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...and Agile programming, more here, picture from duff_sf's wabi-sabi flickr photostream
Wabi Sabi
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From Clemens blog another interesting beta (CTP) released yesterday. Are you interested in Cloud services? Why or why not, I am interested in YOUR opinion.
Clemens Vasters, Bldg 42 : Announcing the Microsoft Code-Name "BizTalk Services" R12 Release
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What you don't read ScottGu's blog? Who DOESN'T read his blog? Well, apparently me - the MVC stuff is flying out the door. Are you keeping up? Are you using it yet? How's it going? Let me know. I'll be reading his next post on added AJAX functionality as soon as he publishes it!
ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Release (Part 1) - ScottGu's Blog
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Interested in the 'identity problem'? Sometimes these quiet, little betas should really get more attention. If nothing else, you can learn about the three styles of handling claims-based identity - active, passive or 'passive-aggressive'. Ah, Vittorio, keep sketching, one day we'll catch up to you.
Check it out.
Vibro.NET : Announcing the Beta release of “Zermatt” Developer Identity Framework
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One of my co-authors for my new SQL Server 2008 BI book (Davide Mauri) hails from Milan and blogged about the book in Italian. My Italian isn't great, but it amused me greatly to read about the book in another language. It is quite charming to work with (edit) writing from co-authors who are very fluent in English, yet it is their second language. I guess I truly am a linguist at heart - accents and dialects have always tickled my ears and sounded like music to me. I greatly enjoy really listening to speakers and attempting to detect their linguistic influences. I can do this only for a couple of languages - English, German and Norwegian. I would much like to reach a greater level of fluency in more human languages, but, due to my job, have found myself much distracted by the plethora of computer languages that I continually work to master.
What about it for you - which human languages do you have fluency in? Which computer languages? Which do you prefer and why? I'd be quite interested in your answers.
Smart Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2008: il libro. - Impedance Mismatch
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Thanks to the great team that runs the South Bay.NET UG in Torrance, CA for inviting me to speak last night. I am really impressed by the quality of the UG that your team has grown in such a short period of time (a little over a year). If you haven't joined a local UG in SoCal yet, you should, here's a list of all UGs in the SoCal area. More pictures on facebook - here
SouthBay.NET - Home
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Oops, I forgot to mention this. We'll be back, better than ever in August. See the link below for links to our four August shows.
geekSpeak : geekSpeak taking off the month of July -see you in August
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Of course you do. I mean, c'mon we all do. But how creative are you? What parameters do you use? It is fun when you find things like the blog entry shown below though. Of course, I'll be needing to suggest that you 'live search' on whatever it is you are looking for :)
Live Search Feeds: "lynn langit"
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Matt rules!
Where The Hell Is Matt?
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While preparing curriculum for the upcoming DigiGirlz technology summer camp to be held at Microsoft's office in Irvine, CA on Aug 18/19, I stumbled across this 'human PopFly' video and just couldn't stop laughing. I am such a geek, but not a human Popfly (yet!). BTW...if you haven't taken a look at PopFly lately, then check it out.
Also, I've had many inquiries about Digigirlz. This year's camp registration is full with a huge waiting list. We are hoping to have more instances of these camps in SoCal next summer. As soon as I get more info, I'll post it here.
Videos - Microsoft Popfly
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From my talk delivered at SoCalCodeCamp in San Diego today - enjoy! Please also see my link page on DM resources (right side of blog)
BI2008newFeatures
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A Fun geek movie to be sure - of course, I especially loved the Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator, otherwise known as Eve. BTW...be sure to check out the movie's companion website, it's beautifully designed and a bunch of smiles as well.
WALL-E : Official Site
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Isn't the cover pretty? I have no idea what the tool that was selected to be featured on the cover actually is - do any of you? Anyway the important thing is that you CAN pre-order the book already from Amazon. Yes, the co-authors are 'a-changing', Matthew Roche is no longer associated with this project. Kevin Goff's name will be corrected shortly on the cover, but I was just so excited to see it that I wanted to blog it! We are looking to publish later this fall. This book covers SSAS (OLAP cubes and Data Mining Structures), SSIS, SSRS and more. The target audience is .NET and database developers. We plan for approximately 650 pages of BI goodness.
Amazon.com: Smart Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008: Lynn Langit
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Life just offers up too many pleasant distractions, doesn't it? Here's a cool blog entry about using VPL to create fractal images. I haven't spent much time playing with this - yet. But I soon will.
Distributed Agents and Fractals using DSS/VPL « Angel “Java” Lopez on Blog
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Here's something fun - my favorite puzzle in the world (little known fact about me - I won the Fifteen Puzzle contest for my entire school when I was twelve years old! It was actually quite funny, there were training sessions conducted by the teachers for those [boys!] who were trying to beat me, but no one could do it) - anyway - this version is done in Silverlight, with an explanation article on how the code was written as well. Although this version is slick, I must say that I prefer the original, metal one.
In fact, I often carry one of these in my bag.
Silverlight Fifteen Puzzle
