Aaron Lerch » personal http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:45:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 INTERACT2008 http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2008/03/11/interact2008/ http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2008/03/11/interact2008/#comments Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:43:24 +0000 aaron http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2008/03/11/interact2008/ Think MIX08 was awesome? Believe the hype that Tech Ed is cool? Forgetaboutit. INTERACT2008 is where the party is at this year! I mean, the conference is so mind blowing, they have no choice but to redirect the web site to HTTPS instantly upon your arrival there. Seriously, that should tell you what goes on at conferences like this.

If you’re not going, you should really consider it. The FAQ from the site lists those who should attend, and I think it’s safe to say that this describes 90% of you. Easily. (Is the sarcasm dripping enough yet?)

  • MVPs: Exchange and OCS MVPs heart of community
  • Online Influencers: Active in online communities and have broad influence
  • Key Partners: Our key partners in GSIs, key ISVs, and VPPs
  • IT Professionals, IT Decision Makers and Business Decision Makers, and Influencers: Exchange, network & telephony teams; IT directors and non IT business unit directors who influence IT from managed accounts orgs
  • Developers: Exchange and OCS developers working towards UC
  • Analysts: Key influencer analysts

I myself actually fall into the influencer/developer role, as lately I’ve been working some with Office Communications Server and Office Communicator.

Anyway, if you happen to be in the 0.01% of the online population attending this event, let me know and let’s meet up! It’s in San Diego from April 8-10. And if you just live in that area and have any good sight-seeing ideas, or want to meet up, let me know – I’ve never been out there before.

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See you when I get back!

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They, along with my wife, are the joy of my life!

Oh, and on a coding note, Hannah can already type her name (she just turned 2) and I’m thinking of installing KPL and maybe read Hannah some bedtime stories from Design Patterns in C#. :) Posted by Picasa

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Vitals
Born: 05/24/2006 @ 12:06 PM
Weight: 9 lbs 1 oz
Height: 21 1/2 in

We’ve all gone into survival mode (although the addition of a mother-in-law for a week or more helps me out with sleep). And yet I’m still finding time for some programming for fun!

I’ve been playing with Windows Powershell, and I can’t help but feel that all I can see is the tip of a very large iceberg! I’ve been having dreams of script-enabling our applications at work, and specifically our admin interfaces. Right now they do not have a programmable interface (no API, no built-in WMI, nothing). When we slowly begin re-writing many of them in .NET, I think this is going to be an angle I’m going to push for pretty hard.

To begin the dive into what I can and can’t do, I’ve decided to create a test/sample Powershell Provider for NewsGator, my online (and off-line) RSS reader. They have a web services API that exposes all of your data—hierarchical folders, subscriptions, posts, etc. When it’s done, the pathing and structure will work something like this:

get-childitem newsgator:\My Feeds\Best Blogs Ever\Software Development Journal\

Posted On Post
———————— ————
5/18/2006 11:35:43 AM Nokia E50
4/26/2006 2:38:16 PM Gaming and Application Development
4/6/2006 7:19:35 AM Metadata Attributes for Custom Controls
3/31/2006 8:47:22 AM Embedding Flash in C#

I’ll post the provider assembly here if/when I get it done!

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Allow me to get non-technical here for a moment. I’d like to share my current non-technology reading list! This is to benefit my friends, as well as myself as I look back and remember what I was reading now.

Currently Finished (in the order I read them):

On Order (arrives in a week!):

Can you tell which author I’ve really enjoyed lately? :)

Have recommendations? Please leave them in the comments…
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