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February 2005 - Posts

Sunday, February 27, 2005 9:41 PM

Can't remember a database connection string?

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.
Posted by dougturn | 4 Comments
Saturday, February 19, 2005 8:42 AM

So, is Windows Server 2003 more secure than Red Hat Linux?

According to this Linux guy , it is... Interesting read.
Posted by dougturn | 20 Comments
Saturday, February 19, 2005 8:27 AM

Atlanta Code Camp is sold out!

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
Posted by dougturn | 6 Comments
Friday, February 18, 2005 12:21 AM

The subtleties of Boxing

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
Posted by dougturn | 4 Comments
Wednesday, February 16, 2005 8:31 PM

New language features in VS2005

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
Posted by dougturn | 9 Comments
Tuesday, February 08, 2005 2:32 PM

If you live in the Raleigh-Durham area, and are an unemployed developer, check this out...

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
Posted by dougturn | 3 Comments
Tuesday, February 08, 2005 1:16 PM

User groups in the Southeast - monthly meeting schedule

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
Posted by dougturn | 1 Comments
Monday, February 07, 2005 9:00 PM

Security webcasts coming soon

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.
Posted by dougturn | 0 Comments
Monday, February 07, 2005 5:22 PM

Some nice Biztalk Labs to try out

http://msdn.demoservers.com/login.aspx?group=biztalk Has 14 Hands-On-Labs. Worth the sign-in, IMHO.
Posted by dougturn | 1 Comments
Saturday, February 05, 2005 3:01 PM

Code Camp in Raleigh

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
Posted by dougturn | 5 Comments
Saturday, February 05, 2005 2:47 PM

Thoroughly enjoying South Florida Code Camp today

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
Posted by dougturn | 4 Comments
 
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