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Books Written by Brian Nantz |
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11/17/2005 |
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This is a web log of things I have learned and hopefully can save you some time. |
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PDC 05 Videos |
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By host on
10/24/2005
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I previously posted the PowerPoints and code from PDC 05. But now I found the PDC 05 Videos.
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XBOX360 and Media Center |
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By host on
10/18/2005
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I do not remember if I found this:
http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=126995
on Scoble’s or Major Nelson’s blog. This is really amazing. It makes me want to buy both products even though I don’t think I would use either XBOX360 or Media Center to a tenth of their potential. I sent the link to Ian Dixon over on the Media Center Show Podcast.
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Oracles Ask Tom can run but he can not hide! |
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By host on
10/18/2005
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Since I have done some Oracle work in the past and host lots of questions. I found the AskTom website. I then heard a couple of Tom’s podcast interviews: DBAZine & Oracle's OTN TechCasts. This made me realize that Tom is somewhat of a celebrity in the Oracle space and he is very dedicated to answering questions from the community. There is only one problem, Tom is only one person and he is not always online. So to solve this problem (and to learn new technologies) I wrote a program to sit in the Windows System Tray and monitor the AskTom website. It will alert you when his status changes and he starts accepting questions. It will even hold your questions so you don’t forget them! Here is the code give it a shot! But be aware that it is a work in progress.
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Telligent is going after it all. |
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By host on
10/2/2005
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Telligent is going after it all. Their portal, which used to be little more than an enhanced starter kit, is now looking more attractive than Sharepoint! Now they are getting into the CMS arena! This is a little more integrated than what I have seen for DotNetNuke but the pricing seems to be an issue for Telligent. I don’t mean for a personal site but for a corporate site of if you want to create a product on top of the portal system. That, in my opinion, limits the choices to DotNetNuke or Rainbow.
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Microsoft CTP Madness
OK I admit it. I am a lazy developer. I also like that Microsoft is being more open with its Betas and development. Having said that, CTPs are a pain in the neck! Thank goodness for Virtual PC!
http://www.theserverside.net/cartoons/AtomicStructure/AtomicStructure.jpg
I used to think that CTPs were hard too, until I found this site:
http://channel9.msdn.com/ctpmadness/Default.aspx
If you follow those instructions it will work!
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Do you know too much? |
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By host on
9/26/2005
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While I believe what you don’t know can’t know can hurt you; I also believe what you do know can hurt you. For instance the bumble bee is not aerodynamic and should not be able to fly, but he does not know this and flies anyway. Conversely, the engineer who discovered the safety glass did not know that it was impossible. So is ignorance truly bliss? Is it true that Knowledge is power?
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Extreme Programming in Consulting |
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By host on
9/21/2005
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I am of the opinion that automating the build and unit testing and everything that goes along with it is a great idea. I am not in the Test Driven camp. I also like Continuous Integration but not when first starting up a project because it would break every 5 seconds. I also think that there is a place for documentation. Here is why. When on a long project with consultants where the team is changing XP is not all that great. Because the new people coming on have nothing to get them up to speed. No documentation and having the customer intimately involved in the development doesn’t work in consulting if the project is long running or the team is changing.
My 2 cents.
Very disappointed in teams systems Unit Testing.
I hope this feedback gets back to Microsoft (either through my blog or feedback from MVPs at the MVP summit).
There is a great article over at ondotnet.com about .Net Unit testing. There are so many tools available for automating code testing. Sean McCormack (C#
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Attention! |
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By host on
9/14/2005
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I think Steve Gilmore is on to something here. I have noticed that with blogs and podcasts coming at me a million miles an hour and only getting fast as I go mobile to try to keep up, that I have more content than I have time. I thin kit would be great if the large companies can work it out go take a look at AttentionTrust.org and AttentionXML.
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Have you loved your HoneyMonkey today? |
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By host on
8/31/2005
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Though a strange name, Microsoft’s HoneyMonkey project (along with Strider), has proven to be a great way to find vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. Head over to the Security Now! Podcast and learn more.
The uses for Virtual PC are so amazing to me. It is not just for testers, developers or admins it is now for simulating human use of the internet! Very cool. I wonder if they are doing clever stuff with the VPC API???
Enterprise Library WMI and Performance Monitor problems
Tom has a great blog entry on how to turn off the WMI / Performance Monitor instrumentation for the Microsoft Patterns and Practices Enterprise Library. Unfortunately, you have to recompile it. No problem for use since we have done lots of customizations! In the next version this will be a configuration setting.
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