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More complete PDC09 downloader-renamer

November 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Development Toolbox, Technology

First of all, I want to thank Mike Swanson (@anyware) for his original work (e.g. for MIX09 and also for PDC09). Good stuff.
That being said, I noticed that there were posted sessions missing–six altogether–from the 11/19/2009-dated batch files here; so, I thought I’d post my “fix”:

PDC09DownloaderCSR.zip
PDC09RenamerCSR.zip

It may be worth noting that my rename “style” includes [...]

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First 100K concurrent user ECM benchmark

April 20th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Content management

Earlier today, EMC formally announced the results of its significant Enterprise Content Management benchmark with Microsoft and HP.
The newly released study is one of the largest-ever benchmarks in the ECM industry, demonstrating 100,000 [concurrent] users of Documentum 6.5 [SP1] engaging in a variety of content management-related transactions and sustaining that workload over the course of [...]

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An MVP again

January 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Technology

Thank you, Microsoft, Simon and Miha, for awarding me Solutions Architect MVP status once again. I’m especially grateful that you listened to this group of architects and worked with us to bring this program back (even better!) after a relatively brief hiatus.
Update 12/30/2009: This year saw substantial change yet again to the MVP program where [...]

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Azure is like NT

November 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Services, Technology

During the first keynote of PDC last week, Bob Muglia associated this year’s PDC with the 1992 PDC, which featured the coming out of Windows NT. (I still think of “WNT” as “V++ M++ S++”, given David Cutler’s leadership on both operating systems.)
I think there is much to draw from this comparison where [...]

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Download PDC2008 presentations

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Technology

This is a community service announcement.
Since I took the time to crack the download syntax for the PowerPoint decks presented this week at PDC, I thought I’d make my work publicly available. Here it is (i.e. sessions listed in alphabetically order with the session titles copied from the original master session list posted [...]

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