Due for release in the second half of 2008, the ADO.Net 3.5 Entity Framework aims for to fulfill the following statement: Visual Studio Orcas will include the first implementations of Language-Integrated Query including LINQ to SQL and LINQ to DataSet. The release of the ADO.NET Entity Framework will focus on raising the data programming level of abstraction with the Entity Data Model and LINQ to...
Milind Lele has announced the release of Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2 (VFP9SP2). You can download it here, and check out the fix list here.
Visual FoxPro homepage.
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Homepage for the VSTA stuff. See also Paul Stubbs's blog.
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I’ve managed to make it through the first month of my new job :-). And I love it. I’ve held off posting about the new role until I felt I had a good understanding of the company, people and clients. First off, the job. I’ve joined Elcom Technology as their new Technical Director. This means I’m looking after their Dev and Tech teams, and responsible for the technology...
Main home page for Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007.
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Niklas Zennstrom (Skype co-founder) has stated that eBay paid too much for Skype. This will be astounding news to many… :-)
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This cracked me up (from xkcd)
Direct link is this.
Tim Sneath has a nice bunch of presentations available for download. Not particularly handy in their own right (there aren't many notes), but great if you want to pinch a graphic or two (especially from his WPF slides).
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Don't dilly-dally, make sure you rush to get the crucial, gaping-hole fixer Excel patch for the rounding issue :-) How did we live without it?
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From Virtual Hosting again, this gem: 10 Ways a programmer can improve his or her sex life.
LOL, although I can't see a problem with wearing your backpack as high on your back as possible :-)