MGB Part 2
Jul 24, 2003
Another great part of MGB is that I got to catch up with my old co-workers from DC who are all doing well. Shout outs to everybody, especially since some read my blog! I also got to play Rise of Nations, a game that I thought was only beta, but has apparently been released. Ed, Keller and I played for about three hours and had a blast, except for the occasional lag.…more
Code Samples on GotDotNet
Jun 20, 2003
The code samples I demoed during my TechEd Middle-Tier apps with C# session have finally been uploaded onto GotDotNet. Each sample has a readme.txt file which should give you more information for how to setup and run the samples. **Demo #1 - Basic Serialization **The first sample is a very basic sample which shows how to return objects through web services, how to shape XML through attributes, and returning data through a DataSet in a web service.…more
TechEd Monday - Thursday
Jun 10, 2003
**Confessional: **Please forgive me, it’s been about a week since my last blog, but I haven’t had any free time. Dallas was exhausting, but all the locals were great and really made the trip worth it. I met so many great people in such a short amount of time! Monday Thank you to everyone who attended my C# Past, Present, and Future talk on Monday. If you did attend my C#, Past, Present, & Future talk for academia on Sunday or the same session on Monday, here are some links you might be interested in:…more
TechEd Recap - Sunday
Jun 02, 2003
After 3 hours of sleep (re - broken demos) I woke up to hit the Convention Center in Dallas. I finally met Juval in person while checking in at registration, and I think there are about 5 cardboard cutouts of Juval around all of TechEd. More on that later. My first presentation was to faculty and you can find out more information about it on Morris’s blog, and also what happenned to me minutes before I spoke on Brian’s log.…more
Dallas hotels, thank you David Weller and Gaming sites
May 31, 2003
Thanks David. I checked into the Hyatt Regency last night only to realize, as David had, that the Hyatt Regency is very low tech with no high speed internet access, except for their business center which charges $10/hour and isn’t open 24 hours a day. I was planning on calling up all the local hotels to see if they had high-speed net access, when I came across David’s post. So I officially checked into the Adam’s Mark hotel today which is cheaper (even if you include the costs of net access), has more convenient access to the parking garage, late night room service, and best of all, the lobby has two stands chock full of cookies, brownies and lemonade as a welcome to all TechEd attendees, and by sheer coincidence, David was in the lobby so we chatted for a bit.…more
TechEd in Cowboy Country
May 30, 2003
Next week is TechEd and I’m really excited and just a bit overwhelmed. I was also a little afraid of going into Cowboy country as I used to call the DC area home and I’m a Redskins fan, but luckily there are a fair number of us current and former Redskins both presenting and attending. I also used to live in Austin (loved it thanks for asking) and people from Texas are really friendly so I’m not too scared.…more