I want to thank everyone for coming out to the .NET To Go Mobility Roadshow in Grand Rapids. I had a great time and hope to come back to Grand Rapids more often. We had about 40-45 participants and all seemed to enjoy themselves and were really engaging. If I had a typical Grand Rapids group – I’m definitely going to have to speak there more often. I was a » read more.
Archives - 2004
.NET To Go Mobility Roadshow on Thursday, December 2, 2004 at the DeVos Center-Loosemore Auditorium. The .NET To Go Mobility Roadshow will provide you with the answers to your mobile development questions. Digging into the details, using more code and fewer slides, these technical sessions will show you how to develop and implement mobile solutions using the .NET Compact Framework and languages you are already familiar with. To register for this » read more.
Someone forwarded me this resume (CV depending on where you are in the world). I get a number of these, but this took some real creativity so I thought I’d post it here. Here’s the English version:http://213.186.36.10/~al/alstudio/cv/en.htm He did it in his native French as well: http://213.186.36.10/~al/alstudio/cv/fr.htm Here’s the full list – including the standard word formatted CV. http://213.186.36.10/~al/alstudio/cv/en.htm Anyways – kudos for creativity and I hope that this helps » read more.
GANG (Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group) is helping to host the .NET To Go Mobility Roadshow on Wed., Oct 20, 2004 at the Microsoft Offices in Southfield. The .NET To Go Mobility Roadshow will provide you with the answers to your mobile development questions. Digging into the details, using more code and fewer slides, these technical sessions will show you how to develop and implement mobile solutions using the .NET Compact » read more.
Bill Wagner (Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group President, Regional Director and author of the C# Core Language Little Black Book and Effective C#) is going to be doing a webcast on how to install and configure Data Driven Web Applications. If you’ve faced the frustration deploying a data-driven Web application to a server, or tried moving applications from one server to another, you need to attend this webcast. Learn » read more.
Patrick Steele (http://weblogs.asp.net/psteele/archive/2004/09/16/230473.aspx?Pending=true) and Scoble have been talking about using descriptive titles on your blog posts to make it easier to scan and triage what posts you read. That’s actually a great point. I know that I scan 150+ blogs and Patrick is in the same ballpark. That’s an average of 80-120 posts a day and some days are more intense than that. The good news is that NewsGator (http://www.NewsGator.com), » read more.
I thought that this was an interesting item. It’s the history of programming languages back to the mid-50s. There are a few things that I saw that were interesting – such as the fact that Fortran will be 50 this November and is the ancestor to a number of programming languages. There were a few inaccuracies, such as the fact that they skipped from VB 1.0 to VB 6.0 and » read more.
There are a number of reasons that you might want to host a native windows control on the Compact Framework and now there’s a way using the OpenNetCF framework.
The Windows Mobile Team just published a white paper on migrating from eVB to VB.NET on the Compact Framework. This is a really good thing and is worth a read.
I know that it’s not a really big deal to many authors, but I got my first article published on the Fawcette Reports web site. I didn’t know that it was actually published until I started getting emails about it – but it’s linked below.
