I caught this on the home page of the TechEd website:
Now confirmed! Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will give the Tech·Ed opening keynote on Monday, May 24
Does this mean we are going to get the Developers Developers Developers chant???
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SQL Server Tips & Tricks for Developers
The July issue of Visual Studio Magazine features this article, SQL Server Tips & Tricks, by Roman Rehak. Roman is one of our local heros, and as track chair for PASS, a popular PASS speaker, frequent author of SQL related articles in VSM, track chair for DevTeach and a speaker there as well AND one of the co-founders of the local SQL Server SIG..and a blogger on SQLJunkies – we certainly can’t keep him a secret around here any more.
The article pulls together tips & tricks from some of Roman’s awesome conference sessions. As a developer who gets stuck doing most of my own database administration and all database related coding that my applications need, this stuff is priceless.
Roman will also be at TechEd this year along with a few of my other local friends.
Preparations for Web Services Interop Education Day : Sat May 22nd, San Diego
Michele writes about the extensive work involved in coordinating the Web Services Interop workshop. She’s talking WSE2, Apache Axis, BEA Weblogic Server, x,509 serialization issues and… phew. Sounds exhausting. Check it out. Post 1 and post 2 …surely there will be more as the week wears on and the workshop gets going on Saturday morning.
Weekend Code Camp at Microsoft Waltham, MA office
From the photos on Thom Robbins’ website (MS Dev Evangelist for New England – that’s MY dev evangelist and maybe the best one in the country), it looks like this weekend’s Code Camp (2 full days of sessions with 3 tracks, running from 9 am to 9pm both days! and for free!!) was well attended which is a good sign. I am looking forward to seeing more info on his weblog.
See a Tablet PC in action on Channel 9
Wait ’til they see the new TIP …heh heh heh. We will win them over! See his crappy handwriting? Just like mine. Reco is pretty damned good and where it can’t recognize, we still have our ways! Ummm – do you think the context tagging might impress those luddites?
Peter Loforte – great job! Thank you.
Oh, did I catch your interest? You looking for a link? HERE
Kit and Caboodle
Have you ever seen that written down? Did you think it was kitten caboodle (and completely non-sensicle) like I did?
What other oft-used phrases fall into this category? Frequently used, but not really the words you think they are?
Here’s a song that my dad used to sing to me when I was a kid and it was years before I understood that it wasn’t gibberish.
Elisa Johnson is learning the difference between coding and developing
Elisa Johnson, one of the team members who have won the Canadian rounds of the Imagine Cup, and a University Student, is embarking on her 2nd week of a summer co-op position where she is getting some real world experience. This super post of Elisa’s is a beautiful example of why Mike G’s Coder to Developer book should be the graduation present of every CS major on the planet <g>.
“…you need to think about your user! … They have no idea what a “Null pointer reference error” is…. and they don’t care that the error came from SomeNewClass.System.SomethingElse()”.
(no, Mike is not paying me for every mention of his book…)
A hit list of what you should know if you want to break into the development field
Kathleen Dollard has posted a wonderful blog full of advice in response to a question asked “how do I break into a development career?” Like Mike Gunderloy’s Coder to Developer, Kathleen brings many many years of practical experience to the table.
How do you pay for tech conferences?
DevSource has a poll about getting your butt to conferences. Below is a picture of the poll. I like “I whine until they give in.“ It’s actually an important question. I’m self-employed and completely in charge of finding a way to get myself there. Thanks to my involvement with INETA I have been able to go to a three (that includes next week’s TechEd) because of our user group leader meetings. For PDC, I used frequent flyer miles, shared a hotel room with Michele and the real kicker was a big discount for the conference through the MVP program — which is the only reason I could go. In the future, I think a few speaking gigs will get me to some conferences as well. And that should be enough conferences for me! Anyway, I don’t know how successful I would be if it was up to my ability to convince an employer to foot the bill.
Follow the link to go vote. And while your at it, check out their contest to win a free trip to the VSLive conference in New York City!
VS 2005+ .NET 1.1 + Tablet PC SDK1.7 = ??
So it is time I MUST install the Tablet PC SDK1.7 somewhere. I cannot put it on my development machine as I have production work with SDK1.5 there. I can’t put it on my tablet because that tiny little Acer C110 is just NOT something I want to do development on. I don’t have enough mmmph on my main desktop machine or my laptop for VPC. My laptop has Whidbey latest on it which forced me to uninstall all previous versions of .NET (VS 2002/2003, .NET 1.0/1.1). But the laptop is the only conceivable box I have to install this on (which requires .NET 1.1) that I can try to experiment on.
Or not…maybe I’ll just try it on the Acer (which also has XPSP2 on it already)…oh decisions desicions. For my current tablet apps, I have done all of my development and most of the testing on a regular desktop and then just deployed to a tablet for the true inking tests. That’s what I would prefer to do in this case also. Well, check back in tomorrow and see what happened….
Maybe I should install XPSP2 on my laptop anyway. That should be okay by now with Whidbey.Oh, to have 10 machines (or one powerful enough to run VPC) or extra hard drives…wait. I HAVE an extra harddrive come to think of it. I have a 40Gig drive sitting right here in this machine. Unattached. Maybe, just maybe…