May 2009 Entries
ArcSig Meeting 05/19/2009 Microsoft Ft. Lauderdale Jeff Barnes gave a excellent presententation about .NET RIA Services - Building Data-Driven Applications with Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft ASP.NET. Great participation, almost all seats were taken. Jeff gave us a great insight into the next Silverlight version with code examples and programmatic features. Thank you very much for the great presentation Jeff, we are looking forward to your next one! Find more information about Jeff and .NET...
The June meeting will be on 06/16/2009 6:30 PM Microsoft Office Ft. Lauderdale: Telmo Sampaio, CTO of Blue Dasher Technologies: SQL 2008 Beyond Relational Signup at: http://www.fladotnet.com/ Participate in an architecture review showcasing the use of SQL Server 2008 Spatial features and the filestream data type together with WCF services, Virtual Earth and jQuery. The session will focus on a pre-defined solution architecture using SQL Server 2005 with pure relational data and after a brief introduction...
Some third party add-ons can cause a miserable performance running Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. On my machine the Java Plug-In SSV helper caused a delay of several seconds before a web page was displayed. I disabled the add-on and everything was again speedy and smooth. If you experience a slow performance of IE8 disable one add-on after another to find out which add-on makes your day miserable (in the menubar select: tools-manage add-ons). I wonder if Microsoft can integrate a function checking...
This month ArcSig meeting on 05/19/2009 6:30PM Microsoft Office Ft. Lauderdale: Jeff Barnes: NET RIA Services - Building Data-Driven Applications with Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft ASP.NET. Jeff Barnes is the Microsoft Architect Evangelist for the Gulf States District where he engages with the local Architect community to help solve tough business problems with leading-edge technology. Jeff has been with Microsoft for over 8 years and has spent over 6 ½ years of those years as an...
Over the last few days I installed Windows 7 RC on 2 of my Laptops and one PC. Microsoft delivered a great OS, everything runs smooth and fast and I did not experience any problems at all. Congratulations to the Microsoft Development Teams! Windows 7 is a "Box Office Hit" and offers a rich experience and fast response to professional and average users. File explorer, start menu and Internet Explorer 8 are incredible and well balanced! I have no doubts that Windows 7 will be fast adopted in business...