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PDC2008 UPDATE 4 - Day 3 - Microsoft Research and Futures
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Jeramie Mercker
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Today's keynote was a showcase of some of the cool things that Microsoft Research is working on. Demos included SensorMap, Boku, the Worldwide Telescope and the next generation past Surface, "SecondLight". While all of Microsoft's presentations were very cool, check out this video of "SecondLight".
Session talks of interest today for me included a talk on parallel programming for managed code developers, and Anders Hejlsberg's talk on the future of C#, and the Mono talk given by Miguel de Icaza. |
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A Primer on Encryption in SQL Server 2005: Part 1
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Vlad Maysuradze
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One of the main enhancements in the area of security in SQL
Server 2005 was added native encryption. Having read online documentation, few book chapters and a few posts on
the web, I was generally familiar with the new concepts. After attempting one practical
implementation, however, I realized that I owe it to the community to share my
experiences. That’s why this post was
born.
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PDC2008 UPDATE 3 - Day 2 - Windows 7, "Oslo", and Other Bits and Pieces
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Jeramie Mercker
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The highlight of yesterday's events for me was a combination of the announcement and demo of Windows 7, Don Box's very entertaining keynote demo of some of the Azure bits, and the attendee party at Universal (lots of fun + more than a little spooky). Read on for more on all...
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PDC2008 UPDATE 2 - Day 1, Microsoft Azure Announced
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Jeramie Mercker
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Day 1 at the PDC has been a lot of fun. In typical Microsoft fashion, the opening keynote offered the announcement of a new product offering. In this case, a new collection of "cloud services" from Microsoft under a new platform, Microsoft Azure. |
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PDC2008 Update 1 - Silverlight + You
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Jeramie Mercker
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This is the first of hopefully a series of daily posts live from PDC2008. The polish of these posts might not fit what I usually do, but I thought it more important to get information out as I received it rather than wait until the end of the week to roll it all up. This should save Tim and Kevin some work :).
Read on to hear more about Day -1 at the PDC.
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Using Microsoft Silverlight in Business Applications
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Todd Snoddy
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The release of Silverlight 2.0 introduces some fundamental changes that make it
worthy of consideration for business applications. At the time of this writing,
Silverlight is currently at version 2.0. When the previous version, Silverlight
1.0, was first introduced, it was mainly focused on multimedia functionality
and seemed to be Microsoft’s competitor to Flash.
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Exception Handling in SQL 2005
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Victoria Boyko
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Exception handling is an essential part of any application, including applications that communicate with SQL Server. Until recently SQL Server allowed handling exceptions in T-SQL code by using the @@ERROR global variable, which has its limitations. In this article I will briefly review exception handling using @@ERRROR and new exception handling features that were introduced in SQL Server 2005.
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A Primer In Master Pages
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Scott Kelley
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This article will look at Master Pages, a built in feature
of ASP.Net that was introduced in .NET 2.0 and has been enhanced in the current
3.5 version. This article will not cover
every aspect of Master Pages but instead is intended to be an introduction. We will examine how to create a Master Page,
content pages and hook them together. We
will also look at how to setup several mechanisms for communication between the
pages and finally go over a few pitfalls to avoid. The writer assumes the read has a basic
understanding of how to create ASP.Net web applications using Visual Studio
2005 or later.
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Configuring Vista for Interactive Testing with Visual Studio 2008 and Firefox
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Scott Kelley
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I ran across something that I thought would be pretty cool so I thought I would share it. This tells how to configure Vista for interactive testing with Visual Studio 2008 and Firefox:
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5 Ways to Increase Parks and Recreation Traffic Using The Internet
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Tim Verras
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The internet can be a powerful tool for aiding your Parks
and Recreation department in its mission to provide relaxation and education for
citizens. By leveraging your city’s web site in combination with other
resources on the web, your city can see an increase in event attendance, sports
registrations, and organizational efficiency.
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Networks: The Other Infrastructure
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Tim Verras
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We all know the importance of keeping a stable
infrastructure - roads, bridges, utilities, and the equipment needed to
maintain them all need to be in good working order to ensure a healthy city.
However, there is another equally important yet often overlooked
infrastructure: the network. As cities increasingly move from paper-based,
labor intensive operations to automated electronic administration, having a
stable and secure network infrastructure is crucial to keep operations running
smoothly.
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Vista Development Impressions
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Jeramie Mercker
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I took the time to upgrade my development laptop from Windows XP SP2 to Vista Enterprise last week. For the most part, things went pretty smoothly. I did hit some minor inconveniences though, so thought it'd be good to share my solutions with others who may be hitting the same problems.
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3 Ways to Use The Web to Drive Economic Growth
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Tim Verras
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Driving the economic development of a city or county is one of the primary goals of any local official. A healthy economy means active, affluent residents and increased income for the city itself. Officials have mastered a number of tools to help their organization prosper but an often overlooked avenue for driving economic development is perhaps one of the easiest: a great website.
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A Requirements Analysis Primer
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Jeramie Mercker
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Depending on the maturity of the software development processes within an organization, activities such as requirements analysis and design are treated as wasted time. The logic seems to follow that programmers should be writing code, not talking about writing code. For anything but the most insignificant of solutions, this focus is short sighted as it’s trained on the single activity of writing lines of code rather than the overall goal which is to best solve the business problem within a given set of constraints.
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My interview with TechLINKS...
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Dave Mims
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Checkout my interview with TechLINKS in their April 2007 issue of their magazine (as well as online). TechLINKS is amassing an online library of interviews featuring CEOs and other leaders of Georgia's technology and technology services companies. The purpose? To share executive insights with the Georgia technology industry and introduce these personalities to a wider audience.
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Hummingbird DM AEM: Automated Email Management
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Paul Wilson
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What is AEM? It is basically a plugin for MS Exchange that makes it
possible for all emails in an organization to be automatically archived
into the Hummingbird DM system according to flexible rules that you
define. I was able to get AEM working effectively, but there were also several
aspects of the installation and configuration that were not documented
well, or which required a lot of trial and error, so I want to share
some of the lessons learned.
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Microsoft Releases AJAX for ASP.NET
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Paul Wilson
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Microsoft released ASP.NET v2.0 AJAX Extensions v1.0 today.
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Breaking News: Future Version of .NET Framework to Run on the Mac
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Paul Wilson
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Breaking News: Future Version of .NET Framework to Run on the Mac
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Mimsware.com gets a face lift!
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Dave Mims
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It has been long over due. Jeramie, Vlad, and others have said it has been needed time and time again. So, here it is...
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The Value of Network Assessments
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Dave Mims
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Ask yourself: If your city’s network went down or data was lost or stolen, how would that impact your city?
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ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Control Adapters Released
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Paul Wilson
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Its official -- the ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Friendly Control Adapters have finally been released !
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How to Reduce Word Bloat
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Jeramie Mercker
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I ran into an issue with a requirements document growing and growing over time. Save times were through the roof and it was really starting to affect my productivity (and my patience). A 100 page document with a single small image had grown in excess of 36 MB.
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To come...
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Dave Mims
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Welcome to the Mimsware Spoutlet. From our soapbox...
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