Our www.Phillydotnet.org second installment of the 2008 Code Camp series will be held at the DeVry University campus in Fort Washington, PA on Saturday, May 17 from 8:30-5:00. Please register on our
web site.-->Detailed directions are on the DeVry web site. sold out.
There will be another Code Camp in May.-->
Lots of code, just say no to slides!
8+ hours
40+ sessions (8:30, 10:00, 12:30, 2:00, 3:30)
8 tracks + lunchtime entertainment
500 seats with tables (laptops...
Tim Heuer wrote and asked if there was a feed from my blog *just* for Silverlight. I didn't know you could do it, but Tim showed me I could.
So, for those of you that don't want to be bothered by my non-Silverlight blather, you can just switch your feed to this Silverlight-only one.
This also means that for any GWB blogger or any SubText site, I would guess, you can get a content-specific feed. Find where the writer's "Post Categories" are, and when you hover over the one you want, in the...
Michael Sync with Styling the DataGrid and LeeOnTech Scrolling in the ItemsControl.
From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight 2 (beta1): Styling the Datagrid & Formating Datagrid Date Column Michael Sync adds some styling to the DataGrid, and has the code on his site. Scrolling In ItemsControl Lee Shows a way to scroll an ScrollViewer by using buttons instead of a scrollbar... I like outside-the box ideas like this because it makes people think, and pretty soon someone creates something that...
Its the main event tomorrow... Developer Day Scotland - 10th May 2008 If you have not already signed up, well, its probably too late...but if you are still up and you are in Glasgow tomorrow get yourself down to Glasgow Caledonian University (I went to University there) and drop in. Don't forget to sign up tonight... If you are up for it there is a Developer Day Scotland Geek Dinner on afterwards and some drinking before that. Technorati Tags: Developer Day Scotland, Scotland...
I finally did something I wanted to do for a loooooong time: I cleaned up and put my resume online on my website. Note for Beat (my boss), if you read this, don't panic, I am not leaving just right now :) Anyway. For those of you who like to know my (professional) self better, feel free to take a look. If you want a username and password to check my certificates and awards, contact me. And if you have any comment, give me feedback...
As I noted earlier, I recently converted a Visual Studio 2005 solution with WCF clients to Visual Studio 2008. After making some additional changes and running the application, I started getting errors instantiating the WCF clients. The message -- that the contract for my WCF client couldn't be found in the list of endpoints in my config -- was unexpected since I re-created my WCF clients with the same name (and in the same namespace) as before. After a quick inquiry with my colleague (and brilliant...
I have vastly been neglecting my blogging. So as not to be outdone by Chris Koenig .... I was able to meetup with the organizers of the event, Jason Pluenneke, Curt Wolfe, Boyd Evert, & Dennis Berk several weeks ago. I am personally very excited about this new user group starting up. Partly because of my small part in helping them (one of my roles as the INETA Membership Mentor), but mostly because of my passion for databases. I'm really looking forward to what will be coming out of the...
Every so often, I am reminded exactly why using VBScript as the scripting language for QTP was a mildly bad idea.
Today, as you might have guessed, is one of those days.
See, I want to extend the Browser object in QTP. Oh, I can create user functions and register them with the browser (I do all of the time), but that isn't really the way I want this to work. I want to have a function off the browser that takes a name from a name-value pair in the query string and returns the value...like ASP.Net...
It is difficult to introduce both novice and experienced procedural programmers to the anthropomorphic perspective necessary for object-oriented design. Wherever possible we wish to illustrate the use of functional programming in the web domain. In this domain, expressions that involve mirrors of HTML and XML elements are the key constituents.
We make new members part of the team through close training and interaction. Expressions use VB.NET syntax and are technically very similar to Excel formulas,...
Written by: Michael Stephenson (http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson)
Background
A few posts ago I had a bit of a whinge about the limitation of a map for a response message in a request response port. The basic problem was I was returning a common schema based message to the port which needed to be mapped to a different format depending on which receive location associated with the port had initiated the process. The send side was fine in that you can send two different input messages which...
DMAIC is used to improve processes, and it is to engineers what O-O is to developers: a well known and understood best practice with patterns, anti-patterns, and a common language and toolset. DMAIC is an acronym for five interconnected phases: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control, and is usually an integral part of a company's Six Sigma practice. Pronounced (Duh-May-Ick), it is a data-driven, procedural approach and quality strategy for improving processes- in this case, application...
A while back I posted about Scott Hanselman's 32 Ways to Keep Your Blog from Sucking post. At some point later, I created a slide deck to tell the story. I've shared that deck at 32 Ways to Keep Your Blog from Sucking by Scott Hanselman Presentation...
I've found that there are some analogies that are useful for describing agile principles.
Continuous Integration (CI) can be likened to the temperature gauge on your car.
For the most part, if your temperature gauge goes into the red, it's advised that the driver stop immediately and fix the problem with the car. Otherwise the car may overheat and do serious damage to the engine, while bringing the car to an stop FOR the driver. The cost of waiting is significantly higher, and the benefit...
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Skyfire is a mobile browser that delivers rich web media "real fast." You can: Watch streaming video like YouTube Listen to streaming music like last.fm and Rhapsody Access social networks like Facebook and MySpace Skyfire promises "blazing fast" page loads, as fast as your real PC. Skyfire also supports QuickTime, Java and Flash. Sign up for the beta here. Technorati Tags: Skyfire,Rich Media,Windows Mobile...
Ok I've visited this one before, but now I'm just a tad scared, because first I had the VS2003 .NET 1.1 bits working on the server, then I went through the whole IIS and VS2005 .NET 2.0 CR bits.
Now this morning I got email from a user that one of the reports is pooting... argggg...
And it's the infamous "Load Report Failed" error.
I tried and of course, it poots on my system as well :( ... I tried the .NET 2.0 "Merge" version and wow... that sucker just flies .. cool!
So back to Google and...
Quote:
...legacy code is simply code without tests. - Working Effectivly with Legacy Code - Micheal Feathers
I was discussing testing with a friend the other day, mainly Test Driven Development and we got onto the topic of new code without tests and retrofitting them. The first thing that popped into my head was the above quote and the following:
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Code without tests us bad code. It doesn't matter how...
In case any of you has been wondering why I'm not blogging so lately although I have many topics interested in (See my Google Reader Shared Items), and have already mentioned topics I should be blogging about, I was getting many "last minutes" exams and quizes lately at university. This is going to remain for a while. I'm having exams May 21st to June 3rd, and already had vacation from work that has just started. The same applies to blogging I guess, but with small difference, that sometimes while...
I work on a lot of different Windows CE projects. Some of them have a display, while others do not. Sometimes I just have a board laying on my desk with power and a debug serial connection. So I thought it would be handy to have a simple little app that I could use for testing my drivers.
Given my constraints, the debug port would be useful for presenting the user interface. Sure I could use a serial driver for this, but would mean using two serial ports, which I don't always have available. ...
Recently at work I had to track down some errors that were being thrown when trying to write out some files. The logs showed the path the files were trying to be written to but they were not in a valid format. So, I fould the line of code that built the path
sPath = Path.Combine("C:\Logging","ClientOne" I removed the variables and put in values.
Looks straigt forward enough until I noticed that the second value had been chaged to "\ClientOne" in the database causing the code to look like
sPath...
So if Mariah Carey is going to feature us Geeks on her videos, the least she could do is get her geekspeak right! I mean sheezh, who uses 802.11a anyway? (mentioned at the end of the video) The geek in the video needs to upgrade her firmware to 802.11n! Oh wait, I think her doctor already upgraded her "firmware". Well, we (us geeks) should all be happy at least. We finally got the jocks off the music videos. So does this finally lend legitimacy to the new Geek Era, or just make fun of us? ...
Not too long after the INETA Board elections (mentioned here) I was approached and offered a different role within INETA. Specifically, the role of Director of User Group Recruitment.
The mission of this role is to identify and recruit non-traditional (i.e. specific technology focus, such as: XNA, Silverlight, BI, Sharepoint, etc) and newly formed traditional (.NET) user groups into INETA.
After some discussion and consideration, I accepted the position and immediately began assembling a...
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