Anith Gopal

If you went to an education technology conference that didn’t mention the word ‘cloud’ then you’d be in the wrong place today.  Everyone is talking about the possibilities but there are only a relatively small number of institutions that have done much more than provide email or file sharing.

Got over the immediate marketplace hurdle, and now the issue with the latest arcade titles downloading is resolved. We still have some newer content we need to get re-added to get it up there, and we are still having issues with the 1 vs. 100 download.

We did hear of a couple of issues after turning things back on, not the least of which were issues with Bungie/Halo 3.  We did experience some network issues between our service and Bungie, which are now resolved.  If you are experiencing any other issues, please post, as we are on the lookout.  Thanks in advance.

L et me start by the last work I did this week: the paper. Great opportunity to learn; I selected the EU and Mercosur as the trading blocs, and the amount of research I did was incredible

Wow – talk about value for money ! This conference is being organised by the NZ Sharepoint user group community – for a two day conference it represents incredible value at only $500 per head.

My colleague Brandon writes about his Avatar Boxing AppWeek game , which was oh so much more funnier than mine…

I’ve been BUSY! I travelled to New York to take some training ( Jeffrey Richter , C# Threading), to Seattle for some more training ( Scott Bain , TDD) to Bar Harbor, Maine for some R&R, then back to Seattle for an internal engineering conference (which I got to speak at). In the middle of all this, I’ve been working on a project based on .NET Service Bus which I can’t share much information about yet. I’m going to start a series of posts on handy extension methods and utilities in the coming days.

Hi… XTOPIA kompakt is a new format we tried recently. Instead of you coming to the conference, the conference is more like a road show

5:13 a thriller movie slated to release in 2010 just implemented Microsoft Tag in their movie poster.

Monitoring Performance To maintain system performance, you must monitor your server to identify potential bottlenecks. Windows Server 2003 provides the Performance tool. This allows you to monitor generic and application-specific components

Thanks to NPR’s Monkey See blog for finding this:

If you have one of those cool swively LCD displays (or if you decided to build your own ), you naturally want to tell your video card to display rotated output, so you can take advantage of the portrait orientation. And naturally you would think that calling the ChangeDisplaySettingsEx and using the dmDisplayOrientation field of the DEVMODE structure would do the trick