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Tablet, Centrino, Battery life and CPU clock speed
I recently got my Acer Tablet with the power-saving Centrino technology. I am getting very decent battery times out of it, too. 4-6 hours with wireless on if I am not coding and running the compiler a lot.
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The Power of the Pen - and BizTalk doesn't use it
Am I the only one to use the BizTalk Orchestration Designer on a Tablet PC? The drawing UI metaphor of the Orchestration Designer works really nice on a tablet with a pen. I think it's totally cool to draw orchestrations on the screen, instead of using the mouse -- it's almost like in the movie “Minority Report“, where Tom Cruise moved images on those giant transparent displays by waving his hands.
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My TechEd Schedule
I'll be the cabana boy in the Web services cabana:
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I'm the Indigo guesser!
Didn't I speculate that we'll see Indigo before Longhorn a little while ago?
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CapeClear's latest WSDL editor
CapeClear recently released a new version of their free WSDL editor. The new version allows adding XML Schemas which, in my mind, was definitely a much needed feature. I think it nicely fills the gap between Visual Studio and its spartanic schema editing capabilities and BizTalk, which is lacking true WSDL editing.
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DevDays: Deploying Application Secrets
One question that I didn't have time to address during the OpenHack talk is how the encrypted encryption key, the entropy for the DPAPI calls and the connection string to access the Awards database are encrypted and stored in the registry.
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Speculating On Indigo, again
Time for me to start my next round of Indigo speculations.
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Jeff's looking for the web services dial tone
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DevDays: Restricting access to IIS websites.
One of the questions that came up after the Open Hack session in Houston was how do I restrict access to IIS once I detected an attack from a specific IP address?
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DevDays: A simple way to configure a domain account to access the database
The web track sessions at DevDays highlights how important it is to access SQL Server using a trusted connection. However, the OpenHack sample application “cheats” because the web site and the database run on the same machine and you can simply configure the ASPNET account in the database.
