Archives
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Congrats to Roy Osherove
I just got my MSDN magazine for June, 2005. I see that Roy Osherove has an article in the magazine. Congratulations to Roy.
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Regular Guys return to 96 Rock / WKLS
Great news. I just heard this today as I listen to their show on 640 AM WGST.
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H1-B Visa issue
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Driving into a Tree?
ROTFLOL. http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/04/22/17OPcringely_1.html
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Premature Optimization
A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting at lunch with a buddy of mine. He was talking about all of this complicated programmatic caching of data that one of his customers was doing. I remember stating that caching was only a good idea when there was a bottleneck. I decided to drop the conversation because we were headed in an awkward direction. You see, I have seen a lot of programmers try and implement caching because it is cool as oppossed to there being a real performance problem. Alex Lowe refers to this as "Premature Optimization." It reminded me of a situation I walked into a couple of years ago where a previous programmer was caching all kinds of data for this customer (different than previously mentioned). The application is just dog slow. I'm writing a new application for this customer (the one that has the slow application). This new application is truly fast. I remembered all this as I see that page refreshes occur in 1-2 seconds as oppossed to to 10-12 seconds on their other application.
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What exactly is "Metro"?
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1789314,00.asp
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No Windows 2003 Server R2 for Itanium
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/04/26/HNwinhecdelay_1.html
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Interesting emails that I recieved over the weekend
Kinda reminds me of the commercial where the guy says "How can it be a virus when it says 'I Love You.'"
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Windows for x64 is officially released
Excellent. Windows for x64 is officially released. MSDN subscribers have had access to it for a while, but it is nice to see an official release. It will be really exciting when .NET 2.0, with its 64 bit support, is released later this year.
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I'm featured again as Sir Wally.........
Go to about minute 31:30 at http://weblogs.asp.net/jasonsalas/archive/2005/04/25/404093.aspx, which is Jason's podcast, and you can hear me. I feel honored that Jason includes me in his podcast (and doesn't make fun of me ;-) )
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Three Common Items when updating ASP.NET Whidbey code from Beta 1 to Beta2
There are three things that I have found that I need to touch when I updated my ASP.NET code from Beta 1 to Beta 2.
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SqlDependency
I just checked the SqlDependency object in .NET Whidbey Beta 2. As I remember, in Beta 1, you had to iterate through the data that was returned. In Beta 2, I just tried it and you don't have to iterate through the rows that are returned (unless that is happening behind the scenes and I don't know it).
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Dual Core AMD hits the ground
AMD has announced dual core CPUs for servers. Desktop dual core CPUs will follow in June.
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I am now known as Sir Wally
http://weblogs.asp.net/jasonsalas/archive/2005/04/21/403623.aspx
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Dual Core CPUs start shipping
Forgot to post this, but hooray, several companies are shipping dual core CPUs from Intel. I saw an ad for Dell today in the Money section from one of their systems. Appartently, each core is hyper-threading enabled. I didn't see about whether they have support for the x64 instructions or not. AMD is expected to introduce multi-core CPUs in a few weeks. Wow, 2005 really is turning out to be the year for multi-core introductions. Now, where are the multi-core notebook CPUs with x64 support that only use a small amount of power?
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1203 Error - No network provider error when installing the April CTP
I got the "1203 Error - No network provider accepted the given network path" error when I tried to install the April CTP of Sql Server 2005 onto a VPC. I fixed the problem by copying the install files into the VPC image and then from running the install program locally within the VPC.
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Oklahoma City Tenth Anniversary
My heart, thoughts, and prayers go out to those people who were effected by the bombing on Oklahoma City ten years ago.
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What has a Go-Live license with .NET Whidbey Beta 2
I've been reading through the posts about Go-Live with Whidbey Beta 2 along with various emails that I have recieved. This is what I think I have read. Can someone confirm this:
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Jason has a really good idea
http://weblogs.asp.net/jasonsalas/archive/2005/04/19/403222.aspx
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ServerSide - Diagram of Visual Studio 2005 Betas and CTPs for Sql Server 2005
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Obsolete APIs in Beta 2 of .NET 2.0 (aka Whidbey)
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Datasets in your CLR objects
With Whidbey Beta 2, the ability to use Datasets in your CLR Objects within Sql Express and Sql Server 2005 has been added. Below is some sample code I wrote in Visual Basic 2005.
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Sql Express Version that I have
Just and FYI, the version of Sql Express that I got with Whidbey Beta 2 is:
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Security Setting for your CLR Objects that use Datasets
If you have a CLR Object (most likely one that uses a Dataset, but I haven't checked out all possibilities) in Sql Server 2005 / Sql Express, you need to set the "Permission Level" to unsafe. If not, you will get an error that looks something like this when your CLR Object executes. BTW, I have already contacted someone I know in the ADO.NET Team who verified that this is a bug, repeated that this is a problem, and logged it.
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NTeam - Open-Source Project Offers Alternative to Visual Studio Team System
The project, known as NTeam, will use several existing open-source tools and applications, such as the NUnit and NAnt .Net unit testing and build tools, respectively, and will cover various stages of the application development life cycle, just like the upcoming VSTS does, said Jason Bentley, co-founder of the project, in Knoxville, Tenn.
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Interesting comment regarding Sun and Open Source
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/04/01/HNmssunwait_1.html
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Windows 2003 for x64
I forgot to mention that I have gotten my Windows 2003 for x64 RTM up and running. It looks and feels just like Windows 2003. I am planning on installing .NET Whidbey Beta 2 on it, once that becomes available.
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Internet closes for cleaning on Friday at 12 noon
.........If you see dust coming out of your DSL or Cable modem, you will know why..........