Ben Riga's Deep Shift
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Recommended Podcasts: Entertainment
In my post about the Microsoft Silicon Valley vanpool I mentioned how podcasts saved my sanity while...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 06/17/2008
Dynamics AX 2009: A chat with Hal Howard, Mike Ehrenberg, Sukumar Rathnam
A couple of weeks back the Dynamics AX team announced general availability of Microsoft Dynamics AX...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 06/16/2008
Recommended Podcasts: Technology
In my post about the Microsoft Silicon Valley vanpool I mentioned how podcasts saved my sanity while...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 06/16/2008
Dynamics CRM platform at PDC
The PDC team have been slowly releasing details of some of the sessions for the upcoming conference....
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 06/10/2008
Streaming Hot Silverlight
I’m nothing if not persistent! :) You may have noticed that the Office Developers Conference...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 06/04/2008
Office Developers Conference – Demoing CRM Online
Back in February I had the opportunity to demo CRM Online to a few thousand developers during Kurt...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 06/04/2008
Dynamics AX 2009: The ‘Halo’ for Microsoft’s app platform
I almost snorted my tea across the room when I read this one. :) Pretty funny quote, I...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 06/04/2008
Reading the right CRM blogs
A while back I was asked for a list of blogs that track the progress we’re making on the Dynamics...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 05/28/2008
PDC Registration is now live
This morning we went live with the 2008 Professional Developers Conference aka PDC 2008 web...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 05/28/2008
A preview of Dynamics AX 2009 Enterprise Portal with the Dynamics team
Dan over on our Channel 9 team sat down with some of the folks from the Dynamics AX team to chat...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 05/21/2008
CRM 4.0 Reporting for Duty, Sir!
Whoops! I've been heads down working on something else and didn't notice that Charles had posted the...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 12/07/2007
"Giving Workflow Foundation something to do"
Last week, I pointed out a few Channel 9 segments on the soon-to-be-released Dynamics CRM 4.0....
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 11/20/2007
Phil Dives Deep into CRM 4.0 on Channel 9
Yesterday I pointed you to a Channel 9 CRM 4.0 overview video with Phil Richardson. Today the...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 11/16/2007
Phil Richardson chats up CRM on Channel 9
Back in April we gave you a taste of some of the interesting work going on in Dynamics CRM group....
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 11/15/2007
A nod to a VPC god
Menno te Koppele rightly pointed out on his blog today that he'd done a ton of work to help get the...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 10/12/2007
Meet me in Copenhagen
If you're an ISV building cool stuff on Dynamics CRM or Dynamics AX and are planning to attend...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 10/11/2007
geekSpeak'ing with Aaron Elder
Lynn and Glenn from Channel 9's geekSpeak show will be interviewing Aaron Elder from Ascentium. This...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 10/10/2007
WebTrends: A Titan among ISV's - Bonus Edition
All last week I highlighted some of the early adopters of Dynamics CRM "Titan". Well, I found one...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 09/10/2007
RDT: A Titan among ISV's
All this week I'm highlighting some of the early adopters of Dynamics CRM "Titan". For your...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 09/07/2007
Upside Software: A Titan among ISV's
All this week I'm highlighting some of the early adopters of Dynamics CRM "Titan". For your...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 09/06/2007
Relevance Software: A Titan among ISV's
All this week I'll be highlighting some of the early adopters of Dynamics CRM "Titan". For your...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 09/05/2007
ExactTarget: A Titan among ISV's
All this week I'll be highlighting some of the early adopters of Dynamics CRM "Titan". For your...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 09/04/2007
Partners shout CRM "Titan" Praise
In honor of the release of CTP3 of Dynamics CRM "Titan" I thought I'd show some of the partners that...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 09/03/2007
Marrying ASP.NET with Dynamics CRM
We've been running training worldwide to get partners up-to-speed on the upcoming release of...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 06/25/2007
Salesforce.com Death Watch
The non-story out of Salesforce.com this week got me thinking and reading a little more and it would...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 06/11/2007
MSDN Dev Center for Dynamics
Nice! We've opened the new Dev Center for Dynamics. This is fantastic. Lots of improvements with...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 06/08/2007
Salesforce.yawn
I've been traveling for a few days and am only now catching up on this week's news. I was...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 06/07/2007
BizTalk Adapter for CRM: How-To
OMG! I just found this awesome post on integration of Dynamics CRM with BizTalk. Brajendra Singh...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 05/31/2007
MIXin' it up with Live CRM
I just got back from Las Vegas where we just finished up our annual MIX conference. What a truly...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 05/03/2007
Rockin' and Rollin' with CRM “Titan”
We've started to give some of our closest ISV partners early access to CRM "Titan". Sanjay Jain a...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 04/25/2007
Dynamics CRM Platform for Business Applications
One of the coolest things I saw at Convergence this year was a demo of Dynamics Live CRM. We've been...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 04/04/2007
Can we meet at Convergence?
I'll be at Convergence from March 12-14. Click the image at the right if you'd like to hook up at...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 03/02/2007
Got Passion for Dynamics?
Want to help change the SMB software industry? Are you a big-picture thinker, interested in...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 11/03/2006
Dynamics: The icing on the Microsoft cake.. er.. stack
A few months ago I was asked to take on a new role at Microsoft. We've kicked off an initiative...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 11/03/2006
WPF Healthcare Sample Source Posted
Wow! We've posted the source code to the Patient Monitoring WPF prototype. I'm sure this will be one...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 11/02/2006
Windows Vista + Office 2007 + Virtual Earth = Cool!!!
I've been working with Accruent, a Microsoft Gold Partner, as they migrate to their next generation...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 09/08/2006
Papers, Please!
Opportunities abound for improving our experience on the web today. Nowhere is this more obvious...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 05/04/2006
Anders Hejlsberg: Behind the Code
I love this video! This is an episode of “Behind theCode.” That’s a video series...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 02/07/2006
eBay, Amazon MIX it up
MIX.06 will be the place to rub shoulders with some of the most influential folks on the web....
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 01/30/2006
Windows Vista Overview for Developer Slides
Last night I presented at the SDForum Windows SIG in Mountain View, CA. As usual I had a blast. The...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 11/04/2005
Windows Vista for Developers Event in Silicon Valley
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 10/27/2005
Bits are done. Come and get 'em.
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 10/27/2005
I am Smart. What about you?
Ok. So a couple of weeks ago I posted a link to a stupid quiz that purported to test whether you are...
Author: Ben Riga - Microsoft Date: 10/27/2005