Developer Ramblings

I thought this was an interesting post that Robert Scoble did on the building 43 site with a startup that allows you to build a kinda “Virtual Conference Hall”. Pretty interesting stuff. I see more and more conferences being streamed realtime, Mix, PDC, ETC. With all those being streamed online, I’m wondering what the future of these big conferences are?  Are they more like meet ups now? </embed>

Recently I was playing around with Citrix WorkFlow Studio 2.0. Specifically I was writing some custom activities to help with data connections, etc. Before I get into the tech contents, lets provide a little background on WorkFlow studio and how we can extend it with our own code. If you want to see an brief unabridged of WorkFlow studio click the link below. You can also check out the Citrix site here Click here to download the Workflow Cache Cleanup Utility [Read More]

Download the application here Recently the the Microsoft AJAX team released Ajax Preview 6 up on codeplex (Check it out here). With this release they also released an Ajax Minifier tool that will allow you to crunch or minify JS files. There are several ways to use the minifier tool, you can incorporate in into your build process using msbuild, you could run command line tool manually and create an output file, or you can use the minifier dll that gets distributed with the tool in your own applications. It is this third option that sparked my interest so I... [Read More]

A friend of mine and I (Check out Ritch’s twitter feed here and his blog here) were talking a while back about the iPhone and the adoption into the business environment. Yes there are apps out there for business, but very few and not very many which people would use everyday in business. Now, coming from and IT/Dev background we also noticed a lack of enterprise management utilities that were native iPhone apps. [Read More]

On and off for the last few weeks I have been trying to get VirtualBox 3.0.2 installed on my Windows 7 RC device with no real success :(. During every install I ended up getting the dreaded “Setup wizard end prematurely” and subsequently VirtualBox wouldn't get installed and it would be back to the drawing board. Well, after some troubleshooting and some customizing of the MSI file I have finally got VirtualBox installed and running :) but wanted to put this post together for those that are running into the same issue. So, let’s get to it :) First, let... [Read More]