Software Development

Looking into the Crystal Ball about C# 4.0

One of the most exciting announcements from PDC was the news about C# 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. With all the excitement and discussion throughout the event about these new developer tools, we reached out to two experts in the fields. Charlie Calvert and Bill Wagner sat down with Keith and Woody to answer some questions and discussed their new books on LINQ and C# . We also have a short talk with Jason McConnell of the Surface team. Listen to the Show Subscribe To The Show There are three ways to subscribe to our show...

posted @ Friday, November 14, 2008 2:22 PM | Feedback (0)

Meet the Principal Group Manager of VSTS Test in Grand Rapids

Mark Mydland is the Principal Group Manager of the Visual Studio Team System Test Edition team (that means that all program managers, developers, and testers on VSTS Test in Redmond report up to him).  He is touring through Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee for a short time in November.  Mark will be visiting companies during the day and speaking at user groups in the evenings.  The user group talks are open to the public - this is a fabulous opportunity to speak directly with someone who created Visual Studio (and in fact runs the entire Test Edition...

posted @ Friday, October 24, 2008 2:41 PM | Feedback (0)

Getting LINQ’y with Jim Wooley on Deep Fried Bytes

Back in august Keith and I were at devLink.  Our friend, author and fellow developer Jim Wooley say down with us to chat about LINQ.  Great talk and really great vision from an expert on the technology covering this valuable developer tool. Listen to the Show Subscribe To The Show There are three ways to subscribe to our show so you can stay current. We support standard RSS, subscriptions via the iTunes Store and we are also available in the Zune Market place. Chose your poison by clicking on your choice below.

posted @ Friday, October 03, 2008 12:23 PM | Feedback (0)

What can you learn about planning software development from the Apollo 13 mission?

Apollo 13 was the third manned lunar-landing mission, part of Project Apollo under NASA in the United States. The crew members were Commander James A. Lovell, Command Module pilot John L. "Jack" Swigert, and Lunar Module pilot Fred W. Haise. It launched on April 11, 1970 at 13:13 CST. Two days after the launch, the Apollo spacecraft was crippled by an explosion, caused by a fault in an oxygen tank. The explosion damaged the Service Module, resulting in a loss of oxygen and electrical power. The crew used the Lunar Module as a “lifeboat” in space. The...

posted @ Wednesday, July 09, 2008 9:31 AM | Feedback (0)

Announcing -- Cloudsocket Database Developer Wiki

Cloudsocket (actually just me) has announced the creation and delivery of a new knowledge center for database patterns and best practices for database design and development. The Cloudsocket Database Developer Wiki will be open to all to share and collaborate on the databases and the use, performance and development of this important and frequently overlooked technology. The main purpose is to share, educate and inform not only database experts but also the entire software development community to develop, use and maintain better relational databases. We are building a repository for: SQL Server 2005...

posted @ Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:21 PM | Feedback (0)

SQL Server 2005 Best Practices: Show Data in a Report Header

One of the things I want in my reports is to have nice headers for my reports.  I like to have a logo and the user's report parameters along with other data to show to give more information for the business needs the report needs to clarify.  One of the things that Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services cannot do natively is show data from a Dataset in the header.  This post will explain how to work around this and how easy it is. Create the Report Server Project in the Business Intelligence Projects section and call it AdventureWorksLTReports. ...

posted @ Saturday, February 02, 2008 10:37 AM | Feedback (3)