Peter is absolutely right in describing my affection for my Acer. Perhaps this might be a smart thing to think about when marketing it. Perhaps it might be a good idea to ensure that the manufacturers continue to design them with these form factors. Unfortunately, that’s probably also going to mean “fashion covers” like they have for cell phones.
What’s really sad about the fashion cover link is that I just out of curiosity googled “barbie cell phone cover” and found that instantly!
Thanks to the recent flurry (let’s keep it up!!!!) of discussion on women in tech, Robert Scoble says he decided to interview Sara Ford, a tester on the VS.NET team on her thoughts. In her Channel9 interview, Sara talks about her attraction at a very young age, to a puzzle game on a TI-99, her constant draw to things I.T. as she grew up, her struggles to get access to it and also her theory of what attracts girls to computers – storyline. It’s a short interview, but says a lot. Check it out. It is one of many of her Channel9 interviews. In her blog, Sara says 5 of the 8 have been posted. I think this one makes 6 though. Thanks Robert and Sara!
The imagine cup is an international competition. Each country that is involved produces a winning team from the various regional competitions. Those teams go on to Brazil. Mike Flasko shares with us the news that his team, consisting of himself, Elisa Johnson, Jason Kemp and Tyler Holmes, has won the rounds in Canada. Congratulations!
I got to listen to some of the interview and it was awesome to get a glimpse of how much Don knows about not only XML but how it fits into the big picture. Then some guy called from Canada and took over the show for a while (I was working so I didn’t listen too carefully at whatever that was all about) and then there was some of Carl’s beautiful music (from the lyrics, it sounded like an original) and I went to bed at 11 and missed the rest. I’ll be sure to check the rest of the show when it gets posted here.
Late last year, I finally began tackling WSE and then followed that up with some (now postponed boo hoo) very excited digging into WSE2.
During that time I had read a very useful article on WSE by Jeannine Hall Gailey and heard from her that she had a WSE2 book coming out.
The insatiable programming book reader, Jason Salas, has just read, really liked and reviewed the book. Here’s his review.
WSE2 is still in technical preview mode, but if you haven’t gotten your feet wet with it yet, better hurry up! Here is a slew of MSDN articles.
I was fortunate enough to be in the car this morning and caught the last 20 minutes of Bob Edwards finall day of host NPR’s Morning Edition.
I was at the dr’s this morning and could hear loud and clear the incredible sound of someone’s baby’s heart beating away via their ultrasound. I think I’ve only “heard” that over t.v. or a movie previously. It will be making me smile for a long time!
Hannes Preishuber (who I met at the summit. Hi, Hannes!) learns something very scary about TSQL.
Here are some great reasons to protect yourself from SQL Injection through things like validation (Hannes points out that a typical search for quotes won’t help in this case), using stored procedures and using least priveleged accounts for your webdatabase
Shutdown – Shuts Down SQL Server
Revoke – Revokes user permissions
Grant – Give yourself any permission you want
Drop Table /Index/Rule/Procedure Etc.
Drop Database – ouch!
My first BASIC class was in my junior year in College which would either have been fall of 1981 or spring of 1982. Yeah – before most of you were born. We worked on HeathKits that the mathematician professors (a married couple) had built.
Here’s Paul Vick on the topic and an AP Article he was interviewed for.
I love this from the article! Brings back memories!!
10 PRINT “In 1963 two Dartmouth College math professors had a radical”
20 PRINT “idea – create a computer language muscular enough to harness”
30 PRINT “the power of the period’s computers, yet simple enough that even”
40 PRINT “the school’s janitors could use it.”
50 END
Mike Gunderdoy says “more than 1/2 of those years” for him. I guess that makes us about even!?
The April 2004 edition of the INETA NORAM (North America) Newsletter just went out and is also up on the INETA site at http://www.ineta.org/newsletters. Some of the other regions also have newsletters now and they are on this page as well. The “NORAM” newsletter is not explicitly about US & Canada. I try to pick up info from different areas of the world as well. Enjoy!