October 2009 Entries
I’ve become increasingly frustrated with my HTC Touch Pro. I love it for texting, tweeting, emailing, browsing…basically everything that’s not related to phone functionality. And that’s the kicker: it SUCKS as a phone, which is pretty bad since there’s not a lot that needs to happen for it to, y’know, be a good phone. So I was thrilled to find out that Telus is launching the iPhone on its new network it built with Bell! The day it drops: November 5th, a scant week! So last night a buddy of mine mentions ......
I’m very excited to announce the first Silverlight Winnipeg meetup! When: Tuesday October 27th, 5:30 PM to Whenever Where: Kings Head Pub (click here for a map) What: … The “What” may seem a bit different from other user group events that you’ve been to. For one, we’re not just aiming for Silverlight Winnipeg to be another user group. We want this to be a community of Silverlight developers and designers, people that are already immersed in the technology and want to connect with others who are like ......
October Event: Continuing T-SQL Development: Bullet-Dodging and Spoon-Bending Part 2 Michael DeFehr, Protegra Michael DeFehr continues his series on T-SQL development for the second Winnipeg SQL Server UG event, covering topics such as: Row Numbering and the OVER clause Table-valued Parameters Query Optimization and Tuning When: Wednesday, October 28th, 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM (Might be finished earlier, but won't go any later) Where: 17th Floor Conference Room, Richardson Building, One Lombard Place (If ......
Yesterday Protegra hosted the first annual SDEC conference in Winnipeg and it was a huge success! Early scans of the feedback are very positive, and a huge thanks to the attendees, speakers, our sponsors (Microsoft, O’Reilly, Destination Winnipeg, and Backbone Magazine) and the vendor staff (Seriously, if anyone in Winnipeg needs A/V services, talk to Inland). I’m meeting with my cohort Ryan this morning to debrief, so I’ll have a post with thoughts on running a conference coming up. In the meantime ......
Tomorrow the technology conference that myself and my colleague Ryan Caligiuri discussed only two months ago, SDEC09, will become a reality! (If you don’t know Ryan, definitely check out his writing on LIV Interactive) We swung by the Winnipeg Convention Centre to check out the rooms and do some setup: The sign outside Meeting Rooms 1 & 2! A view from the main stage. View from the pasta-bar location. Entryway for the Development Management and Methodologies track. Development Management and Methodologies ......
My work recently started rolling out Windows 7 as our production OS and I was lucky enough to get on as one of the early adopters! I got my laptop back at end of day yesterday freshly paved with Win 7. Today I started my day by booting up and trying to fire up a VPC environment that I use for my dev work. To my dismay I was met with this message: The problem is that I had just saved my vm’s state instead of doing a full shutdown. Apparently moving a hibernated vm to Win 7 is not a good idea. Luckily, ......