Oh Behave... Behaviors SDK and the new BlendBehaviors.NET

Timmy Kokke - Behaviors SDK When the release candidate of Visual Studio 2013 came available, so did the Behaviors SDK. The Behaviors SDK is somewhat similar to the Expression Blend SDK you might have used before when using Behaviors and Actions. Along with the SDK come a couple of actions and behaviors you can use in your Windows Store applications right away. What are they? Both behaviors and actions are small pieces of code that can...

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High Level View of the Difference Between Office 2003,2007, 2010,2013

Compare the different Office versions from 2003 - 2013 Again, pretty high level, and market'y, but I still thought it interesting... (via Priyo's SharePoint Blog > Office 2013 vs Office Old)...

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Speckie (THE IE Spell Checker Extension) v6 Released, supports IE11 and more

betanews - Internet Explorer spellchecker Speckie adds support for IE11, improves touch Versoworks has released Speckie 6.0, a major new version of its real-time spellchecking tool for Internet Explorer. The software, available free for personal use as well as in commercial form with additional features, adds support for the forthcoming Internet Explorer 11 with this new release. Version 6.0 also comes with the promise of improved support...

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Cool JavaScript of the Day - The World in 1k

Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings - The World in 1K Mind. Blown. (view source) The World in 1K Okay, seeing the world rotate is cool, but when you view source, like Dougal says... wow. ...

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Did you get the message? Message Analyzer v1.0 has RTW'd

MessageAnalyzer - Message Analyzer has Released – A New Beginning We are excited to announce the official release of Message Analyzer to the Microsoft Download Center. Sci-Fi movie references aside, this really is a new beginning for troubleshooting and analysis. Message Analyzer brings a set of new ideas, new techniques, and new paradigms in order to make analysis of protocols, log files, and system events a cohesive activity which allows correlation...

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[Geek Humor] If Windows 8 came on Floppies...

Global Nerdy - I’m Installing This Tonight… I had a good laugh and trip down memory lane after seeing this......

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Get a big jump into Big Data with the "Getting Started with Microsoft Big Data" series

Channel 9 - Getting Started with Microsoft Big Data Developers, take this course to get an overview of Microsoft Big Data tools as part of the Windows Azure HDInsight and Storage services. As a developer, you'll learn how to create map-reduce programs and automate the workflow of processing Big Data jobs. As a SQL developer, you'll learn Hive can make you instantly productive with Hadoop data. Getting Started with Microsoft Big Data-...

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"The Ultimate Agile Planning Handbook" Free [email address-ware] eBook from Telerik

Telerik - The Ultimate Agile Planning Handbook Stay on top of your backlog and manage your iterations like an Agile guru with the help of our Ultimate Agile Planning Handbook. Dive into this 20-page whitepaper with how-to tips and important Agile planning best practices that will help you improve your processes today. Some of the areas we address are: Time boxing Optimizing iterations Prioritizing and sizing the backlog...

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WakaWaka wild holiday solar special... Power a company with a cool mission as you power your mobile devices!

Tech Strategy Trends - Get a WakaWaka solar-powered mobile device charger (or three) at a discount A few months ago I wrote a short review of the WakaWaka solar-powered mobile device charger. With a WakaWaka, as long as you can find a little sunlight, you can charge your smartphone, tablet, or really any other device that can be powered through a USB cable. The one issue or complaint I have about the device is its price–it’s a tad steep at $80....

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Space Mining - Science Fiction or just Science? (NASA wonders about exo-solar Diamond space mining)

open.NASA - Awesome Stuff in Space: Planet Mining GONE You may have heard of the hyper-startup Planetary Resources, a company which aims to “expand Earth’s natural resource base” by developing (and eventually using) the technology to mine asteroids in the Solar System. They also have a lot of money, with investors such as Larry Page (Co-founder of Google) and James Cameron (Writer of Rambo: First Blood Part II). But what if they’re thinking...

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Red Gate goes SQL Loco for OSS Projects...

Simple Talk - SQL Support for OSS Projects We recently blogged about two new open source websites, OSS Zero to Sixty and OSSPerks. Set up by Nik and Anthony, founders of Glimpse, they’re two sites dedicated to helping anyone looking for help, tips, resources and tooling for open source projects. Since then, we’ve heard about all sorts of exciting things the open source community is doing and we would love our tools at Red Gate to help along...

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It's [going to be] a girl!

My favorite Daughter (well, she's my only daughter, but she's still my favorite) and my favorite son-in-law (well, he's my only... you get the picture ;) are finally ready to let the world know that early next year they are going to be the proud parents of a baby girl! Making me (OMG, OMG, OMG) a grandparent! (Pappy Greg, is what I'm thinking... ;) Erica and Garrett, your life journey only new truly begins. Congratulations and I think you're...

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"The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Bacon"

Jon Gallant - The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Bacon Bacon! And in my mind, 7 is #1... :) Also I think #8 should be; 8. Bacon must be respected and enjoyed for what it is. No bacon ties, car paint jobs, phone cases (though that would be kind of cool), etc. Bacon is bacon! Not decoration......

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OSS that a sysadmin can love... InfoWorld's 12 Sysadmin CodePlex Gems...

InfoWorld - Microsoft CodePlex: 12 open source gems for every Windows admin Microsoft CodePlex gems: 12 open source tools every Windows admin will love While it may seem antithetical to Microsoft’s image, free open source tools abound for Microsoft admins, many of which are hosted by Microsoft itself on CodePlex, the company’s free open source project hosting site. The tools offered at CodePlex are diverse and often downright awesome. Whether you’re working with Windows, Windows Server, SharePoint, Exchange, you name it, CodePlex is a...

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The HOL "Building a Release Pipeline with Team Foundation Server 2012" thing

Microsoft Downloads - Building a Release Pipeline with Team Foundation Server 2012 – Hands-on Labs These labs teach you how to implement a continuous delivery release pipeline by using Team Foundation Server 2012. You begin by building a simple release pipeline that supports continuous integration. Later labs modify and extend the pipeline until it supports continuous delivery and includes features such as automated deployments and testing....

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[Hardware Review] Life with Haswell... Haswell/Harris Beach Intel SDS Ultrabook Review - Part 2

"So Greg, how's life with Haswell been?" "Pretty Sweet! (Mostly)" I've been given an opportunity to review the latest and greatest Intel chipset, Haswell, in the form of a engineering reference ultrabook from Intel. As I said in my previous post in this series, "Hello Haswell" , in order to try to provide a good review, I've been living with the notebook as a primary, as a machine I use through out the day, doing pretty much everything in my personal...

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