As I just posted, I was inspired by Channel 9‘s video interviews so decided to get a digital camcorder to film interviews with our vendors about their products for posting on Xtras.Net. However, when I get the opportunity I’ll interview anyone related to the .NET development and post those interviews on my blog. Case in point, …
Inspired by Channel9
Back at the beginning of last month Microsoft launched Channel 9, and I was completely inspired by their video interviews. Being a “database“ guy, I’ve never really gotten excited about things like graphics, imaging, charting, etc. and that included video. That was until I saw Channel9 and thought “Wow, these videos are really cool! We …
CodeGenGrrl’s got a Blog
After much prodding by myself and others, Kathleen Dollard, author of Code Generation in .NET, has finally gotten herself a blog. You go girl!
Bill Ryan love’s IP*Works!
As many readers of this blog know, I run Xtras.Net which sells third party tools, though I haven’t blogged that much about 3rd party tools. But Bill Ryan over at Bill’s House O Insomnia just posted about IP*Works! Red Carpet Subscription. I’ve been in this business over 10 years now, and I have to agree. /n …
Features I REALLY want in TSQL, Part #1
I believe SQL was invented back in the 70’s back by E.F.Codd (don’t shoot me if I’m wrong; I’m not a historian.) Given the collective wisdom about programming back then, SQL is an amazing language. I probably use TSQL more often than any other because of ad-hoc queries into my company’s SQL Server database. However …
My, My, My!
(I first wrote most of this about 3 weeks ago, but never got a chance to finish and post it. I’ll be posting something else about “My” is a few days, so I wanted to post this first.) When I first heard about “My” Classes (list of classes) planned for Whidbey/Visual Studio 2005, I thought …
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For the past week I’ve had a nasty sinus infection I couldn’t shake, so today I finally got the doctor to give me some antibiotics. Hopefully they will bring me back to life soon. Anyway, since lack of energy kept me from posting anything interesting lately, I decided to do something easy. :) Today I …
Another Patent Gone Bad
Wired reports Forgent Sues Over JPEG Patent. According to the article, Forgent acquired a 17-year-old patent when it purchased Compression Labs in 1997 that Forgent believes can be applied to JPEG. Also according to the article, Forgent has generated about $90 million in fees on the patent from 30 licensees in Europe, Asia and the …
Why runat=”server” for ASP.NET? Part 2
In response to my post Why runat="server" for ASP.NET?, Talbott Crowell tried of Microsoft National Services tried to comment but got an error from dasBlog. I’ve decided to post his emailed comments here: I understand your point, but the importance of [runat="server"] is more for consistancy and extensibility. If the developer has to mark some …
A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected…
In response to my post Why runat="server" for ASP.NET?, Talbott Crowell of Microsoft National Services tried to post the following comment: I understand your point, but the importance of [runat="server"] is more for consistancy and extensibility. If the developer has to mark some tags some ways (ie an [<asp:] prefix) and in other cases using …
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