Ryan's In-Depth: Commerce Server Product Roadmap: Commerce Server 2007 Accelerators – Between now and “7” is a long time to wait, so we wanted to deliver more value to CS2007 customers by adding new capabilities a la carte that have minimal-to-no impact upon existing deployments to facilitate the most oft-requested technology integration or industry deployment scenarios for CS2007. This will be accomplished via accelerators – which will be shipped starting in the 2nd half of 2008 (with preview releases available beforehand) – that can be added to any existing CS2007 deployment. Technology Integration SharePoint...

Application Pool Recycle Utility: Small Update and Roadmap

I decided to release a minor update to the popular Application Pool Recycle Utility based on a number of requests to display the Process ID. It now does this using a tool tip via WMI.Click here to get the latest version. There were a number of new features originally planned for this release, such as Warm Up associations and a CLI with arguments for use in Post Build tasks. However based on some initial work and a frustration with the management APIs, I've decided to re-consider the future development of the tool.   In a nutshell the multitude...

IISSCHEMA.EXE - A tool to register IIS7 configuration sections

Mike Volodarsky - "da man" when it comes to proper, big ass, IIS has dusted off his code skills once again to bring us a killer tool for custom config in IIS7. Go get it to see how it should be done.  Mike Volodarsky's ServerSide : IISSCHEMA.EXE - A tool to register IIS7 configuration sections

Stuff I wouldn't wanna live without

Bloomin' 'eck! AC done gone tagged me. This one's a bit wacky. Here are a few things which would upset my fragile equilibrium if they were denied me. Erm, I think the idea is these should be techy things generally so I'll skip out the obvious things like friends and family. Whilst it might be hard, I'm pretty sure I could live just fine without any tech - some days I feel like life would be much better without it :)    1. Miles Ahead by Miles Davis and Gil Evans.The finest musical recording ever? You bet your ass. There's no tech...