May 2004 - Posts
No need to have a TechEd commnet password. You can download ALL the pdf's for the plethora of topics. Some good stuff to see how the newly announced stuff (Team System, etc.) works. Business Productivity Solutions (Office) Data Management (SQL Server)
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Here's a guy who needs no introduction. I don't read too many blogs (although that's changing) but John's is one of about 5 that I've read consistently. Every now and then when I do find a blog I like, invariable John's iunknown.com is on that person's
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A bunch of sessions that were formerly named “TBA” are really about the new Visual Studio 2005 Team System. DEV200 General Session: Managing the Software Lifecycle with Visual Studio 2005 Halls GH Tuesday 10:45 DEV300 Visual Studio 2005 Enterprise
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Marcie Robillard has put together a fun game for TechEd attendees. You can print out your cards in the Sails pavillion where all those computers are lined up row on row. http://www.techedbingo.com
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It's official. I'll post more thoughts and analysis about this as time permits, but, things you should know. Microsoft now has a new Team version of Visual Studio to be delivered “Next Year“ according to Balmer. new source control - more details
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This BOF went pretty well and a huge thanks to Jim Newkirk for assisting in the delivery. He's a real authority on the practices around NUnit and a good guy to have a round. If you buy his new book on Test Driven Development with Microsoft .NET onsite
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I've had the pleasure of getting to know Marcie over the past 53 days. It's great to be working with her and I look forward to winforms enlightenment :) http://www.objectsharp.com/Blogs/marcie/archive/2004/05/23/495.aspx
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I attended the MCT meetings today. It was nice warm up to the rest of TechEd, although I felt a little out of place as a Developer trainer.....most of the room was IT Pro (MCSE) types, a fun crowd....geeky in a different way. Anyway, lots of cool things
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It was bumped from The initial 1.0 release, and then as of last PDC slated for Whidbey. Now it looks like we'll have to wait until Longhorn. It's not all bad news however. ObjectSpaces is being re-orged into the WinFs file system. When you think about
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Bring your photo ID. You'll need it for registration. Bring a single socket power splitter. I brought one of those double socket splitters than turn a 2 port outlet into 6...but guess what, there is almost always at least 1 important thing plugged into
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Highlights in this exchange of newsgroup posts... Paging is cut Server cursors cut (SqlResultSet class) Async Open is cut, but not excute SqlDataTable class cut (Good - that was a bad design pattern to propogate) Command sets are cut, but you can still
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One Uneventful pair of connecting flights, a car rental pickup and a check in at the hotel. It's the calm before the storm....you know, the calm associated with hotel internet access actually working. You know it's a computer conference when you can see
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This session which was originally scheduled for Tuesday night is now moved to Sunday night at 8pm. This should allow people who were interested in the Peter Provost's hosted Continous Integration Testing BOF to attend both of these sessions. BOF36 Integrating
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http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=377077 Things I like: Assert.AreEquals support to compare arrays of the same length, type and values. You can now put a Category attribute on your fixtures AND methods....and then use that as a filter when
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You never know how your technology is going to be used. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_958267.html
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http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jsstandard/reference/techart/nexaweb.html While Sun is very complimentary about Microsoft's strengths on the smart client, Sun's answer seems to be....put HTML on the client. One of their reasons is that “
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MBF is being delayed until Longhorn. Up until reading this , it was my understanding that MBF was planned for a post Whidbey release along with ObjectSpaces. MBF is a pretty big thing scope-wise. I think it is the right thing to do to wait until Longhorn.
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TechEd is coming up. Scary thing is my schedule is about 75% booked - and not with actual sessions. I'll talk more about the stuff I'm involved with over the coming weeks and during TechEd. The interesting thing I got today was the Agenda for “MCT
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We threw a party on Thursday night after VS Live Toronto to help blow off some steam. VS Live in Toronto was a good time. A few people agree. Jay Roxe was one of the speakers and joined us for a night on the town. Datagrid Girl Marcie Robillard too. Turns
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