Well folks, it looks like this chapter of The Great Big Book of Awesome (AKA my life story) has come to end.
I'll leave the existing Mission Reports here, but there won't be any new ones publicly available. I don't worry much about me, but I definitely don't want to be responsible for other folks getting in trouble as a result of my actions.
If I've inspired curiosity or provided entertainment, then my work here is done anyway.
Peace!
Chris...
I work on a two programmer team for a federal credit union. I’ve been here for six months now, and I’d like to explain the problems that I have with working here to you guys. Limited design experience. I have two years professional programming experience, and I’m finding road blocks when I try to learn more from the “Lead” programmer. For me, programming is a passion and something I want to know more and more about. For him, programming was a means to a job that he doesn’t want to get more out of....
Guild Meeting, featuring Jeff Brand
When: October 7, 2008 at 6:00 PM.
Where: New Horizons of Minnesota (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435)
Topic: ASP.NET MVC
Overview This session will introduce attendees to the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Framework. It will compare MVC to existing ASP.NET Web Forms and show the basics of creating an ASP.NET MVC application. Demos will be used to show how to create a simple product catalog web site.
Speaker Bio:
Jeff Brand is a .NET Developer in Microsoft's...
I am very excited to join the geeks community. I have been a silent beneficiary of several wonderful blogs hosted here. Here at this blog, you can expect to find posts about tools and technologies I am currently working or exploring, to name a few: Microsoft .NET, BizTalk, Web development and Content Management Systems.
Good Day...
I have recently been invited to join the Microsoft Cloud Advisory group and have just spent the last week at an SDR getting to understand all the wonderful cloud stuff. Unfortunately I'm under NDA until PDC but it is looking good. On the topic of the cloud and BizTalk I came across a blog by Lori MacVittie (http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2008/10/06/how-microsoft-is-bursting-into-the-cloud-with-biztalk.aspx) that really has got it all wrong. The blog talks about BizTalk activities...
This weeks' meetings:
WHO: Bill Reiss, MVP Silverlight
WHEN: Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 6:30PM
WHERE: Answers Systems (Directions)
WHAT: A Night of Silverlight2 - Bill Reiss (MVP-Silverlight)
will be giving us an introductory talk on Silverlight with emphasis on using the design tools (using both Expression Blend and Visual Studio) to build Silverlight apps. Along the way he'll show us some tips and tricks for working with Silverlight2. And it's Bill talking so, of course, the night will...
I recently have been working on a solution for a client that is converting their current external membership website to WSS 3.0. I am so happy with the way the solution is coming together. I have always been of the opinion that you use the right tool for the right job and WSS 3.0 is the right tool for this solution.
Going back to my perspective that it is easier to develop with SharePoint as a framework than to start a new web project from scratch, WSS was a natural fit for all of the functionality...
In case you happen to be needing to do host headers with a wildcard SSL Certificate, here is the article from Microsoft on how to do it in IIS 6: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/596b9108-b1a7-494d-885d-f8941b07554c.mspx?mfr=true The basic command line call is: cscript.exe adsutil.vbs set /w3svc/<site identifier>/SecureBindings ":443:<host header>" Where <site identifier> is the numeric identifier displayed in IIS, and <host header>...
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Although most of topics I've written about are pretty random, I'll try to focus in on a much more narrow (yet incredibly broad) topic: multi core vs many core processing, parallel processing, and the paradigm shift that we software engineers are on the leading edge of having to face.
To put it in short Intel, AMD, and other hardware manufacturers are telling anyone that listens that programmers need to change the way they think about designing enduser software. End-user software needs to take...
NOTE: In this series I build a blogengine using ASP.NET MVC and jQuery from scratch in order to learn more about these new technologies. If you haven't read the first post in this series, I would encourage you do to that first, or check out the jBlogMvc category. You can also always subscribe to the feeds.
In this part of the series, I build the administration area of the blog engine I am building using the ASP.NET MVC and jQuery, in this part I will cover more basic features used in...
On a recent project I used a resource file to store a collection of XML schema files. When validating my XML, I needed to add all the schemas to my XmlDocument object. Instead of hard-coding each schema file's name, I decided to load the resources programmatically.
Here's a snippet of the code I ended up with:
XmlSchemaSet schemaSet = new XmlSchemaSet();
Assembly assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
ResourceManager resMan = XmlSchemaResources.ResourceManager;
foreach (string...
Recently I was discussing SQL Server encryption with some friends who have been using it to encrypt short strings such as Social Security numbers at their shop. I commented, "Just try searching those Social Security Numbers," they shared my lamentation, and we moved on to other subjects. Later that evening, though, I thought there must be a way to search those wretched encrypted blocks--somehow--and worked out the solution you are about to read.
The Problem
The difficulty lies in the fact that...
“Virtual TechDays” held on September 17-19, 2008
Recorded sessions and presentations are now available.
http://connectwithlife.co.in/vtd/default.aspx
Enjoy !!
Krunal...
So we got a Microsoft Surface machine at Phenomblue a couple weeks back and the tech team freaked, as expected. Everyone from art direction to programmer to business development were all over the machine from the moment we received the thing from Fed Ex. After the quick and rather ravenous un-boxing, the attempt to follow terribly inaccurate documented setup procedures, and ultimately an undocumented trial and error period, we fired up this future box for a test drive.
From the first attract application...
I made a comment about this in a prior post, but it was really long and wordy so unless you read right to the end you would have missed the announcement. So I figured I’d post a little ‘update’ to fill everyone in on what’s been going down. Over the last seven years I’ve worked for numerous small companies here in Winnipeg. I’ve been part of some interesting projects, had some successes, some failures, and a lot of lessons learned. I’ve tested the waters of independent consulting and had great success...
Foreword
What to blog about, what to blog about.... how about the way I look at making good software, with some broad, sweeping statements of truth? Roughly translated, you might say "the way I approach making software," because we all want it to be "good." Working with a team on a software project of any significant magnitude presents choices and situations of enormous complexity, both intellectual and emotional... Perhaps more than we developers give ourselves credit for.
A word of warning:...
Recon: Abandoned WWII Munitions Facility
Debrief:
While at work on Friday, I had that itch to go do some exploring. It had been a long week and I wanted to put my brain in a different gear for a while. Shortly after that I got a text message that read "I'm thinking about checking out this old WWII munitions site." Sounds like just what the doctor ordered.
The plan, as with any recon, is to locate and identify. So we figured on rolling out there in the daylight, looking around and then grabbing...
...now I will be Headblader. Thanks to a buddy, I now have on order a starter kit to get the old head shaved. I figured I'd totally embrace the inner convict look. With tats and goatee, shaved head was all I was missing. :-)...
In this issue: Jonas Follesø, Koen Zwikstra, Jeff Wilcox, Andy Beaulieu, Jaime Rodriguez, James Bacon, Terence Tsang, and Chris Hay
Jonas Follesø has been busy and reports that YouCard, DiveLog and WebcamPOC updated for Silverlight 2 RC0.
Jaime Rodriguez reports that We just published a codeplex project with source for > 25 Pixel Shader effects and ~35 Transition effects.. for WPF.
Koen Zwikstra reports that Silverlight Spy for RC0 available.
From SilverlightCream.com: Client-side...
Review : Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2007 Best Practices by Ben Curry (Author), Bill English (Author)
Unlike some other Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 books that either talk about technical implementation of the product or delve only into the planning for a new implementation this book covers them all from Planning, Implementation and deployment of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007. The book is full of real world scenarios and point the reader to the best practices learned on the field by the...
I have good news for the VBers interested in making the leap into the world of Rich Internet Applications (RIA). In additon to being available in C#, the Silverlight team has posted VB sample code for all of their How-Do-I videos. Thanks Silverlight team! Have a day. :-|...
"Good morning everybody, you're tuned to Computers 2K8 on sports radio 850 The Buzz" and so began today's show as we do every Sunday morning from 8am - 10am here in Raleigh, NC. You can download the show from the show's website or you can listen do us live as we stream the show across the web. Here a few of the topics discussed on this week's show... Steve Jobs is OK! Really, he's fine... An unsubstantiated rumor about Steve Jobs having a heart attack was posted Friday morning on the citizen journalism"...
