A bit belated in this posting, but Steven Borg and I are both Microsoft MVPs now! I attended the MVP summit a few weeks ago as an RD, and I've got to say that I am in some good company, and am really impressed at the level of support Microsoft gives to this program.
Seattle Code Camp is just around the corner - about 10 days away. Steven Borg and I are going to be presenting a couple of Team System and SQL Server 2005 topics at camp and we hope to see you there!
A friend of mine sent me this link. It's a pretty good refrence page on the core keyboard shortcuts.
Microsoft’s senior vice president, Steven Sinofsky, discusses support for the PDF Format in Office 12. It appears it will be as simple as "Save-as".
Read the Q&A here.
I had a student just show me the Wayback Machine, which is a Web site that caches other sites all the way back to 1998. So, if you want to see how the old Microsoft or Google site looked a few years ago, you can! And, yes Google's site did look different in 1999.
You heard how much fun we had at the Portland Code Camp in July. Plan now to join us at the Seattle Code Camp October 22 and 23. That's only a few weeks away. Oh, and the best thing about Code Camp is that anyone can present a topic, so propose something!
Channel 9 has picked up the Scott Cate's AJAX video. Yes, that's me chillin in the background!
Microsoft and Plam announced today that an upcoming model of the Treo (early 2006) will run Windows Mobile 5.0. Verizon will provide the high-speed network.
I've been heads-down all week building content for the big launch on November 7, but I wanted to blog about Dave Bost being hired on by Microsoft. He'll be assuming the role of Developer Evangelist for the midwest district, and he's joining at a great time, what with Team System, Visual Studio, SQL Server, and BizTalk Server all launching soon!
Next Thursday, September 22, Boise State University will present a free conference designed to help consumers and business people alike gain the knowledge they need to protect against and recover from identity theft crimes. The conference will run from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. in the Student Union building.
- 0755 - 0800 Welcome
- 0800 - 0915 Rick Estberg, IOSS.GOV; ID Theft
- 0915 - 1000 IRA WINKLER, Internet Security Advisors Group (ISAG); Corporate Espionage
- 1000 - 1045 Nora Carpenter, BBB; Scam Alerts
- 1045 - 1100 Senator Larry E. Craig, R-ID; Eldercare and Protecting Seniors from Fraud
- 1100 - 1145 Debra Schriner & Kris Inskeep, INL.GOV; Talking Trash
- 1145 - 1230 C. Honts Ph.D., Boise State University; Psychology of Deception
- 1230 - 1315 Det. Quilter & Jill Langhurst Esq., City of Boise & Ada County; White Collar Crime & Det. Curt Crum, Retail Fraud Schemes
- 1315 - 1400 Detective Ed Hewitt, Ret., City of Vancouver; ID Theft & Meth
- 1400 - 1430 Special Agent Jim Hatch, USSS; Electronic Fraud Schemes
- 1430 – 1500 Brice Sloan, Sloan Fencing; Interviewing Employees for the Prevention of Occupational Fraud
- 1500 - 1530 Mark Albrecht, Hewlett Packard Privacy Manager; What Companies Do With You Information
- 1530 - 1600 Gar Hackney, Esq., Defending the Accused
- 1600 - 1630 Expert Panel: Questions &Answers OR Cory Schou, Ph.D., Idaho State University, Information Assurance
Please visit this page at BSU for more information.
In other words, he joined Microsoft. Yes, my fellow RD to the (great white) North, John Bristowe just hired-on as a new Developer Evangelist (DE) for the area.
Good luck John!
I just found the URL to my forthcoming Team System book on Amazon. This is the revised edition that I just finished last month! Too bad there's no graphic, and the date is wrong. I was told it'll be up there the first of October.
Thanks again for all your support on this!
Update: A friend, Peter Nowak, from Germany pointed me towards the listing on Amazon.de! He also mentioned it in a recent blog posting.
This was a last minute thing that came up, but yesterday morning I presented a 1-hour session on Team System to this virtual conference. I understand that they had 4500+ attendees signed-up. I know that my session had 100 people in it, which is great for a conference that was devoid of any specific tools (most topics were on management, theory, and best practice).
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People ask why we arrived at the PDC on Friday, several days ahead of the first day. Well, it was so we could present Team System at the pre-conference, as well as go sailing all day Saturday. Here is a video (scroll down) that Lorin Thwaits and Scott Cate created to show at the PDC, and show-off Ajax and myKB.
I seem to remember suggesting this to a few of the Google guys at their room party at PDC 2003. Well, it took them two years to do it, but it looks promising.
Read the CNET article here, Google's FAQ here, or try it!
My friend Scott Swigart got a chance to sit down with several Microsoft employees and chat about the planned features and changes. This is great, considering Visual Basic 8.0 isn't even out yet. One of the most anticipated features is Language INtegrated Query (LINQ).
Check out Scott's article on Dr. Dobb's.
Just down the road from the convention center is where you can find the coolest event going. PDC Underground! It's where we will have some food and drinks and hear from the best speakers in town for the PDC, all in one evening!
When: Tuesday September 13th 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: The Westin Bonaventure Hotel in the Catalina Ballroom
Food and drinks then at 6:30pm 2 hours of non stop geeky fun with all new GROK Talks and they will be LIVE! Presented by Regional Directors from around the world.
Check with your local .NET user group or contact us to get your "PDC Underground" button that will get you in the door or find someone at PDC with one and ask how they got it. Get a few extra to give to your cool hard core friends.
Register at www.pdcunderground.com
Just down the road from the convention center is where you can find the coolest event going. PDC Underground! It's where we will have some food and drinks and hear from the best speakers in town for the PDC, all in one evening!
When: Tuesday September 13th 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: The Westin Bonaventure Hotel in the Catalina Ballroom
Food and drinks then at 6:30pm 2 hours of non stop geeky fun with all new GROK Talks and they will be LIVE! Presented by Regional Directors from around the world.
Check with your local .NET user group or contact us to get your "PDC Underground" button that will get you in the door or find someone at PDC with one and ask how they got it. Get a few extra to give to your cool hard core friends.
Register at www.pdcunderground.com
Oracle announced publicly today that it will buy Siebel Software for 5.85 million. Here's a news article.
Literraly, LA suffered a major blackout a few minutes ago. All pre-conference presentations and meetings were halted and people were just milling about. Power came back on the the convention center a few minutes ago.
I've done a lot of things from the SQLCLR thus far, except for consuming an ASP.NET Web Service. This morning, I ran into some difficulties. Here are some key points to remember:
- Remove any app.config from your SQLCLR project so that VS 2005 can properly deploy
- Refer to this posting if you get the "Cannot load dynamically generated serialization assembly ..." error message
- Refer to this posting on how to automate the fix above from within Visual Studio 2005
Many thanks to Vineet Rao (Microsoft) for these tips.
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