May 2005 - Posts
Looks like I've hit the big time, being featured on the Events section of MSDN . I'll make sure I find enough to write about so that my section is neither empty nor filled with drivel. OK, a little drivel is fun. And bonus points to you if you recognized
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I am Mario . I like to jump around, and would lead a fairly serene and aimless existence if it weren't for my friends always getting into trouble. I love to help out, even when it puts me at risk. I seem to make friends with people who just can't stay
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We're putting together some of our marketing materials for next quarter's MSDN Events. I'm interested in your opnions of the session abstracts in this post (read on to find them). Do they make you feel compelled to see the content? Do you like the titles? Are these too "markety" for developers?
Your feedback is welcome! Thanks.
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At the MSDN Event in Atlanta yesterday, we had an intruder so I had to defend the Microsoft Across America blockade runner...
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I am getting old. I know it for 2 reasons. 1. I have to be at the MSDN event at 7:00 am on Thursday. As such, I don’t want to be up late watching a movie that starts at 12:01 AM. 2. I am not such a Star Wars nut as I was when I was 12, otherwise I’d be
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Wow. I’m not even a dark lord of the Sith but I’ve sold out. If you’ve tried to register for the Atlanta event on Thursday and are getting a “registration closed” message, please don’t let that deter you. We have a
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I've been off the road for a while, helping to prepare the next quarter's content for MSDN Events (which is going to knock your socks off by the way!). I can tell you that it's a deep dive into ASP.NET 2.0 where you'll see cool UI stuff, great data stuff,
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I just read this recent article on MSDN that covers some neat aspects about how native XML web services in SQL Server 2005 might be used. Of particular interest is the samples of PERL scripts for executing T-SQL via SOAP.
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These days it’s less frequent that you’ll need a GUID. But sometimes you do. I remembered a little utility called GUIDGEN.EXE would create one and place it on your clipboard. I didn’t have that installed, so on a whim I browsed to www.guidgen.com not
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Hmm, it appears that the server hosting my graphics and sample code files is offline. I'll have to check into that. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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I have noticed that more and more the word experience comes up in relation to a person interacting with their pc/phone/device/whatever. In addition to (I think) the "XP" in Windows XP coming from eXPerience, there's the Experience Pack for Tablet PC ,
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I just picked up from Doug Turnure’s blog that David Chappell will be speaking at the May 18th meeting of the Atlanta VB.NET study group about “Understanding Inigo” (see below for abstract). I hear seats will be hard to get, so come
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So last week I spent a little time with Michael Earls collaborating on two webcasts we’re doing about developing for Windows XP Media Center Edition . We worked at my house for several hours, my kids drifted in and out, and I gave Michael some food.
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I have some friends of mine that run an on-again, off again blog site called ShiftyEye . The engine is a home grown ASP (!) app written by my colleague D. Clay Smith and contributed to by Clay and my bud Harris (who's leaving Atlanta and moving to New
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