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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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In this series of post’s let’s start to explorer the Citrix XenServer SDK and how we can start to use it in different types of applications to build interesting solutions. So, Let’s set the stage . To start delving into the SDK, lets create a SharePoint webpart that will list all virtual machines on a [...]
Before we get into this post, I first want to state I fully understand that both Visual Studio 2010 and the ASP.NET MVC out of band installer are beta products, so this issue may be fixed, but i wanted to put it out there to see if anyone else has encountered a similar problem. This [...]
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As developers, we are always looking for platforms to build upon right? Did you know that Citrix can be viewed as a developer platform? I think many enterprises still view Citrix as the infrastructure company (Although, that view has been gradually changing over the last few years) that they have come to love. I believe [...]
If your running XenServer, you have learned to love the command line interface right? . Well, Citrix has made available a virtual appliance for XenServer call XenCenterWeb. This ia a preconfigured virtual appliance, that enables you to do some virtual machine management from within a browser. The site itself is written in PHP, so all [...]
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As I recently have rebuilt my laptop to run Windows 7 RC, I decided to download and install the XenServer Powershell extensions (available here) to start evaluating them. I was going to start writing my own extension but then stumbled across the ones that Citrix has developed and figured instead of writing my own, I [...]
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