2 weeks off!
With TechEd Malaysia done, Patricia and I now have a bit more than 2 weeks of vacation! Today we fly to Saigon (
TechEd Malaysia Day 2 (Day 1 for me)
Although we had an excessive first night here in Kuala Lumpur (getting strangers drunk on arrival seems to be some sort of tradition around here), that wasn't the reason for me showing up 15 minutes late for my first talk about "Building Distributed .NET Applications" this morning at 9:00am (then 9:15am) here at TechEd Malaysia. The notification about session slot change somehow either just didn't find its way into my inbox or it fell victim to the Sobig.F...
Sobig.F hits big.
The Sobig.F worm is hitting massively. My inbox. While we have all shields up at newtelligence for virus-protection, a bunch of people who have my email in their contacts obviously don't. Since yesterday evening I had to clean out at least 300-400 mails from my inbox that were generated by the worm. By average, I am currently getting a (formerly, pre-scan) infected email every 4-5 minutes. It's f***ing annoying.
XmlSerializer & UTC once more
While I wasn't looking, Doug Purdy, who is the PM for the team in charge of the XmlSerializer has posted this little cryptic answer to my initial question:
String serializedDateTime = XmlConvert.ToString( someDateTime );
DateTime deserializedDateTime = XmlConvert.ToDateTime( serializedDateTime );
</BLOCKQUOTE>What Doug is showing is really what the serializer is doing with dates under the hood and that I am incorrectly blaming the XmlSerializer for...