July 2003 - Posts
Phil Weber presented at the meeting tonight . The topic: UI Design Guidelines. It was an entertaining talk about bad UI design and what makes for a good UI. He showed some cool demos using VB5, VB6, and VB.NET. Very cool stuff. A couple of Phil’s references:
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If you're in the Portland, Oregon, area... come on by the . NET user group meeting tonight . See you there!
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The cost of an operating system is just a drop in the bucket compared to all the additional costs involved with computing. Just ask ABB.... IBM lands $1.1 billion IT services deal IBM Global Services will take responsibility for the operation and support
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Cool! An updated roadmap . Lots more said about what's in Whidbey, but the details about Orcas are still a ways out. Heh, can't divulge too much too soon, now....
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A few weeks ago I had one of those days... I hosed my development environment, so that every time I attempted to create a new ASP.NET web application in VS.NET 2003, I would get the following error message: The Web server reported the following error
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I ran across the book, " Presenting to Win" by Weissman . It's very well written and should be read by anyone who has to give presentations.
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I'm knocking off one of my "todo's": looking at WSE 2.0. but before I do, I'm reviewing WSE 1.0. Here's a well-written overview of WSE 1.0 at the MSDN site. One of the many cool things about WSE 2.0 is that it supports sending messages over TCP/IP or
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finally. after 9 nights away in new orleans, i'm home. on the flight i played with OneNote 2003 . it's part of microsoft office 2003, and it was the first time i'd used it. it's very impressive. after using it for an hour i found so many cool features,
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new book by simon guest: microsoft .net and j2ee interoperability toolkit available in september. it's possible to do interop through a number of ways, including (but not a complete list) interop through remoting (.net program to java through ja.net --
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if you’re in the boise, idaho, area this thursday evening (7/24), drop by the boise .net user group meeting. they meet the 3rd thursday of every month. rob collins is presenting this month . i'll be presenting next month. oh, yeh, one more thing. new
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eric gunnerson discusses the intricacies of web services and remoting by way of creating a remote control for a media player, and then applies these principles in putting the application to work on his own pocket pc. read about it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncscol/html/csharp07172003.asp
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i took the biztalk server certification exam on monday afternoon as a lark. no studying at all. heh. can’t believe i passed it. it’s been a couple of years since i did anything significant with bts. on each question i went with the first answer that popped
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hello. i’m a .net developer evangelist with the microsoft pacific northwest district . welcome to my blog. i’m currently in new Orleans at a technical briefing for microsofties. for the most part it’s been very cool (the conference, not the weather).
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