Rob pointed me to this great deal at TigerDirect.ca for a Abacus SPOT watch for $30. I wouldn't spend $150 for one of these things, but at $30, I couldn't resist. I've been able to play with it for just over a day, and I must say, it is really cool. I would love to be able to push my own content and code to it, but no SDK as of yet. When I was waiting for it to charge, I thought I would read the Reference Guide. I came across this: “Regardless of where you travel in North America or Canada,...
The company I work for is creating a corporate video to advertise at a trade show. It's about this BizTalk-based project that I've been going on about lately. The reason that they are making this video is because it, as anyone who as ever made a workflow product can verify, is not very demonstrable. They asked me if I would be willing to be taped, as they needed some sound bites (from a propeller head, I guess) to put in this video. At first I wasn't sure if I wanted to do this, but I have always...
Well, it's really official now, I'm going to presenting at ObjectSharp's Architect's Breakfast in December. I've been working on a project involving BizTalk 2004, SharePoint, and InfoPath for some time now. We hired a couple guys from ObjectSharp (Dave, Rob and Matt) to shore up some resource shortfalls. I guess Dave liked what he saw as he asked me to be a big part of this breakfast. My part of the presentation is talking about the software we used, and the things we learned along the way. This...
I was in a code review this week, and we came across the mistake of locking the type of a static class for thread sychronization (probably because it was documented in MSDN to do it this way). http://msdn.microsoft.com/l
I've heard, from time to time, that MSDE cannot be used for distributed applications. This is not true! I wasn't able to find any Microsoft Knowledge Base articles specifically for this, but I was able to find bits and pieces here and there, which I have combined here. To enable the network libraries of your choice, run (TCP/IP and/or Named Pipes are a good choices): Installation Drive/Program Files/Microsoft SQL Server/80/Tools/BINN/svrnet... If you have access to SQL Server client tools, you...