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August 2005 - Posts

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  September Techincal Reading List

  Here’s my “what I’m reading” for tech books for the month of September: Programming "Indigo" by David Pallmann I haven’t spent as much time on Indigo as I should, so I’m trying to make up for lost time using this book. Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 31, 2005 5:03 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: .Net
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  DailyWTF For Meetings?

  Looks like Edgardo is starting a new category on his blog ( Meeting Hell, Part 1 ) that is sort of a DailyWTF but for Meetings. Something like that could turn into a full blown site. I HATE MEETINGS. I just had make sure everyone understands where I am Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 30, 2005 11:20 PM by donxml | 2 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, Job Hunting Tips
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  Microsoft Is Looking For NJ/NYC Developer Evangelist

  This position has been empty since almost the beginning of 2005, and they still can not find someone to fill the position. Actually, Microsoft has about 12 open Developer Evangelist positions in the US, including Redmond , Chicago , and Dallas . Kirk Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 30, 2005 8:40 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, .Net Job Postings
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  First Rule Of CLR Stored Procedures

  Recently, eWeek author Lisa Vaas emailed my wife regarding an article she was writing about CLR Stored Procedures in SQL Server 2005. Well, my wife didn’t get back to her, and I’m sort of glad, since the article was released with the title: Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 30, 2005 11:52 AM by donxml | 12 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, SQL Server
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  Windows Presentation Foundation As Explained By Pablo Fernicola - WPF Group Program Manager

  Well, well, well, Pablo Fernicola finally has a blog . Pablo is a Group Program Manager for the Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly called Avalon). He will be presentation the following session at the PDC: PRS309 - Windows Presentation Foundation Read More... Posted Friday, August 26, 2005 9:31 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), PDC
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  Most Anticipated PDC 2005 Session

  I recently began the process of reviewing the sessions for the PDC 2005 and setting up my schedule (which I never seem to follow). The way I normally do this is to scan the speaker list, searching for my friends and those that I have mentally tagged as Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 24, 2005 12:28 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), SVG, PDC
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  Microsoft Codename Acrylic Does Not Do It For Me

  First off, I really, really wanted to love Microsoft’s latest graphics tool, codename Acrylic . I down loaded and install the first public beta, and wasn’t impressed, but hey, it’s an early view into what they are doing, so I decided Read More... Posted Monday, August 22, 2005 8:39 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), SVG, PDC, Adobe Illustrator
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  Has MSN's Search Spider Gone Wild?

  I’ve noticed an major increase (100%) in bandwidth usage on all my web sites over the last 2 days (Aug. 17th and 18th), without an increase in unique users. I checked my web stats and it looks like the MSN search bot ( msnbot.msn.com ) is spidering Read More... Posted Thursday, August 18, 2005 11:13 PM by donxml | 1 Comments
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  Naspter Requires Administrator Rights To Run

  I recently installed Napster again to give it a go (for a second time). I had tried the service when the pay service restarted, and bought one CD. I decided that for the price (around $9.99 per CD), that it was pretty much a waste for me. I’m not Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 17, 2005 9:36 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

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  New Jersey Code Camp Call For Speakers

  While I was away on a short vacation, ScottW announced the long awaited New Jersey Code Camp , that will be held on Oct. 15th. The site is a little light on content at the moment, but once ScottW gets back from his little vacation, we will add more. It Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 16, 2005 7:12 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, XML, SQL Server
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  Presenting at N3UG – August 9th, 2005

  I’ll be presenting at the August meeting of the North NJ .Net User Group on Aug. 9th at 6:30PM. I really didn’t want to rehash one of my recent Code Camp presentations, and I’m looking to work on my presentation skills, and try to incorporate Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 02, 2005 10:14 AM by donxml | 2 Comments

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  Is Object Oriented Programming The Problem?

  I recently told this story to M. David, who got a kick out of it and just had to blog some of it. One of my favorite parts of conferences is hanging out with my ‘net friends, and getting into some deep conversations about topics that make normal Read More... Posted Monday, August 01, 2005 9:43 PM by donxml | 10 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, XML, PDC, TechEd