4 February 2012 0 Comments

Drive Your Week with Skill

You can drive your week or your week drives you.   One of the ways I add sanity to the chaos of my week is the Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, Friday Reflection pattern.   It’s a simple way to setup a rhythm of results for the week.

11 January 2012 0 Comments

Episode 23 of Visual Studio Toolbox (Entity Framework Part 1) is now live

In this episode , I am joined by Rowan Miller and Diego Vega of the Entity Framework team. They discuss and demo code first, database first, and model first—the three primary Entity Framework workflows—and give some tips on when to use each.

11 December 2011 0 Comments

Why we believe in dogfooding …

Who is we? We are the project team working on delivering practical and scenario based guidance for the implementation of Team Foundation Server.

27 September 2011 0 Comments

Create what’s next on Phone, Web, and Cloud

Hey developers and those of you who want to see your great app idea come to life, now is a great time to download some free tools or to ensure you have the most up-to-date versions. Installing WebMatrix is simple and fast, and it provides an easy tool to create, customize, and publish your websites from scratch, from a template, or from a web gallery. Want to put your great Windows Phone app ideas in the Marketplace?  Download the Phone SDK The Windows Azure platform gives you the power of scalability and availability.  Focus on your own app without worrying about up-front costs and long-term commitment.

2 April 2011 0 Comments

A Letter to My Clients: How Computers Work

Dear Mr. Client O’Mine: Per your request to give you a high-level explanation of how computers work, above is a diagram, along with a walk through that will hopefully dispel the mystery. Let us start with the central processing unit (CPU)

2 March 2011 0 Comments

F# London Meetup Group, Tomorrow Night! The F#/C# XBox Live Arcade Game "The Path of Go"

Tomorrow night is the next F#unctional Londoners Meetup Group at SkillsMatter in London! And it promises to be a really fantastic event, with a talk using F# to program the AI engine of a truly beautiful game.     Details: Thursday, March 3, 6:30pm, The Skills Matter eXchange , 116-120 Goswell Road London   David Stern will talking about the XBox Live Arcade Game ” The Path Of Go “

12 January 2011 0 Comments

Fixing a gap in a prior post – Finding the Top Category with a Tumbling Window

In a prior blog post – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/appfabriccat/archive/2010/11/03/streaminsight-query-pattern-find-the-top-category-using-order-by-take-and-applywithunion.aspx – I discussed how to determine the top category in a set of events using order by and take.  However, I only covered non-overlapping aggregate windows (i.e. Tumbling windows).  I did not cover how you have to adjust your query definition for overlapping (Hopping) windows.  Since this question came up in the forums, and it’s somewhat challenging to post a picture therein, here’s how you fix the problem.

4 January 2011 0 Comments

Walkthrough: Implement many-to-many currency conversion in an Analysis Services solution

For one-to-many currency conversion, you can download sample SSAS project to check how it works. This article describes the scenarios when you want to implement a Many-to-many currency conversion by yourself instead of using Business Intelligence Wizard.  Take the AdventureWorksDW2008 database for example

23 December 2010 0 Comments

Looking Back Over the Last 100+ Days

Today is my last day acting in the team lead role and I want to share some of the insights and experiences that I have had over the last 100+ days.

18 December 2010 0 Comments

Meet Tyrone & Sully from E&D Support!

We are happy to introduce you to two more members of the E&D Support team! First up, meet Tyrone – a Forecast Analyst. After learning more about Tyrone, continue reading to learn about Sully – a Partner Technical Lead.

4 December 2010 0 Comments

Gestion du multilingue sous SSAS

Description du besoin L’objectif est de pouvoir traduire les données d’affichage à travers des rapports Reporting Services qui ont référence une source de données de type Analysis Services. Analysis Services fournit une traduction des méta-données en fonction du thread client.

18 November 2010 0 Comments

Gewinne ein Windows Phone 7 oder eine Xbox 360 mit Kinect

Link zum Windows Azure Gewinnspiel Wir veranstalten wie letztes Jahr ein Windows Azure Gewinnspiel. Wer ein Windows Phone 7 gewinnen möchte oder eine Xbox mit einem Kinect Controller, der sollte sich das folgende Gewinnspiel mal durchlesen