April 2008 Entries
I was going through some boxes of old books to send to the recycle dropoff when I happened upon some old Delphi books from the late 90's. If my readers do not know I was a Delphi developer for the most part 100% from 1995 until 2002 and used the IDE and language until 2004. I started developing in Delphi shortly after graduating college at the end of 1994. I worked for a consulting company called ANATEC in Southfield Michigan. ANATEC was a very large consulting company that mainly developed client-server applications in Powerbuilder. I started for the first 6...
After many weeks of preparing and delays, my new podcast is up and running with the first 2 episodes. I expect the podcast to improve over the next few months with maybe new theme music and better production. It is a little rough but it is alive. I am going to try to post at least 1 new episode each week. Here are the first 2 episode details: Episode 1 -- Introductions This is the first episode of the new CloudSocket podcast. It covers who the host Chris Woodruff is and what Chris will cover for the life...
I was in Redmond a few weeks ago doing some work with Microsoft Learning regarding their new .NET Framework 3.5 Professional exams they are developing for the MCPD certification. I cannot say too much but the entire process to develop exams at Microsoft is interesting and way more complex than I anticipated. The picture is me before going into Building 41. The building in the background is Building 40 where the super smart people involved in Developer tools are located. I also ate in the cafeteria between 40 and 41 so I saw quite a few...
The second annual West Michigan Day of .NET is looking to be a slamdunk this May 10, 2008. We have the same great venue as last year. Davenport University is a great modern facility that allows us to have great classrooms and meeting spaces as well as a short walk from cars into the building. But what makes this year's event better than the last is the line up of returning and new speakers. I do not want to brag but honestly how can people not attend this year? Look at the list of speakers and topics and tell me...
I have been a little tardy with posts to the CloudSocket blog for the last 6 weeks. Well all that will change now that I am wrapping up the last details of the work to move this blog from Wordpress to SubText. Between having issues with the server the blog is on and doing to content move it delayed this announcement a few weeks. Now that this is behind me, I will be doing many new posts. I hope you all enjoy the new direction and stay with me while the kinks are worked out. I also would like...