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VS 2008 at The Movies, Feb 7, 2008 Toronto Paramount

Posted: Friday, January 18, 2008 2:09 PM by Barry Gervin | 1 Comments
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Our designer is having a field-day with this "at the Movies" theme for our upcoming review of Visual Studio 2008 being held Feb 7th from 8:30am-12:00pm @ the Paramount in Toronto. Grab a copy of this movie poster before it gets "whacked" by the lawyers. Read More...

Reflections on the PDC Day 1 Keynote

Posted: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 4:00 PM by Barry Gervin | 3 Comments
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Bill Gates gave a pretty typical high level keynote to introduce the keynote this morning. He talked about the past, how far we've come, and how now is the most exciting time, and that we are in most exciting industry. Not that I don't disagree, but I Read More...

DevTeach Conference in Montreal

Posted: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 1:12 PM by Barry Gervin | 1 Comments
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I'm going to be heading out in a couple of weeks to DevTeach in Montreal. In addition to my regular session talk on Datasets, I'll also be participating in an architecture panel discussion as part of Groupe d’usagers Visual Studio Montréal, Software Architecture Read More...

When is a database oriented as a service?

Posted: Friday, May 27, 2005 4:18 PM by Barry Gervin | 9 Comments
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Do you consider your database as a service? It's worthwhile to review the tenents of a service oriented architecture . The first two tenents above are probably the most relevant to my question. If you do all of your data access through stored procedures, Read More...

Shorthorn Longhorn

Posted: Friday, August 27, 2004 3:14 PM by Barry Gervin | 0 Comments
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So this will cause a few blogs. I have just heard that.... Longhorn slated for 2006. Longhorn server 2007. Winfx, and Avalon are coming to windows xp in 2006. Indigo as well - and on Windows 2003 as well. These are all part of WinFx that is going to be Read More...

SOA Challenges: Entity Aggregation

Posted: Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:21 PM by Barry Gervin | 2 Comments
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Ramkumar Kothandaraman has a good article just released on MSDN discussing SOA Challenges: Entity Aggregation . Aggregation is a much better name than “composable entities“ since it's definition implies that property sets of an entity grow Read More...

MS Professional Developers Conference...

Posted: Friday, October 24, 2003 1:07 AM by Barry Gervin | (Comments Off)
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...here we come. Myself and fellow ObjectSharpies DennisLee and DaveLloyd are heading out Saturday morning for the PDC in L.A. Stay tuned for our perspectives on Whidbey (essentially . NET 2.0 ), Yukon ( SQL Server 2004 ?), and Longhorn (Windows 2005?). Read More...