Monthly Archives: January 2005

Still no skiing

Purely Personal

It is sunny out with fresh snow. I promised myslef that if the temp went above 10F I would hop in the car and go over to Mad River to do a few runs after lunch. I have not skiid ONCE this year even though I bought a ski pass, even though we moved to Vermont to ski, even though we bought a house only 7 miles from MRG just so we could go there easily. It’s 9 degrees. Too cold. Keep working. Will I ever ski again?

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Slew of off-site consulting projects

Jobs

by way of programmer-jobs@yahoogroups.com (which I must admit I NEVER subscribed myself to, but I will leave myself on it…)

Here is an example (just came through my inbox)

THIS IS A WORK-AT-HOME PROGRAMMING JOB:
Program database driven web app for small entertainment company.  Project will iinvolve any and all technologies that are appropriate with emphasis on SQL, asp (or .net), java, vbscript, html.  Web application will handle 1. searching for live entertainment (bands, DJs, motivational speakers, magicians, etc), 2. booking entertainment, 3. setting up an entertainers press kit file (so it can be searched) and 4. production management of an event.  Some modules are complete while others exist in MS Access and must be converted web apps.            

APPLY ONLINE AT:
http://www.programmingfromhome.com/Job.cfm/202729

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Our .NET Ebay Auction *is* Tax-Deductible

Asia

I have been asked about the auction being tax deductible.

Absolutely!

So get your clients and your companies to bid!! I told my clients about the auction and said “hey, can you hire me some help for when I get really stuck on something?” Even an hour of having someone like Kimberly Tripp take a look at their SQL Server setup would be invaluable!!

The PayPal account (acehaid@tides.org) that the winners send their $ to is a U.S. 501c3 non-profit. If you want to donate a lot of $ to them (regardless of your eBay bid or even if you win) you can even send a check or wire money.

More info is on this page www.acehaid.org.

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DataSets, Web Services and Remoting

Just Rambling

ahh that again

On the one hand you have Rocky Lhotka’s perfectly reasonable “NO”, on the other hand ADO.NET  not only encourages you to use and “abuse” webservices by enable the passing of DataSets from one end to the other, but with ADO.NET 2.0 we can pass DataTables too! And we will. Many many many of us will. Many more of us than the tiny percentage of .NET developers who do any interop. At the same time, ADO.NET 2.0 fixes the icchy dataset problem with remoting by making datasets now transmit as BINARY data, like the rest of the remoted objects. (I never had this problem because I have not coded ONE remoted application – ever. “My name is Julie and I’m a web service abuser“.)

Then of course is the whole new twist on this problem: teaching people how to use WSE with .NET clients and services. I do it all the time. I use it this way (because it is an easy way to implement security in the web services that I shouldn’t be using anyway) and these are the samples I use when I teach other people how to use WSE. And I’m not alone.

And to confuse us just a little more, here’s the latest  on .NET Remoting in .NET 2.0. Just remember: “no, nyet, niente, shake head vigorously.”

So here are the messages:

  1. Using web services in an end to end .net application is bad
  2. Use remoting for end to end .net applications
  3. Don’t put all your eggs into .NET remoting because, if though it’s not dead, in the future, you should be doing everything via services.
  4. Here’s how to do remoting in our closest future technology.

Maybe this isn’t the message that is supposed to be coming down to people like me, but that’s what it is sounds like by the time it does reach me. Am I consfused? Is Paris a city?



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