|
|
August 2004 - Posts
-
With the announcement the end of last week that Microsoft is decoupling Avalon from Longhorn and will make it backward compatible with WinXP and Win2k3 Server, I’m sure there are some out there that wonder what my take on it. First off, let’s Read More...
Posted
Monday, August 30, 2004 10:37 AM
by
donxml |
-
Jeff Julian recently announced a .Net Book Club Contest . All you need to do is fill out this survey to be eligible to win a copy of Win2K3 Server (25 CAL) or one of ten copies of Rocky Lhotka's “Expert C# Business Objects”. You will have Read More...
Posted
Monday, August 30, 2004 9:19 AM
by
donxml |
-
Kurt Cagle dropped out of site for a while, but is back, and now has a real blog on BlogSpot , along with an Atom feed (after I prodded him to turn it on). He will be blogging from the SVG Open conference in Japan, and will be presenting (and blogging, Read More...
Posted
Thursday, August 26, 2004 6:38 PM
by
donxml |
-
Way, way, back when, (when I first got into consulting), a more senior consultant taught me these rules that every decent consultant should live by: You work for the client, not the consulting firm. No matter who cuts the payroll check, the client is Read More...
Posted
Thursday, August 26, 2004 8:40 AM
by
donxml |
-
The guys at Xamlon release a new beta of their XAML rendering engine for .Net 1.1 and it is absolutely incredible. Adam Kinney has a great clock example on his blog, and Kevin Lindsey published a knowledge base article on how to use the XamlPad application Read More...
Posted
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 12:40 PM
by
donxml |
-
I’ve got a confession to make. My current client is a Java shop, not a .Net shop. Now, I’m “only” doing XML work here, so I don’t really have to do much Java coding, but knowing how the platform works is very important to Read More...
Posted
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 8:16 AM
by
donxml |
-
I’m not a big fan of OpenOffice (the UI definitely lacks a polished look and feel of a Microsoft app), but I did find a great use for this free application, converting Office documents to PDF. Can't beat the price, and it does a decent job (Word Read More...
Posted
Monday, August 23, 2004 8:06 AM
by
donxml |
-
Thom Robbins (Microsoft Developer Evangelist for the Northeast) is coordinating Code Camp II , up at the Microsoft Waltham, MA facility, and I volunteered to do a presentation. I’ve been looking to create a presentation around the DataMapper examples Read More...
Posted
Monday, August 23, 2004 7:16 AM
by
donxml |
-
Ah, the long awaited Applied XML Developers Conference #5 was announced over the weekend. It has been in the works for some time now, and it seems that Chris Sells had a tough time working out the scheduling details, because instead of a Thursday/Friday Read More...
Posted
Monday, August 16, 2004 7:25 AM
by
donxml |
-
I’ve been thinking about this very topic since VSLive NYC and was wondering what others think about this. VSLive in NYC (formerlyVBits) was a must attend event back before .Net, but I was definitely under whelmed at the turnout for the last couple Read More...
Posted
Thursday, August 12, 2004 1:13 PM
by
donxml |
-
Ted Neward laments over the perceived lack of strength of the .Net open source community (compared to Java) and also mentions 15 points to help the community embrace an open source project. For the record, I’ve participated in a bunch of open source Read More...
Posted
Thursday, August 12, 2004 10:48 AM
by
donxml |
-
There has been some discussion lately about restarting the NJ SQL Server user group amongst the NJ MVPs, and it looks like it will be a go. I purchased the url www.njsql.org , downloaded the new Community Server Forums, and began the task of creating Read More...
Posted
Monday, August 09, 2004 8:16 AM
by
donxml |
-
For my current assignment I have been knee deep in XML schemas, which has given me the time to delve deep into a world that I have only had the opportunity to skim the surface. The main thing that I have learned from this experience is that there still Read More...
Posted
Monday, August 09, 2004 7:33 AM
by
donxml |
-
This is just a reminder that ScottW will be presenting at the August 10th meeting of the North New Jersey .Net User Group . We will also be doing a North Jersey developer dinner sometime next week. The 2 possibilities are Tuesday, after Scott’s Read More...
Posted
Friday, August 06, 2004 9:47 AM
by
donxml |
-
Shock and Awe, that was my reaction to this latest MS hire. I owe a lot of my understanding of XML and XSLT to Dimitre, and we will surely miss him on the Mvp.Xml project, but I’m happy for him. He will be part of Microsoft Consulting in Australia. Read More...
Posted
Friday, August 06, 2004 6:36 AM
by
donxml |
-
Well, it is now official, yet another MVP has decided to take a position with Microsoft. This time it is C# MVP, Peter Provost , and he is off to work on the Platform Architect Guidance team (those are the guys that release the cool application blocks Read More...
Posted
Thursday, August 05, 2004 10:34 AM
by
donxml |
-
I took the code from my previous DataMapper examples , which was written for .Net 1.1 and SQL2K, and ported it to VS2005 Beta 1 with SQL Server 2K5. I did not have to change one line of code in either the sprocs or in the 1.1 C# code (great going VS & Read More...
Posted
Wednesday, August 04, 2004 5:37 PM
by
donxml |
-
ScottW turned me on to the little known option of ordering a Dell PC without having to buy a license for Windows XP. Instead of going to the site geared toward home and home office customers, go on over to the Small Business section of the site. Hidden Read More...
Posted
Tuesday, August 03, 2004 1:22 PM
by
donxml |
-
ZDNet is reporting the Sun is considering buying Novell , but in the article they miss what I consider the most interested aspect of this possible bid. If Sun, who own the Java framework , buys Novell, who bought Ximian (which was the major backer of Read More...
Posted
Tuesday, August 03, 2004 11:38 AM
by
donxml |
|
|
|