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.NET and Oracle
It's fun to see some love-hate relationships. Early on, Oracle bet on Java, so much so that only after Microsoft created its Oracle ADO.NET data provider and under pressure of the growing popularity of .NET, Oracle created its own ADO.NET data provider. And now increasingly, Oracle is accepting and taking positive steps about the popularity of .NET:
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TechEd 2005: I'll be there
One of the perks of being an RD is that, from time to time, you get invited to cool events like this one. I look forward to meet with at least as many interesting people as I did last year. On the down side, T&E are on my tab, which could be expensive for a guy living in the Andes. Luckily, I've got a few months to do the savings.
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SmartClient Offline Application Block on .NET 2.0
Today I had the pleasure of showing some concepts and examples of Smart Clients to over 200 people. For doing that, I used the Offline Application Block that has been around for a year already. The interesting thing is that I moved it to Visual Studio 2005 and I compiled it: a change here and there aside, the Application Block moved to .NET 2.0 without problem. Encouraged, I did the same with IssueVision and everything went OK again. It seems like compatibility between .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 is doing pretty well. Oh, and I almost forgot: smart clients are cool.
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VS 2005 Beta 2, RCs and Final Release Dates anyone?
Our small software shop has made its name by aggesively adopting new technologies. At different times it's been Pascal as a business apps language (we've been in the market for a long time... :-( ), LANs, PowerBuilder, Lotus Notes, Java, .NET. Along the years, we've been among the first in our country to create business apps using these technologies, often with Beta versions. Now is the time for .NET 2.0, VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005: we are currently working in 3 projects with these new technologies (it would've been 4, but the 4th was a big bank and they dimmed too risky to use 2005, so we settled on .NET 1.1 and VS 2003). About our 3 Whidbey projects:
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Wiki wiki patterns
Paraphrasing the Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .NET book, most complex systems are built by composing (and composing, and composing) simple, proven solutions. And of course, a programming pattern is a simple, proven mechanism that solves a small problem effectively. Hence the popularity of design and programming patterns. On the other hand, the wiki wiki web is a very effective tool for a community to build reference encyclopedias. Thus, it sounds like a great idea to have a patterns wiki. Come to think of it, there must be a handful already, but what caught my attention is a wiki specialized in patterns revolving around .NET: http://patternshare.org. A place worth watching, not only because its renowned authors but because we can also actively contribute.