Then you’ll definitely want to check out this episode of The .NET Show: IIS 7.0
You’ll get some of the low down on just a few of the new features coming in IIS 7.0. It’s a little long (almost 90 min) so you might want to set aside a chunk of time to go through it.
Interviewing is always a tedious process. There are several reasons for this: people want jobs, recruiters want to fill those jobs, etc. In preparing to move to Redmond, I’m interviewing potential replacements for the project that I am leaving. I’ve been trying to go beyond just waiting for the recruiter to call and I’m actively trying to find a good person to replace me. I am completely agast at the audacity of people who tell me they have certain experiences and feel they are qualified to do a job when (1) they cannot even answer simple questions and (2) THEY DON’T EVEN PREPARE FOR THE INTERVIEW! Whatever you do when you come to an interview, you should be prepared. And for heaven’s sake, if you can’t do the job, don’t take the interview! Let’s try to be clear:If you apply for a C# coding position,
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To be honest, it really goes beyond that. If you want to be a developer, you have to keep learning. You can’t do the same job for 20 years then loose it because of some market conditions (economy, downsizing, etc) then expect to pick up a book and be marketable over a weekend. It just doesn’t work that way. You have to keep learning, you have to keep coding, you have keep reading and studying and thinking about code and design and architecture. If you don’t love what you’re doing for a living, then do something else!
OK, I’ll step off my soapbox now….
Periodically, my VS05 IDE will max out the CPU and just seem to hang. Terminating the IDE and restarting doesn’t seem to fix it. What I have found is that there would appear to be something being stored in the pdb that has to do with the breakpoints. The reason I say that is when this situation occurrs, I can work around it by deleting all of my breakpoints, closing my windows and then trying to run with a fresh build. We already know that somtimes the VS05 IDE window manager can take the IDE out to lunch, but I don’t think this is related.
This is a post that just could not wait. LC posts on his blog how to determine what key was used to encrypt a piece of data in SQL 2005. Anyone doing encryption in SQL ’05 has GOT to keep this one in their toolboxes. Trust me, you’ll need it one day.
OK, everybody is giving Microsoft a hard time about trying to help keep your system up to date by gathering system information, but yet no one is saying anything about Apple doing the same thing!!!! Come on, folks!
Has anyone else run into this: put a input box in an update panel and then post it every second (simulating a save). Then mouse over to bring up the tooltip. The tooltip flashes with every cycle, even if no input is given. The input box does not flash and no other updates appear to be done. Curious.
I have been doing consulting for many years and had felt that I would always be a consultant because of how much I enjoyed it. However, an unbelievable opportunity has presented itself. Microsoft has approached me to work for them in Redmond, Washington. Working for Microsoft in any capacity is a dream of almost every developer but I will not only have the opportunity to work for them, I will have the opportunity to work in one of the newest and most exciting divisions in the company, the adCenter division!
In both the projects that I have done and the other consultants that I have worked with, I have made friendships that will last a lifetime. I don’t want to sound like I’m disappearing; I will still continue to help as many young developers as I can through both mentoring and this blog. Just think of me as changing locations. I’m sure that working around the brilliant developers that haunt the halls of Microsoft will provide a million more tips to blog about! Although it will be a few weeks yet, I can’t wait to get started! Hang on, this baby’s about to take off!
OK, I know multiple posts within a few minutes are a bit chaotic but I just had to share this one. I had a hectic few days and missed this one posted Thursday, June 28th. The WPF team has released 400 samples on the community site! We asked for more, we got more! Great job WPF team!
There is an incredable array of new and amazing technologies coming down in the .Net 3.0 Framework. Many of us have been drooling endlessly waiting for them to settle. For those of you out there who want to know more or like the rest of us, keep watching the CTPs, changes and threads, check out the .Net 3.0 Framework page. Great info and good links!
Pardon, the non-technical post, but I have something important to say.
As developers we sometimes get completely absorbed into our software projects and we pour 110% of ourselves into doing the best job possible. In doing so, we often forget to thank those who make it possible for us to have that type of focus. I’m a driven, enthusiastic software development nut who has had the opportunity to do some amazing projects. But I would not have been able to do it without a very special person taking care of the other 99% of daily life. My wife has been my soul mate, my guide, my companion and often the one I lean on. She’s passionate, tough when she needs to be, thoughtful, considerate and full of life. Without her I would not have had the amazing experiences that I’ve been blessed to have had. And without her unwavering common sense there is no telling where I would have wound up.
She may not read this but to everyone who reads my blog, you need to know that to do amazing things, you cannot do it alone. For all the million things that she does, for all the times she’s left alone while I’m on projects, for all the headaches that I put her through, I give her my utmost thanks and my undying love. She’s my true love, my companion and most of all, my very best friend.
John Howell 