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Rollo the Pirate says Happy Halloween

Purely Personal

I pilfered this from my parent’s website, www.BlueHeavenNewfoundlands.com. They are newfie breeders (mostly Landseers, like Rollo). Rollo is one of their puppies, now 8 years old, who is owned by a really neat lady who dances with her dogs competitively. Yes dances. She and Rollo were even on Nick at Nite and they compete in various “Freestyle” events. YOu can read more about that here. She dresses up her dogs for the dancing and also for pics like these – for Halloween, New Years and more. There’s a page filled with them on my parent’s site.

Silverlight 1.1 – Look before you leap (into LINQ or into WCF)

Silverlight

I spent a lot of time coding in javascript for silverlight 1.0 and am having fun now getting back to managed code with 1.1. I’m even doing it all in C#, but the main reason is because I  have a lot of nearly reusable javascript code and it’s just easier to port that to C#.

However, as usual, I am just diving head first and not doing too much advance research. Two things I learned the hard way:

Silverlight does not yet support LINQ
I spent bunch of time buliding a beatiful LINQ to XML method to build up some XAML by hand. But it was my first time using LINQ to XML to build and XML document, so what I learned in doing that was not a waste by any means.

Silverlight does not yet support WCF
I built a very nice WCF service, with composite types and everything only to learn (when I went to add service reference to my SL client) that it’s not supported yet. There are a few workarounds, [here on the sliverlight forums] and [here in Luis Abreu’s blog], but since this particular code will be for a conference demo and I don’t want to add any extra layers of complexity, I will just go back to ASMX for this one.

Vermont IT Jobs: ASP.NET (and more) Developers in Stowe, Vermont

Jobs

Yes, you can have it all! Live in a cool place (Stowe, Vermont) and do the work you love surrounded by smart people!

 

(While you are at it, check out Springer-Miller, also in Stowe who, like Inntopia, has a sizable and brainy team of programmers.)

 

 

Inntopia in Stowe

 

APPLICATION DEVELOPERS
REQUIRED TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE
4+ years experience in a majority of the following technologies

  • ASP.NET/C#
  • SQL/T-SQL
  • XML
  • XSL/XPath
  • AJAX / JavaScript
  • XHTML/DHTML
  • COM/DCOM
  • SOAP/Web Services

SOFTWARE TOOLS
Familiarity with the at least 2 of the following development applications:

  • Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003/2005
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005
  • XMLSpy
  • Visio

REQUIRED SKILLS

  • Ability to design, develop and maintain software on Microsoft .NET platform.
  • Ability to design and develop software in a group or independently.
  • Comfort with direct communication with all levels of technical and business resources.
  • Self-managing, self-motivated learner with good written and oral communication skills.

ADDITIONAL BENEFICIAL SKILLS

  • Travel/hospitality industry experience
  • Experience with high-volume transactional accounting systems (accounts receivable and accounts payable)
  • Experience with complex pricing and commission structures
  • Experience with security protocols (i.e. PCI Compliance and data encryption standards)
  • Experience with software development process management.
  • Experience developing multi-lingual web applications.

Email resume to lisa@inntopia.com

World champs: Boston Red Sox and Lucy the Cow

Vermont

I’m not a big baseball fan, so I didn’t even realize that the world series was already in play. This morning, I learned that the Red Sox had won yet another series (many Vermonters are big SOX fans) but the really big news this morning was that Lucy, a Holstein from Derby, Vermont, was crowned the “top female Holstein on the planet at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, WIsconsin. “On the planet”!

Here’s the big news with a cute picture of Lucy.

Learn Silverlight Annotation – make a killing in the online advertising market

Tablet

Yet another Flash driven advertisement (here are some others i’ve blogged about in the past) that uses annotation. Below is a screencast of me playing with this Notes ad (with a mouse, not a stylus). You can do this in Silverlight 1.0 and 1.1 with the InkPresenter. I’ll be giving a session on Annotating in Silverlight as part of the Mobile Connections show during the big DevConnections conference next week (Nov 5 – 8) in Las Vegas.

Article: Writing a Viewer Utility for Crystal Reports

dotNET

A few years ago, I wrote a little utility for one of my clients who uses Crystal Reports XI to design reports inhouse. They wanted other people on the corporate intranet to be able to see and refresh the reports and if necessary, enter new parameters. Since they weren’t designing reports, it didn’t make sense to buy licenses for everyone and I was able to (very easily) come up with a viewer utility that did the trick. I finally wrote this article about it for ASPAlliance, as they have a great collection of articles (mostly written by Eric Landes).

Writing a Viewer Utility for Crystal Reports

Article: CoDe Mag MVP Corner – Coders Anonymous

Just Rambling

Leave it to CoDe Magazine to let me write about the problem some of us programmers have when we really have to pee, but we just want to get that last line of code working. I also talk about my own impatience and obsessions around programming and suggest that I might not be the only developer with these traits.

MVP Corner – Coder’s Anonymous

It’s in the current issue (Nov/Dec 2007) and is also now online.