I wanted to pass along that due to the changes made to the Acropolis project at Microsoft my talk to the .NET Users of Fort Wayne will be on the Astoria project in November. I will still be talking to the group on November 13, 2007.
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I wanted to pass along that due to the changes made to the Acropolis project at Microsoft my talk to the .NET Users of Fort Wayne will be on the Astoria project in November. I will still be talking to the group on November 13, 2007.
Read MoreOK you read it correctly. The Acropolis project is dead in it previous form. There are a few posts about the current and future plans here, here and here. I am not surprised about this news since the Acropolis blog has been quiet for a while. The good news is that all the great work [...]
Read MoreI found a cool blog post over the weekend that really made ma think and also excited me. I wanted to pass this along to my colleagues and also readers on some thinking and dialog into creating a creative team. The author intended to use the tips inside the post to base the creation of [...]
Read MoreAnother little nugget that I think will help people developing and being more productive in there database development. I am a fan of stored procedures and functions when I develop software solutions. I like my actual CRUD methods to be implemented at the database level. It allows me to balance out my work between the [...]
Read MoreI was exhausted this morning after the Day of .NET yesterday. The day was even better than I expected and Jason and John did a great job making the day just move in auto pilot mode. I also want to thank Patrick and Dustin who helped me with the speakers. Once we got the registration [...]
Read MoreOK we had a speaker that notified me that he could not attend tomorrow’s Day of .NET in Ann Arbor due to family reasons. Rest assure that I am stepping up to do a presentation on the Astoria project from Microsoft. I am very excited about Astoria and also it is fun to show off [...]
Read MoreFor all the Windows Mobile device users… Microsoft has updated Windows Live Search and added the ability to recognize speech and also provide current gas prices in your locality. The speech update is very cool for the safety factor users need while in their cars. I am really excited for the new products the Windows [...]
Read MoreOne interesting thing I learned this weekend at devLINK in Nashville was that there is a great deal of resources for SQL Server best practices up on the CodePlex site. I do not use the Northwind database for much but I was told by a few people at the conference not to use it and [...]
Read MoreNow for something completely meaningless. There is a great site that will take a headshot photo (minimum of 640×480) of you and create a Simpson character that you can tweak to your liking. Enjoy and waste some time here.
Read MoreIn a past blog entry, I described the process I use quickly create database projects using Visual Studio 2005. This time around I want to show how to keep databases updated through Visual Studio after the database projects are created. Start with a current database project in Visual Studio. Below I have a screenshot of [...]
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