January 2008 Entries
A couple of weeks ago I attended a very good session about the Entity Framework given by Shawn Wildermuth. He showed us something that I thought was only possible with Resharper. He typed a class name and since he wasn't using the fully qualified name of the class he was getting the typical Visual Studio hightlight warning ("If you compile me I will complain"). He moved the cursor over the class and press some shortcut and voila Visual Studio added the using statement at the top. Being the type of guy I am, I thought cool, mental note the shortcut and...
The 2008 South Florida Code Camp is coming up this Saturday, February 2nd. This year is going to be bigger than last year. More sessions, more people, more give aways. Here's the agenda which is subject to change. If you haven't register, please do so by clicking here.
If you don't know what a Code Camp is, here's some info:
Code Camp is a FREE one day GEEK FEST given by the community to the community. This is the fourth year for South Florida Code Camp. The event will have speakers from the local community and beyond. Speakers will be presenting some...
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This is a continuation of my previous post Using Google Apps to Host My Email. I forgot to mention a very important part so here it is.
One of the best parts of the Windows Live Custom Domains (WLCD) is that you get to use the Outlook Connector to check your email with Outlook. That gives you almost the same experience as working with an Exchange account. If you delete it goes to trash, spam goes to junk mail, sent items go to the sent items folder, moved emails to another folder stays reflected on the server, etc. That experience is pricesless (at...
About 4 months ago I wrote about Windows Live Custom Domains (WLCD). I decided to test the service with a domain that I don't use that often becase there were some features that were a show stopper for me. I gave it a shot and waited for the WLCD team to make some changes. Now I'm tired of waiting and decided to try Google Apps.
Here is a list of the lack of features that made my decision to make the switch:
No support for hierarchical folders. You can't have folders within folders and that is a must have.
No support for reading my email...
The 2008 South Florida Code Camp speaker registration is opened. Whether you want to start getting involved in the community, work towards your MVP status, teach others something cool, new, or old then this is a great opportunity for you. Click here to get information on how to submit your sessions.
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I was talking with my co-worker and data expert John Papa regarding the XML functions within SQL Server 2005. I basically couldn't find a way to get the node name of a specific node for an XML Variable. I hit up google and started searching for a way to get the syntax for getting the node name. I was searching terms like "SQL Server 2005 Xml get node name" thinking there would be a SQL Server function to provide me this information. I was not getting any good results. That's when John told me that SQL Server 2005 uses XPath as much...