Yesterday I had a had a chance to have dinner and drinks with another group here for a Technology Summit hosted by Microsoft. They get a bunch of representatives from parallel and alternate technology groups such as PHP, Linux, Java, Python, etc together and discuss they reasons for Microsoft decisions, show off Microsoft focused options [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Powershell
Mar 28
To avoid disappointing users after they’ve gotten as far as running your application on their 1997 300mhz Pentium II, determine their capabilities using the RenderCapability.Tier value before hand and notifying them that they’ll need to joing the 21st century before running your app. Henry Hahn has a quick overview and, the always welcome, code samples of [...]
You may have noticed there were not many blog entries for Day 2. It turns out there’s no way to ftp stuff out of the technology center. It’s hindering my ability to post with pictures/screen captures. I’ve got a bunch of posts for you as soon as I figure this out. Stay tuned.
Notes
Mar 27
Kevin Moore, Program Manager “Bag of Tricks” Templates vs Styles Beatriz de Oliveira Costa (Test Lead) Data Binding/DataTemplate INotifyPropertyChanged, INotifyCollectionChanged www.beacosta.com blogs.msdn.com/okoboji www.blois.us/snoop Exposing new “facits” (i.e. glow color on the button) as properties which can be stylized/template bound. WPF Partner Showcase Accruent Retail Store Lifecycle Manager Iconics Dassault Lectra EASY Infoworkz Tempworks Scripps Healthcare Skandia London [...]
The Speedy Rewards program is backed by two pretty hefty Oracle 9i RAC instances. One is for the OLTP and the other for data-warehousing analytics. Since it’s inception we’ve pretty impressive success with the uptime and performance, though one glaring problem has plagued us now for going on 4 years. Every 3 days, whoever is on [...]