SBC DotNet Weblog

The 'Add-in contest's results are out - a terrific job arranging the contest done by Roy and associates and all done online!

Lance Hunt has released 'C# Coding Standards v1.13'. Very well worth reading through it (its only 20 pages) - especially, if you are new to the 'C#' language or from a VB background. I mention the latter because I have seen C# code from former VB developers that make their code look like VB by obsessively using 'getters/setters' for one! This is not meant to disparage VB developers but C# has a style and standard of its own.

I noticed a change in the left-most column of 'weblogs.asp.net' main page. It doesn't appear to be sorted by 'number of posts' but appears to be random! Any thoughts on this?

I attended the Downton Boston .NET User Group meeting recently - here are some pictures from it:

Yesterday, I attended the Downtown Boston .NET User Group meeting held at Adesso Systems' office. Robert Hurlbut gave a presentation on 'Code Access Security in .NET' (unfortunately, I missed the last 10 minutes of it as I had to get the Greyhound back to Hartford). I hope to convince our local .NET group to have Robert to make the presentation here as well.

'Live Communications Server 2003 FAQ and Troubleshooting Guide' is now available. A must-read if you are deploying LCS2K3.

After a very silent and uneventful year, our local .NET developer group is very much dormant. In over a year, we haven't had a SQL Server presentation/meeting (with Bill Sulcius, who is perhaps, the most knowledgeable SQL2K Server person out there). The .NET events have been very few and with less attendance and vigor than the past ones. The truth is that our local MS office has been quite busy with the changing economy and priorities do change. I don't see much happening this summer but perhaps, the coming fall would bring in new events on Whidbey, Yukon, etc - ANYTHING!

The vaulted unlegend (pun intended), Eric Sink has a new biz-tech piece titled 'The Hazards of Hiring'. It's some thought provoking piece of work, especially about the “Ph.D. Qualities“. What he didn't mention is that PhDs usually have very big egos that can bring a company or its product development down. I encountered one about a year ago (an Ivy-Leaguer to boot) who insisted that XML be used as a database (a futile attempt that I had described in a blog posting). One of these days, I have to put my biz-econ hat on and re-read Eric's biz-tech series.