I think I overloaded one of my lobes somehow during the past few days while attending the Microsoft Convergence 2006 conference.
I was pulling a Shiner Bock beer out of the fridge and just for the second, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a Miller Lite label.
It scared the crap out of me […]

The CRM sessions were indeed better today and BillG even showed up to rally the troups, etc.
Tomorrow is the close so we'll have to see how many people I can meet and greet and try and fit in whatever sessions are available vs. prior customer commitments.

When you are creating a CRM report involving an address block, you will need to take into account the fact that most of the time, the additional address lines will be blank.  Since it is generally bad form to have extra blank lines in your address block, we need a way of only adding those fields […]

I have been in the computer business since 1984 and I think that I can say, with complete honesty, that I am having as much fun right now, as I did way back then, when everything was new and constantly changing ( oh wait, that's every day for geeks like us ).
Anyway, I've only been […]

A new version of the SDK was released last week.  I mention it because they added some really cool examples that I think you should review.  Here is a list of changes in the 3.0.4 release:

Description of changes

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Added project and solution files, removed duplicate entities, added excluded entities and relationships to the sample code.

Business Logic Extensions […]

I only attended a couple of sessions today because I was jaw-jacking with MS folks, partners, and vendors.  Overall, it was a great day at Convergence.
I also picked up a copy of Working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 by Mike Snyder and Mim Steger of Sonoma Partners in Chicago.
It's a pretty good read and should be […]

That chick on godaddy.com IS hot.
Then I got to thinking, "I wonder if she can cook." 
Which led me to my next thought: "Dumbass. Who cares if she can cook. You can cook."
 

During the Partner Briefing yesterday, MS discussed with us the newly released CRM Hosting extensions which allow ASPs to provide CRM 3.0 hosting services. 
That feature should really open the door to CRM adoption because it allows the customer to try before they buy without having to invest in the infrastructure required to run CRM.
We were […]

Well, I'm not sure it's exactly full proof, but it will keep you from making a stupid mistake in your application's functionality.
There are several ways to select a list item when you are loading a page or a form. The most common method is to just set the SelectedItem property to be the text that […]

I learned several important things this morning that I felt I should share with the world at large.  Listed in no particular order:

A $25 microwave doesn't understand that "Reheat" for a Cinnamon Roll means 20 seconds, not 20 minutes.
Sugar burns.
Burning sugar produces yellow smoke.
I don't know if yellow sugar smoke is toxic, but it stinks […]