A long time ago I saw the funniest video ever! It was a commercial for a pager that showed a chick (whoops politically correct) woman fart in a car where she thought she was alone but alas she was not…

this video comes darn close to taking that one over!

 

There has been more sessions published for the MIX event, it is shaping up to be quiet interesting. I hope i get to go as i would live to see Tim O'Reilly and Jeff Barr from Amazon (and he has a good job title). I want to see all the AJAX and Atlas sessions as well. Let me know if you are from SoCal and plan on going.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1329362959167995041

I recently did a one day talk on the topic of what’s new in Visual Studio 2005 covering .NET framework, ADO.NET and Winform changes. I did not cover ASP.NET as that was getting covered the next day for the same audience. I have gotten some requests for the slide deck I used so I wanted to post it where anyone could get it. This is not the exact deck I used as that deck was in a VPC that I did not save but this is close.

What’s new in Visual Studio 2005

Are you interested in what Microsoft is doing next with it’s web tools and platform? Better yet do you want to have input to what it dose? Then come to a new conference that is happening on March 20-22, 2006 At The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, Las Vegas, NV. There is quit a bit of buzz around Mix and the looks quite interesting content. Let me know if you are going!

In late December the Team System teem released a MSSCCI provider for Team System Foundation. Brian Harry has a good description of who can expect this to help.

Yes thats correct a new Commerce Server is  on it’s way! After the my past scaring experience with Commerce Server I has sworn off ever looking at it again but now the job dictates that try to keep up. I am extremely happy to say that after the first look I am excited to dig in.

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Down load Beta 1

If you are like me you get asked a lot by family about computer problems and despite what you suggest they still keep loading crap on there system and run as administrator. Well Microsoft has recently opened a site with some tools that can help, check out Windows Live Safety Center there you will find some tools that will let even family do some good maintenance on there systems. I hope this helps reduce the number or hours you spend in-front of you mother-in-law’s computer .

I have setup a new hosting account with webhost4life turns out ehostimgbiz who I have happily hosted with for years has gone out if business but they were just a reseller for webhost4life so while my account will not move this site may see some temporally hick ups.

webhost4life has the same deal that ehostingbiz did in that if people sign up using my referral ID then I will get some credit that I can use to pay for my site so if you need a hoster and webhost4life looks like a good deal this link LINK will sign you up while giving me credit if not use this link LINK and you can sign up with no one getting credit.

OK for me this is a bit out there but I just needed to share Don’t Ever get this drunk!

I get a lot of questions of what is included in what versions of Visual Studio, in a email recently some one pointed out that on MSDN there is this list: Product Feature Comparisons. While I am sure some will not what they are interesting in on this list but it’s a good place to start.

Have fun and I hope you all had great Christmas!