Archives
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An update on CodeZone from INETA
With reference to a prior posting - here's an update on CodeZone from Chris Pels (INETA Board Member). There is a bigger picture and the use of Federated Community Services which puts it all under one umbrella.
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Richard Hale Shaw on Hungarian Notation
RHS has a great little piece on Hungarian Notation. I particularly liked his affinity towards 'C' and how he started on it a couple of decades ago (a not too different experience for me as I recall). Since we are on the topic of language evolution & naming conventions - I am reminded of Fortran, a language I had used considerably in my earlier career years doing mathematical applications. Fortran has a unique capability with implicit declarations: variable names that started with 'i, j or k' were 'vectors' or integers. Similarly, 'd' was double precision or 'f' was a float (real) type. Fortran had another unique type that is still unmatched - the 'complex type' (it's matched only by a language's external function library). We are still not too far away in this path of variable declaration and naming conventions - see Cw (C-Omega) declaration of streams:
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SP1 for Windows 2003 Server released
SP1 for Windows 2003 Server has been released. Now to upgrade the servers and test out the ASP.NET & SharePoint sites again.
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Making CodeZone more relevent (under INETA)
Wow! The recent INETA (MSFT) announcement regarding CodeZone has got a bit of skeptical discussion going - Hannes P, Frans B & Jeff P. Even Maestro Gunderloy has expressed skepticism.. ;-)
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Running ASP.NET and SharePoint together
For the past several months, my attempts in configuring ASP.NET and SharePoint to work together has been tricky at best. A recent KB article has been most useful but a tool to manage the configuration could be better - perhaps a feature added to the SharePoint Configuration Analyzer. A simpler configuration tool would also help small IT shops that are not technically prone.
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Microsoft Announces CodeZone!
Microsoft announces CodeZone! Codezone will be a 'community of communities', a place for you and your groups to post links to your own articles, Web sites, blogs, discussions and events.
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Conn .NET Developers Group Presentation by Chris Bowen
Chris Bowen spoke at the Connecticut .NET Developers Group on Tuesday. It was attended by ~60 (standing-room only!) and it was very well received. Chris spoke about Agile Development (Unit Testing) today and tomorrow (with VS.NET 2005).
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VS2005 Pricing - SNAFU But Not FUBAR
MSFT's recent announcement about VS2005 pricing for MSDN has just about everybody up-in-arms. Larkware (Mike Gunderloy) gives a good pricing analysis and Eric Bowen's insights on how the pricing may hurt MSFT is worth considering.
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Chris Bowen to present at Conn .NET Developers Group & Julia's terrific idea for Dev Group meetings
Chris Bowen (Sr Architect @ Monster.com) is presenting tomorrow at the Connecticut .NET Developers Group. His topic is 'Agile Development using VS.NET 2005' and we are all looking forward to it. If you are in the neighborhood (MSFT Farmington CT office) during 6-8PM, then drop in.
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The Future of Software Development - series by Ralf Westphal
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Skype tidskrift
Skype har dess egna tidskrift (weblog) med oberoende nyheterna, beskådar och service -
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Collaborative Excel Spreadsheets using Groove
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Extending MSN Developer Network with Groove
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Redux: SharePoint or Groove - its successful deployment depends upon 'A Culture of Collaboration'
As an addendum to my prior posting - Ray Ozzie's statements on the 'A Culture of Collaboration' [via Groove Networks' corporate blogs]:
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SharePoint or Groove - its successful deployment depends upon 'A Culture of Collaboration'
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Microsoft buys Groove and all the crystal ball readers and prophets come out..
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MICROSOFT TO ACQUIRE GROOVE NETWORKS!!!
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MSDN Webcast: DotNetNuke and ASP.NETv2
MSDN has a 3-part webcast planned in April for DotNetNuke and ASP.NETv2! We (the Connecticut .NET Developers Group) use DNN for our website and also added a Community Server recently.
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Acoustic Research Bookshelf speakers for $50 pair!
Normally, I don't push consumer products but this is a good deal to consider - Acoustic Research Bookshelf speakers for $50 pair!
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'BlogMap' new feature - Blogger neighborhood
Chandu Thota is busy adding new features to his 'BlogMap'. I utilized it to pinpoint my blog site. The new feature of 'BlogMap' shows your neighborhood of (registered) bloggers. There are three known ones within my vicinity (or click icon below) and now to get Carl Franklin in here also. -
Importance of Code Reviews with tools and why it should be a 'peer review'.
I got this link to the SSW Code Auditor via DataGrid Girl. I was reminded of a 'Code Review' enigma about a year ago in a client's .NET project. One of the development-leads of the project insisted on a code-review which was fine with me but his fixation with 'get/set' property mechanisms and naming conventions bordered on nit-picking and I couldn't review his code. Furthermore, his reluctance in using tools like FxCop or even looking into 'refactoring' for efficiency was very questionable (but understandable as his code would have to get beaten up by the tools).
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Track the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer's record setting flight
Track the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer's record setting flight (click on picture)..
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Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) for Agile Software Development, Beta
I got this via Eli Robillard's posting - Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) for Agile Software Development, Beta.
It is encouraging to see the MSF mature rapidly (and to meet the upcoming VS2K5 Team System).
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Julia Lerman gets published in MSDN Mag!
I just saw Julia's article about ADO.NETv2 listed on MSDN Magazine [April '05]. Congratulations Julia! Looking forward to reading it.
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