Monthly Archives: April 2007

An International Bar Room Brawl of Ideas at DevTeach

Just Rambling

Panel on Open Source in the Microsoft Community at DevTeach

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This year the bonus session (Wednesday May 16 at 18:00) will be a panel of speakers debating the Open Source in the Microsoft Community. This panel discussion takes a look at open source in the Microsoft community from technical, cultural, and business perspectives in a frank discussion with recognizable contributors to and users of open source software for Microsoft platforms. Panelists are: Alan Griver, Oren Eini, Jeremy Miller, Roy Osherove and François Beauregard.

The best part is that Ted Neward will be moderating the panel. There is nothing moderate about Ted Neward though. He will fan the flames for sure. This will be fun.

Telerik’s new Reporting Tool

Tools

In their Q1 release, telerik is including the first release of telerik Reporting. With my well-documented, love/hate relationship with Crystal Reports, I was definitely eager to see telerik’s implementation. Telerik is all about simplicity (of use) and design. So this first pass at Reporting has some really great mechanisms for formatting reports in a CSS-like manner, which I really like. Another big win for me over Crystal is that while Crystal has evolved into a .NET tool, telerik’s was designed in .NET. So you can interact with all of the controls in the report in the same manner as any other control in .NET.

Another benefit is the ease of using the reports in a winform or a webform. The only thing I know that is different is that the webforms don’t support multi-column reports.

While there are definitely some more complex things I can achieve in Crystal (and I have the scars to prove it) that I can’t yet do in this first version of telerik Reporting, I expect great things to come of this tool as we see it growing over future releases.

On top of all of this, I’m happy that I can actually copy and paste more than one control at a time.

There’s a lot more to see in there. Check out the download. You can also download the extensive help files.

77 degrees today!

Vermont

While there are still a few patches of snow on the ground, we have had a spate of warm summer like weather for the past few days. Last time I looked this morning the thermometer said it was 77 degrees! Where I live we aren’t supposed to do our planting before Memorial Day (sees and hardy plants are okay, but not things like tomatoes, many types of herbs and other annuals) – that’s how long we can expect frost for. Yet here it is April 23rd and it was 65 at 7am and now nearly 80 degrees. Crazy weather. Beautiful weather. I’m looking at my garden (which was covered with snow only 4 days ago) and feeling as though I am way behind the 8 ball already in getting it ready!

Vermont IT Jobs: Entry Level and Software Mgr positions in Milton

Jobs

Ascension Technology

Very high tech medical firm. They make things like the little microscopic cameras that surgeons use to look inside or bods. Cool cool.

“Ascension makes 3D tracking devices for medical guidance, minimally invasive surgery, real-time visualization, and target acquisition. Our position and orientation tracking devices navigate, localize, and guide medical instruments for image-guided procedures. They also digitize real-world objects, track pilot’s helmets, and capture human motions for interaction with 3D graphical worlds. The world’s most advanced magnetic and optical trackers, 3D Guidance and phasorBIRD, are at home here.”

Two jobs listed HERE on their website.