Archives for September 2007

What is needed to build distributed applications.

Tim Ewald responds to Don’s question about the validity of the the four tenets. Don asked for input…
This quote really struck home:
And finally, I’m not sure I want to build on a layer designed to factor HTTP in on top of a layer that was designed to factor it out.
Considering that I am using [...]

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TimmyOnTime » Time Management meets Instant Messaging

I have been meaning to blog about these guys for a few days now.  Check it out TimmyOnTime ยป Time Management meets Instant Messaging
I think the idea of using instant messaging to communicate with a server application is brilliant.  I also get a real kick out of chatting with Timmy. Every time my boss gives [...]

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Indexing PDF files in Sharepoint 2007

 I found lots of article on how to do this in Outlook 2003, but it took a while to find this one WSS 3 Search Index Rebuild – Outlook by the sound
The conspiracy theorist in me has to question why it is not so much easier to index the most important file format on [...]

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