The global handheld market continued to slide in 2004, with shipments slipping to below 10 million for the first time since 1999, according to a new IDC report. http://news.com.com/Handheld+market+free+fall+continues/2100-1047_3-5560453.html?tag=nefd.top Hmmm, now I understand why my publisher told me...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/glance/-/books/0764584375/103-7064069-9364659 Excellent. I am so happy. Make sure that you buy 3 or 4 for the ones that you love or perhaps you can tell 3 or 4 of your family/friends to buy you a copy. I think that this would make a lovely birthday or...

Use Source Control. I use VSS because it comes in the box with Visual Studio .NET. Yeah, I know about all the problems, but I primarily just use it on the local machine to track changes. Check in all changes before going home. I must check in all changes to the source control system. I can't go home...

I wanted to take a moment to introduce my author group for our book. The tenetative title for the book is "Professional Programming with ADO.NET Version 2." My fellow co-authors are David Penton . Jeremy Zongker . Scott Sargent . Phil Winstanley . J. Ambrose Little . John Croft . Unfortunately Kent Tegels...

I decided to post this here with the hope that a book publisher or another author might be interested. This was a tentative Outline / TOC Sql Server Yukon book that myself and few others had proposed to a couple of publishers. When we first shopped it, we got the response that Yukon was too far out but...

A friend of mine has just recently lost his job at an online training company. He is the best developer, programmer, and architect I have ever seen (he also runs a little at the mouth, but I do to). His name is Michael D. Long . He is a Microsoft MVP. He wrote some articles about Windows DNA a couple...

I recently have gotten involved with a local small business organization. I have written an application that allows them to post information to a database about their business. That part of the application is protected by a userid and password. Another part of the application allows anyone to search...

I have no idea what is really going on with regards to blogs and Microsoft, but I just want everyone to know that I hope we don't lose any bloggers from Microsoft. There is an article at Microsoft-Watch.com . So far, corporate has yet to weigh in on its growing cadre of bloggers. But that may be about...

The global handheld market continued to slide in 2004, with shipments slipping to below 10 million for the first time since 1999, according to a new IDC report. http://news.com.com/Handheld+market+free+fall+continues/2100-1047_3-5560453.html?tag=nefd.top Hmmm, now I understand why my publisher told me...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/glance/-/books/0764584375/103-7064069-9364659 Excellent. I am so happy. Make sure that you buy 3 or 4 for the ones that you love or perhaps you can tell 3 or 4 of your family/friends to buy you a copy. I think that this would make a lovely birthday or...