SQL Server Reporting Services and Crystal Reports:
A Competitive Analysis
Thanks for pointing this out, Mike. I have still not touched Reporting Services and continue my “can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em” relationship with Crystal, so I definitely need to read it.. It is written by Brian Bischof who has a self-published book on Crystal Reports.NET that I have talked about before.
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I hate seeing this happen! [With her permission,] I am copying and pasting Heather’s post here because she might remove this explanation as well. She already chose to remove the original post. I can understand, I had to do this once, too, although I didn’t get hate mail, just a lot of people who wanted me to debate when I just didn’t feel like it.
i’ve gotten so much hate mail from writing about a certain film with an assisted suicide, a crappy script and poor props management that i simply took it down.
never again will i express opinions that have even the remotest possibility of offending anyone with a taste for bad films. it’s simply not worth it!
i tried writing back directly to those who’ve left comments but they didn’t have the decency to spew their venom from real email addys.
this post will only remain up temporarily, just so you can get this message- in particular the very most recent and evil one which threatened me with God, etc in it. who’s site is this anyway?
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So I can never figure this one out.
You overpay your state taxes.
They send you a refund.
The next year, you pay taxes to the Federal Government on that refund.
eh?
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Holy Canoli. I type really fast – or so I thought. So if I type fast and this is my score on the TypeQuick typing test, I cannot being to imagine how freaking fast Sahil types!!!
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People always ask me how I find the time to learn about Whidbey and also get my work done. I wonder how people manage to deal with Avalon, Indigo, Longhorn etc. So I thought it would be a really interesting topic for a BOF. HEre’s the BOF proposal that I just submitted. It has to be approved before you can vote.
Whidbey, Yukon, Indigo, Avalon, Longhorn, EEEK! How the heck do we learn all this stuff when we can’t even keep on top of all of the current technology? Come to this BOF and we can talk about how we decide how far ahead we should be looking, how we pick and choose what we want to learn and how we find the time and energy to do it.
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I know that every time we have done these we get a new group of women who have not had the opportunity to sit in a room with a bunch of women programmers and talk. Although there will be a Women in IT luncheon again this year (these are awesome). So I have submitted this BOF. Not sure how long it takes for them to go live. Here is the description.
This will be the 3rd Women who Code BOF. It is not a bitch & stitch session, but just an opportunity to gather with some women that you have a lot in common with and talk about some of the things that make being in a mostly male industry work for us. Maybe you find it a challenge. Perhaps you thrive on being special. You may even not think that it’s an issue. Either way, it would be interesting to hear your perspective!
If you would like to see this session happen, go vote!
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I think it’s time for me to start focusing on concepts like Contract First and tools like ThinkTecture’s WSCF as well as Kirk Allen Evan’s new WSE2 templates. Web Methods mask messaging from us and using them in VS.NET makes me think I am working with objects. I think I have done more than enough with Web Services to finally get rid of the training wheels and prepare my head for Indigo. And definitely check out John Bristowe’s and Benjamin Mitchell’s thoughts on this.
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I guess they got a little tiresome only because there were so many but it was fun how many people put together some really creative April Fool’s jokes. Also it made it hard to post anything that was serious because who would believe it?
The best was Matt Hawley who has been blogging about his move to go work for Microsoft over the past few weeks. Yesterday he blogged – haha that was all an April Fool’s joke, which kind of made any one reading those posts scratch their heads, wondering – what the heck is funny about that? It turned outo that the joke WAS on us, because he really is going to Microsoft. Good one, Matt.
My posting about the VB keywords The and A, was actually a group effort by a bunch of VB people: myself, Kathleen Dollard, Rocky Lhotka, Jackie Goldstein and Billy Hollis. Obviously a spoof. But I thought everyone’s contributions were pretty clever and funny. Hardly anyone memed it though, oh well.
The funny thing about that post was that it was so obviously a joke, however my own comments made people think that I didn’t get it was a joke! As if I found the press release somewhere else and was upset about it. Ha ha. So I did get you! Nah nah nah. And the other funny thing that happened, was that Kathleen and I (who love each other, really, we do!) had a little unplanned cat fight on our blogs. So in case that worried anyone, no need – we were giggling about it. She’s not off her rocker. But she did get some good digs in on me, didn’t she. Hmmmmmm….
Anyway, it was fun to do. I have been planning that since the MVP summit last year.
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