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MVP Summit - Code Slam - GotDotNet Workspaces, Ward Cunningham and BlogML
Last night, the CodeSlam event took place at the Microsoft Company Store / Visitor Center (organized by Korby Parnell). The list of .NET developer celebrities was impressive and too numerous to mention! The purpose of the event was to evangelize the great things already happening and coming up in the GotDotNet Workspaces. Microsoft is taking online collaborative development seriously and there are exciting things on their way! (wish I could say more...)
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Printable or ReadOnly pages in ASP.NET (code snippet)
You have an ASP.NET page that is full of great controls, functionality, etc. but now you need to print it or render a "readonly" view of the page. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a little ReadOnly property that you could flip to true on the page and that was it? Well ... there isn't. However with a little recursive code, you can achieve the same effect.
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New Microsoft Partner Competency is coming for custom development shops!
Many companies are deeply embedded in pure Microsoft development (such as thycotic) but do not necessarily use any of the Microsoft server products (MS CMS, BizTalk, SharePoint) in their solutions. These shops are typically building applications using custom WinForm/ASP.NET, C#/VB.NET and a Microsoft SQL Server back end. This makes the Integrated E-Business Solutions competency impossible to attain and most of the others are not a good match either. Another option sounds like the ISV competency but this doesn't always fit either ... do you build a product to sell that can be tested? Often times the "product" is custom software that you don't own and can't share with anyone.
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myclockwatcher.com - FREE coupon from PDC for all blog readers
The release of myclockwatcher.com 1.2 was timed for PDC. We strolled around PDC handing out business cards with coupons and wearing our red hats and buttons. Here is a picture from the Dr. Dobb's Journal booth where I had my picture taken:
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PDC 2005 - Day Three Review
PDC is now over and I finally have time to tell you about Day 3. :-)
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PDC 2005 - Day Two Review
LINQ and DLINQ are very powerful technologies. DLINQ seems very similar to Gentle.NET which we use on some projects. The mapping capabilities seem a much better solution to writing lots of data access to business objects glue code ... and let's not even get started on the evils of code generation. LINQ definitely seems to be the new announcement at PDC with lots of buzz and people talking about it.
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PDC 2005 - Day One Review
The keynote was interesting, exciting and exhausting! The technology innovations and overall coolness just ran on for ages and became draining. It was also a first opportunity for me to see billg speak for the first time which was an experience. He had far less presence than I would have expected for a man of such remarkable success but was still an entertaining and highly informative speaker.
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myclockwatcher.com 1.2 is released - just in time for PDC!
Nothing like a deadline to focus the mind. Our goal is to promote the new version of myclockwatcher.com this week at PDC in Los Angeles. We have worked hard to get some great new features into the latest version in time for the conference.
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When your code is reused
I am back from a weeks break in one of my favorite places - the Outer Banks in North Carolina. After much sun, playing with my new toy and getting to spend quality with the family - it is time for a "just back" blogpost. I am sifting through the inevitable pile of email and came across something that warms my heart ...