Monthly Archives: March 2005

ranting about a book

Just Rambling

Alex P doesn’t like this book. He is absolutely entitled to his opinion. What I don’t understand is his position that Francesco Balena has no credibility and that his position as an RD is of little value. Balena is a well known and respected author in the .NET world as well as pre-.NET Visual Basic. And RD’s aren’t selected based only on their good looks. 😉 Many of them also happen to be some of the top in their field technically, which is why Microsoft allows them to represent MS as such. I see nothing wrong with expressing one’s opinion, but I think the [unjustified and unqualified] personal attack is pretty crappy.

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Obsolete [Beta] APIs in .NET 2.0

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If you have been and continue to be using pre-release versions of .NET 2.0, Kit George has pointed to this download which will list the APIs that are in existing bits that will not make it to the final RTM version. Definitely pay attention to this!

Clarification for those who may need it: These are NOT v1.x APIs, but APIs that are new to .NET 2.0 that have been in the current beta and other pre-release bits and will probably be in the Beta 2.0 as well. But they won’t make it to the final release.

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BCL Blog Day: Twenty Two posts from the BCL Team today, march 15th

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This is impressive! I need to dig through them to see if there is anything to update for my BCL Talk at DevConnections next week.
 
[note: they kept going the next day with another 13 or so posts! See Kit’s complete summary here…]
 
Take note of Kit’s post on the .NET Vision and the Best Features post.


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Tablet PC Development Webcast on Friday!

Tablet

Friday, March 18th at 10 AM PST

This session focuses on the InfiNotes Note Taking Framework built by Agilix Labs Inc. as an extension to the Tablet PC SDK and Visual Studio .Net Development environment. Agilix InfiNotes is a collection of .NET controls that add rich ink note-taking functionality to new and existing applications. Simply drag the control from the toolbox and begin adding digital ink to your application immediately! You’ll be amazed at how quickly you can develop ink note-taking features in your .NET application. InfiNotes Standard Edition is available free from http://www.infinotes.com and should be installed on your development environment along with the Tablet PC SDK, available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/tabletpc. (You do not need a Tablet PC to develop Tablet apps, this can be done right from your existing Windows development environment).

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Rod Paddock in Vermont and beyond

Community Cheerleading

Boy did we have a blast! Rod  Paddock flew into Boston for Code Camp III where he did 3 back to back sessions on Sunday. He drove back to Vermont with Laura Blood and I. We forgot to pause in NH so he could “touch down” and claim he has been to NH, now. We met up for dinner at my favorite Montepelier restaurant, Sarducci’s, with Mario Cardinal and Eric Cote, our GUVSM.NET buddies who were also at Code camp and on their way back to Montreal.

Yesterday Rod treated me to my first Best Buy experience. I have never been there before! Then I toured him around Burlington a bit and off we went to the meeting.

Rod did a talk on creating custom data types for SQL Server 2005 using VS 2005. He is a fantastic presenter.. I could tell that the VTdotNET members were  very interested and engaged because of the many questions. Jean Rene Roy came down from Montreal to pick up Rod since he was heading there next on his world tour. After the meeting Rod, Jean-Rene and Marc Heinzer who is doing awesome work at Gardener’s Supply (the largest mail order and online ordering gardening supply company in the country), had a little more geeking out at The Daily Planet and off they went to Montreal.

Rod is speaking tonight at Montreal’s Foxpro User Group and then tomorrow night in Toronto at the Toronto VB User Group. He started at home in seattle so he will have a lot of miles under his belt at the end of his mini-world tour.

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IT Jobs: Two Database Consultant jobs in Maine

Jobs

Database Production Support Consultant (1 year)

  • At least 4-5 years combined using both MSSQL and Oracle RDBMS
  • Experience with performance tuning and integrity via indexing, normalization/de-normalization, constraints, triggers, etc.
  • Understanding of database security and implementation using views, column level permissioning, and roles.
  • Experience with DTS, creation/maintenance of SQL jobs, and security from server to database (including use of NT Authentication as well as standard SQL login/password security)
  • Excellent debugging and communication (both written and verbal) skills required
  • Excellent organizational skills
  • Windows command line scripting and UNIX shell scripting including Awk
  • Ability to communicate technical issues in an understandable way to non-technical end users, and keep management informed of the status of issues.
  • Database maintenance including backup and recovery, space management, and consistency checks
  • Responsibilities to include monitoring existing production processes, identification of performance improvement opportunities in existing processes, completion of audits (daily through monthly), creation/maintenance of desktop procedures/instruction manuals for existing processes, assisting during testing of new processes, and maintenance of data dictionaries

 

Database Consultant (1 year)

  • At least 4-5 years combined using both MSSQL and Oracle RDBMS
  • Creation and maintenance of large data warehouse databases (up to 1TB)
  • Extensive development of stored procedures (containing complex business logic) and views
  • Experience with performance tuning and integrity via indexing, normalization/de-normalization, constraints, triggers, etc.
  • Understanding of database security and implementation using views, column level permissioning, and roles.
  • Excellent debugging and communication (both written and verbal) skills required
  • Excellent project management and organizational skills
  • Experience creating and updating technical documentation and following development methodology
  • Windows command line scripting and UNIX shell scripting including Awk
  • Experience acting as a liaison between non-technical business users to create appropriate business requirements
  • Data analysis experience helpful
  • Database maintenance including backup and recovery, space management, and consistency checks
  • Responsibilities to include monitoring existing processes to populate data warehouse, improving performance of existing SQL processes, assisting in the development of new processes for data gathering, completing project documentation, and development and maintenance of data dictionaries

 

For immediate consideration, please contact:

Anne Keehan

Partner

Brandywine Technology Partners

Phone: 302.656.6100 x225

Email: akeehan@btpartners.net

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