MVP Summit – Code Slam – GotDotNet Workspaces, Ward Cunningham and BlogML
Last night, the CodeSlam event took place at the
Microsoft Company Store / Visitor Center (organized by Korby
Parnell). The list of .NET developer
celebrities was impressive and too numerous to mention! The purpose of the
event was to evangelize the great things already happening and coming up in the
GotDotNet Workspaces. Microsoft is taking online collaborative development
seriously and there [...]
Printable or ReadOnly pages in ASP.NET (code snippet)
You have an ASP.NET page that is full of great controls, functionality, etc. but now you need to print it or render a “readonly” view of the page. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a little ReadOnlyproperty that you could flip to true on the page and that was it? Well … there isn’t. [...]
New Microsoft Partner Competency is coming for custom development shops!
Many companies are deeply embedded in pure Microsoft development (such as thycotic) but do not necessarily use any of the Microsoft server products (MS CMS, BizTalk, SharePoint) in their solutions. These shops are typically building applications using custom WinForm/ASP.NET, C#/VB.NET and a Microsoft SQL Server back end. This makes the Integrated E-Business Solutions competency impossible [...]
myclockwatcher.com – FREE coupon from PDC for all blog readers
The release of myclockwatcher.com 1.2 was timed for
PDC. We strolled around PDC handing out business cards with coupons and
wearing our red hats and buttons. Here
is a picture from the Dr. Dobb’s Journal booth where I had my picture
taken:
Yes, the red hat says
“myclockwatcher.com”.
The coupon from PDC gives an extra $10 when you
sign up for myclockwatcher [...]
PDC 2005 – Day Three Review
PDC is now over and I finally have time to tell you
about Day 3.
It started with an outstanding session “Advanced
Data Access Patterns” by Pablo Castro. We saw Pablo in a great Data
session (DAT200) the day before (he coded by hand avoiding code snippets which
drew some jokes among the speakers) so we knew we [...]
PDC 2005 – Day Two Review
LINQ and DLINQ are very powerful technologies. DLINQ seems very similar to Gentle.NET which we use on some projects. The mapping capabilities seem a much better solution to writing lots of data access to business objects glue code … and let’s not even get started on the evils of code generation. LINQ definitely seems to [...]
PDC 2005 – Day One Review
The keynote was interesting, exciting and
exhausting! The technology innovations and overall
coolness just ran on for ages and became draining. It was also a first
opportunity for me to see billg speak for the first time which was an
experience. He had far less presence than I would have expected for a man
of such remarkable success but was [...]
myclockwatcher.com 1.2 is released – just in time for PDC!
Nothing like a deadline to focus the mind. Our goal is to promote the new version of myclockwatcher.com this week at PDCin Los Angeles. We have worked hard to get some great new features into the latest version in time for the conference.
I arrived this morning from Washington DC to an airport in the middle [...]
When your code is reused
I am back from a weeks break in one of my favorite
places – the Outer Banks in North Carolina. After much sun, playing with
my new
toy and getting to spendquality with the family – it is time for a
“just back” blogpost. I am sifting through the inevitable pile of email
and came across somethingthat warms my heart [...]
