Looks like Twitter is having some problems today.

As Twitter becomes increasingly popular, will the application be able to scale to handle all the new traffic? I know that they have been upgrading the infrastructure but how long will people put up with the downtime. Will another service take over based on the downtime?  Only time will tell.

We will keep watching (and twittering for now)... I know I know it should be tweeting for now.

Daniel

Ran accross this very funny comic... Are you a twitter addict??  hmmmmmmm

So I was browsing Caleb Jenkins website looking at his new deck on presenting and then headed over to his other website CommunityCast.tv

I ran accross this great episode from the 2007 MVP Summit.  From Palermo's party to, Beth Massey (pre Microsoft) to the DNN guys running around.  Alot of things change in a year and a half. It was nice to look back.

I have some great news and wanted to share it with all of you (well, the two of you anyway). 

They say that the only thing that is constant is change and it is certainly no different for me. After running a successful business for the last few years I have decided to join the team. And by the team, I mean Microsoft. I will be starting on Oct 6th as a DE (Developer Evangelist) in Southern California.

I am really looking forward to working even closer with the community (If that is possible ) to bring great content, great resources, and great training, (yea yea yea... swag too) to the great developers in Southern California. It will be a great honor to work with such a vibrant developer community.

Look for more coming from me soon... I just wanted to share the good news.

DotNetDoc - Daniel Egan

As many of you know, Microsoft has decided to name WPF/E (Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere) Microsoft Silverlight. It is a pretty cool name, but what is really cool is that it is named after one of my friends David Silverlight. Microsoft has launched a new campaign to reward community involvement. You can read about David's meeting with Bill and how the name came about here.

So I had a really annoying thing happen today with Word 2007. I was trying to work with a document and it would not let me select the text using my mouse.  Hmmmm... thats weird??  So of course I do what any sane person would do... Reboot ;)

Well that didnt fix it (I thought maybe it was a result of docking/undocking without a restart)

After digging around a bit (Googling) I found out I was not the only one to have this problem. I am still not sure what caused it but was able to find a fix.

****  Use at your own risk *******

. Close Word and Outlook
2. Start / Run and type regedit
3. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Data
4. Rename this key.
5. Restart Word

That fixed the problem for me. Maybe when I have time, I will hunt down the actual reason for this but for now I need to use word ;)

Doc

So I am at the keynote for the MVP Summit and Bill (Yea, we are on a first name basis) just finished his "speech". We are now in the Q&A phase. It has been quite interesting. There have been some great questions on where Microsoft is going in the future, what he thinks is going to really take off but has not yet (tablet, voice recognition) .

One of the best questions was from someone who had started on the Alistair. He read the back panel that instructed users that needed help to Call Bill or Steve… What a crack-up. He got Bill to sign it for him ;)

Well off to another session… more soon.

Doc

OK... So one of the blogs I read is from a very technical person who writes a very non-technical blog. Most of the .Net world already knows who his is but if you have been living on another planet, his name is Rory Blyth.

Now his blog can get a little over the top for me sometimes but it is usually hysterically funny.  So I was going through some emails recently and I came across a couple of his posts that I had emailed to someone. The cracked me up all over again.

So I thought I would share them:

The first one is about his experience with T-Mobile and their phone system. Maybe you need to be a customer to find this funny but ..... well maybe not.

http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/14880.aspx

The second one is more of a cartoon then a blog post. If you have ever worked in a corporate environment, you will definitely get a kick out of this. On the other hand, if you say "I don't get it", then you are management material all the way!!

 http://www.neopoleon.com/blog/posts/434.aspx

Enjoy

DotNetDoc

Visual Studio 2005 was released last night for MSDN Subscribers. It has been kind of a pain to uninstall all of the beta software before installing the released version but I am on my way now.  There are a ton of events comming up in our area in which I will be a part of. I will start pasting some of the cool 2005 presentations I am doing soon.

Doc

Just for giggles, I took an IQ test tonight (hehe) Here is what it said :

This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to others.

Your Intellectual Type is Insightful Linguist. This means you are highly intelligent and have the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind. And that's just some of what we know about you from your test results.

Hey, I went to the the .Net Influential  BBQ today and had a great time. It was mostly relaxation but there was some business too!!  We have lots of events coming to town in the next couple of months.

.Net Rocks Roadshow November 4th

Dan Fernandez and Jay Roxe December 4th

Rocky Lohtka January

So Cal Code Camp January

Anyway. Here is part of the clan that was there.

From left to right.
Mike Vincent, Mark Rosenberg, ME, Scott Robertson, Art Villa, Dave Wells, Dave Foderick.

I will be in Redmond next week. I will post about the Devscovery Conference.

See Ya

Doc

I am used to reading the reviews of my book on amazon.com but it is always great to come across them other places. This time I came across This Review on EggheadCafe.com.

I was really excited to read it for a couple of reasons.

1) It was a good review of my book ;)

2) It was from Peter A. Bromberg, Ph.D. I read his stuff on EggHeadCafe ALL the time. They are fantastic articles on many of the hard to find techniques in .Net. Every time I Google to find a solution to a particular problem, his articles always come front and center. The really cool thing is that he is a real hard core C# guy so the fact that he still liked my book was cool. Here is a quote from his review:

"I give this one a hearty "Thumbs Up" -- not only does it cover the subject extensively, it also promotes best-practices programming methodology. Pick up a copy of "Building Websites with VB.NET and DotNetNuke 3.0", by Dan(iel) Egan"

Cool!!!!!

Happy Programming

Doc

I went to the Indigo User Group Tour tonight. It was a great presentation and I look forward to the options that Indigo gives the .Net developer although I will wait until it gets a little closer to realease date before getting too excited. For now I will continue to use my old Remoting/Webservices skills.

Mike Vincent, Me, Dave Foderick at Indigo UG Tour Event.