March 2007 - Posts

Upgrading to Vista

This previous weekend I took the plunge and upgraded to Vista Business! A few weeks back I purchased a Western Digital 120 GB Passport Portable drive . This made backing up all my data quite easy (much better than burning CD's like I have done previously). Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 6:35 PM by Joe | 1 Comments
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IdentityMine's CHATBlender

Via Mike Harsh's Blog I was introduced to IdentityMine's CHATBlender for Windows Live Messenger. This is a addin that uses WPF/e to allow two people who are chatting to exchange XAML and see it rendered on the client. Very cool stuff (and I love their Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 8:46 PM by Joe | 1 Comments
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Agile Development, Design Patterns, WCF

Last October I spent learning WPF and digging into C# internals. This break (yesh only two weeks left!) I'm trying to focus on Agile Development, Design Patterns (in C#) and WCF. I've picked up a few books and have already drilled into a few chapters Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 7:55 PM by Joe | 0 Comments
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DNR & dnrTV

If you haven't heard of .NET Rocks! (DNR) I highly recommend you check it out. DNR is an "Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers" hosted by Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell. The latest episode of DNR is Michèle Leroux Bustamante on WCF. Carl Franklin Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 7:20 PM by Joe | 0 Comments
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NORMA Journal Winter Quarter 2007 - Final Course Synthesis

Activities this quarter Learned Existing Code Base – I think a very big chunk of the quarter was spent learning what was already previously coded. Since my main assignment was to update the existing Fact Editor to use the new managed classes it was very Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 6:53 PM by Joe | 0 Comments
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NORMA Journal Winter Quarter 2007 - Week of March 12, 2007

Although a bit belated, here's my last NORMA journal blurb for the quarter. Finally at the end of the quarter I have a working fact editor in a toolwindow! I originally got it working with inheriting from the included toolpane class available with the Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 6:47 PM by Joe | 0 Comments
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Another Quarter Finished

Last Friday marked the end of another Quarter here at Neumont . It is my third quarter completed and I'm halfway through my stay! It was a fairly challenging quarter. I juggled learning Calculus, Java (again - I learned Java initially many years ago), Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 6:43 PM by Joe | 0 Comments
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Visual Studio SP1 For Windows Vista

According to Soma Visual Studio SP1 for Windows Vista is now available! I've been running Vista on my Desktop for quite some time, though I do most of my development on my laptop which is running XP. Now if only Neumont will allow me to upgrade my laptop Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:46 AM by Joe | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Web Client Development

After spending the Quarter studying I've finally passed the Exam 70-536: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 - Application Development Foundation (on the first try). Here are most of the subjects I encountered on the test: Tons of Serialization questions Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 06, 2007 2:40 PM by Joe | 1 Comments
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