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XBox 360 Premium for me?
At the Interface company meeting today, Mike LaGioia (the owner) awarded gifts to all the employees based on a point system we called IBucks. The person with the highest IBucks was able to choose first from a selection of great gifts (surround sound systems, HDTV's, IPods, and yep... XBOX 360 consoles). I was number 16 on the list, and that provided me the opportunity to choose an XBox 360 premium console packaged with Project Gothom Racing 3, an additional wireless controller, and other accessories.
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Class Notes (2005-12-16) : 2310B ASP.NET Training
This week at Interface I taught the Microsoft 2310B ASP.NET class. The content was delivered without a single slide, and in most cases, the courseware wasn't referenced. Most of the delivery was from code samples. Although the class turned out well, I did not have the euphoria I reached when I taught the C# class last week. In the C# class, I had students inherit from a "Warrior" base class and override virtual | abstract methods to define warrior specific behaviors. I then collected all the "Warrior" sub-types, and placed them in an Arena (Windows app) to see which warrior would win. In the first tournament, Bruce the Chinese Cook took the championship. After introducing delegates and events, everyone made adjustments to his class, and we had a final tournament. The final winner was Red Bear the Cheyenn warrior. Other warrior types worthy of mention are: SuperBannana, Mace the Jedi, MonkeyAbuser, StickyFigure, TrashTalker, Ronin, and Crazy Female Driver. At the end of it all, each student's grasp of polymorphic behavior was the best I have ever seen. Great class.
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Class Notes: 2310B ASP.NET Development
Thanks to all the students in my 2310B ASP.NET class at Interface this week. Click the link below for all my class samples. Enjoy!
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GotCodeSnippets.NET - On Channel 9
Watch the video (created by Tim Heuer) regarding GotCodeSnippets.NET that was launched at the PDC Showoff and now available on Channel 9.
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GotCodeSnippets.net - Search and RSS enabled!
You can now search for uploaded code snippets at http://www.GotCodeSnippets.net/
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PDC 2005 Tuesday
Just got out of the keynote address. A few things to note:
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.NET Rocks!
The show (starring yours truly) is now available for listening! [Click here]
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Got Code Snippets?
GotCodeSnippets.net is now up and running! This is a community site that allows developers to upload and share code snippets for use in Visual Studio 2005.
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Choices in Vault
When setting up a Vault client today, I observed the following screen:
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Code Snippet Schema (snippetFormat.xsd)
The xml schema for Code Snippets in Visual Studio 2005 is located under the installation folder as follows:
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Presenting Code Snippets to NMUG
I just returned to Phoenix from Albuquerque where I presented "Code Snippets Make IntelliSense!" What a cool crowd of developers.
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4th and 5th Graders!
Today I took my daughters to their first day of school as 4th and 5th graders.
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Statera Southwest
Recently I joined a new consulting firm in Phoenix, AZ named Statera. Here is a link to a press release regarding the Phoenix operation [click here]
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Steve Ballmer & Microsoft Regional Directors
I know it has been a few days since Steve Ballmer's keynote session here at Tech Ed. But I wanted to share a quote he made regarding the Regional Directors in his presentation:
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Geek Dinner at PacMan Cafe
Thanks to Tim Heuer (Microsoft Developer Evangelist for Southwest), I enjoyed hanging out with "geeks" at the PacMan Cafe in Orlando. At the event, I met David McCarter who provided me a copy of his "VSDN Tips & Tricks .NET Coding Standards" To learn more, check out his site http://www.vsdntips.com/
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Tech Ed 2005 - Monday's Technology Highlights
C# 2.0 by Anders Hejlsberg was my favorite session today. Here are a few points worth noting...
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Microsoft Regional Directors - Side Meeting and Party
Basically, everything at the meeting was under NDA, so I can't blog about it :(
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Grok Talk?
If you are attending Tech Ed 2005, don't miss the Grok Talks by the Microsoft Regional Directors.
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"Party with Palermo" at Tech Ed 2005
I just got back from the first "Party with Palermo" pre-Tech Ed event. Of course, with a name like that, you know it will be a success... and it was. All credit going to the actual organizer - Jeffrey Palermo.
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Virtual PC Memory Issue
I received the following error when loading a VPC image today:
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Getting Distinct Rows in ADO.NET
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Maps
Clemens F. Vasters helped me to realize how amazing http://www.google.com/maps is. I never new it existed until he pointed it out. WOW. Try it! Put your address in the search bar when you get there. Amazing!
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EasySearchASP.NET - Hint!
You simply have to try EasySearchASP.NET!
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.NET - A Love Story
I have a managed heap of memories regarding you - none of which are IDisposable. Therefore I am compiling my references, and persisting them to you in this file, which is ISerializable and will last for generations (at most 3).
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.NET Celebrity Auction
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Code Review
I am looking for checklists and tools regarding code reviews.
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MVP XML
It appears the MVP award emails went out today.