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atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
PDC 2005 conference hotels - my personal opinions and experiences
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over 8 years ago
by
Alicia Cales
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The PDC 2005 conference is returning to the Los Angeles Convention Center between September 11th and 16th. While I've only lived in Los Angeles (county) a short while, I have either stayed at or temporarily visited most of the downtown Los Angeles...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
new favorite burrito joint in SoCal
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over 9 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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since moving down to (mostly living) in Southern California last year, i've gone through several popular chains of burrito joints. my early enthusiasm for Baja Fresh has almost completely faded away. currently, my faves are La Salsa - they really have...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
SoCal employment opportunity for .NET programmers
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over 9 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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OK, I'm back and have I got news for you! PDSA is a top-notch developer services and training company looking for at least one (1) .NET programmer to hire full-time salary. Those of you in Southern California (especially Orange County) are likely familiar...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
introducing GINA (that's Graphical Identification and Authentication to you...)
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over 9 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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i can't believe it's been over two weeks since i've last had an opportunity to blog. first, i had to begin presenting our new seminar content focused entirely upon security in Cerritos (Los Angeles) and San Diego, then i co-presented two of the DevDays...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
Programming languages with .NET implementations
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over 9 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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Yesterday, an inquiry came up internally over e-mail about whether a .NET implementation of the PL/I language existed. This caught my eye because PL/I was the first language that I encountered on a mainframe (at the University of Toronto, from whom I...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
Alaska - land of the midnight sun
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over 9 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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so here i am up in Anchorage - my first time ever in Alaska. it's a little after midnight as i'm writing this dispatch. there's no sunlight in evidence but then it has been heavily overcast all day (and night). i'd estimate that it is the equivalent of...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
Announcing Southern California's own local developer conference!
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over 8 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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Registration is now open for the inaugural edition of the SoCal .NET Technical Summit to be held Saturday, May 7th. For the past few months, I've been working with the various .NET user groups in SoCal to organize this one day developer conference...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
This posting deleted at the request of Windows Vista (Longhorn) program management.
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over 8 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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So much for transparency... I guess it only applies to whatever is OK for you to know.
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
Exclusive discount - save $500 at VSLive! Las Vegas, May 8-11
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over 8 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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Yup, here's another exclusive developer conference discount offer for readers of this blog. If you've been sitting on the fence about going to VS Live! Las Vegas , let me sweeten the pot for you... How about a $500 discount off the standard rate of...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
The official manufactured Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 disk sets
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over 8 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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I received my custom advance order of six hundred of these - one for each attendee of the SoCal .NET Technical Summit coming up this Saturday in Long Beach, CA. If you're like me and lack the patience (and phat pipes) to download several Gigabytes of...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
Free Visual Basic .NET software, MS Press ASP.NET development book and bonus CDs - special offer
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over 9 years ago
by
Alicia Cales
3
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Wow! This is so cool, I can hardly believe we're just giving this stuff away. There is a very special offer going on now through November 30, 2004 to coincide with a series of free ASP.NET technical training Webcasts from Ken Getz, Rob Howard, Fritz Onion...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
MSDN Flash
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over 9 years ago
by
Alicia Cales
3
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i finally finished (very late) writing up my submissions for the SoCal edition of the MSDN Flash e-mail newsletter that will come out next Monday. i almost missed getting this blurb in for the upcoming meeting of the San Diego .NET User Group so i...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
#$*%(@##*^@&!!!
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over 9 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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i do my best not to use cuss words so i’m going to leave it at that. the reason that i get really, really frustrated with a lot Web applications is usually because of state. all Thursday night, i wasted hours just trying to book a few hotel...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
Grab bag of bits and bites
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over 9 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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in my last blog entry , i should have mentioned that those links to the videos of the Japanese bi-pedal robots were forwarded to me by my pal, Randy Brown, program manager for Microsoft FoxPro. props also due to our mutual friend, Alan Griver, who spotted...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
Microsoft offers free C++ optimizing compiler for download
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over 9 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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just in case everyone hasn't heard yet, the Microsoft Visual C++ 2003 Toolkit is now available for *FREE* download . included in the Toolkit are the core tools that developers need to compile and link C and C++ applications for Windows and the .NET...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
Learn from Rocky Lhotka, Bill Vaughn, Markus Egger and more, in person on September 23rd for only $79
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over 7 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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Announcing the SoCal .NET Technical Summit II at the Hilton Irvine on Saturday, September 23rd, featuring Rocky Lhotka, Bill Vaughn, Markus Egger, and more. Early bird registration only until Monday, September 4th for just $79....
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
Behind the scenes of selecting speakers for the SoCal .NET Technical Summit II conference
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over 7 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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Ever what goes into the process of selecting speakers for a developer conference? Who are these speakers, what are their qualifications and how do they get chosen?...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
Naughty or Nice - Lump of coal for the Visual Basic 2005 team?
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over 8 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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OK, i know my posts have been very intermittent and matter of fact to the point of desiccation recently (ever since i was asked by Windows Vista to expunge one of my posts - it was their IP, intellectual property, watchdogs too). So you know what this...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
Help start up a .NET user group in Santa Barbara
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over 8 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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OK, I've been soliciting for interested parties in the SoCal edition of the MSDN Flash newsletter since almost forever, it's finally time to get things started for Santa Barbara's very own .NET user group now that Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
Thought Steel Battalion was overkill?
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over 9 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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Steel Battalion is the current undisputed heavy-weight champion when it comes time to battle-mech sims. for good reason too. it's not just another Xbox game title that ships in a typical slipcase... it's a behemoth of a 40+ button, dual joystick cockpit...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
Aibo owners take note!
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over 9 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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these really have to be seen if you're an owner of an Aibo : http://www.asahi.com/video/031218run.wvx http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/1218/sony_06.wmv i think these videos speak for themselves. i'd love to get my hands on one of these and...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
First entry
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over 9 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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OK, let’s get this blog started. i spent most of today writing up draft descriptions for the May/June cycle of our MSDN Event developer seminars. after writing the extended long-play version, i’m informed that what i wrote is unusable...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
Southern California developer community Web site - find out what's going on in SoCal
Posted
over 8 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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This will be of interest for all you developers in Southern California (or thinking about visiting here). There is a new Developer Community Web site for Southern California available now on microsoft.com Here, you will be able to find an events calendar...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
See the SQL Server Guru speak in Los Angeles - special discount offer just for you!
Posted
over 8 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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On Saturday, February 19th, the Los Angeles SQL Server Professionals Group will host a special full-day workshop at UCLA featuring Ken Henderson, Microsoft Senior Escalation Engineer and author of the Guru's Guide to SQL Server series of books , and Paul...
atmosphere - the developer blog of Bernard Wong
An inspiring story
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over 9 years ago
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Alicia Cales
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i have a lot to catch up on from the past few weeks. the following story leaps to the top of the backlog because it speaks to the role that software (and by extension, all of us) can have in the world (disregarding for a moment whatever idealogical...
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