How Ferrari Leverages Technology To Rule F1 This has got to be the best article/interview News.com has ever posted. I’m a huge MotoGP fan since motorcycle road racing is my biggest hobby, but I also watch F1 from time to time. MotoGP uses the same kind of technology to track every twitch the bike/rider ever makes. What’s amazing is, when there’s a […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
When would SqlConnection.Open blow away a COM+ context? Ok, this is pretty crazy. I’m on XPSP2 and I’ve entered a ServiceDomain with a ServiceConfig that requires transactions with an IsolationLevel of Serializable. Now, I’ve done this a million times before and it works no problem. In the specific scenario I’m dealing with now, I’m seeing something completely insane. I’ve constructed a SqlConnection and […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
VS 2005 – Team System On MSDN Tonight Just passing on the word that VSTS should be available for download to MSDN subscribers starting tonight. I for one am super psyched to get my hands on these bits since I will finally have support for all the team based tasks I do on a daily basis baked right into my favorite development environment. Update: […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
The Longhorn Changes Are Fine With Me Ok, so we all know by now that Longhorn is undergoing some changes in order to deliver the product in a timely fashion. Basically what it seems to boil down to is that we’re going to get two out of the three major pillars of the Longhorn vision delivered to us on top of the […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Web Services: Contract First? I was reading Don’s blog this morning and he links to Aaron’s post about designing web services with the “contract first” mentality. Here’s my two cents: To answer question #1: Yes, I absolutely believe in contract first. Defining web service should be no different than defining any other API. You define your interfaces first using […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Longhorn Cutbacks? Hmmm, just came across this. I’ll wait ’til I get the official word from Microsoft on exactly what made the cut and what didn’t, but it doesn’t sound like any of the major pillars are being completely dropped…. just scaled back. Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
VSTS Community Preview Soon Looks like it shouldn’t be too much longer before we can get our hands on a build of Visual Studio 2005 Team System. This is great news. Lots of people have been concerned that it wouldn’t receive the same level of testing before it is released since it hasn’t been part of previous community releases. […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Insight Into the Microsoft Interview Process I’m sure a lot of people have read about the Microsoft interview process before, but here’s a inside look courtesy of Channel 9. I totally realize it was a mock session, but am I the only one that found the interviewee’s implementation of the palendrome detection algorithm painful? His thought process where he came up […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Web Testing with VSTS’ Ocracoke I was just doing my morning reading when I came across this post. I for one am really looking forward to this being baked right into VS. We’ve used ACT in the past, but Orcacoke seems like it’s really stepping it up in terms of features and integration. Like most people, I can’t wait to […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
ASP.NET 2.0 Generic Control Tag Syntax I was catching up on my blog reading during lunch and came across this post from Mikhail Arkhipov who works for Microsoft. Apparently he is on the ASP.NET 2.0 team and is looking for suggestions on how to solve the problem of declaring instances of generic typesin “code-in-front”. My suggestion is to strive for 100% […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
