Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff

Command Pattern

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:34:00 GMT

One of the most common IT projects that business application developers do is integration between multiple systems. In the CRM world it is not uncommon to see integrations to/from various application and services such as ERP systems, social networks,...(read more)

Shame on me

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:03:00 GMT

Gosh, I need to make some time to return to my blogging activities. I've been swamped with work finalizing details for some CRM5 features... very cool stuff but very time consuming too. I think I see the light at the end of the tunnel, lets hope is...(read more)

Size Matters. Mobile User Experience.

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:22:00 GMT

Since I’ve been using a touch screen phone I realized something, the user experience in mobile devices is effectively surpassing that of the desktop, but why? Is it because of the multiple inputs/sensors attached to the device (e.g. accelerometer, GPS...(read more)

I love my WiMo phone

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:30:00 GMT

I received an HTC imagio as a holiday gift and it is just amazing. Sure, it has room for improvements but so far I'm pretty impresed. Oh and yes I turned off touch flo so I'm running bare wimo 6.5....(read more)

Privacy and Security: An Open Letter from Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:50:00 GMT

I find very curious and yet logical the path that facebook is following... I still feel bugged about their ACLs: friends, friends of your friends and everyone... the problem is with the middle one, "friends of your friends" what does that really...(read more)

And I won!!!

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:38:00 GMT

Yes!... I was actually the winner of the contest to guess how many CRM Online trials we would get in November. I'm sure someone from our marketing team will publish the actual numbers but I can definitively tell you that we got a terrific response...(read more)

Come on, a bit more trials for CRM Online!

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:57:00 GMT

Turns out my high end guess for the number of CRM Online trials in November was not far fetched at all! The launch of CRM Online November update has surpassed the expectations of many and is about to make me the winner of the guessing contest :) All I...(read more)

xRM at the PDC!

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:08:00 GMT

Oh yes; next week you will be able to see firsthand some of the coolest enhancements that we’ve done to the xRM platform. Andy, Barry and Nikhil will be presenting 3 sessions at the Professional Developers Conference. All of them highly recommendable...(read more)

Keep them coming! more and more CRM Online trials

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:24:00 GMT

So far I'm still on the standing list to win the prize for guessing how many new trials of CRM Online we will get from November 1st to November 30. The response has been fantastic but my number is still way north so I need more of you to encourage...(read more)

Get a free CRM Online trial in just minutes!

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:33:00 GMT

The latest and greatest CRM Online version (internally called R4) was released this week. While this is not a brand new major version there are a ton of enhancements: Enhanced home page (with charts), improved import data tools, getting started sections...(read more)

Improved CRM Outlook client released (aka R4 client)

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:38:00 GMT

Today I received the news that our outlook CRM team just released an improved outlook client (that we internally have refered to as R4 client) which works with CRM online and CRM4 on-premise. There are A TON of enhancements and I'm sure that someone...(read more)

Check out the new look of the CRM dev center!

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:55:00 GMT

New look, new content... the CRM dev center rocks! http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/crm/default.aspx Feedback welcome, happy to pass that along to our documentation team :)...(read more)

Zune HD, Quead Core desktop, SSD laptop or LED TV?

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:15:00 GMT

I don't usually post personal stuff on this blog but since I'm still not supposed to blog about all the things that I'm working on* I decided to break my own rules he he. For the past month or so I’ve spent countless hours wondering what to...(read more)

CRM 4.0 and Dynamics GP 10 connector

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:23:00 GMT

Did you know that the Dynamics CRM-GP 10 connector has already been released and that is Free? Yup... you can find all the information that you need in the GP's team blog here: https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/worldwide/us/productinformation...(read more)

Areas that display this entity...

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:33:00 GMT

I recently received a question about the "Areas that display this entity" section that appears on the entity editor of CRM 4.0. The question was how to programmatically manipulate that section. You see, that section is directly tied to the Sitemap...(read more)

Long wish lists :)

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:17:00 GMT

Today I spent a fair amount of time looking at customer suggestions and I'm super excited that we will be addressing many of them in our next major release :). One thing that I noticed is that sometimes people log a long list of suggestions within...(read more)

Dynamics CRM Certification (Logo)

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:27:00 GMT

I recently received a couple of emails asking about CRM certification guidelines for ISV solutions and whether or not some things are allowed. It was very evident that people haven't read the certification guidelines as those clearly had the answer...(read more)

Some Interesting Facts about Your Suggestions

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:09:00 GMT

I just got an Outlook reminder about the fact that I haven’t blogged in a while; Gee... I honestly feel bad about it. When I reflected on the reasons behind my posts scarcity I came to the conclusion that there is very little I can share from all the...(read more)

XRM Video

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:28:00 GMT

Waaay cool... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yru5CkANOKA...(read more)

IIS URL Rewrite and Application Request Routing

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:06:00 GMT

A couple of years ago, back in my home country, one of the main projects that I worked on (as a programmer btw) was a “reverse proxy” that we called “redirector”. Fundamentally it was an ISAPI filter for IIS 5/6 that reverse proxied internal HTTP sites...(read more)

CRM Mobile Express (for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0) Released

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:02:00 GMT

Indeed, this baby is now officially released. http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2009/07/09/product-release-mobile-express-for-microsoft-dynamics-crm-4-0.aspx And how much extra you will have to pay for it? Nothing! Nada! Nichts! Zéro! Because it is free...(read more)

Cool Web Sites

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:25:00 GMT

I always like to keep up to date and observe “trends” that emerge in the webosphere. Yesterday I spent some time looking for “cool” websites (I was mostly looking for new UI paradigms/controls). It was so funny to find a 2005 Time magazine list of the...(read more)

Improved Suggestions Program

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:48:00 GMT

You gave us feedback and we listened J . A few months back we rolled out a “suggestions” program to provide a tool for customers to give suggestions for the product. We’ve received a lot of fantastic suggestions and all of them are being looked at by...(read more)

And the XRM train starts rolling...

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:50:00 GMT

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3053 This year is going to be a fun one :)...(read more)

Bing, Natal, Windows 7, Wave, CRM5….fiuff!

Tech Tips, Comments and Curious Stuff — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:01:00 GMT

I must confess I feel a bit overwhelmed with the sea of information of upcoming products and technologies (not only from Microsoft). Good thing I’ve had a bit of time to catch up a bit with the never ending stream of goodies that the IT industry produces...(read more)