<FONT color=#000000>Within the next 48 hours, you will find auctions on eBay. You can buy an hour of consulting time of the wonderful individuals listed below for a minimum bid of US$100. All money will go to IDEP (see below) to aid the Tsunami victims in the Aceh area. I think this is a sensational effort and I am honored that I was asked to participate. Julie Lerman and...
Omar is announcing (like Scott) the new newtelligence dasBlog "Community Edition" 1.7. It's so fresh that I am not even running it myself, yet.
What's important is that this is not an XCOPY upgrade and that you must follow the instructions in the dasBlog Upgrader download if you want to upgrade from 1.6 or earlier. Scott and Omar had to change the structure of the content store XML files to improve performance...
Happy New Year! It's a tiny bit late, but the last year ended and this year started with a flurry of activities that didn't leave me with much energy to blog. Before Christmas I went to New York to see my friend Stephen Forte and his wonderful girlfriend Kathleen, and right after Christmas I flew out to spend a few days with Steve Swartz and his fabulous wife Allison in Venice, Italy where they spent 3 weeks experiencing...
Just had to figure this out and thought I’d share. With the XmlSerializer (.NET v1.1), one would think that TimeSpan maps to the XML Schema type duration, but it doesn’t – for whatever reason. Anyways … here’s a trick to make it work. Interestingly enough, the XmlConvert class understands TimeSpan. However it does not work correctly with fractional seconds and ignores them. That’s enough for my purposes in the given...
Was den deutschen Sprachgebrauch angeht ist die IT Branche in Deutschland unfassbar gruselig, wenn's um den Einsatz von Anglizismen angeht. Doch da wird nicht nur aus Gründen der "Coolness" der (fast) passende englische Begiff der deutschen Entsprechung vorgezogen. Nein! Wirklich übel ist, dass man dabei häufig auch noch direkt die Ernsthaftigkeit des gemeinten direkt mit aus dem Fenster wirft. Drei Beispiele:
"Meeting": Lass uns mal hinsetzen und etwas unverbindlich ein bisschen Kaffee trinken, Schnittchen knabbern und labern.