dougturn's WebLog

Check out this excellent link: www.connectionstrings.com It's not exactly a new link, but I ended up needing it again this week, and thought it was worthy of mention here.

According to this Linux guy , it is... Interesting read.

You gotta be kidding me! We just opened up registration on Feb 11th, and the thing filled up in 5 days. For those of you that wanted to come, All I can really say is wait until the next one. We'll try to find a bigger facility, obviously, for the next...

A lot of people struggle to understand what's up with Boxing in .NET. It's really pretty simple. When you cast a value type to a reference variable, the data of the valuetype is copied into the heap and *boxed* into an object. It makes for easy usage...

For the VB crowd (includes IDE stuff) For the C# crowd No it's not all inclusive. Presented these two decks at Web Services Edge East this morning, and lots of people asked for the decks, so I thought I'd hang them out here for folks to pull down. Most...

http://www.techengage.org/ The good folks at TechEngage are offering excellent training for people who need to get re-tooled. Cost is $149, and the trainers they bring in normally teach courses at full fee. This non-profit group offers unemployed or underemployed...

Glen Gordon did such a nice job putting this together, that I thought I'd steal it and post it in my blog: User Group Calendar North Carolina Triangle .NET User Group (Raleigh) Next Meeting: Wednesday February 9th 2005 at 6:30 PM Doug Turnure from Microsoft...

http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/series/digitalblackbelt.mspx Joe Stagner is a great presenter, and this series is supposed to be an excellent source for secure programming.

http://msdn.demoservers.com/login.aspx?group=biztalk Has 14 Hands-On-Labs. Worth the sign-in, IMHO.

Oh, by the way, we have the Raleigh Code Camp site up (where we is defined as Greg Pugh). www.codecamp.org check it out. We have space for 200, but based on the attendence at the other ones, register early if you want to attend. They're all filling up...

I'm sitting in Joe Homnick's VSTS talk, and although he doesn't think I'm listening, I'm quite enjoying his talk. Joe, if you read this, I was the annoying guy in the second row typing throughout your lecture. Nice talk, dude. The only problem with this...