So I had to try it, the new beta of Windows Live Writer. A desktop blogging tool. I do prefer desktop apps over web apps. It connected to my WordPress installation without any problems. Let’s see if it can post!
Archives for 2006
NetFX 3 ?
So the announcement came out recently that the WinFX addons to the .Net Framework are going to be rolled into a release called .Net Framework 3.0. This has caused some upset because .net Framework 3.0 will actually be using CLR version 2.0 and C#2.0. What’s going to happen when C#3.0 comes out. Jazon Zander believes [...]
Extending CAB Commands
I looked for this in the docs and on google and I couldn’t find it, so I figured it might be worth sharing. To extend the command object, create a class that derives from command and then override the CreateCommand method in WorkItem. In the CreateCommand method just create and return a new instance of [...]
Open Source vs In house development
Frank makes a great point about the fact that Open Source business applications are more of a competitor to in house development than commercial applications.
TFS and collation
So I screwed up. I tried to upgrade my Beta 3 Refresh of TFS last night to the RTM version. All was going relatively well until it told me that I could not install TFS because my SQL Server had a default collation that was accent insensitive. I live in a bilingual province, accents happen [...]
Hint to students applying for jobs
a) When you google the company, make sure you spell the name right. b) Assume the reader of your cover letter is well aware of what the company does? c) Don’t tell me that my company is a world leader, world famous, etc. It really does not impress me! d) If English is not your [...]
Why do people use always?
Sorry, I just have to get this off my chest. This article just irritates me in so many ways. Just in case the subject hasn’t been beaten to death enough, this bright guy decides he is going to add his 2 cents by saying that we should ALWAYS use stored procedures. I don’t have the [...]
Open Source Java
Eric has entry on the future of Java now that Sun’s new leader is talking about letting go. I have always felt that if Sun hadn’t stopped Microsoft innovating their JVM that we would all be Java programmers by now and the language debate would be mute.
CAB is wonderful
This post is long overdue but I’ve been busy We have been using Microsoft’s CAB framework now since January and I could not be happier with how it is going. We are definitely still learning, but we have converted a large part of our existing .Net application over to use the CAB methodology. When I [...]
Stored Procedures with no results
I’ve been having a problem with big hairy report that I have been writing. The T-SQL for the report involved creating a cursor, traversing the cursor and inserting records into a temporary table. Because it was big and ugly I wrapped it up in a stored proc. The problem was that when I deployed the [...]
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