If you are attending DevDays, you might want to check out design patterns, specifically Observer and Command.  Dan did an excellent job showing how to implement this yesterday in St. Louis.  You will also want to check out Dan's blog where he is discussing some of the interesting parts of sessions 1 and 4. Next stop is Nashville on...

I had dinner with several St. Louis .NET influencers including my friend and fellow RD, Bill Evjen.  Bill is a recognized author and is currently working on a Whidbey ASP.NET book for Wiley Then today, I noticed that he has a new ASP.NET article on MSDN.  It is an excellent text on how to use JavaScript with ASP.NET.  I did...

At the RSA Conference last week, Chairman Bill Gates outlined security improvements from Microsoft and reiterated the fact that security is our number one priority.  You can get the transcript and PPT here.  It is actually an interesting read. Here are some of his statements in the beginning of the talk:So the goal of Microsoft is to...

At the RSA Conference last week, Chairman Bill Gates outlined security improvements from Microsoft and reiterated the fact that security is our number one priority.  You can get the transcript and PPT here.  It is actually an interesting read. Here are some of his statements in the beginning of the talk:So the goal of Microsoft is to...

Jim Wilson has entered into blogging.  I've talked about Jim several times on my blog due to his efforts in the .NETCF area.  Jim is the .NETCF instructor for DevelopMentor, author, and presenter.  He is also a member of OpenNETCF as well as speaker for events like WinDEV, MDC, TechEd, and others.  He's one of my friends...

WebCast: Implementing Application Security using the .NET Framework Join Dan Fox for this webcast February 27th where you will learn how to implement additional security features to secure applications built on the .NET Framework. The session will discuss security features integrated into the .NET Framework and demonstrate the use of...

Report: Oracle's Price Cuts Should Have Been Deeper February 17, 2004 Oracle Corp.'s recent attempt to lure SQL Server users away by lowering the price of its entry-level database will stumble once customers read the fine print, according to a new research note from AMR Research Inc....  

Mobile Developers Conference 2004 will be held in San Francisco on March 23-27.  I'm excited about this event due to the keynotes by Bill Gates and Don Box.  Plus, the pre-con is by Jim Wilson and the post-con is by Doug Boling!  To top that, I've been invited to speak on the following: ASP.NET Mobile Controls "Whidbey"In...

The April issue of the .NET Developer's Journal will be our first-ever, official "INETA's Choice" issue.  What this means, in short, is that an entire section of the magazine will be devoted to articles that have been directly nominated and voted for by the world-wide INETA community at http://www.ineta.org/inetachoice.   We are now...

Dan compares Whidbey’s ProviderFactory to the one he developed for our Atomic course.  I’ve included an excerpt below, but the actual post has more details including some code snippets. The goal of the ProviderFactory that I created was to allow developers to write .NET Data Provider independent code by providing a factory class...

Dan compares Whidbey’s ProviderFactory to the one he developed for our Atomic course.  I’ve included an excerpt below, but the actual post has more details including some code snippets. The goal of the ProviderFactory that I created was to allow developers to write .NET Data Provider independent code by providing a factory class...

Dan Fox shows how the Amazon developer kit can be used with the .NET Compact Framework while at the same time marketing our book.      

Dan Fox shows how the Amazon developer kit can be used with the .NET Compact Framework while at the same time marketing our book.      

In the near future, you will hear more about Visual Styles, a cool UI feature in Windows XP.  This feature makes your WinForm applications look professional by doing just a few steps: 1) enable VisualStyles via various mechanisms and 2) set controls with a FlatStyle property to "System". Enable Visual StylesIn v1.1 of the .NET Framework, you...

Another source of technological wonders has entered the blogsphere: JerBear's Lair.  Jerry and I have worked together in Memphis so many times that it requires both of us just to remember the history (including now at Quilogy).  One thing that I know for sure is that Jerry is "smarter than the average bear".  I'm not sure of...