.NET at 9.400 ft above sea level
Programming in Quito, 2.860 m above sea level
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TechEd 2005: Day 1 morning
In fact, TechEd started yesterday for many of us: I had a full day NDA meeting for RDs where I learnt a few interesting things and then had some fun with other RDs. The public part of the story started for me this morning: a reasonably good keynote by Steve Ballmer with two high points: Outlook programmability with .NET (yes VSTO 2005 will allow to create impressive Outlook plug-ins) and then MOM, what with a MOM server controlling Sun hardware live, then pulling off fans one by one from the box (and SteveB very much enjoying it), and then finally remotely booting a backup Sun server. Impressive, even more so given that, being a developer, IT doesn't easily impress me.
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IIS: *the* corporate web server
According to this survey, IIS is *by far* the most used web server at the Fortune 1000. If accurate, I guess BillG is really smiling now...
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Developer webcasts in Spanish
This site has announcements on developer webcasts in Spanish, with emphasis on Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 ¡Pasen la voz!
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Webcast: Clientes inteligentes con Windows Forms 2.0
First of all, I must apologize because, due to technical problems, we weren't able to present live last week webcast (De ASP.NET 1.1 a ASP.NET 2.0). I hope this time we don't have any problems.Today, Tuesday April 19 2005, starting at 2 P.M. Eastern Time (GMT -5), that is 13h00 in Panamá-Bogotá-Quito-Lima, I'll be doing a webcast on the development of smart clients using Windows Forms 2.0. You can register and then join the presentation at http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032273483&Culture=es-MX. Once again, I hope and pray we can go live without problems this time. -
Webcast: De ASP.NET 1.1 a ASP.NET 2.0
Following the trend of Roy Osherove about webcasts and other activities in Hebrew, I hereby announce my very own personal webcast, but in Spanish: De ASP.NET 1.1 a ASP.NET 2.0. If you've seen any decent ASP.NET 2.0 presentation (or better yet, you're developing with it), you won't really see anything new. But if you want to know how we translate web form or how I pronounce "Visual Studio" or "cache" in (Latin American) Spanish then come watch this presentation, I think you'll find it amusing.
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CTEs in SQL Server 2005
SQL Server 2005 brings a handful of interesting enhancements inside TSQL Data Manipulation Language. An example:
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.NET and Oracle
It's fun to see some love-hate relationships. Early on, Oracle bet on Java, so much so that only after Microsoft created its Oracle ADO.NET data provider and under pressure of the growing popularity of .NET, Oracle created its own ADO.NET data provider. And now increasingly, Oracle is accepting and taking positive steps about the popularity of .NET:
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TechEd 2005: I'll be there
One of the perks of being an RD is that, from time to time, you get invited to cool events like this one. I look forward to meet with at least as many interesting people as I did last year. On the down side, T&E are on my tab, which could be expensive for a guy living in the Andes. Luckily, I've got a few months to do the savings.
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SmartClient Offline Application Block on .NET 2.0
Today I had the pleasure of showing some concepts and examples of Smart Clients to over 200 people. For doing that, I used the Offline Application Block that has been around for a year already. The interesting thing is that I moved it to Visual Studio 2005 and I compiled it: a change here and there aside, the Application Block moved to .NET 2.0 without problem. Encouraged, I did the same with IssueVision and everything went OK again. It seems like compatibility between .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 is doing pretty well. Oh, and I almost forgot: smart clients are cool.
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VS 2005 Beta 2, RCs and Final Release Dates anyone?
Our small software shop has made its name by aggesively adopting new technologies. At different times it's been Pascal as a business apps language (we've been in the market for a long time... :-( ), LANs, PowerBuilder, Lotus Notes, Java, .NET. Along the years, we've been among the first in our country to create business apps using these technologies, often with Beta versions. Now is the time for .NET 2.0, VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005: we are currently working in 3 projects with these new technologies (it would've been 4, but the 4th was a big bank and they dimmed too risky to use 2005, so we settled on .NET 1.1 and VS 2003). About our 3 Whidbey projects: