Daily Archives: February 15, 2004

IBM hiring again in Burlington area – software jobs posted today

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There was something in the local news the other day that IBM was doing a small amount of hiring (small in comparison to the thousands that have been laid off in the last few years). The newscast showed people in full lab gear, so I assumed it was jobs right in the manufacturing area.

However, I just noticed that Dice.com posted a bunch of software jobs today at IBM in Essex Jct (just outside of Burlington, VT). In fact I think they are doing it as I type because it was 8 when I started this post and now there are more.

If you’re curious, go here, type “IBM” in the Full Text Search box and select “Vermont” from the state dropdown, then go. There’s some WebSphere, C+, etc. Some are pretty focused on particular industries.

Whidbey Beta comes in “June time-frame”

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okay from Kent Sharkey, via Chris Garty from the proverbial horse’s mouth (sorry Scott! you’re not a horse…)

Chris asked Scott some straightforward questions and got some straightforward answers.

The details

The summary:

  • The first public beta will be released in June
  • There will be releases before the first public beta with limited availability
  • Second beta release will be after issues from first public beta are resolved
  • There will be a “go-live license” available for the second beta

(copy paste sure helps prevent “telephone operator” here…)

If you can’t wait till June and you live in the u.s. , get thee to a DevDays show! (where alphas will be distributed)

PowerPoint Deck for DevDays

Just Rambling

Because of my user group meeting, Steve Smith and I were both unable to make the live meeting training for my DevDays session. I’m doing “Defenses and Countermeasures”. Oddly enough, the day before I was asked to do this, I had written a very long email to one of my clients explaining all of the things that I had implemented in his web apps and winforms to web service applications to protect their data. (It was a long list)

So, I just took a peek at the deck for my session. It has SIXTY THREE slides – and they are each chock full of stuff. Holy smokes!

I think that works out to 50 seconds a slide…

Generics Help and Type Placeholders

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I’m working on the generics part of my little BCL Whidbey talk. I’m going to have about 5 minutes to do generics – whadya think? LOL.

I just wanted to point out that in addition to some of the more (now) classic resources, like Jason Clark’s MSDN Mag articles (1, 2) and Anders Hejlsberg’s PDC demo, Juval Lowy’s C# MSDN article, the generics chapter from the upcoming VB Whidbey book by Scott Swigart, Sean Campbell and a few others, that I found Rob Chartier’s article on 15 Seconds very helpful. Since I spend 97% of my coding time in VB, I have to work a wee bit harder when dealing with the C# stuff and also C# before and after generics is very different than VB before and after Generics. It was not such a big leap from VB into generics. Anyway, thanks Rob.

I also had a funny idea. Since I am always adding grins in the form of (hmmm, will this mess up my html?) into emails, I like the idea of using “g” as my place holder when i’m building generic classes. Then my code will always be happy with little “”s everywhere.