Sahil’s teaser video for his ado.net 2.0 video training course is great. Clearly a guy who loves data access and has an enormous reverence for data. But watch the video all the way through as you will surely get a great laugh at the end!
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I’m only part way through watching this but you GOTTA see it. Naturally, they brought in Duane LaFlotte as a hacker – I have said before – he’s the guy you want on YOUR side!!
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Thea Burger went to a Women in IT networking event. She met a woman who made a startling comment when Thea introduced herself as a devloper. There is now a funny ongoing thread of comments about this on her post…
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I think this post is just for my friend Dave who works at home and has more than his fair share of blog posts about donuts.
Rich bought a box of little chocolate covered donuts last night. I begged and pleaded with him to let me have some. He’s a good husband though and tries to help me when it comes to succumbing to my dreadful addiction to chocolate. Especially as he’s the one who has to hear me whine about the way my jeans fit (or don’t, as the case may be).
His first response was “donuts are for people who go to work”. That did not go over well since I happen to work about 12 or more hours a day. So then he tried “donuts are for people who leave the house to go to work.” Boo hiss.
After he “left the house to go to work” this morning I came downstairs knowing that surely, because he loves me so very very much, he had left me a few of these little tasty treats. But they were nowhere to be found. He told me later that he had departed with the fully sealed box of donuts this morning. I had to make due with oatmeal, since the closest possible source is a 25 minute round trip drive. So here it is, nearly lunchtime, and I’m still thinking about those damned donuts!
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Seems pretty inane, but this is the kind of stuff one has to worry about when writing articles. Although sometimes I can leave that to the great tech editors I get to work with like Melanie Spiller. I have gotten very good at properly casing things like SqlNotification and DataSet. But [web services] was always an issue for me. So today I went onto the W3C site and found the following on this page:
“The World Wide Web is more and more used for application to application communication. The programmatic interfaces made available are referred to as Web services.”
Okay, so I’m sticking with capital W and all lower case for the rest.
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“Error Creating Window Handle” is not a .NET error, but is coming from Win32, which, in itself, is a big clue when trying to solve this problem, which I had to do today. [Read more …]
[A DevLife post]
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I can barely contain my excitement over this article, “Practical Tips for Boosting the Performance of Windows Forms Apps” by Milena Salman in MSDN Mag (March 06). I read most of it this morning over breakfast and came down to my office with the sole intent of opening up the windows forms app I am getting ready to re-deploy in it’s shiny new .NET 2.0 makeover and finding any place that I can apply all of the awesome advice Milena dishes out in this article.
Of course, now it’s 2:00 and if I can just turn off Outlook, I.M. and the phone, I might actually get started on this.
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