That was another enjoyable night. I must give a big thanks to all the hundred or so people that showed up to hear me talk again. If anyone would like the slides please click here.
Archive for February, 2006
All you really need to know is the following This is one of the best written technical books I have ever read, and is an excellent introduction to Team System If you have been working with Team System for some time this book is unlikely to teach you much, it is purely an introduction The [...]
Mix means developers, designers and business professionals at the same conference. Most devs I know are waiting for TechEd/ PDC, but I jumped at the chance to ‘win’ my ticket at the Architect’s meeting today (It will cost me about $400 for the flight + hotel room). Taking a full week off week is too costly, [...]
It is over three months since I last presented anywhere, so it is time to do it again: http://www.atlantadotnet.org/ This is brand new material with only one slide carried from my NUnit presentations. The subject is testing, and on my first dry run it was utterly boring. Since then I rewrote the slides, and am [...]
For the last month or so I have using OpenOffice. It is part of my long term plan to try moving my personal Laptop (email/ web browsing machine mainly) to Linux. The idea is to find open source software that exists in both Windows and Linux. I am checking out the tools on Windows, before making [...]
Today I looked at the Atlanta job boards for the first time in a good while. It appears even Microsoft is having a hard time finding people in this mini tech-boom, I say this because they have resorted to public job postings. Salary is $80->130K + stock/bonuses, which I expect are the ranges for a [...]
Let’s start by saying that I loved this book. While in a speakers lounge once I picked it up from the sky-high give-away pile, started reading, got engrossed and well… it ended up travelling the 500 miles back home with me! This is a book that would have been very useful when starting my .Net career. [...]
This book is aimed at developers already experienced with .Net 1.0 and 1.1. It aims to offer a quick introduction to what is new in .Net 2.0 and VS 2005. The first chapter in the book covers C# 2.0 and the book is very much worth buying for this chapter alone. Features covered by the [...]
IE7 looks cool, but I do not recommend using it on your main machine. Since Firefox does not work well on some sites I use all the time, IE 7 had to go. It is not obvious how to remove it, but is documented in Microsoft’s IE 7 Beta 2 FAQ: How do I uninstall [...]
Wally commented on this today and it is the first I had heard of the controversy: http://www.dicks-blog.com/archives/2006/02/01/the-deterioration-of-the-mvp-program/ My .05 cents is that anyone who puts in 20 hours/week of unpaid time to the Microsoft cause deserves to be rewarded by Microsoft. Just do the math: 46 weeks x 20 hours x <insert hourly bill rate [...]
