April 2007 - Posts
I think people really enjoyed our LINQ Talk last night! The slide deck I used (containing C# 3.0 language innovations) can be found here.
The next version of Fiddler has been released.
Fiddler v2 is a new version of the Fiddler Debugging proxy.
Unlike version 1.x, Fiddler2 supports viewing and tampering with HTTPS traffic. It also includes better support for saving to Visual Studio WebTest files.
I'll be doing yet another talk on Linq tomorrow evening, this time joining up with Hilton. For those who haven't seen Linq yet, come along and check out this revolutionising new concept. And more importantly: snacks will be provided by the kind folks at Microsoft.
Date: 19th April 2007 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Microsoft, Mowbray, Cape Town (directions)
Presenters:Ernst Kuschke & Hilton Giesenow
Topic: LINQ
Find out about the general-purpose query facilities added to the .NET Framework that apply to all sources of information, not just relational or XML data. This facility is called .NET Language Integrated Query (LINQ).
Please RSVP here (for catering purposes) if you're joining us.
Whenever I post photos to my blog, it's always places that I travel to (or screenshots from Visual Studio!) Here are some photos from my hometown, Cape Town, which I think is not only by far the best place to live in South Africa, but undoubtedly one of the most beautiful in the world.
On Sunday evening, some friends and myself took a hike on Lion's Head. How many places do you know in the world where you can see scenes like this *in the middle of the city*?
Every day, after draining my brain in the office, I head out for some surf:
On weekends we just hang around one of the gazillions of beaches, take a drive to some wine lands, or hang in town for good food.
I love living here! :-)
By now most of you are probably aware that the gotdotnet workspaces will be phased out by July 2007, pretty much to be replaced by CodePlex, an open-source project hosting site.
Some features of CodePlex:
- The CodePlex application is written entirely in C# and ASP.NET 2.0 - The web apps are written in pure ASP.NET (not using SharePoint) - Virtually all of the code was written test-first (using TDD) - cool!!! - It uses the released version of TFS; they have not touched its source code in any way - They use a custom-built TFS project template for CodePlex - They use SQL Server 2005 for our data store (as does TFS) - They use the clustering and NLB technologies built into Windows Server 2003 - You can enable Continuous Integration for your CodePlex project - The CodePlex TFS Client can be used to interact with TFS if you don't have VS2005 Team Explorer
The only features of Team System that's in use at the moment is version control and work item tracking.
I this it's great to see that Microsoft is "dogfooding" their own development products in such a (public) way!!
CodePlex also utilises a few "web 2.0" concepts, like tagging of projects and RSS feeds. One important thing I would love to start seeing in products released by Microsoft, is less postbacks - ajax rocks guys, get with it!
If you want wireless broadband at home (who doesn't?), consider flushing a fibre optic cable down your toilet. Seriously - Google tISP is a new innitiative from those inventive guys at Google. There are three innitial packages:
Trickle The #2 Royal Flush
Download speed (max) 8 Mbps(10X basic DSL) 16 Mbps(20X basic DSL) 32 Mbps(40X basic DSL)
Upload speed (max) 2 Mbps 4 Mbps 8 Mbps
Price Free $9.95/mo. $24.95/mo.
Of course, being Google, it's in beta ;o)
(Only availabale in the US and Canada at this stage, but apparently international availibility is on its way)
UPDATE:
It gets even better with the new papermail facilities they have recently launched.