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We are now well into the countdown for TechEd 2008, and for people like me who count on their fingers and toes I can join in on the count-down now. My week is going to be pretty hectic as I am presenting three sessions: Hopefully they go off without a hitch, but you never know [...] Read More...
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I was just reflecting (no pun intended) on this thread on the ALT.NET mailing list. I that there are a few people out there who were at least initially upset at Lutz Roeder handing .NET Reflector over to Red-Gate.
Personally I think that Lutz has done a great job for a very large community of developers [...] Read More...
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The march towards the 10.0 release of Visual Studio is well under way and details are starting to come out about what features are going to be showing up in the IDE. This link provides some details on some of the interesting improvements coming down the line for developers.
I really like the thumbnail view of [...] Read More...
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I purchased an iPhone (3G) a week or so ago. It has been an interesting experience getting used to a device that is not based on the Windows Mobile platform. Within fifteen minutes of having the device I was able to get access to my Exchange e-mail which was nice, but it took me until [...] Read More...
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Do you have a TODO list? I do – it kinda works, but sometimes I find myself on a context switching mess where I have so many hi priority things to do that I don’t know what to do next so I spin my wheels. I find myself doing anything but useful work as a [...] Read More...
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I can sense a complete system rebuild coming. Go and download these puppies now! Share your experiences!
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/vstudio/cc533448.aspx Read More...
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I’m currently sitting on the 19th floor of Oaks Festival Towers in the Brisbane CBD doing a little bit of last minute preparation for my four talks tomorrow at the Readify Developer Network Dev Day. I managed to score a beautiful two bedroom apartment for the night (sadly I’m only here for a night) and [...] Read More...
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Some pretty exciting news just before the weekend. Microsoft has released another CTP of the VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR. This edition has some pretty cool support for database deployments and SQL Server 2008, here is its rap sheet (from the download page):
SQL Server Support SQL Server 2008 All new data types: Intrinsic (date, datetime2, datetimeoffset, time)
Built-in [...] Read More...
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James McGovern was kind enough to take the time to respond to my post on “the evils of Active Directory”. I’ve managed to get this post in front of a few other people including members from the Active Directory team at Microsoft and I think that for the most part people have become quite defensive [...] Read More...
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