Dim q = From p In db.Inspection _ Where p.HullNumber = “MA009″ _ Select p Yup that is VB.NET code using .Net 3.0 and LINQ and I am loving it. More to come (possibly a review) when I finish my first test project using this.
http://www.codeproject.com/Ajax/MakingGoogleIG.asp This project takes you through 7 nights of programming a Google IG replica using .net 3.0 technologies. I am working through it slowly and so far it is first rate stuff. Thanks Omar!
Dan Woolston a friend and former coworker has a new Biztalk book coming out this month. Congrats Dan! If you haven’t touched BizTalk yet this is the book for you. So get on over to amazon and pre-order a copy. At $29.69 for 400 pages of BizTalk goodness it’s a steal. 3 posts and going [...]
Digg is an amazing place to find tech related stuff and this is what I bumped into last night. http://skindeep.logankoester.com/overcoming-coders-block If you are a software developer for a living it is a must read! If you have never experienced what Logan describes as Coder’s Block then you probably aren’t working hard enough to begin with….Slacker… [...]
If you like free content…and I know you do! Then you may enjoy this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/presentations/ Good audio tracks and powerpoints to follow along with while listening. So far I have been listening to the Graphics Track and although I am not to the point where I understand everything they are saying it is deffinetly helpful [...]
Unleash the power of graphics and games for Windows and the XBOX 360…they aren’t kidding. I have been checking this out and it is pretty sweet stuff. Take a look if you have the chance.
Anyone can take a VB class and write a simple program according to a set of input and output parameters provided by the instructor. Some (including programmers and their managers) consider this sufficient to get started as a programmer. Unfortunately, this notion is responsible for hard to use, buggy, unsecured, over deadline and over budget [...]
So I picked up a copy of Agile Web Development with Rails and I am very surprised to say the least. When I first started looking at it I saw alot of issues with being able to customize things. Sure it was R.A.D. but what good is speed if the product isn’t what you want [...]
So lately I have been doing a lot of research into DNSSD. Here are my findings including but not limited to an explanation of what DNSSD is, how it can be used in .NET development with code samples, and a list of external resources.
I posted this a while ago on my work blog but it never made it here I am using Visual Studio 2005 (whidbey) for my first project here at NuSoft. Lots of new features to check out, you should take a look if you haven’t done so yet. However the collapsing of code in C# [...]