http://www.theregion.com/Profile.aspx?rd=1156 Joe Homnick is the principal owner of Homnick Systems, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, located in Boca Raton, Florida. He has been a featured speaker at Microsoft Tech Ed for eight years in America, Europe and Latin America, the Microsoft Professional Developers... en http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/30264.item Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:26:26 GMT http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/30264.item Joe Homnick Joe Homnick's blog | Visual Studio Joe Homnick writes "...You can deploy this on the Cloud or the Desktop and start a polished application almost right out of the File->New box. LightSwitch delivers that RAD environment that VB 6.0 developers are used to, while incorporating the latest/greatest technologies and unlimited extensibility. You can get more information at..." Read post » ]]> Visual Studio http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/30147.item Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:57:40 GMT http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/30147.item Joe Homnick Joe Homnick's blog | TechTalk Joe Homnick writes "...how do you control this chaos in software development? We have been doing a lot of work with the Scrum approach to software development implemented with Visual Studio Team System the last few years and I feel this is the best approach to controlling this creative chaotic process in software development. Scrum...has its roots of meaning in the process during a Rugby match where..." Read post » ]]> TechTalk http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/29001.item Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:16:18 GMT http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/29001.item Joe Homnick Joe Homnick's blog | Editors Picks Joe Homnick writes "...To create a Boot To VHD system, you start with a VPC or Hyper-V generated VHD and run Sysprep on the Virtual Machine (VM) contained in the VHD. You then need to run some BCDEdit command lines against the..." Read post » ]]> Editors Picks http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/27116.item Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:57:57 GMT http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/27116.item Joe Homnick Joe Homnick's blog | TechTalk Joe Homnick writes "...launching the Web Installer you are given the opportunity to install the Express Editions of Web Developer and SQL Server 2008 up to date with SP1. Not only are the Express Editions available through the installer, but it also sets up your local IIS with different extensions and includes things like Model Viewer Controller (MVC), PHP drivers and Silverlight Tools projects. Finally..." Read post » ]]> TechTalk http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/26851.item Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:32:16 GMT http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/26851.item Joe Homnick Joe Homnick's blog | SQL Server Joe Homnick writes "...finally gotten around to playing with my SQL Azure token and here are the first impressions. The big promise of SQL Azure over its predecessor SQL Data Services was that you would be able to work with a cloud database very much like you would with an on-premise one. Sure enough..." 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Read post » ]]> Visual Studio Team Systems http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/26333.item Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:40:23 GMT http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/26333.item Joe Homnick Joe Homnick's blog | TechTalk Joe Homnick writes "...The Cloud Computing approach smoothes this Cost/Utilization by allowing the enterprise to only purchase the amount of computing power that they need to meet utilization requirements. Another issue that Cloud Computing addresses is daily Periodicity of Demand. The typical demand curve in a fully utilized system looks like the following:" Read post » ]]> TechTalk http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/26138.item Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:26:01 GMT http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/26138.item Joe Homnick Joe Homnick's blog | Editors Picks Joe Homnick writes "...With Windows 7.0 there is a new capability to Boot to a Virtual Machine VHD file. This is not running a virtual machine in Virtual PC or Hyper-V, rather it is running it with full hardware fidelity...Execute these commands and you have a new boot option when restarting..." Read post » ]]> Editors Picks http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/25563.item Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:06:45 GMT http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/25563.item Joe Homnick Joe Homnick's blog | Joe Homnick writes "...The amount of memory requirements has been reduced and processing speeded up along with quite a bit of use of background services. The concept being that if you only need a service, like USB operations...only fire up that service when it is appropriate. This decreases memory size, allows for faster processing and also..." Read post » ]]> http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/25504.item Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:07:21 GMT http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/25504.item Joe Homnick Joe Homnick's blog | Joe Homnick writes "...Developers have been writing computer interfaces with these external sensor devices for many years, however, it’s always been a custom endeavor without a common API. Windows 7.0 now delivers this common API, so the low level operations are now standardized. No reinventing the wheel every time...The following diagram shows the architectural relationship between the various components..." Read post » ]]> http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/25242.item Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:21:34 GMT http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/25242.item Joe Homnick Joe Homnick's blog | Dynamics Joe Homnick writes "...Something that the .Net Framework software developer should look at as a potentially new profit center is extending the Dynamics 4.0 Platform. CRM 4.0 creates a platform of classes above a SQL Server data platform that bundles quite a lot of functionality around the Customer Relationship Management function..." Read post » ]]> Dynamics http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/24988.item Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:17:17 GMT http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/24988.item Joe Homnick Joe Homnick's blog | TechTalk Joe Homnick writes "...Since with Cloud Services you are working in a shared environment, you need to be a good citizen and understand how security is implemented to assure that you are...If you are interested in Cloud Services along with other emerging web technologies such as Silverlight, Internet Explorer 8.0, Windows 7, MVC and ADO.Net Data Services, the MIX 09 conference..." Read post » ]]> TechTalk http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/24234.item Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:51:33 GMT http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/24234.item Joe Homnick Joe Homnick's blog | Joe Homnick writes "Of course, by moving the infrastructure to the Microsoft servers, you need to play by their rules and therefore have some limitations on what types of developer customizations are allowed....a handy chart to see what features are available in the SharePoint Online versions and on-premises versions." Read post » ]]> http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/23917.item Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:52:50 GMT http://indepthtalk.net/Directory/Bloggers/Joe_Homnick/23917.item Joe Homnick Joe Homnick's blog | TechTalk Joe Homnick writes "...Under this scenario all those things related to infrastructure, such as the buying, configuring and maintenance of servers along with the installing and maintaining of the software is borne by Microsoft for a flat fee. The thing that Microsoft is doing that differentiates from other online infrastructure offerings such as SalesForce..." Read post » ]]> TechTalk