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June 2006 - Posts
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If you are really into the .NET language or any language for that fact you might be interested in trying to attend this event.
Here is a brief overview from the web site: “Lang .NET 2006 Symposium is a forum for discussion on programming languages, Read More
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Despite them initially working, they seem to be causing some kind of problem within Community Server.
I'll see if I can't contact Ken Robertson to help me figure out what's going wrong.
FYI - when I mentioned that I was having problems getting Read More
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Microsoft is hosting a Pub Club following the MSDN Event. Attend the event to find the location of the free food!
Register here - http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032293164
Event Overview
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Man, it was good to be back at a user group. Since I got married on April 30th, this is the first UG meeting I've actually made it to. I missed May due to travel, June only featured 2 so far and both of those I couldn't make... Anyway Read More
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I have no idea why I woke up so early. It might have something to do with the bizarre dream I was having. I intended on writing about it b/c it was so strange, but then I tried to lay in bed and fall asleep again for just long enough to forget Read More
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Not normally my domain, but I ran across this super-sweet little javascript addin and couldn't resist linking to it - Lightbox. Go visit them, download the source and start making your sites image friendly.
http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2 Read More
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This post is actually a bit late in coming - I've been sitting on these for no real reason. The photographer from the wedding has recently given Kim and I a DVD with about 500 or so digital photos. I posted a few of them up here to Read More
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I'd not heard of this particular problem before I ran into it so I thought I'd share with the masses. I basically had a SQL query which took longer to run as a stored proc than as the dynamic parameterized SQL that makes up the body of the stored Read More
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Last week I was fortunate enough to go to TechEd and while I was there I was lucky enough to meet someone on the Visual Studio team “Noah Coad”. If you ever get a chance to meet him he is the most amazing person on a product team that Read More
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Are you serious? I just bought a new dell machine to run some applications from the house and because I don’t have a lot of time, I figure while I am finishing up some other things on my real computer I will install VSTF. I put the DVD Read More
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I'm apparently installing all the new Vista-ish Microsoft software I can get these days. I've got the new Windows Live Messenger, the new IE7 beta, and the new Windows Media Player 11 beta. I won't bore you with what the new Media Player Read More
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This is cool - beta 2 of Internet Explorer 7 is so popular that Yahoo! has already personalized it. Read More
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Starting yesterday the new Windows Live Messenger service was rolled out around the world. Windows Live Messenger, the successor to the MSN Instant Messenger product, marks a huge list of new features and a slightly more polished UI. Go Read More
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I'm back from TechEd 2006. I got home last night at 12:30am and went directly to sleep after I showed Kim the tiny amount of swag I got.
TechEd was great - I saw loads of great sessions that have me really excited about some of the things to come Read More
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I couldn't resist the title! Sorry Jim!
Jim Wooley is one of three Atlanta Code Camp presenters whose presentations were recorded. Jim gave a great presentation on LINQ and you can now watch the video here. Everyone say "Thanks!" Read More
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Everybody congratulate me - I passed the 70-306 Microsoft certification exam this morning. This proves that I’ve actually got some small amount of experience and knowledge. I only have to take two more exams and I’ll Read More
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Matt, Keith and I (some of the Atlanta MS pros minus Dan) went to a Hands on Lab of Vista for the first session of the day. The labs were very rough, but showed a lot of the features that will really change in Vista for developers. One Read More
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I just got out of the TechEd Keynote. Lots of interesting demos, an appearance by Chloe from 24 (not her real name), and a talk from Ray Ozzie - formerly of Groove Networks.
There are rumors that Microsoft is going to reveal their killer app for Read More
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We had a great time at the Pre Tech-Ed party that Jeffrey Palermo set up. This is the second one and a bunch of great people showed up to have some fun. As you can tell we partied late into the night! I was one of the lucky winners of Read More
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The trip to Tech-Ed was uneventful, but it did start a little early. It is amazing as soon as you get off the plane Tech-Ed starts.
We even got a "do not disturb" door knob hanger and a set of special room keys with the Microsoft logos Read More
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It turns that some of my friends were unable to make it to Tech-Ed this year and you might be in the same situation where it didn’t work out financially for you. The good news is I like to talk with people and network at these events to meet new and interesting Read More
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Check out the videos on the 400+ differences of Visual Studio 2005. They are very funny, one of the ones I like is #12 Killer WebApps
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Do you think you know the differences in Visual Studio 2005? If you want to know the differences and play a picture game at the same time check out this web site.http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/difference/
The game is here: http://www.thedifferenceisobvious.com/ Read More
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If you didn’t know, there were three (3) presentations recorded at the last Atlanta Code Camp thanks to WROX Press and Wiley Publishing.
The direct link to the page with Jean-Luc's video is: http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-291867.html Read More
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It turns out that most people are not as paranoid about the Internet as I am, in fact most people run java-script, ActiveX controls, .NET controls, and even allow Cookies. This is fine until they navigate to a web site from their friends or children, Read More
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In case you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft is releasing a new server for it’s Business Intelligence (BI) end user products.
Check out the new Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007. This should help Microsoft compete more in Read More
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Most of the SQL Server users I know are big fans of stored procedures, but barely use functions, if ever. Functions are really nice, but I'm not going to go into all the reasons you should love them I'm just going to point out the use I recently Read More
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I hit a snag with SSRS 2000. I have data for my report which can be filtered by location or groups of locations. The problem is that this filter requires some dynamic SQL on my part:
CREATE PROCEDURE vm_RPT_GetSalesMixData
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Disclaimer: Let me start off by saying that I am so thankful that I have the ability to use Community Server and that I don’t want people to think I am negative about it. I have used CS since 1.0 and it has worked out well for us, except Read More
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Last night Kim hosted her bi-weekly Mah Jongg game at our house. In total, the first floor of my house was taken over by eight women. I was, of course, banished to the bedroom with the two bigger dogs. This was all well and good as Read More
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Looking to expand your IT toolkit? How about learning BizTalk 2006? BizTalk is all about business processes. Biztalk helps you automate and optimize your business processes way above and beyond simply connecting disparate systems. Read More
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It looks silly, but it's really a lot of fun and can be very challenging. You play the Loco Rocos, the little orange blobs. Apparently while you were napping, some alien flowers came to your planet and ate up all your little buddies. Read More
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Both the C# group and the Atlanta MS Pros group won't be meeting this month due to problems with their speakers - either the booked speaker backed out or no speaker volunteered to present. If you're interested in presenting at any Atlanta-are user Read More
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I tried to like ActiveReports from Data Dynamics, I really did. I mean, Jim Wooley likes it, so why shouldn't I?
I'm trying to set up a simple crosstab report - a report that takes the data normally viewed in rows and turns it into data viewed Read More
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I asked today if my company has any plans to offer a Roth 401k to it's employees. If you've not heard about the new Roth 401k plan then pay attention. At the beginning of this year, a new law went into effect. This allows you to put Read More
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