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Bringing down an Oracle 9i on Windows instance
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…
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WPF Bootcamp Day 1 - Expression
For those who don't already know, I want to make it perfectly clear that I am the last person you would ask to design an appealling interface. Messaging, thread syncronization, etc I'm your guy, but pretty pictures I am not.
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WPF Bootcamp Day 1 - Visual Studio "Orcas" Demo
We moved past the introductions quickly and are getting down and dirty. Rob Relyea took us through the basics of WPF from the latest Visual Studio Orcas perspective. Starting simple by creating a button via Xaml and a duplicate example using purely C# code. I've posted a copy of…
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WPF Bootcamp Day 1
My co-worker Steve and I are here in Redmond this week for a WPF Bootcamp training session. We started off by meeting the WPF Product Unit Manager, Ian Ellison-Tayler, and Lead Program Manager, Rob Relyea. Ian ran through some existing WPF applications floating around the…
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The multilingual family...
One of the things we have decided we really want to try with Little Ryan is Baby Sign Language. I've read a number of great first hand accounts and I'm really excited. Beyond the suggestions that family's who've adopted baby sign language see a reduction in temper tantrums, I'm…
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Notes
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…
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WPF Bootcamp Day 1 – DataTemplates
This is pretty good stuff. One of the cool features of the WPF/Xaml structure is a way to define the visual structure (read: look) DataTemplates in WPF/Expression WPF Threading Model/Dispatcher and long running operations: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741870.aspx…
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WMI and the Win32_Product Class
Our build process is pretty seamless all the way through to an Integration environment which sits right between Development (laptop/workstation) and Certification (keep your muddy paws off land). With this automation and continuous integration in general, comes a large amount of…
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Free March Madness Video Feeds? I'm so there!
I don't understand how more media content providers don't see the benefit of a free test drive. I'll be all over CBS Sportsline for the March Madness On Demand live video feeds free for the first three rounds and I'm sure I'll get sucked into paying for the rest of it.
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SQL Reporting Services Unattended Install Documentation Bug
For those that are trying to package and deploy the SQL Reporting Services 2000 Designer tools, there is a little bug in the documentation. It states that in order to include the Reporting Service Books Online feature, you should use the setting RS_BooksOnline_ as an ADDLOCAL…