Daily Archives: February 28, 2005

distribution of msdn subscription dvds

Just Rambling

I have been noticing the ads for Disc Stakka in MSDN Magazine and it got me thinking. Disc Stakka is  something like a jukebox that you can put 100 dvds in and somehow it’s got some built in knowledge of MSDN Subscriptions. It’s pretty big – for all of those discs.

Wouldn’t it be cool if they could make read only thumb drives (when they get cheap enough) to distribute MSDN subscriptions on? I don’t mean the magazine, I mean all of the software in a subscription. The thumbdrives are getting up to 2 GB now. Eventually they will become consumables like DVDs are now —  a lot cheaper and maybe more cost effective than producing and shipping the dvd’s every month.

Of course, I am not a hardware geek, so this could already exist and I wouldn’t even know it. 

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Datasets & Nullable Types in VS2005 – maybe/maybe not

ADO.NET 2

From Andrew Conrad’s post about DataSets and Null values:

[because the features are currently broken], the DataSet behavior WRT to nullable types will either be changed or not supported for RTM of VS 2005.  However, it is very probable that it will be supported some time in the future.

see my previous post about Nullable Types and ADO.NET 2.0 to see why this interests me..

 

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TechEd 2005 Birds of a Feather Sessions!

Community Cheerleading

The BOFS are live! INETA will once again be sponsoring and managing the Birds of a Feather sessions at TechEd 2005. This year we are being helped by Culminis, who works with IT Pro groups. Stuart Celarier is our supreme BOFologist* as he is heading up the entire effort of organizing them.

So you can start submitting sessions and voting, too!

Remember the key concept of the BOF’s – these are NOT presentations, they are discussions that are led by one or more people. Everyone who attends the BOF is invited to participate in the discussion. Don’t even think of asking for a projector to show your powerpoints. 😉

*coined by Dave Noderer

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