I can definitely relate to Dan’s glee at learning that he would be interviewing Bill Gates for Channel 9.
Vermont IT Jobs: C# Developer to work with Sharepoint
From Technical Connection in Burlington:
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Burlington’s Penguin Plunge
A great video of a local fundrasier – over a thousand people jumping into the very icy Lake Champlain on a cold day
XSLT Profiler AddIn for VS2008
I haven’t tried it out yet, but there’s never an end to needing tools to help save your butt when you are trying to code XSLT. This one is from Microsoft’s XML Tools team.
Coding without coffee? Can it be done?
I have a few rules when I’m sick including no coffee, minimal caffeine, no sugar and no dairy. I had a bad chest cold for 3 weeks, and followed that rule pretty well. Now that I’m feeling better, I’m trying to see how long I can go without coffee. I still crave it but eventually that will go away too. So far I have survived! The challenge will be tomorrow since our user group meeting is right across the road from a Starbucks! And of course, my fave is latte’s (I blame Michele for turning me on to their Vanilla Lattes 😉 which is coffee AND sugar AND dairy all together. I’d call that an addiction.
I can’t say I have had no caffeine though since I am now drinking English Breakfast tea and plenty of Green Tea too.
Microsoft’s Web Development Tools Team Blog
I am, like to-oh-tally suscribed to the WebDevTools blog, dude! Here’s why
[A New DevLife post]
Planning ahead for web site growth
I seem to frequently point people to the technical story of MySpace as they went through the painful evolution that eventually led them to have a serious ASP.NET website to manage what is one of the highest traffic websites in the world. Even if it’s not ASP.NET that you choose, it’s a good lesson in planning ahead. Read more…
[A New DevLife post]
Computer Monster vs. the Indestructible Machine
Jessica Fosler has a very funny YouTube video of a Sesame Street Cookie Monster clone interacting with a “totally indestructable” machine.
She also has some great WPF UI posts that I need to dig into …
Entity Framework on DotNetRocks Feb 26th
I’ll be doing a DotNetRocks show with Carl and Richard about the Entity Framework. Danny Simmons was on DNR last April so it’s definitely time for an update!
Visual Studio 2008 Pro Unit Testing at VTdotNET on Monday
Now that the Team System’s Unit Testing tools are built in to VS2008 Pro, many of us will finally get a chance to take a look at it.
Luckily I know some VSTS experts who aren’t too far away and we have Sarah Cameron coming down from Montreal to teach us all about how to use the built-in Unit Testing in VS2008 on Monday. We have a bunch of NUnit users in the group and they are also curious about how the Microsoft version stacks up. Interestingly this session is drawing out a lot of people who have never been to a VTdotNET meeting before! Go Sarah!
Read more at www.vtdotnet.org!
Speaker: Sarah Cameron (InCycle Software ) — Location: VT Tech, Williston Campus Topic: Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2008 VS2008 Pro now includes the Unit Testing features that were previously only available in the VSTS sku. Sarah Cameron, a Visual Studio Team System expert from InCycle Software (www.incyclesoftware.com), will demonstrate how to use and really benefit from Unit Testing in VS2008 using this built in tool.. Speaker Bio: Sarah Cameron is a consultant specializing in Visual Studio Team System, with experience on projects from inception to delivery following well-defined software processes. Sarah has been working as a consultant for Incycle Software (www.incyclesoftware.com) a Montreal based firm specializing in Team System consulting services. She has been assisting ISVs and larger corporations successfully plan and deploy Visual Studio Team System. She may be contacted at sarah.cameron@incyclesoftware.com |
