Archives
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Wse Problems thru firewalls.
I have been working on web services using WSE2, and today while doing a test deployment to the outside world, I encountered a huge show-stopper problem.
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OLAP Cubes
Whenever my boss can use a pivot table in Excel, he does a little happy dance. Well, sometimes its more like watching a horny chihuahua, but I won't go any further - you probably have an indelible picture in your mind already.
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.NET Compact Framework
Last night's presentation by Dan Sellers at the Winnipeg .NET User Group meeting on Compact Device development reminded me that I hadn't blogged about the OpenNETCF.Org library of open source stuff for compact device development.
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Testing Centres
I'm taking some Microsoft Exams this week.
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Winnipeg .NET User Group event tonight
Dan Sellers from Microsoft will be in town tonight for a session on Compact Framework Development. Should be interesting.
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Testing tools
Joel has asked me to ask about testing tools that are out there. What tools do you use?
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You want to build your own PC next time? Make it small....
This is too cool. There are a ton of projects on this website about building small PC's, but this one was sent to me in particular. I was fascinated by the process, but what he did at the end of the project seemed to be the biggest trick of all.
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Flame Warriors
There are 10 groups of people in the world, those who blog and those who don't....
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Report rendering engines
I'm investigating reporting options.
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SQL Reporting Services - Expression language?
I'm starting to use SQL Reporting Services. I've got some textboxes that I want to format nicely for an address, for example.
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Microsoft Security slide deck
From Dana Epp...
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Smart Client Offline Application Block
It appears that Microsoft has published the Smart Client Offline Application Block, even though the Patterns and Practices Group says it is “Coming Soon“. The block itself is available for download here.
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Syntax and semantics
A great article by Eric Lippert on understanding programming languages - and the difference between syntax and semantics.
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RAIL
RAIL is the Runtime Assembly Instrumentation Library, which is a project from the University of Coimbra, and which implements “an API that allows CLR assemblies to be manipulated and instrumented before they are loaded and executed.”
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OleDbCommandBuilder.DeriveParameters
If you use a JET data provider, this method throws an exception saying that the underlying provider does not support this method.
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Questions about Rory...
Some have wondered aloud if Rory is gay.
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Teach yourself programming in...how long?
Great article here - the premise is that all the “Teach yourself [something] in 21 days“ books which have proliferated in the past 10 years are all bogus. In fact, most skills (not just programming) take about 10 years to master.
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Single Sign-on enterprise Security for Web Applications
This new article by Paul Sheriff discusses a framework that allows both internal Intranet users to be authenticated to a web site using Windows Authentication, and external users (clients or customers or B2B or whatever) to be authenticated using Forms authentication.
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Google Microsoft!
Ever try searching support.microsoft.com or msdn.microsoft.com for something and not get what you want? I've usually ended up using Google to find kb articles or whatever, then getting a ton of non-MS related hits in the results.
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Another webcast with Joel
I was Joel's 'question monkey' today on his second webcast this week. We had some fun today, there were far less questions than Wednesday's presentation.
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What Monty Python character are you?
I am the rabbit, with “nasty, big, pointy teeth!”
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ASP.NET and popup pages...
I'm not an ASP.NET expert by any means, so I post this question to the Blogsphere...
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Cursors, BAD! Table Vars, GOOD!
As of SQL Server 2000, we have had the table variable to use in T-SQL for temporary tables or user defined functions. I like to use table variables wherever I can because I have observed performance problems with CURSORS and #TEMPTable objects.
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Family naming conventions
Jon Blake Cusack, self-confessed geek, convinced his wife to name his son Jon Black Cusack Version 2.0
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Diskette features
I have a box of diskettes open on my desk, and I just noticed a feature on the side of the box:
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.NET Framework install failing
Though I haven't encountered this problem (yet) I wanted to keep this link around in case I run into it with our clients...
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SOA/OO/WS
Great post about the basic premises of SOA:
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How cold is it?
It's so cold here in Manitoba that one of the towns nearby had its natural gas supply line freeze up:
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SQL Server Reporting Services - playing with the released bits
In feedback of my previous blog, Thomas asked:
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Joel Spolsky needs a comment feed...
Reading Joel's blog entry “Please Sir, may I have a linker?” today, and it sparked a memory of a tool that the Joel I work for mentioned a while ago...
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.NET Reality Check...
I agree with Frans Bouma that there is a significant amount of hype around Whidbey, Yukon, Longhorn, etc, and it isn't all that useful for what we do today.
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SQL Server Reporting Services
SQL Server Reporting Services has been released, but the download is for a time-bombed 120 evaluation version.
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Regional Directors
Now I know two Regional Directors : Joel Semeniuk (my boss), and Derek Hatchard - a good friend of mine, former co-worker at ImagiNET and now in New Brunswick.
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Xen and the Art of Objects and Data
Erik Meijer from Microsoft Research is working on a new CLR language that incorporates C#, XML, and relational data.
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SQL Server Reporting Services
I'm a long-time Access developer, and when I saw SQL Server Reporting Services, I was quite interested.
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IE cache settings - not applicable!
Further to my earlier post where I thought that weird postback behaviour was due to some client side cache setting, I think I have the issue nailed down.
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ASP.NET and SQLClient Connection pooling
I should know this I suppose....
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Sales/Marketing/Technical Rant
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Typed Dataset Annotations
Shawn Wildermuth has a great blog entry on annotations in your XSD that affects the code generation in typed datasets. Fabulous stuff, especially the null value handling!
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Service Oriented Architecture
Udi Dahan, the “Software Simplist” has recently commented on my questions about shared/static methods. Today he added a blog entry on “How to do SOA?”
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ASP.NET application and Internet Explorer cache settings
I built an ASP.NET application that has a number of query criteria fields that the user enters data in, then clicks the Go button to postback to the server to fill a grid.
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static/Shared methods
One of my co-workers is designing an enterprise software architecture and is finding that most of the method calls in classes that form the Business Facade layer are stateless. He is proposing, then, to use Shared methods (in VB.NET, or static methods in C#) as a coding standard.