As we were ushered in to an imposing auditorium It seemed the three DJs and VJ were entertaining a lonely, featured HP server rack on stage. Having a tiny special ‘Early Bird’ section down the front did seem a little pointless when I’d hazard a guess that well over 70% of delegates would’ve been signing up for… Continue reading TechEd Day 1 : Keynote speech
Tag: Microsoft
Is Microsoft’s future ‘delicious’?
So have you had chance to see Microsoft’s (supposed) answer to Apple’s excellent Get A Mac adverts yet? Well in case not, I’ve included it after the break. So I get the fact its got people talking because its obtuse, I get the fact that its not tying them to advertising one product but seriously… Continue reading Is Microsoft’s future ‘delicious’?
SourceSafe: “Only one database connection at a time is supported.”
I’ve been having intermittent problems with Visual Studio 2005 and SourceSafe 2005 occasionally complaining that “Only one database connection at a time is supported” when I load up solutions with multiple projects in them. A Microsoft Knowledge-base article pointed me to the potential problem. Looking in the mssccprj.scc files for both .csproj files loaded in… Continue reading SourceSafe: “Only one database connection at a time is supported.”
Having a Ballmer
“I would love to see all open source innovation happen on top of Windows” Ballmer: All open source dev should happen on Windows | The Register Obviously all that flapping up and down screaming “Developers, developers, developers, developers” (see after the break) has starved Steve Ballmer of critical oxygen supply to his brain of late.… Continue reading Having a Ballmer
Test Driven Documentation
Esendex fully embraces the idea of test-driven development (TDD), something I was introduced to during my time at Fujitsu-Siemens Computers. Microsoft have just released a new MSDN site called the Tester Center Home. Whilst I’m sure its got some useful information on it, the matter-of-fact MSDN style doesn’t invite me to delve into it to… Continue reading Test Driven Documentation
Stored procedure error handling in SQL Server 2000
Today, we’re continuing work on our multipart message aggregation upgrade for a future Esendex release. One part of the investigations this morning has been looking into how we manage the database access as we add parts of an incoming message to it for later processing. As we have multiple servers processing inbound messages, there was… Continue reading Stored procedure error handling in SQL Server 2000