I had the wonderful opportunity to present at the Dallas Visual Studio 2005 launch event today and presented the ‘Building Web Applications with Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0’ talk. It was an absolutely packed house — I think we had just under 3,000 attendees … Continue reading “Silly questions about ASP.NET and VB”
http://news.com.com/Banking+on+a+virtual+economy/2008-1043_3-5974118.html?tag=nefd.lede Hats off to the creators of Project Entropia (MMORPG) – they’ve managed to create virtual merchandise. The guy in the article purchased a piece of virtual real estate, a space station, for $100,000 USD.
Cool – a site that is focused on the Tablet PC community using the ink feature of Community Server 2.0 beta 1!
I’ll admit it: Google scares me. We don’t compete with Google (at least not yet <g>), but I’m more concerned with how Google is doing business and the type of data they are collecting. If Microsoft were to do half of what Google is doing they … Continue reading “Google”
One of the perks we offer at Telligent is the ability to expense copies of Half-Life 2 for the purpose of “team building” — yes, it’s a stretch but Counter Strike and now Day of Defeat are really fun games you can play with a … Continue reading “How to *not* license software”
http://news.com.com/Borland+names+new+CEO/2100-1014_3-5939639.html?tag=nefd.top I used to work for Tod when I was an evangelist in the Developer Relations Group (DRG) at Microsoft. Tod was the face and voice of Microsoft to the developer community during the time when Microsoft seemingly didn’t care about “community” during the mid-to-late … Continue reading “Tod Nielsen named CEO of Borland”
“Strap on the headset and you’ll be staring into the equivalent of a 105-inch movie screen from 12 feet away.” and …”the headset works nicely with movies and will actually track your head movements for gaming…” Wow, the company that created this is www.3dvisor.com. For a … Continue reading “Added to the Christmas wish-list”
We’ve posted the first publicly available beta of Community Server 2.0. Some of the new features in 2.0 include: A completely new administration system Video/Ink Support 100% rewrite of CSS and most HTML Blog attachments and podcasting (RSS enclosures) File Gallery Points System Basic content … Continue reading “Community Server 2.0 Beta 1”
The www.asp.net site has a new “look-and-feel”. It’s all the same content you know and love, but not only is it running ASP.NET 2.0 but it also has moved to a more progressive output using stricter HTML and more CSS. Over the coming months you … Continue reading “After nearly 5 years…”
Telligent is looking for either a contract or fulltime technical writer to help author technical documentation for Community Server and CodeSmith. If you’re interested or know anyone who is please have them contact me rhoward@telligent.com.
