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Mo update from Freddie Mercury

Seeing how Steve is doing a good job of advertising his mo , I thought I would do the same... to keep the competition alive! Here is how my mo is measuring up: Does it look vaguely familiar?

Posted to Boyan's blog by Boyan Tsolov on 11-21-2008

Filed under: movember

Movember Continues

Update on the Mo - it's filling out nicely :-)

Posted to Steve’s blog by Stephen Kearns on 11-21-2008

Microsoft's Silverlight vs Adobe's Flash: November 2008 Update

A lot has happened over the past couple of weeks in the ongoing fight between Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe's Flash . We're seeing uptake in interest in the Toronto and Canadian markets for Silverlight-based solutions (including Silverlight...

Posted to Scott's musings by Scott Howlett on 11-19-2008

Books: Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the future of a Continent (1 of 3)

Every now and again, if you're open to it and you read enough, you get that great experience of having your eyes pried wide open, your ignorance exposed, your mind spun. Tar Sands by Andrew Nikiforuk provided such an experience. Tar Sands is...

Posted to Scott's musings by Scott Howlett on 11-19-2008

Filed under: personal, Books

VSTS – Reportable Attribute?

When defining custom fields for Work Items in TFS, I kept running across this “reportable” attribute and was curious so I looked it up – kinda neat… Summary : Data from work item fields that have the “reportable” attribute will be exported to the data...

Posted to Steve’s blog by Stephen Kearns on 11-19-2008

Restaurants – Chipotle

OH MY GOODNESS – I have a secret passion, and it is Burritos – during my stint living in the US, by far, the most amazing burrito I’ve had was at the chain called Chipotle (full disclosure: owned by the evil empire, McDonalds) The location at Grand Central...

Posted to Steve’s blog by Stephen Kearns on 11-18-2008

Filed under: restaurants

Books: At Vimy Ridge

Steve started the "Books" tag with the short review of Break all the Rules . So, I thought I'd continue the theme. It's long been one of my favorite interview questions - "So, what have you read lately?". ...

Posted to Scott's musings by Scott Howlett on 11-18-2008

Filed under: personal, Books

Are you with us or Against us?

At imason, we generally enjoy conversations about a wide variety of topics, whether it be at the water cooler, on an e-mail alias, over lunch, or conversations at our desks. Our Co-CEO, Scott Howlett even hosted some lunch election roundtables where we...

Posted to Jim @ imason by Jim Schwartz on 11-17-2008

Filed under: imason, agile

Influencers: Rick Segal

Through a few different routes, I'm one degree away from Rick Segal. Segal was at Microsoft and I know a few folks who know him. He was also at Chapters, and back in the days he was there everyone in the Microsoft partner community wanted a gig at...

Posted to Scott's musings by Scott Howlett on 11-17-2008

Filed under: Influencers

Web 2.0: Use in unintended ways - Google is better than the CDC in monitoring the flu

A long long time ago (OK, it was February 2006) I wrote about Web 2.0 in a post called Thoughts on Ajax/Atlas - 9: My $0.02 on Web 2.0 . What was fascinating to me -- and lots of others -- about Web 2.0 was the interesting ways that people were driving...

Posted to Scott's musings by Scott Howlett on 11-17-2008

Movember - Game On

With a strong award-winning tradition last year, this week was about building a base... (think world's itchiest sweater wrapped around your face & neck) And now, for this year's Movember, I give you... The Forked Mo Stay tuned for updates...

Posted to Steve’s blog by Stephen Kearns on 11-14-2008

Influencers: Jane Fulton Suri

I had a chance to see Jane Fulton Suri speak about a year ago at the Rotman School of Business. I was really really impressed. She was speaking about "thoughtless acts", a topic she had explored over some 20 years and published a...

Posted to Scott's musings by Scott Howlett on 11-12-2008

Filed under: Influencers

Solving InfoPath "schema validation found non-data type" errors for xsi:nil fields

If you try to programaticaly set/remove values of fields in InfoPath, you might have come across the following error message: "Schema validation found non-data type errors" A number of blogs and MSDN articles describe what to do in this case...

Posted to Boyan's blog by Boyan Tsolov on 11-07-2008

Filed under: InfoPath 2007

Books: First Break All the Rules

Authors: Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman This is a book that I read a number years ago on what makes the difference between good managers and great managers, base on mountains of data gathered by Gallup Organization. In a recent convo I was reminded...

Posted to Steve’s blog by Stephen Kearns on 11-06-2008

Filed under: Managament, Books

imaniacs win 20 - 15 and go above .500

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! A number of imason-ites are playing 5-a-side floor hockey in a local Toronto League. After 7 games and last night's win, the imaniacs are above .500 at 4 wins and 3 losses. Last night we played our best game of all...

Posted to @imason by Boyan Tsolov on 11-05-2008

Filed under: hockey