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A Night of Ajax in Ohio... October 15th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Ok, we have a location and a date. Monday, October 15th, 2007 at the MS offices in Cleveland. The address is 6050 Oak Tree Blvd, Cleveland, Ohio 44131. Click here for a map. We will have pizza and soft drinks. It's going to be a fun time. I'll be speaking for about 2 hours giving my Intro to MS Ajax, my Best Practices with MS Ajax, and my JavaScript Alternatives talks. It will be a good opportunity to get acquainted with the MS Ajax framework (BTW this is also known as the "Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax 1.0 Extensions." BTW, that last talk will...
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Should We Be Abstracting SQL Connections into Objects???
[I know I have your attention. So before you start reading this thinking it's an anti-ORM post or something of that nature. It's not. It's about something entirely different (look at the tags). I am actually attacking a fairly popular notion that I have run into a bit recently and while I may see the point I think the argument misses some critical things... that said... on with the post...] I have been in Java hell over the last several days. To be specific I have been in Apache Cayenne ORM caching hell. I have been dealing with an update...
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Customer Service and a new Laptop...
About 3 weeks ago, my laptop's 1 year warranty ran out. So you can almost imagine where this is going... The good news is that my laptop had a major issue about 1 month ago (yep, 1 week before warranty ran out). What happened? Well I was tweaking Vista and noticed that there was a recommended BIOS update on the Gateway site for anyone running Vista. So I downloaded the burning software, and the update... actually I saved this one for last, but was having some painful WiFi issues that I decided to go for it. Well, the burn completed successfully, BUT upon...