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Accelrys is looking for beta testers for its upcoming release of Pipeline Pilot. The beta is tentatively scheduled for the week of December 7. We’d like feedback on a number of capabilities. Of particular interest will be to find out if these capabilities behave as expected in a true customer setting and if behavior for existing protocol is unchanged...

My notes from Day 2 at the Microsoft Professional Developers conference in Los Angeles on November 18, 2009. 8:30 - Steven Sinofsky takes the stage! Kicking it off talking about Windows 7 Video time – “Why we share your pain”…Funny! Explaining how Microsoft uses Windows 7 Telemetry to learn more about how customers use Windows 7 4,753 Code changes driven...

This is day one of the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC).  My goal is to keep posting to this single blog entry with updates from the conference based on the keynote and sessions that I attend Keynote – Ray Ozzie 8:30 - Ray takes the stage to show off the high level vision for Microsoft products and services.  Nothing interesting...

Accelrys Pipeline Pilot Enterprise Server (PPES) is growing in usage within many scientific focused businesses. I won’t go into all of the great things our product can do. However, I am VERY focused on ensuring that we provide the right content, product updates, and tools to enable IT Professionals (ITPro) to plan, deploy, operation, and support PPES...

This is my third week at Accelrys and now that I have a better understanding of the company and my duties, I thought it might be a good time to share that amongst the blogosphere.  First off, let me take care of some personal questions I’m sure I’ll get (really just saving myself from a bunch of emails).  While doing the consulting thing was...

In Part 1 of the “ISV Guidelines for Hosted Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0”, I covered the basics of leveraging Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 (MSCRM4) as a hosted platform for Independent Software Vendors (ISV). In this post, I’ll provide some guidance on the two most popular method of using MSCRM4 for an application. This won’t be a deep technical dive, but...

Day 1 at the BizSpark Incubation Week was a great kickoff, but now the true fun begins!  I’ve decided to try something new and make today’s post and active log of our actions through out the day.  (We’ll see how good that works).  All times are US Eastern Standard Times 6:20 a.m – Wake UP and Commute – I live an hour south of Washington...

Today I spent several hours in Reston, Virginia at the Microsoft office for the BizSpark Incubation Week focused on Windows 7. BizSpark is a Microsoft program to help Startups build their software based application or service. One of the chief reasons for doing this is enabling those startups to leverage the Microsoft platform and reduce their development...

A few years ago the United States Federal Government, specifically the U.S. Office of Management and Budget) created a PC standard for then entire government to follow.  The provided over 300 settings for Windows XP and Windows Vista in order to create a standard for all computers.  This is what is now knows as Federal Desktop Core Configuration...

Today on one of Citrix’s Blogs, they announced a new upcoming technology called “ Hosted Virtual Machines ” (HVM).  As if the Virtualization Soup of technology wasn’t big enough already, but this does solve an interesting problem.  Without much more information on the subject, here is my take. Short Version: You want to host an application...