July 2005 - Posts

• Funniest thing I've seen in a while

  Click here --> http://www.escapeyesterworld.com/ <-- and enjoy this marketing campaign in all of its humorous corniness. I'm not sure how well it gets across the value of our SQL Server 2005/Visual Studio 2005 pairing, but I had a blast Escaping Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 26, 2005 8:38 PM by jacobcy | 4 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge, Personal Life

• Rolling up the week with one final webcast on... DotNetNuke

  Thank you to those who have joined me for 4 sessions exploring different starter kits that will give you the sample code foundation you need to get started as an ASP.NET Web Developer. In this final session, this Friday at 9:00 AM Pacific, I will introduce Read More... Posted Thursday, July 14, 2005 11:14 PM by jacobcy | 2 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge

• Got issues? Tune in to my webcast "Getting Started with the ASP.NET 1.1 Issue Tracker Starter Kit"

  Hope everyone had a happy hump day! Wednesday's session on the Commerce Starter Kit once again inspired some LiveMeeting-based "discussion", i.e. the Question and Answer Panel as moderated discussion board - for a somewhat restrictive "listen-only" environment, Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 13, 2005 4:50 PM by jacobcy | 0 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge

• Check out Wednesday's webcast and learn about eCommerce with the ASP.NET 1.1 Commerce Starter Kit

  We're nearing the halfway point for my week-long series. During Tuesday's session on the ASP.NET Reports Starter Kit, I got some great feedback about the session and, to help answer an audience member's question, even about which language developers in Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 12, 2005 11:04 PM by jacobcy | 2 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge

• Tune in to Tuesday's "Getting Started with the ASP.NET 1.1 Reports Starter Kit"

  Well, it's off to the races. I enjoyed presenting the session today on the Time Tracker Starter Kit and I think it went very well (but who am I to say? What did you think of the webcast?) On Tuesday, I'll be presenting a session on the Reports Starter Read More... Posted Monday, July 11, 2005 9:40 PM by jacobcy | 2 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge

• Tune in to Monday's "Getting Started with the ASP.NET 1.1 Time Tracker Starter Kit" webcast

  It's good to be presenting again. After a couple of weeks focusing on team projects and fiscal year transition, I'm going to be presenting a week of ASP.NET 1.1 webcasts centered around how to leverage the ASP.NET Starter Kits as learning tools. I'll Read More... Posted Sunday, July 10, 2005 7:39 PM by jacobcy | 6 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge

• What are the odds?

  I went to see Mr and Mrs Smith yesterday night - it was very entertaining and a lot of the dialogue had double meaning, which I enjoyed. However, due to the somewhat inconsistent mass transit system we know as the CTA, I had about 15 minutes to kill before Read More... Posted Saturday, July 09, 2005 11:16 AM by jacobcy | 10 Comments Filed under: Personal Life

• Upcoming MSDN Events in August and September

  Following our brief event hiatus in July, we're coming back with even more great content - the focus this time around is ASP.NET 2.0. We're presenting 3 sessions over the half-day event to explore UI, Data Access, and Performance techniques with the new Read More... Posted Friday, July 08, 2005 10:54 AM by jacobcy | 3 Comments Filed under: Upcoming MSDN Events, Developer Knowledge