Today I was very excited to wake up in LA knowing full well that I didn’t need to depend on a form of transportation other than my own two feet to get me to the PDC. (I confess, I took the shuttle, but I could have walked). Arriving early at the site to register (Thanks […]
Posts from October 2003
PDC Here I Am!
What started out as a day of excitment boarding a plane to head west to LA almost become a day ending wondering what strange city (Other than LA) I might rest my head in. While transfering planes half way accorss the country we were informed that the Air Traffic Control Center for southern California had to […]
Version 0.5 of my PDC Session Browser is ready to roll!
Version 0.5 of my PDC Session Browser is ready to roll! This started off for me as a way to learn how to do a few specific new things for a current project and to get ramped to attend the (Now sold out!) Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in LA. In order to get the most […]
PDC Session List Web Service
To me, it seems really strange that I’m not somehow able to get a data friendly version of the Microsoft PDC sessions and their appropriate info. What better way to attract a bunch of developers than to give them a webservice with the details!!! It’s just one of those things that would be really handy. […]
Sorting an ArrayList using the .Net Compact Framework
In order to provide sorting capabilities for me Session List custom control, I needed a way to sort the ArrayList that I am using to store my data. Within the .Net Compact Framework it is possible to due this by implementing the IComparable interface on the object class I’m storing in the array. This allows […]
nbspAnother Day Some More Code
Another day, some more code. I made some good progress on my Pocket PC PDC Session project. Mostly just worked on the custom control to display the info. I’ve started on the code to sort and I’m trying to decide what I want to do about filtering data views. I’m hoping to find time to […]
Benefits of Exploration Testing
A full day it has been! Tonight at the Triangle .Net User Group I enjoyed a very entertaining talk on the “Benefits of Exploration Testing” presented by Justin Gehtland founding partner of Relevance, LLC. Justin shared a learn by doing approach to software development. His highlights include: The key principles that motivate Exploration Testing […]
Pocket PC PDC Session Utility
Oh sure, just when you think you have a good idea, you read a PDC blog about somebody else doing the same thing. Well, at least similar! Who says there is no competition to innovate! I guess a learning project is still a learning project even if it’s not totally unique. Maybe this will even […]