October 2004 - Posts
Wow, what a privalege to have someone like Vic Gundotra talk at one of our meetings! We got to ask him questions u would not normally get to ask such an important man. He talked with such energy and passion. That is the kind of drive I myself is striving towards. Ok, I'll admit, perhaps I don't have the outgoing personality or speaker skills[yet] but hell, I can dream and strive towards it!
And to think I now am one person away from knowing the BIG man himself... Bill Gates.
I posted some of my pictures taken during Tech-Ed in the galleries. Check out the Tech-Ed gallery
Unfortunately It seems my camera and night photos were'nt so good esspecially where there is movement. This is probably due to the nature of cheaper digital cameras that don't have a proper shutter.
Wow, what a blast it was! Thanks to Kaylash and Microsoft!
It almost feels strange again to be at work :|
At least its a short week that remains. But somehow even that feels to long....
Now I'm just surviving!
This is the last day of fun fun fun but it was a blast so far!
Some people went to bed real early, like in 3:30am. O well, they enjoyed it I think.
Its gona be hard returning to 'real' life after this.
Wish us all luck trying to behave like 'normal' people again...
Yesterday was a blast and my feet is starting to feel it (ok my head too due to the 5 in a row drinks on Trans)
Some exciting stuff coming from MS. But I'll have to kill u if I tell u :p
Good morning to all not here at Tech-Ed.
ur missing a lot!
The party yesterday eve was a blast - literaly with waterguns and the lot!
Its time, in an hour or three I'll be on the plane flying to Tech-Ed SA. It will be my first but hopefully not last. Funny, I don't feel the excitement so much yet - not that real yet but in a few hours things will start to happen!
To the poor buggers staying behind - don't miss me too much. Its only gona be 4 days but 4 whole days of BIG fun!
I've started packing my bags. Plus I packed an empty bag for all the goodies I'll be getting from Tech-Ed.
Tomorow this time I'll be on the plane!
Ok, I got the batteries...
This is going to be an experience!
Only one more day between me and Tech-Ed!
The countdown has started... Only 4 days left till it begins!
I got an extra 512MB compact flash memory card for the camera for all the pics. Still need to get another set of batteries as well. Since I don't have a laptop or other mobile device to download the pictures to it has to stay on the camera hence the extra memory.
Now the days must just tick on.
Ok, Deon and I decided to organise a code-off competition for November. We already secured a first prize (VS.Net 2003 EA) and got a date - saturday the 27th November. We're busy organising the venue as well.
The basic idea is to give developers or small teams of them a topic or development problem to solve within a limited time. The developer/team that finish the quickest with and with the best solution will be given the prize. There might be runner up prizes as well. The end products of the effort will be judged by a small panel plus the compeditors themselfs. For now the panel will be me and Deon.
See more details at Sadeveloper.net
The time has come to attempt to upgrade my MCSD to the .Net version. I got my MCSD in 1999 still based on the VB6/SQL7 technologies. I've been working in .Net for more than two year fulltime so I quess its time to do something about it.
I'm gona be opening traning workshops at my place so others can join in and learn from me as well. I'm not gona bother with training companies since they cost a sh!tload of money and really don't help that much in preparing for the exams.
The first exam I'm trying is the Windows development using C# since that is what I like the most. Apparently it is also one of the easier exams so I'll get into the exam writing business crawling and then pick up speed.
Wish me (us) luck!
Automated build promotion utility
Often it is necessary to make small changes or even bigger ones to a project and then have it build/compiled and deployed to the various environments in an enterprise. I have not found any easy way to automatically increase the version number of an assembly. Thus I created a small command line utility that can be instructed to increase any part of the version number (major, minor, build and/or revision)
I created a VersionInfomation class to contain the version information as specified in the AssemblyInfo file. To increase the version number is simply a method call that increment that part of the number by one. The class simply gets populated by the version 'string' as stated in the AssemblyInfo file. It works the same for both C# or VB.Net so the language does not matter. The updating inside the AssemblyInfo is simply done by 'replacing' the line specifying the version number.
One additional function it performs is to take the default version '1.0.*' as created by the Visual Studio IDE and change it into a proper version number with 4 parts.
To use it simply call the utility with the following command line parameters.
Usage : BuildPromo.exe [-a] [-i] [-b] [-r] [-h] <directory | AssemblyInfo file>
[-a] : Increase major version number
[-i] : Increase minor version number
[-b] : Increase build version number
[-r] : Increase revision version number
Sample: BuildPromo -b "c:\builds\project1"
This is a first version and not heavily tested. Find it here on sadeveloper.net.
Today (Sunday) we did the Big Walk in Cape Town. What a lot of fun!
Check out (some of) my pictures here
I might not have gotten my new laptop so I had to settle for something 'cheaper'. I decided to at least get a fancier case for those 'LAN's. I decided on the 'PREMIER 3272 ATX MIDI TOWER CASE' from Sonic Informed.
Check out my pictures here
Yes, u r seeing right. Its got a Merc type front panel with gril the lot! Headlights r just like those of the new Mercs!
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