Ann DeMarle is the director of the Emergent Media Center at Champlain College in Vermont. She has started blogging at http://emergentmediacenter.blogspot.com and I look forward to her great insights!
I was honored to be invited by Ann to participate in a Degree Advisory Council for this program.
Finally it’s real live production bits to play with!!
In addition to finally using real bits, key to this release are the finalization of response formats (XML by way of ATOM and JSON), security, an AJAX client, querying with LINQ when you are using one of the clients. THere’s a lot more.
Mike Flasko published 4 blog posts on the Astoria Team weblog yesterday:
ADO.NET Data Services (“Project Astoria”) CTP is Released
Viewing Data Services Responses Using Atom Serialization in Internet ExplorerADO.NET Data Services Dec2007 CTP – Validation and Access Control
While I was at my parent’s house helping out with their THIRTY-FOUR new newfie pups, Tasha was at home hitting an amazing milestone! She turned 14 years old. This is very old for a newfie. While she isn’t the athletic young girl she used to be thanks to arthritis, she is still full of it! Barking every morning to make sure everyone in the neighborhood knows “I’m still here!”, eating like a champ and full of desire (though not the ability) to go down to the road and see what there is to see. I spent years keeping her from getting hit by cars. Now that she’s old, I finally don’t have to worry about that any more. Her eyesight and hearing seem to be fine and she gets acupuncture to help out with the arthritis since her back legs are quite stiff. It’s hard to get up, get down and to walk. Not so hard that she’s not willing though although she hasn’t been doing stairs for a few years now. Every day I watch her so carefully to make sure that I’m not being selfish.
Here’s a picture of her today. A little scruffy because it’s basically impossible to give her a bath as we can’t make her stand for a long time. We can’t get her upstairs to our easy access shower to try to bathe her there either and now it’s too cold to bathe her outdoors. But she doesn’t mind and neither do we. She’s 98!
A little less than four years ago, I took some pics when we were giving Tasha a bath at our local (wonderful) pet store that has a great setup. Even then she was old for a newf at 10 and standing for a long time was a little problematic. But look how cute she is!
No less amazing is Daisy who will be 13 in a few more weeks.
At the Mix n Mash earlier this week, I asked Scott Guthrie what his opinion was about developers having to deal with SO many new technologies coming out from Microsoft at such a rapid pace.
His recommendation was to pick what is core to your work, or what you are really good at or really vested in and then ignore the rest.
Easier said than done.
Even if we follow ONLY his blog, we have myriad technologies in our faces. It’s very hard to predict the future. I am currently “ignoring’ .NET 3.0 (WPF, WCF & Workflow), MVC, AJAX Control Kit, SQL Server 2008, a huge chunk of Silverlight. Granted MVC is far out. Volta just showed up. Astoria is plowing ahead without me at the moment. Surface is astounding. And there’s so much more.
It’s very frustrating because this isn’t Lays potato chips. The one I ignore may have been the one that will make a difference in my ability to support a future client.
What Scott is suggesting is akin to watching t.v. without a remote! 🙂 We’ll see how it goes…
We just got a call from my mom on her way home from the vet with the last of the three litters! Bumper had eleven puppies. We can’t wait to see them.
You can keep an eye on things at my parent’s website: Blue Heaven Kennels.
Here’s a picture of the mommy, Bumper, at a dog show.
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It’s feeding time again! These are Celeste’s 6 puppies.
(On going… you can catch up at www.blueheavennewfoundlands.com)
The second litter was born yesterday. I’m helping to watch over them today. Celeste has to feed them every two hours and they nurse for over 1/2 hour. In between everyone rests up and the puppies get a Snuggle Puppy to curl up with. These are more than toys as they have a heartbeat and are warm. Sometimes they are all underneath it. Here’s what they are doing right now (there are 6 total but you can’t see them all here). The upstairs puppies (the litter of 17 that is now two weeks old) get two Snuggle puppies!
At the recent Mix n Mash 08, Bill Gates talked about how Microsoft creates their vision for software and computing and the acts upon that vision. Read more…
[A New DevLife post]
Although I wasn’t able to be in Vermont on Thursday for the Bob & Chris Roadshow or the VS2008 Installfest, I have gotten emails from Chris Bowen and others letting me know that it was a great success. Over 40 people showed up for the installfest, and I learned from Dave Burke’s blog that they also had TWO XB0X 360’s set up for folks to play with.
Larry Keyes blogged his extensive notes from the day.
Sorry to have missed it.
What I really enjoyed reading was Dave Burke’s epiphany about VS2008. The sessions from Bob & Chris really made things click for him and he’s ready to get in bed wiht VS2008. I was thinking about that becasue he said he’s seen LINQ 4 times before, but not until Thursday did he finally get to his AHA! moment with it. I believe this may have a lot to do with the fact that it’s finished, it’s deployed and in hand, rather than seeing very early bits (we’ve had 3 LINQ talks at VTdotNET in the last 1 1/2 years).
Sam Druker spends an hour talking in depth about Entity Framework in this new channel 9 video.