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March 2007 - Posts

• Solution Installer for SharePoint 2007

  Have you ever wanted a list of Features packaged in a solution that you could just click a button to install?  Well the good news is that I have too. To solve this problem I extended a great tool called the Power Toys Pack Installer from CodePlex. Read More posted 26-03-2007 05:17 by Brendon Schwartz | 1 Comments Filed Under: Programming, SharePoint 2007

• MVP Summit Days 3 and 4

  Most of this I can't disclose, other than to say that I've got a new Business Intelligence talk to work on based on some of what I've seen.  Really neat stuff. Read More posted 18-03-2007 10:19 by Matt Ranlett | 0 Comments Filed Under: .NET Events, Technical

• MVP Summit Day 2

  Bill Gates gave the keynote.  He actually talkked for an hour or so about his vision of technology today and in the future before siting down to answer questions from the audience for about half an hour.  Questions ranged over a variety of Read More posted 18-03-2007 10:13 by Matt Ranlett | 224 Comments Filed Under: .NET Events, Personal

• MVP Summit Days 0 and 1

  *** SUNDAY *** I arrived in Seattle at about 9pm Sunday evening for the MVP Summit, which officially started Monday.  Seattle did not disappoint - the weather was cold and raining.  A $35 cab ride brought me to the Seattle Hilton where Read More posted 13-03-2007 02:18 by Matt Ranlett | 251 Comments Filed Under: .NET Community, Personal

• My last day of vacation

  Today is my last day of the west coast vacation.  Kim's already on a plane heading home and I head to Seattle in a few hours.  Right now I'm sitting at my parent's dining room table working on some of the final edits for the book chapter (Chapter Read More posted 11-03-2007 09:56 by Matt Ranlett | 1878 Comments Filed Under: Personal

• Pan's Labyrinth - Spanish fairy tale

  Pan's Labyrinth was a bizarre combination of movies.  One part is set during the facist Franco government in Spain where the Army is hunting down and torturing the resistance fighters.  The other part is a fairy tale featuring buzzing fairies, Read More posted 10-03-2007 10:14 by Matt Ranlett | 0 Comments Filed Under: Personal

• March 7th - perfect day for Disneyland

  Mark this in your calendars.  March 7th was the perfect day for Disneyland.  The weather was awesome - not too hot.  The crowds were minimal, never more than a 10 minute wait to get on a ride.  Ticket prices are pretty high - $63 for Read More posted 10-03-2007 10:08 by Matt Ranlett | 0 Comments Filed Under: Personal

• The O.C., for real

  I'm out on the west coast this week visiting friends and family before flying off to the MVP Summit in Seattle next week.  This week I'm visiting with members of Kim's family in California.  We're actually in Orange County; a beautiful bit of Read More posted 07-03-2007 05:01 by Matt Ranlett | 0 Comments Filed Under: Personal

• Billy Joel concert

  Last Thursday I went to go see Billy Joel in concert.  The ride down to Philips Arena sucked pretty badly with all of the rain, but not as much as walking the several blocks from the car to the arena.  By the time the four of us managed to Read More posted 07-03-2007 04:27 by Matt Ranlett | 4 Comments Filed Under: Personal

• ClickOnce certificates expire and wreaks havoc

  The client location I'm at now uses a ClickOnce deployed Windows application to perform some highly critical business functions.  Some time in the last two or three weeks, the application's certificate expired.  We tried to deploy an update Read More posted 02-03-2007 07:24 by Matt Ranlett | 0 Comments Filed Under: Microsoft Products, Technical