June 2005 - Posts
This made my morning. As I was eating my "adult" cereal, I hoped for some Nintendo Cereal System - Zelda side!
http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/nes/
My favs include the Power Glove and The Wizard. Enjoy :)
The folks over at OpenNETCF.org are in the know! This site is an excellent resource for .NET Compact Framework and is choc full of shared source projects, including Application Blocks simliar to those found in Enterprise Library.
I recently discovered the OpenNETCF Bluetooth API, which provides a managed API exposing Bluetooth functionality in both the .NET Framework and the .NET Compact Framework. I've been tinkering with this for about an hour, and have got the DesktopListener sample up and running - pretty straight forward. If time permits, I'll try and connect to my Motorola V710 and "mess around." In the mean time, check out the link below for more info
OpenNETCF Bluetooth v1.3.50525
http://www.opennetcf.org/PermaLink.aspx?guid=3f99525a-d45f-4db1-bd24-2d88fe343d3f
The schedules for MAX 2005 have been released! My session, Developing Hybrid Applications with ColdFusion and Java, will be held at the following times:
- Tuesday, October 18 - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
- Wednesday, October 19 - 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Here's the abstract for my session:
ColdFusion is powered by Java internally, and ColdFusion applications can leverage the power of Java and the J2EE platform to deliver the best of both worlds: the power of Java and the productivity of ColdFusion. This session will cover ColdFusion Java integration and strategies for building successful and compelling hybrid applciations.
For more info, check out the following link:
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/events/max/sessions/sa304w.html
Found this through Demian's blog. I LOVE 80's video games!
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I am fiercely protective of my friends and loved ones, and unforgiving of any who would hurt them. Speed and foresight are my strengths, at the cost of a little clumsiness. I'm most comfortable with a few friends, but sometimes particularly enjoy spending time in larger groups. What Video Game Character Are You? |
I just received my invitation to present at Macromedia MAX 2005 in Anaheim, CA!
Based on all of the positive feedback from my session last year, I’ve been invited back to present on the same topic, refactored for ColdFusion MX 7. The new session, “Developing Hybrid Applications with ColdFusion and Java” will cover many of the same topics from my previous session; however, many of the new Java facilities made available by ColdFusion MX 7 will be covered, such as Java Event Gateways.
I’ll be posting the abstract and more info here as it is made available. Good times J
It seems that the server on which this blog is hosted was experiencing problems over the weekend, so I’m sorry that my recap was not posted sooner.
Ending the week with a fun night at Universal Orlando was perfect – the Hitachi Consulting crew met up (along with my good friend Arash) and partied like junior high kids, except for those with booze ;)
Friday was not too productive, and our flight back to LAX departed around 1:00 PM. I met up with some folks for breakfast, and manned the seemingly empty CSI Cabana with Pete for a few hours, then headed to the airport.
Overall, the highlight of this trip (aside from our Cabana Session, “BizTalk In Your Service Oriented Enterprise”) was definitely the skillz gained in Amped 2. I don’t care what Pete says, he cheated! Stupid double flips …
In all seriousness, this year’s event was definitely an exciting one, with so many new technologies on the verge. If you aren’t already familiarizing your self with Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 – you’d better. Come November, it’s on!
It's by no coincidence that my posts are getting shorter as the week progresses here at TechEd. Today was another great day. I attended few really good sessions covering Globalization and CLR Internals – very compelling stuff.
I’m now off to the attendee party at Universal Studios. Should be fun – that is, if the rain stops! We’ll see, maybe a late night post will provide more insight ;)
Today was another great day in Orlando. I met an old friend for lunch, saw even more compelling reasons to use BizTalk, and learned how to partition data in SQL Server 2005 (thanks to Ryan Clay, also from Hitachi Consulting.)
A big “thank you” to Yumay Chang from hosting a wonderful dinner for the CSI team at Vito’s Chophouse! The meal was fantastic, and the conversation was fun – as always.
Sorry for the short recap, but I have much work to do.
This may be old news, but I recently discovered Google Print. This service will searched published, printed works for keywords and display actual previews from the text with the keyword(s) highlighted - brilliant!
Here's a link to my name in Ben Forta's Regex book.
http://print.google.com/print?id=Xrd6z2NMNawC&pg=iv&lpg=iv&prev=http://print.google.com/print%3Fie%3DUTF-8%26q%3D%2522scott%2Bvan%2Bvliet%2522%26btnG%3DSearch&sig=EtGjIpr2_BsWrBuphqzW-kC70vU
I'm not sure how many printed works are cataloged; I couldn't find works from some popular authors that I know of. But as always, it will be interesting to see what the Google folks will come up with next.
After burning the midnight oil until something past 4:00 AM to get our demo working, I missed the keynote. However, a flash of emails from others at the keynote informed me that the next "wave" or products from Microsoft (Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006) would be released the week of November 7. This is great news, and I am excited to get our clients onto the new platform (.NET 2.0, SQL 2005.)
Not to mislead you, 4:00 AM was not the time that our demo was fixed or completed. This is the time that we decided to give up for the night and get some rest. Pete and I spent most of the morning and into the early afternoon trying to get our demo working. We got to the Convention Center with approx 15 minutes to spare and still our demo was not working properly. We eventually gave up on the demo and provided and off-the-cuff “chalk-talk” about customers’ experience with BizTalk in their organizations. It turned out to be a great session, and the participants touched a lot of good points. With 15 minutes left in our session, we FINALLY got the demo running, integrating a PO orchestration with a ColdFusion Web Service, which called a Java SMS Gateway, sending an SMS Text Message to a mobile phone when a PO failed. After receiving the SMS message on the mobile phone, we replied with instructions on how to handle the failed PO. It’s a pretty compelling story, and those that stuck around agreed.
I’m off to a dinner with my fellow Hitachi Consulting folks from around the country. It’s still hot … it’s still sticky … yuck. :)
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