With all of the new things we are bombarded with and must learn, do you ever get the felling your brain would love to pop this error message? Actually, kidding aside, I love the excitement from the level of change in technology today. It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about developing software or buying a […]
Posts from January 2006
Let’s Keep Up Now…
Ok .Net developers, just to make sure nobody falls behind, here are the new releases I downloaded today and need to take a look at: Windows Mobile 5.0 Developer Resource Kit (1.5) http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/windowsmobile/howto/resourcekit/default.aspx WinFX January CTP (Includes WCF and WWF GoLive License) http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/01/18/514356.aspx Enterprise Library for .Net Framework 2.0 (Release) http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/EntLib2.asp
Naked Conversations in North Carolina
Today before spending some quality time at the local cafe, I spotted [and purchased] Robert Scoble and Shel Israel’s new book Naked Conversations on the shelf at the local Barnes and Noble. With North Carolina being such a blogger hot spot, I would have assumed these would be displayed more prominently than on the bottom […]
Fun with Encarta Instant Answers
If you haven’t tried this yet, add encarta@conversagent.com as a contact in MSN Messenger. It allows you to ask it questions and provides answers. Very sci-fi like… Anyways, ask it “Where is Pluto?”, read the stats it returns and then check out the map it displays. (No, I can’t jsut post it here, you have […]
Raleigh MSDN Event March 2, 2006
Despite Glen Gordon and the MSDN team continuing to pack the house, I always hear from people that somehow missed hearing about the events so I decided to make this post early. If you are in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill area of North Carolina and are interested in learning more about Visual Studio 2005, […]
Thursday The 12th
Wednesday the 11th… Thursday the 12th….. yup Friday the 13th. Now, I’m not superstitious, but it’s a proven fact that technology does not like Friday the 13th and the days leading up to it. If you’re planning a major software update or little change on the server, wait. Please wait! On my way to the […]
Community Launch of Visual Studio and SQL Server
If you missed the MSDN launch in town, or just can’t get enough of .Net 2.0 don’t miss this event! What? Community Launch of Visual Studio and SQL Server Where? Triange .Net Users Group (www.trinug.org) When? Wednesday January 11, 2006 Details: Speaker: Joe Bennett Developing Windows Applications in Visual Studio 2005 Microsoft has provided some […]
Happy New Year Y’all
2006 has started off with a bang! It’s definately going to be an exciting year for us in the technology field. So many things that have been building momentum seem to be reaching a critical mass all at once. Pretty soon anything with a battery will be able to be used as a phone, take […]