Robert! (she said, with hands on hips! I’m allowed cause I’m older – nah nah nah) What you say in your post here, is just why I left Orkut a month ago!
Monthly Archives: March 2004
TechEd 2004 BOF – another Women Who Code BOF
Here’s the description:
This will be an opportunity to continue conversations begun at PDC as well as the TechEd 2004 Women in I.T. Luncheon. Meet other women who are programmers and discover that you are not, in fact, an alien! Chat about our visibility in the industry and other related issues that sometimes make us scratch our heads and wonder.
I tried to word this carefully so that nobody would start in on me. If you have any questions in that vein, just read this. The session is not intended to be some political bra-burning event. Do you know how expensive bras are, anyway? At PDC we had a cool discussion that involved also a lot of men who were curious about their daughter’s future in tech or trends they have noticed in university etc.
Personally I just love meeting other women at conferences who are programmers. I don’t feel quite so out of place. We have an abnormally high percentage of women in my user group, too.
There is also going to be a Women in Tech luncheon with a panel, similar to last TechEd. So I will pull some strings to ensure that this BOF is AFTER that luncheon.
Oh and go vote! It’s www.ineta.org/bof then “proposed sessions”.
There are a bunch of other great sessions up there already, too.
code generation starting to show up on my own radar
For some reason, I have not been that interested in code generation up until recently. I have looked only briefly at some of the tools out htere and not at all at others. I guess I saw them as an all or nothing situation – rather than leveraging code generation for bits and pieces of my development and then going back to my old control freak usual self for the rest. However, recently two things have been turning my head. One is constant exposure to it through Kathleen Dollard and the other was seeing an example of code generation that Jason Beres showed in our user group meeting on Monday. I watched him, with a button, create pieces of code that I am writing by hand – the way I would write them. It was a “v-8” moment. Can’t drop everything and play with it at the moment, but it will happen – hopefully before the next time I start coding up a class full of properties that are more than 50% matching the structure of a table in my database.
Anil John on Security
I have been using Anil’s fantastic weblog as a study guide in my attempt to make myself more knowledgeable and hopefully helpful at my next DevDays talk (Boston 3/16).
SQL Server and names with apostrophes
My client has a recent hire with the last name O’Dell. In seven years of working with them, this is the first employee with an apostrophe in their name. I am suddenly discovering a few gaps with my applications. He’s a good egg and isn’t taking it too personally.
Ali Aghareza: Writing a thread barrier in .NET (part 1)
From Ali the plumber:
Rich Turner and Omri Gazitt on Soap Messaging: Chunk today– MTOM tomorrow
[Warning – I am NO Indigo or ws-messaging, etc. wonk , but] this post, by Rich of the indigo team, which references a post by Omri, caught my eye.
I learned a while ago why DIME can suck – if you have a large attachment, you can’t truly leverage the fluidity of streaming since the entire thing needs to get cached first.
So when someone writes about DIME and web service attachments I pay attention.
Rich Turner writes today about MTOM which is still a little wobbly but (from the best I can get from Omri’s post) will be worth the wait because of how it will be able to work with ws-security down the road.
For today, Rich says, we are still stuck with DIME (if Simon Fell ever followed me to my new blog, surely he is cringing with that statement… :-)) and its limitations and (though I recommend you read Rich’s and Omar’s entire posts) do heed Rich’s advice: “…we strongly urge you to consider chunking your messages into smaller payloads at the source and and de-chunking them at the destination.”
iLoo part too, Secret Geek style
I love any excuse to make reference to the the iLoo! (evil laugh)
And I found a new excuse: Leon Bambrick has a funny (well, all of his posts are funny) look at some software that he things should be written – the toilet reservation system. Watch out for those puns!
Jeffrey McManus discovers georgewbush.com’s build your own campaing poster feature
I wonder if Jeffrey will sell these on eBay
http://mcmanus.typepad.com/grind/2004/03/free_marketplac.html
Jason Beres speaking at Vermont.NET – a smash hit!
Although Jason is an INETA speaker, he recently started working for Infragistics and it was Infragistics that sponsored him coming to speak to Vermont.NET monday.
Jason was such a hit with our user group (see this example on Dave Burke’s blog), I am still getting emails from attendees thanking me and Jason for this great meeting. Jason talked about the many interesting solutions he came up with when working on a multi-tier windows application. He didn’t even point out any of the infragistics controls he used. I was pretty impressed. I know that even if he had said “oh by the way… that’s an infra grid” or something like that , nobody would have run form the room screaming “eek marketing!”
Jason is a fun, nice nice guy and he has a ball presenting. Thanks so much to Infragistics for sending Jason, buying pizza for the night and for the two licenses to NetAdvantage that Jason raffled off at the end.