Hi Everyone, Just a quick reminder that the 2008 Code Camp Oz is THIS weekend in Wagga Wagga. If you were planning to go but forgot, better book things quickly. The official site is here. Some sessions you’ll find me at (and won’t drag me away from): Lessons learned while […]
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But don’t get your hopes up just yet! It’ll still be a little while until it’s released to a wider community. Partners and OEM manufacturers will get first shot at the Service Pack while end users can easily expect to wait until (Northern Hemisphere) summer time to get their hands […]
Well, you walk on to a McDonald’s and order a Big Mac. The chick behind the counter punches in something on the register and then asks "do you want fries with that?". Well, Active Data Objects Entity Framework is my Big Mac, and in that case, fries must be the […]
So, I was going over some old emails and trying to catch up on my learning (I’m currently doing some Professional Development) and I came across this interesting tidbit. Seems that managed C++ will be dropped from the Microsoft certification program. This is probably fine with me, I don’t know […]
The speaker list for this years’ Code Camp Oz has been published. For those passionate about .Net or with a passing interest in the Microsoft platform technologies will find this is an event to be reckoned with. Community leaders and technical specialists bring you technical sessions on the latest and […]
Readify Developer Network http://www.readify.net/rdn.aspx Tonight Chris Hewitt and I are presenting ReadiPrimer sessions as part of Readify’s Developer Network series at Clifton’s (on Edward street, near Central Station) starting at 4:30pm. Location: Cliftons- 288 Edward St, Brisbane My presentation will center on Agile Development (and the Microsoft Solutions […]
Yesterday afternoon I was invited over to Microsoft (Brisbane) for a function and I ran into Michael Redmond (Microsoft MCS). We got to chatting about the status of SQL Server and he mentioned that the February CTP had been announced for SQL Server 2008. Here is a link for those […]
Welcome news from Microsoft as they have released the technical specification of select Microsoft Office file formats (pre-Office 2007). The release of this information is covered by the Microsoft Open Specification Promise which may or may not have implications for individuals who view the data. It depends who you ask. […]
This post is to address my ongoing love affair with Windows Server 2008, which is in RC1. Those of you who have been following my travesties with Windows Vista will undoubtedly know through my numerous posts to this blog, my pain and suffering under that particular operating system. Not […]
So, I’d assumed that everyone knew… LINQ isn’t going to officially support (RTM) SQL Server /SQL Server 2008 until Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (or, more specifically, I’d guess a Framework revision). Everyone probably knows that SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 both will be hitting RTM in February, rumoured […]
So chances are that you know that Visual Studio 2008 has gone RTM (release to manufacturing). Better hop onto MSDN Subsscriber downloads or grab a free copy of the express editions. Anyone who considers themselves .Net Developers or Architects should be running Visual Studio 2008. At any rate – even […]
Hi all. As some may know, I was scheduled to speak this weekend at the second annual SQL Code Camp in Wagga Wagga. Due to family commitments I’m unable to present or attend, but I strongly recommend the journey to anyone who is serious about SQL Server in Australia. This is […]
Jumping out from the void comes this exciting post from Scott Guthrie. It seems that in the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft will be releasing the source code to the .Net Framework. From Scott’s post: "We’ll begin by offering the source code (with source file comments included) for […]
For those of you who have been following every new technology but somehow have missed out on LINQ, grab the last CTP – LINQ CTP (May 06). It works fine with the Beta 1 Orcas (despite the disclaimers) and it will also work with VS2005. This stuff is pure gold. I’ve […]
According to this article: http://blogs.msdn.com/ausdev/archive/2007/05/03/windows-vista-beta-2-rc1-and-rc2-set-to-expire.aspx Those still running Beta and Release Candidate copies of Windows Vista are soon to be set to deal with their OS expiring. This as a consequence means that people will either have to upgrade to the RTM version (which isn’t a bad idea) […]