Conferences & Gatherings
This year I was able to attend Microsoft's PDC 2008. There were tons of fantastic sessions that I was unable to attend. One of the great things that Microsoft did with the PDC this year was to make the session videos available to everyone within twenty-four hours of the presentation. That's great but what if you wanted to download all of the session for offline viewing? Luckily for us Luciano Evaristo Guerche has made a tutorial to download all of the session videos and PowerPoint decks. Essentially, it involves a FireFox plug-in called DowThemAll to download all of the session...
The 06 South Florida .Net Code Camp will be held on February 4, 2006 at DeVry University in Miramar. There are currently fifty sessions planned for the event with topics covering SQL Server, ASP.Net 2.0 and other .Net topics. Best of all IT’S FREE!! So I’ll see you all there!Now Playing: MC Rob Base - It Takes Two
I caught Ron Howard's cabana talk on Community Server. There's a lot of cool new stuff that they've got planned. I got the feeling that they've got more features than devs/time. But it's good to know that they've got their pulse on the community and are listening. You hear that DotNetNuke community? Telligent is listening!
I had lunch with a couple of people who spent their evenings going to clubs and parties till two or three in the morning. How in the heck can you go to all of the sessions and have enough energy to go clubbing? I wonder...
Speaker: Mark Rideout Deployment with Click-Once You can run an application by clicking on a URL. Update an application by updating a server. Robust Downloader & Installer. File & HTTP server support. Start Menu & Add/Remove Programs integration Only the previous two versions are kept in cache. I wonder if this can be changed. Click-Once requires IE. With the bootstrapper you can deploy the .Net framework and SQL Express. Admin privileges are required. He shows the My namespace. We've all heard it before. Wait. Now we really hear it. He's playing a sound (that's a...
Speaker: Jeff King
What is good UI? Not just visually appealing. It's consistent, accessible, standards compliant. It has modular/interchangeable styles. It's also time efficient.
Master Pages
Factor redundancies into reusable templates
Inheritance concept baked-in architecturally
Has unlimited nesting
The Content's page Content control ContentPlaceHolderID property and the Master's ContentPlaceHolderID ID property must match.
You can dynamically switch the master page dynamically in the PreInit event.
This guy is typing the server code in the markup page instead of in the code behind. I really don't like that. I think the code-behind model is great! It offers a logical division between the markup...
I'm noticing that a lot of the women here are in the DB and BI world. Interesting.
Along those lines this conference is dominated by white males. How much so? Think along the lines of how the NBA is dominated by black males. I've only heard Spanish spoken once by a attendee.
I've now seen Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 crash three times during the conference. Crashy, Crashy.
Microsoft has announced the Microsoft Certified Architect program. But this isn't a take four test and your certified program. This is a certification with a peer board review process. Microsoft is allowing...
Speaker: Kimberly Tripp SQL Server stared from a team of five (Sybase) to 400 (for 7.0) to over 1,000 (for 2005). Geez, do you think that they've put some money into this thing? Query Analyzer and SQL Enterprise Manager are now lumped in to SQL Management Studio Analysis Manager turns into BI Developer Studio Profiler can now be run outside of the admin role. You can manage SQL Sever 2000, SQL Server 2005 and SQL Express from the SQL Management Studio. Source Safe (anything that uses the Windows Source Control API) integration is included into SQL Management...
Speaker: Rob Howard You can now change settings in Web.Config dynamically. This should allow devs to store configuration changes on-the-fly. Declarative Data Binding Controls bounds at appropriate time Wire-up done through properties Page lifecycle knowledge not required. Site Map allows the defining of how the ASP.Net website pages are laid out. The SQLDataSource is a server control that allows the defining of a SQL Sever Data Source without any code. The SQL DataSource control enables caching on the object. Parameters of a SQLDataSource control can be bound. These parameters can be from the...
Last night another piece that I worked on was dropped, on a released night. I'm still not pleased; God is still in control; Film at 11.
I took the 70-305 VB web exam this morning and I passed. Barley, but passed. I scored a 715 and I needed a 700. Not bad for two nights worth of studying. I'm really pleased. Really, really pleased. Of course I should of passed since I've been working with the product for almost three years.
Bringing a second battery to TechEd was the smartest thing that I could of done.
The schwag is piling...
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