Random Technology Ramblings

Interesting paper by two University of Virginia students… makes for an interesting read.

The world famous Michael Palermo is launching a site that will be similar to to www.regexlib.com but for Visual Studio 2005 code snippets. If you have a code snippet now please help get this site off to a great start http://www.gotcodesnippets.net. If not go check it out around PDC (Sep 12th – 16th) to see […]

Are you going to come to LA for PDC? Are you SoCal based? There will be a regional users group where the local Regional Directors Michele Leroux Bustamante, Tim Huckaby and  Paul Sheriff will be hosting other Regional Directors from all over doing there world famous Grok Talks. Check out the site PDCunderground.com for more […]

Yep Google has entered the IM client space, I have no clue why they think they can or should do this but hey I am willing to try. I was invited to join then I saw the press about this. Check it out and let me know what you think, I just hope they have […]

One of my teammates Jason Mauer and he has been having epic tails of frustration with his laptop but in his latest post he pointed to a cool tool I did not know about called SyncToy it’s described as “provides easy and flexible copying, moving, and synchronization of files in different directories” I have yet […]

I was talking to a member of a MCSD Study Group who was looking for free online resources for the new Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 will turns out there are currently resources on line. msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/learning and www.microsoft.com/learning/sql where you can do skill assessments and find E-Learning Online Training resources. I think it’s great […]

I know this sounds sick but yes people do make managed code that they want to expose to COM (think VB6 application now start adding features in .NET). I have too much experience exposing managed code to COM (will the nightmares ever end?) but it was all done with painful experience but I just found […]

The .NET Rocks! Road Trip will be pulling in to San Diego on Nov the 3rd for more information go to the San Diego .NET Developers Group web site. Then it will travel on up to Orange County (Deals to follow).

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