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January 2006 - Posts
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One of the biggest issues I’ve always had with techincal books is what to do with them after I’m finished with them. Usually they hit the bookshelf, and eventually I run out of room and have to clear out the ones that I don’t use any Read More...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006 9:29 AM
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Robert Scoble has a nice write up on why tech conferences are expensive to run , but leaves out one of the most successful “nouveaux” conferences around, Code Camps , which happen to be totally free. Thom Robbins (a Microsoft Developer Evangelist) Read More...
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Monday, January 30, 2006 8:22 PM
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In my post Developer Career Tips 2006 , I mentioned that the Information Technology recruiting infrastructure was decimated by the dot com bust. One of the things I do not like to do is to complain about something being broken, and not at least make an Read More...
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Monday, January 30, 2006 2:14 PM
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Melissa announced that the NJSQL group has been accepted as an Offical PASS Chapter , and got some really cool goodies to give away at the next couple meetings. She is still waiting to hear back from INETA , but I don't really expect any problems there. Read More...
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Friday, January 27, 2006 10:08 AM
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If you are one of my regular readers, you know that I’m a senior .Net consultant out of New Jersey, and don’t do the traveling thing. I’m sort of in between career plateaus, and trying to migrate from the 40 hours a week at one client Read More...
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Friday, January 27, 2006 9:36 AM
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Microsoft recently release the first public beta of their Expression Interactive Design tool (aka Sparkle), and I finally can get a chance to play with it and publicly talk about it. The most important thing to remember with this tool is that it is not Read More...
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Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:48 AM
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I’m not a big fan of .Net Remoting from within ASP.Net apps (although it does have its place, and is sometimes required), so when one of my clients had some weirdness with .Net Remoting within their ASP.Net application, I do what I normally do, Read More...
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Monday, January 23, 2006 10:37 AM
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Way, way back (before 2000), there was a great SQL Server user group based out of the NJ Microsoft offices (so they tell me, since I didn’t go to user groups back then). It has been a long time coming, with a couple false starts, but I can now say Read More...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 2:16 PM
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Way, way back when, Register.Com was THE site to go an buy your urls from. Then came along discount domain name registration sites like GoDaddy , and totally screwed with Register’s business model. Well, instead of trying to compete, for a while Read More...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 1:47 PM
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I’ve seen a couple .Net bloggers talking about migrating away from the old .Text code base to non-.Net blogging tools like WordPress , and I realized that I really needed to blog about the new CommunityServer 2.0. I’d link back the bloggers Read More...
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Monday, January 16, 2006 9:16 PM
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Wow! Somehow I missed this, but Elliotte Rusty Harold is doing a Northeast Speaking Tour on how you can use RSS and Atom to manage, read, and publish all sorts of information. Here are the dates and locations (check back to his site for any changes): Read More...
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Thursday, January 12, 2006 5:13 PM
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Last night (Jan. 11, 2006) was the monthly Northern NJ .Net User Group ( N3UG.org ) meeting, and Stephen Forte was the speaker (sponsored by Ineta ). Stephen’s discussion was on Design Patterns in ASP.Net 2.0 (if you are a member of Ineta, I highly Read More...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10:16 AM
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Here’s an update on my .Net Community Contest . I’ve decided what I’m doing with my three MSDN Universal subscriptions, and I’m going to give them away to people in the NJ .Net Community that have stepped up to the cause and tried Read More...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006 12:04 PM
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If you have tried to download Quicktime recently you will notice that they have bundled iTunes with the installer, which really irks me. I can not stand iTunes, so needless to say I wasn’t too happy about being force fed iTunes when I only wanted Read More...
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Monday, January 09, 2006 11:07 AM
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I’ve been an independent consulting for over a decade, and one of the things I always hated was doing all my own back office work. You know, all those things that you have to do to run a business (payroll, taxes, accounts payable, account receivable, Read More...
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Friday, January 06, 2006 2:49 PM
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I hit a very weird “issue” with SQL Server 2000 at my client, and because it wasn’t something that was easy to research, this is my attempt to make it easier for other folks to find thru their faviorite search engine. The quick answer: Read More...
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 2:33 PM
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Microsoft recently sent out the notices for the January 2006 MVP awards (I think it is done quarterly), and if you read .Net oriented blogs, you probably already saw that some people got their status renewed, some are first timers, and others didn’t Read More...
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 1:38 PM
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If you are into any of the social bookmarking discussions, you must go out and buy Peter Morville’s new book Ambient Findability . "How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to Read More...
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006 4:07 PM
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Since it is New Year 2006 there are a lot developer bloggers out there giving their resolutions, and a lot of the seem to be centered around their careers. So, I thought that I’d start a developer career tips thread and see if others pick up on Read More...
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Monday, January 02, 2006 11:22 PM
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