Fabulous ad for Australia’s Carlton Draught beer. Thanks to Esther Schindler of www.devsource.com for sending it my way.
By the way, Carlton Draught’s website is asp.net (which is why I moved this out of the Purely Personal category ;-)).
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Vermont Energy Investment Corp has two job openings
DBA and Senior Applications Programmer
Work as part of our IT team to specify, design, develop, and support databases and database applications. Requirements: 3 Years experience designing and administering SQL based commercial database system, and 5 years experience developing database applications. Experience with MS Access, SQL, at least one SQL Programming Language, and VBA required. Oracle & Delphi experience preferred.
Applications Programmer
Work as part of our IT team to design, develop, and support database applications. Requirements: 2 years experience developing database applications. Experience with MS Access, SQL, at least one SQL Programming Language, and VBA required. Delphi experience preferred.
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I was looking at some of the links of the TechEd Worldwide page for upcoming events.
TechEd Taiwan I can’t make heads or tails of 🙂
Tech Ed South Africa is sold out already and it’s not for two more months.
TechEd Asia features four talks by my pal who goes by “Softwaremaker” who is becoming an Indigo guru!
There are 3 TechEd events in China (big country, lots of people!) Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai.
Australia is in only a few weeks. Charles is blogging up a storm about it.
There are more, but the links are a little harder to find….
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Have you tried out the new ASP.NET 2 Migration tool that the ASP.NET team was hoping to get feedback on? Time is running short. I tried a small app. It’s small, but criticial to a client and does file transfers, file reads and writes, database access, forms authentication and a huge amount of inspection of very complex xml files.
If you don’t count the time I took to recreate my database on the test machine, setting all the proper permissions etc, the migration took about 30 seconds and then another 5 minutes to test all of the functions of the application which worked perfectly.
Great job folks.
If you have some free time in the next few days, go run the tool and send your feedback (including the conversion.txt file) to webwish at microsoft.com. Here is Scott Guthrie’s post with more info and the links for the downloads.
The more complicated your application is, the more useful your feedback will be.Microsoft’s Channel 9 has announced the winners of two contests: Cod’n My Way to PDC and Blog’n My Way to PDC that rewarded airfare, hotel and conference passes. The first contest: Cod’n My Way to PDC has two winners: my buddy casey chesnut (he’s a big fan of lower case letters) who I have never met in person (so I’m really happy about this) and Peter Jousovec from [read more…].
[A DevLife post]
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Every time my husband or parents have to update their Norton Anti-Virus subscriptions I get irate. Their upgrade process is so confusing and I am confident that iit s inentionally designed to get people to buy more than they need when they upgrade. For example, when Rich gets into the upgrade path from NAV 2003 it shows him only three options: 1) update NAV2003 subs for $24.95 with no more tech support, 2)update to NAV 2005/ PasswordMinder bundle for $39.95 or 3) a 3-pack of NAV 2005. There is no link anywhere on that page to find any other options. He doesn’t need Password Minder. So instead we go directly to the Symantec site and choose Products then Upgrades. We say we have NAV 2003 and want to upgrade. It shows us our options. NAV2005 and Norton Internet Security. In the NIS block it says “protect yourself from x y and z viruses” as though you get that with NIS and not with NAV. Additionally, NIS basically does what Windows Firewall does, doesn’t it?
In the grid showing differences it does not have “windows 2000/NT/XP” checked for NAV 2005 but it does for the other. I patiently make my way through to order the upgrade to NAV 2005 with subscription and it’s only $5 more than renewing the NAV2003 subscription. That’s cool. Then it shows him another option – renew for 2 years, not just one, for only $5 more. That’s good. We won’t have to go through this nonsense again for 2 years. Then the checkout screen finally arrives and it is $41.95 instead of $35.95. They ahve added a 60 day download option in case I don’t download it today. I uncheck that and update the cart back to $35.95.
This is just SO aggravating and they have used this trickery for years. Remember when you bought the program and paid $3.95/year for virus subscriptions? I know there are SO many more viruses for them to keep up with and I don’t have a problem with paying more for the virus subscriptions. But it ticks me off that it’s this confusing for someone like me – imagine what an average home user goes through.
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Brian Goldfarb points to this just released document: Major Changes for Visual Web Developer 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 from Whidbey Beta 2 to RTM . Thanks for keeping us up to speed!!
Here’s one that I’ve been waiting for.
| SqlCacheDependency.Start method required for cache dependencies based on SQL Server 2005. | If you are creating cache dependencies based on SQL Server 2005, you must call the System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDependency.Start method to initialize SQL Server 2005-based dependencies. |
I am still on Beta2 and will be downloading the August CTP as soon as it’s available because I have great faith that the issues of using SQLDependency as a non-admin will be worked out. A number of us have been tearing our hair out about this one. Don’t worry, I’m not bald yet.