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New Job Search Engine

There has been alot of talk about SimplyHired and Indeed in the blogosphere. There is another job search engine out there called GetTheJob. It is really fast and has jobs directly from employers.
Worth a look, especially for tech jobs

Team Foundation Server for Microsoft Partners

I know I am probably really late to the game in commenting on this.
For example, a google search reveals that these blogs (just a sampling) have beating this to death: [1] [2] [3]
(Google: Results 11 - 20 of about 44,500 for team foundation server pricing sucks. wow)
Anyhoo, I am more concerned about what [...]

Custom Business Objects vs. DataSets: Shake that azz.

Ever since .NET came out and the practicality and advantages of OO programming became available in a straightforward, elegant language like C#, I have been bouncing back and forth between using DataSets as a psuedo-business objects or writing full-fledged objects. I’ve sinced stopped bouncing, my headache is gone, and I am ready to [...]

.NET Portal Frameworks? Holla Back, Ya Heard

It’s been a long time since I blog and rolled….
Anyhoo, been hella busy. We are putting together a project plan and architecture for a portal project. This is a portal in the 1998 sense of the word, a public B2B destination for a given vertical industry.
I have looked at SharePoint and [...]

.Net Framework 1.1 SP1 is out

You can download it here
Here are the release notes.

Microsoft: Please provide better Exchange WebDAV documentation!

I applaud Microsoft for providing a robust SDK for Exchange. However, the examples and documenation around the WebDAV interface leave much to be desired. First of all, how about a real schema documentation set? Second, we need more examples, like how to manage distribution lists and other basic Exchange functionality.

Scrum, Donnybrook, and other fighting words

My posse and I were thinking about going to a Scrum development course.
I first heard about Scrum from a client we had that was undergoing lots of change: close to 100% development staff turnover, consultants in and out, and management confused on how to approach a major development effort. It turned out that they [...]

SQL Server 2005: Wow!

I was reading a post from Ryan Farley about Sql Server 2005.
All I can say is wow. The features I am really excited about are:

.NET Framework Hosting: With SQL Server 2005 developers will be able to create database objects using familiar languages such as Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Microsoft Visual Basic .NET. Developers [...]

C# 2.0 Has Nullable Types

Yipee! I know this is old news but after using a variety of techniques to work around the absence of nullable types in C# 1.0, this needs to be promoted heavily.
You can learn about in in the C# Language Spec
I wonder what the NullableTypes open-source project team is going to do now that Microsoft [...]

Coffee War Stories

In the lunchroom at a client, I overheard some funny “Coffee War Stories.” There were three middle-aged men, obvious corporate-ladder types. I wasn’t sure if it was just idle chit-chat or if the “warriors” really took themselves and their coffee adventures seriously.
“One time, we had this coffee pot and Wilkinshire (you know the tall guy [...]

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