I received the feedback list for my DDD 5 sessions yesterday. Let me summarize, with comments:
Session 1 with Ian, Bluffers’ Guide to C# 3.0 - most people thought it was great. The only criticism that touched this session was more about the combination with the second one, see below.
Session 2 with Ian, 10 cool things to do with C# 3.0 - most people thought this was great, too. Some said it was a little too much content for an hour, others said they enjoyed the longest demos most while th …
After a few pre-announcements beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 is now available. Go here to get it!
No info yet that I could find about updating beta 1 to beta 2… I’ll have to find out, since I’ve got beta 1 installed on my laptop at the moment.
I like my Outlook for appointment management, I really do. But it lacks certain functionality I would really like to have. This functionality, in my case, has to do with event management, but I guess there are a number of other scenarios where one might have the same problem.
Consider this: There’s a conference taking place on a few specific days in October 2007. Now, in conjunction with this, there’s an abundance of appointments and deadlines I need to store (just an example):
I was just going to look something up in the help file for Putty, and this window popped up:
So, it’s happened — Windows Vista can’t read Windows help files by default. Wow. This page here explains Microsoft’s reasoning, basically that ”… the Windows Help program has not had a major update for many releases and no longer meets Microsoft standards.”
I should think that with Microsoft’s resources at my disposal, it shouldn’t be much of a problem to cr …
In October I’m going to be in Bristol at the .NET Developer Network, doing talks to introduce WPF as well as Silverlight. I’m looking forward to seeing some of you there!
Guy has described the sessions on the group’s web site, much better than I could :-) So click here to have a look at the details and to sign up!
I finally made it :-) Here are the files with slides and sample code for the sessions Ian and I did at DDD 5.
I was away from home for a week, and on the first day of my absence I noticed that my web server wasn’t running for some reason… several of you sent me emails when you found the same problem, thank you very much for that. Unfortunately I couldn’t do anything about the problem before my return (note to self: find time to get that remote administration thing working again…), but at least now everything should be back to normal. My apologies for any inconveniences…
It happened last Saturday, and feedback from attendees as well as organizers seemed to indicate that it was another major success. I was pretty busy on the day myself. Ian and I did a double session on C# 3 and related features, which was received really well, although the presentation and demo gods weren’t smiling on us — we lost our merged slide deck overnight just before the event (Ian re-merged it just before the presentation), the main projector stopped working in the middle of one of Ian …