February 2007 - Posts
I just got Adam Nathan’s WPF Unleashed book in the mail today. To make sure that I’m “getting it”, I went ahead and tried to convert the listing on page 46 from XAML into C#-- just too see if I could figure out what the XAML is doing. (I don’t know yet
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For anyone who peruses our blogs on a regular basis, I'd just like to put out a notice that we are hiring. Details are here: http://www.catalystss.com/Careers/OpenJobPostings.aspx . That's really all for today. If you want any information about working
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In the spirit of Chuck Norris facts ( www.chucknorrisfacts.com ), we have something about Service Oriented Architecture. Funny stuff if you've been following SOA for any time. http://www.soafacts.com/ (saw this via Aaron Skonnard's blo g: http://pluralsight.com/blogs/aaron/archive/2007/02/15/46087.aspx
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I was giving a talk the other night and one of the attendees came up with a great question: “How do I handle future versions of a DataContract with something that expects an older version?” This is a concern for anyone deploying a v1.0 Web service and
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I've been waiting for a while to announce this. I'll be one of the Windows Communication Foundation instructors for Wintellect! They've just posted the information at http://www.wintellect.com/TechnicalBioDetail.aspx?Tech=22 . If you want someone who
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If you are a Windows user and your daily job involves using Windows Explorer to find files, RegEdit to inspect the registry, WMI to check out the state of your machine, or using the command line to just ‘get work done’, I highly recommend downloading
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PowerShell reminds me of programming in the 'old days' of PCs where every Apple, TI-94A, Commodore, or what have you had a BASIC interpretter at the command line. Going into a Target or Sears, I'd hit these machines and write something like 10 PRINT "SCOTT
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