Edmug Speaker Idol -- Call for Speakers
Edmug is changing it up for our March meeting. We’re looking for five to six untested speakers who would like the chance to make 10 minute presentations on technology that they’re passionate about.
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Heroes Happen Here (being Edmonton)
For one day only get your heroes here! Microsoft is launching Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 (not really “launching” as much as promoting the delayed release) and Windows Server 2008. Edmonton’
Presentations...are they about audience comfort?
Daniel Moth has written a post called The ABCDEFGHI of setting up Visual Studio for Demos. Some of his points are great. Things like using the default colour scheme, larger fonts and maximizing the sc
How do you structure your project -- details
Oren posted about his “2 project” solution structure recently. It seems that developers are caught on this preconceived notion that a Visual Studio project must be directly related to a compiled asse
How do you build your application -- details
Kyle posted about an ongoing conversation that he and I have been having for the past couple of weeks about code compilation practices. As expected, there was some disagreement with the practice that
OracleParameter AssociativeArray bug in ODP.Net 11
Today I was writing some code that was wrapping up stored procedures for an Oracle database. In one situation we were needing to retrieve a result set based on a list of values that we had in memory.
Nothin But C# v3.5 Edmonton
It’s official. I will be offering the Nothin But C# v3.5 course in Edmonton during the week of March 31st to April 4th. If you’re familiar with JP‘s Nothin But series of courses, you’ll know what th
Victoria Code Camp '08
If you’ve got the time this weekend, and you’re in the area, drop by the Victoria Code Camp. There are some brilliant speakers at it this year and Tom, Dave and I are presenting in an attempt to ensu
Setting environment dependant properties in nAnt
This is a little something that I discovered recently while writing some nAnt scripts. I love to have One Script to Compile Them All so that I can ensure that the build server and all the developers
Controlling the unit test environment
My last post talked about abstracting the implementation of an IoC container so that you could implement more than one container if you had the need to. One of the coolest uses of this kind of abstra