Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - Posts
Jeff wants us to turn off IntelliSense. Well, Jeff, I'll up the ante. Did you know that DOS 6.11, QuickBasic 4.5 and MS C are available to MSDN subscribers? If you really want to go back to stone knives and bear skins, screw the GUI, fire up VPC and have some real fun.
Or not.
I'm declaring 23 March 2004 "gorilla.bas" rememberance day, too.
Taken out tonight: One Beer Limit.
The counts: Blogging: 11; Development: 16; Other: 9; SQL: 1; WILY: 7
Line of the night: So bottom line, if you are not using XPathNavigator today for working with your XML documents in .NET, you should be.
Post of the night: Why Doesn't Yukon Stop Me Shooting Myself in the Foot?
What a sad, sad day. Not only did 90-shilling lose to Moose Drool but Arrogrant crushedPliny. Makes me wonder if the people voting have ever really had of these brews. On the bright side, NBB's Abbey, Medicino Eye of Hawk and Bierch Bock progressed. Nice to see New Glarus staying in.
I'm still stick with Alaskan Smoked Porter, Dogfish 90 and GLB Porter in the final four, but sad to say, it looks like Bastard is going to make it there too.
POW!
Information junkies, I can't say this strongly enough. You need this. I've been dinking with it for 10-minutes and its been an epiphany. We've always needed this tool: knowledge capture + organization + publication in what amounts to a fire and forget tool.
KAPOW!
Whoever figures out how to integrate this with RSS Bandit wins my genus of the year award and my admiration forever. That would be a killer knowledge worker tool.
Well, I guess I can let some of the cats out of the bag. I've been working with some of my readers that are responsible for INETA User Groups about paying a visit and giving a presentation. I'm giddy about it!
So far, the mostly confirmed dates are:
- 4/21 at InfoTec here in Omaha, topic: .NET Compact Framework
- 5/25 for DotNetSig in Kansas City, topic: Yukon.
- 7/6 for Bloomington, topic: Yukon
- 9/14 for Fort Wayne, Indiana, topic Yukon
If you are an INETA UG leader and would like to have me come visit, you know what to do. Since I'm not an official INETA speaker (I'm doing this tour to hopefully earn my stripes as such,) I'm financing this out of my own pocket.
I've created a new channel for conntent on this topic.
Patterns & Practices Summit May 11-13 Redmond, WA.
The patterns & practices Summit packs into three full days unique presentations offered by many of the industry's best speakers. An evening reception will give attendees an opportunity to meet with Microsoft personnel. Attendees will come away with a strong foundation in the architectural principles underlying Microsoft's .NET technology, which will prepare them to construct the next generation of enterprise-scale applications.
Anybody going? presenting? blogging about? Got Details?
Sounds really, really good!
Nope, that's not a headline from the Onion. It's from our local ABC affiliate as reported by MSNBC.
That's so meta-messed-up I don't know where to start. But I digress.
Why didn't the officers just call Child Protective Services? I don't know. If you're going to bust somebody, bust them. If not, then don't. But this makes us looks like we've got the keystone cops, not one of the best police organizations in America. Don't get me wrong, I generally think the OPD does a fine job... but shame on them for this and shame channel Seven for dodging the question they should have asked.
But most of all, shame on this man for not staying home to drink.