Mehul just posted about it: there’s a free DevExpress XPO webinar coming up on March 31st, 2011. Presented by, well, me :-) Many of you may remember that I and XPO go way back, and during my time at DevExpress I had a chance to work with the team that made the product and, so I hope, push it a little in the right direction. These days, XPO is still a product I like to use and to recommend to my consulting clients [LINK REMOVED] — together with XAF or on its own, it’s usually my .NET data layer …


Version 1.2.5.1 of Electric Editing is now available here: CR_ElectricEditing-1.2.5.1.zip

This build is compiled against DXCore 10.2.5. Unfortunately I noticed, a bit late, that 10.2 changed a few things that broke assembly references with the older build. My apologies for any inconveniences! Oh, and of course if you don?t have a clue what Electric Editing is, check out this overview with the various posts linked from there! …


Thank you very much to everybody who made it to my talks at Basta Spring 2011! It was a great conference and I had a fantastic time. The slides and samples for my talks are available for download now. Enjoy!


I’m planning to do at least two DevExpress product classes in Europe in 2011 (in addition to the XPO class announced previously [LINK REMOVED]). Unfortunately it’s hard to do much more than that, but there are lots of topics to choose from: ASP.NET (WebForms), the new MVC products, WinForms, Silverlight, WPF, XAF, … and of course I’ll also have to decide whether to go more for introduction or overview classes or rather expert knowledge. Any feedback you can give me about this will be v…](mailto

@oliversturm.com) …


For my Expert XPO class [LINK REMOVED], I have now announced the location: the Novotel London West in Hammersmith, London, UK. Early Bird pricing is available now [LINK REMOVED]!

This is the European training class on DevExpress XPO for 2011 — if you use XPO, or consider using it, be there!


Next week, on the evening of February 17th, I’ll be doing a talk for the .NET Usergroup Frankfurt in Bad Homburg, Germany. The title is Dynamik in .NET 4.0 (that’s not a spelling mistake, that’s German — but you can guess what it means). They tell me you really need to sign up for this, but there are currently seats available. Follow this link to a page with details about the event, or go to the main page for the user group, which has a link to sign up. I hope to see you there! …


Just a very quick note: the slides and samples I used in my DDD 9 talk on Functional Programming in C# are now available for download. Here’s the link: fpcs-ddd9.zip If you were there, thank you! If you weren’t - tough luck, go pre-order my book on the subject ;-) …


2010-11-20

I got a Sony Blu-Ray player recently, a BDP-S370. Enjoyed my two blu-rays on it (stupid things are still nowhere near reality with their pricing…), nice. Back to normality. Pop in a few DVDs, and after a while I found that the stupid machine never seems to resume the discs. Now, there are lots of discussions about this on the net. Apparently there are issues with something called BD-J, something very weird where Java is somehow on the disc, for whatever unfathomable reason. In some other case …