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PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE)

ApplicationsBy Catapult Systems September 15, 2009

Today I wanted to edit a previously created PowerShell script. This is the first time I had done this since switching to Windows 7 so I was really surprised when I right-clicked the .ps1 file and selected Edit. What I was expecting was for the script to open in Notepad, but when it opened in…

ProjCon – Finally something to talk about

GeneralBy Catapult Systems September 15, 2009

In the opening keynote right now. Today’s agenda is entirely around MOPS 2007, so we’ll be able to blog pretty much whatever we hear. One event of note so far – I had a lovely walk down to the keynote with Christophe Fiessinger, Doug McCutcheon, and Kevin Custer. I felt like a celebrity myself, walking…

Some Cool Third Party Project Tools

GeneralBy Catapult Systems September 15, 2009

One of the great benefits of attending the Project Conference is the ability to network with the larger Microsoft Project implementing community. After the reception, a group of us headed out into the quiet night of downtown Phoenix for dinner. (Peter will be posting the video of the discussion later if he can actually figure…

Exciting Highlights from Ignite Day 2

GeneralBy Catapult Systems September 15, 2009

Continuing in our blow by blow, beer by beer, in-depth coverage of the Ignite Airlift event. Here were the things that really got the crowd going today: The tacos for lunch (excellent!) The Flip video thingy that Peter won. Learning that Mexico is apparently not in North America. We’re not sure where it is…

Exciting Highlights from Ignite Day 1

GeneralBy Catapult Systems September 14, 2009

First of all, let’s set a couple of ground rules. You should pretty much ignore anything that Peter’s writing. I sat next to him all day and watched his mouth gape open, the saliva slowly drip down his chin, his eyes firmly shut the entire time…. He asked to borrow my notes around lunchtime, and…

ProjCon – Killing time ‘til Wednesday

GeneralBy Catapult Systems September 14, 2009

Andrew: Seeing as we can’t talk about much of this great content until the Project Server 2010 Official Release on Wednesday, I figured that we could fill the time throwing a post to our SharePoint team sitting back in Texas, Colorado and Florida deploying custom webparts, GAC’ing their DLLs, and thumbing through their copies of…

Awesome speaker for our next BI User group!!

BI & AnalyticsBy Sidney Atkinson September 14, 2009

I am excited to announce that we have secured a great speaker for our next Central Texas Business Intelligence User Group meeting on October 21st at the Microsoft office in Austin. Bryan C. Smith, prolific SSAS author and now of Microsoft fame, will be coming down to speak on a yet to be disclosed topic…

ProjCon – Proof that success is 75% showing up

GeneralBy Catapult Systems September 14, 2009

My trip to Phoenix is now officially worthwhile. Your fearless correspondent was awarded a Flip video device prior to the start of Airlift Day 2 this morning. My qualification for this amazing award? Seems to have been showing up. Well, my dad used to tell me 75% of success is showing up. It would appear…

Terry’s Bookshelf: Entity Framework

InfrastructureBy Catapult Systems September 14, 2009

We just completed a good sized project using Entity Framework. As Catapult’s primary book-geek, I had to arm myself for the experience with the best volumes on EF that I could find. The benchmark I use is that the book that is the most dog-eared at the end of the project is the best. We…

ProjCon – Minding our Ps and Qs

GeneralBy Catapult Systems September 13, 2009

Andrew and I are attending the Ignite Technical Airlift today and tomorrow, whilst Tony is off amusing himself in other ways (Tony, it’s up to you to post on what you’ve been doing – or you can choose to let our massive audience make up their own minds). The Airlift is a general overview of…