Paul Andrew

Lance Olson presented this session with a pleasant mix of analogies and deep technical stuff. The slides are also a great source of his hints and tips. Things (managed code or killer whales - an analogy) run in an app domain, some things can have multiple...

The presenter for this was Jamie Cool. I was late to this session, but I stil picked up some interesting things. The presenter had just set the permission set of the application to Intranet and he tried this code: system.io.file.deletefile("c...

Speaker: Bryan Jeffries gave a nice talk about accessing Sharepoint lists (IW400). You'll notice I'm only blogging the good sessions I attend. At a high level he started by mentioning there's 3 ways to access this data: 1. .NET Object Model in the...

My notes on this nice talk by Keth Ballinger The first 15 minutes was a bit slow to get going in that we talked about messaging at a high level before drilling down to the subject: WSE 2.0. Amongst this Keith said that the solution to messaging problems...

I attended the SQL Server2005 General Session this afternoon led by David Campbell. There were so many new features talked about for SQL Server 2005 it was hard to keep up. I wrote some of them down to help me remember. Winter Corporation does annual...

The day 2 keynote was led by Andy Lees. I watched some cool demos by Ilya Bukshteyn and Jon Rauschenberger. It was nice to see the caller ID for email allowing you to block spoofed email where the email to address domain does not match recorded email...

I went to hear from Don Box and Doug Purdy talking about Web Services in the TechEd session "CTS200 Connected Systems Service Oriented and the Windows/.NET Developer". I like Don's talks at conferences because he thinks about what he's doing, he has new...

It was hard getting up this morning. I kept mentally calculating the time back home in Wellington where it's 5 hours earlier. So I woke from traffic noise at 6am, and straight back to sleep untin my alarm at 7am. Yes that's 2am in New Zealand. Joy. ...

I've noticed an increase in blog-spam in the last 24 hours. That is, fake comments on my blog for the purpose of adding a URL thereby increasing a web sites ranking for google. There's no sign of an Edward or his blog at the site referred to. I've...

Foam Guy from Channel 9 Evolves. Once he's finished you can get one by sending them a postcard. http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=5223

Yesterday I built a small web site and I tried to publish it to my usual web site www.dotnetlounge.co.nz . This site has been entirely running Windows Sharepoint Services until now. I used Sharepoint Central Administration to exclude my virtual directory...

In New Zealand May is .NET Framework Survey month. I thought it would be interesting to find out what parts of New Zealand are doing the most .NET development work measured by machines deployed from the developers home city (per capita). So for pretty...