Microsoft has come up with a good example of how you should handle the process of deprecating data.
Have a look at my MVP profile here. You’ll see that in a lot of profile entries for speaking engagements, the string “RETIRED — DO NOT SELECT” is shown. Why is that? Very simple: at some point the selection ”.NET”, for instance, was a valid one, but now it had to be changed. Of course there are approaches to retiring data that would have left the old strings in place, but then those mechanisms …
I apologize for the delay — with my computer dying and everything, it took me longer than it should have to make my slides and samples for the Basta sessions available here. They should also be available here (but aren’t, yet) and each delegate will get sent a CD sooner or later — that’s as much info as I have.
Anyway, here are the downloads for my sessions (some of them together with Ian Cooper):
My Vaio VGN-SZ4 died last week while I was at Basta in Germany. One minute it was working fine, just sitting there on the table with the large external display attached, the next it was just displaying weird colorful flashing things on both screens, and it hung of course. So I switched it off, and since then I’m unable to switch it back on. It just turns on the power and bluetooth leds, I hear the DVD drive initialize, and when it was still warm I could hear the fan running a little bit as well …
I seem to be having lots of these problems lately that somehow always come up, but never get solved. This time it was the problem of creating a zip file including a large source code hierarchy, but excluding certain directories along the way. More specifically, there are directories called .svn, obj or bin at various places in the hierarchy, and I don’t want to include those. Although I’ve looked around many times, I was never able to find a compression tool that would allow me to specify …
I did that presentation there yesterday. I had added a piece on top, to stretch things a bit more in the direction of WCF: the Game Status Viewer uses an additional published service to query game status information and displays that in a console window.
Here are the slides and samples in that most current version:
Net3GameChallengeNewcastle.zip
During the presentation I also mentioned that permissions problem that comes up when you run the …
I’ve been having a weird problem with printing on my Xerox Phaser 8550 from Vista. One of those issues that have been around forever, but I never found time to look into. The problem was that after a print job had been spooled, it sat in the print queue for something over a minute before being sent to the printer. At least it was my impression that this was the case, although of course it’s kind of hard to see what’s really going on once the job is in the queue.
I searched around for a while t …
That’s right, in my Firefox - it was never a problem in most other people’s Firefoxes. I’d been having problems with it for many years, in various versions of Firefox and on several different computers. I’m thinking I might even have had this problem when I was still running Linux on my main machine. Not just Google Maps, also Live Maps and a few other mapping sites. Weird, yes, but somehow it never seemed important enough to look into — I just used IE instead and it worked in there.
Anyway …
For the last two years, the majority of my time has been spent on this project, and now it’s out the door. ‘Nuff said.
If you do business applications and you haven’t seen it, go have a look immediately. If you’ve seen it before, have another look - it’s changed a lot recently, especially from the usability point of view. Here’s the announcement, Ray’s blog post about the new Universial SKU of DXperience, here’s lots more information and here’s a trial download. Merry Christmas! …