Humberto's Thoughts

Hoy trate de sacar mi licencia permanente en la ciudad de Mexico. Me sorprendi al enterarme de que se podria tramitar en la Comercial Mexicana. Acudi a dicha tienda y oh sorpresa, no filas, personal amable e instalaciones "decentes" El problema? Su "sistema" de computo no servia. Muy amablemente me dijeron que regresara otro dia :/ En fin, al menos, no me hicieron perder mas tiempo del estrictamente necesario.

I finally got the chance to update the CRM-Silverlight sample that I posted a months back. Now itshould work fine with the released version of Silverlight 1.0. Check the details here

Today my wife and I embark into what will constitute a milestone in our lives...we have already passed the point of no return; there is no turning back. No, it has nothing to do with our personal life but with present and past employers instead.... we will cross fingers and wish for the best.

WoW, that was fast. I shipped my wii to repair on monday and got it back today (3 days after). True, their repair office is pretty close to my place but still... really efficient customer service. I can go back to keep losing against mi wife in wii tennis :)

Well, it turned out to be quite easy once you figure out that you have to manually create the manifest file. Here is the final result, in my MSDN blog :)

I have this nice screencast of a not so discoverable feature that we are going to release with the next version of CRM. I want to share it to the world...so, what do I do? Mmmmm the easiest way would probably be to post it on youtube or directly to my blog; mmm bad idea, let's do something more "professional" (read complicated); lets try MSN soapbox or even better, Silverlight streaming. Soapbox, Easy to use, the vide uploads fine BUT, the quality is abysmal.. you can't distinguish a thing. Silverligth streaming Ok, it is asking me for .zip file with my “Application”; how do I generate that? Go figure. Let’s try downloading the expression encoder. Ok, now I have a bunch of files; lets zip them and upload… mmm no, still missing a “manifest.xml” Grrrr!. To be fair, Silverlight streaming is still in Alpha; chances are, usability will be greatly improved with the next release. So, I still haven't been able to make it work; I have only invested around 20 minutes or so...

About three weeks ago I finally got an Xbox; I don't know, my wife and I were having dinner near a video game store and we were talking about the low video quality of the wii and how cool the Xbox games look.. so I got one. Friends usually ask me, and what is your game time ratio now? how much time do you spend on the Wii vs Xbox? A: I would say, 60% Xbox, 50% Wii...but those numbers are deceiving. If instead of looking at raw time spent I (somehow) factor the "enjoyment" time the Wii beats Xbox by far; and I ONLY play a single game on the Wii (tennis)... it is just amazing to play against my Wife (btw, she beats me all the time) Anyhow, lets see how the ratio moves as we acquire more games for both systems. And no, I still haven't played Halo 3 he he.

The NDA that prevented partners and others from disclosing details about the upcoming CRM release (codename:Titan) has been lifted. That means the product team members can also blog about it. I would say Titan will be a pretty damn solid release with a bunch of multi's: -Multitenant: Share the same web front end across independent organizations -Multilingual: Support for multiple languages according to the "users" preference -Multicurrency There are also many new features and enhancements; my personal favorites: -Enhanced relationships: Naturally, my favorite one since I’m the customizations PM J. We now natively support n:n relationships and also increased the number of entities that will allow new custom relationships. This is a pretty BIG DEAL; you can also now customize some of the UI behaviors associated with those relationships. -Workflow. Based on Windows Workflow Foundation our workflow team has made an amazing job of bringing the power of workflow to end users...