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PDC 2008 Session Calendar Synchronization Tip

If you are attending PDC 2008 , you may have noticed that on the Sessions page , if you log in, you can chose the sessions you are interested in attending, along with a link so you can add it to your favorite calendar program. The only problem is Read More... Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 9:35 AM by donxml | 3 Comments

Filed under: PDC, Tech Ramblings

Just Say No to Console App Demos

It is a major pet peeve of mine; presenters that use Console Application Projects to demo some non-UI code. That’s so 1990’s. So, what should a presenter use? Well, Test Projects, of course! It is something that I think should Read More... Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 8:51 AM by donxml | 5 Comments

Filed under: .Net, PDC

Static Code Analysis and Custom FxCop Rules for Enterprise ASP.Net Development

Over the last couple months I've been doing a bit of work with FxCop and Static Code Analysis. If you remember playing with FxCop back in the day, it was a cool tool to check for possible design, localization, performance, and security issues with Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:40 PM by donxml | 3 Comments

Filed under: .Net, Open Source

Cache Or Session State - Similar But Different

This week at TechEd Microsoft announce the Velocity project , a distributed in-memory object caching system, which got folks like Dare and ScottW talking about using a distributed caching solution for boosting the performance of web sites. That got me Read More... Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 5:32 PM by donxml | 6 Comments

New York City IT Architect Regional Conference

The NYC IASA chapter is holding an IT Architect Regional Conference in New York City on May 22-23 at the NYC Microsoft office. The speaker list is quite impressive, and has a couple local Microsoft MVPs among the list (Mark Pollack, Ambrose Little Read More... Posted Saturday, April 26, 2008 8:49 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

Mixing Object, Functional and Aspect Oriented Programming

I spent the last week in Seattle and Redmond, attending both the MVP Summit and the ALT.Net Conference, and spent the majority of time discussing the future of programming, both on the .Net platform and other platforms. By Saturday night, my brain Read More... Posted Sunday, April 20, 2008 11:57 PM by donxml | 6 Comments

Filed under: .Net, .Net Communities, LINQ VBx

VSLive San Francisco Workshop - LINQ - One Query Syntax To Rule Them All

Since I'm talking about conferences, I should also mention that I'll be giving a full day pre-conference workshop, LINQ — One Query Syntax to Rule Them All at VSLive! San Francisco 2008 : By now you have probably already heard about LINQ and think Read More... Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 4:25 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

Filed under: LINQ

Devscovery 2008 - New York City April 1-3

I can't believe it is March already. For those of you in the New York City area, Devscovery be here, April 1st-3rd, and I'll be doing 2 talks, An Introduction to LINQ to SQL , and An Introduction to LINQ to Entities . If you haven't heard Read More... Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 4:15 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

Filed under: New Jersey Developer Community Events

Diskeeper 2008 Professional Review

Disclaimer - the folks at Diskeeper gave me a free copy of Diskeeper 2008 Pro Premier. But, I've purchased previous versions of their product. I've been using Diskeeper for a couple years now, and I've got to say, I love this product. Back before Read More... Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 10:26 AM by donxml | 7 Comments

Filed under: Tech Reviews

Petition To Get Chris Sells To Host Another SellsCon Before The End Of 2008

M. David Peterson kickstarted the process to get Chris Sells to host another SellsCon by creating a new Facebook group . I've got to say, the ALT.Net conference in Austin sort of reminded me of the spirit of a SellsCon (getting a bunch of bright passionate Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 8:38 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

Filed under: XML

Wanted: Developer Version Of Sharepoint

Bil Simser asks the question "Do SharePoint Developers Want a Developer Version of SharePoint?", and I've got to say YES. Yes, Sharepoint desperately needs a version that a developer can use on a desktop OS. As Bil mentions, Biztalk has this, why not Read More... Posted Saturday, February 23, 2008 2:42 PM by donxml | 5 Comments

Filed under: Sharepoint

My Comments On The D Language In Redmond Developer News

In a recent article on the Redmond Developer News website about the new Microsoft Declarative Language D, I was quoted, but it is was slightly inaccurate. The first part is corrected: "said he believes both the D language and Oslo will be featured at Read More... Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 3:12 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

Raleigh Code Camp Slide Deck and Demo

Melissa and I had a blast at the Raleigh Code Camp. Thanks to all the folks that helped to coordinate this event! Here' the slide deck and the demo app . It was a great opportunity to work on my material for the full day pre-conference on LINQ at VSLive Read More... Posted Sunday, February 17, 2008 11:15 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

Filed under: Community Events

PDC08 Announced - Oct. 27-30

Looks like Microsoft delayed the "next" Professional Developers Conference a whole year. They just announced that it will be Oct. 27th-30th, 2008, back in LA (were else?). For some reason, I'm not excited. I think that will change over the next couple Read More... Posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 3:03 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

Rhode Island .Net User Group Dec. 5th

I'm making my first INETA speaking gig on Wed. Dec. 5th, up at the Rhode Island User Group . The topic will in LINQ (what else?) An Intro to the One Query Syntax to Rule Them All – LINQ An introduction to the new standard query syntax (LINQ) added to Read More... Posted Monday, December 03, 2007 8:19 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

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