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I was invited to speak at CodeStock 2009 this year. There were some great people here, met some new people I've only previously known on Twitter. I wasn't able to be here for most of the Friday sessions, but did go to one on Friday afternoon and several on Saturday. Probably the most entertaining presentation...
Yes, I am speaking at the SSWUG.ORG Spring vConference. I am in the .NET Development vConference and have 3 talks - Microsoft "Velocity", A New Approach to HttpRuntime.Cache, and finally Thread Safety Through Self-Loading Collections. If you want to register for the vConference, all of the...
Great news - Microsoft project code named "Velocity" was released last week. As such, I am going to get up some more videos up to describe some of the differences between CTP2 and CTP3. Stay tuned......
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I recently had a conversation with Pat Helland on the ASPNETPodcast ( link here ). It was a real treat for me for the simple fact that Pat is very easy to talk with. But, he has been involved in some really interesting projects over his career which gives him [in my opinion] a unique perspective to discuss...
I'm presenting at Microsoft Tech Days virtual event on April 1st at 11:30 AM Central. Come join in on the session! All that you need is LiveMeeting and you can register here . Microsoft "Velocity" There are several external caching engines that are available. Now Microsoft is busy developing...
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I am speaking at the North Dallas .Net User Group (NDDNUG) on 1 Apr 2009. The topic: Deep Dive into Microsoft “Velocity”. I am going to talk about requirements, configuration and do several live demos. If you are in the areas, it would be great if you could stop by....
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I like Google Chrome . I really do. Very fast startup. Very fast page load times. But there is something that just annoys me to no end and has been an issue for me from day #1 with Chrome. Chrome dos NOT behave well in a multi-monitor, multi-resolution environment. It looks like this . Note how none...
Yes...another Microsoft Velocity post :) I've done several videos and talks about Velocity and I wanted to have a place to be able to put a good bit of that information here: Video on Installation & Configuration Video on Code Samples Sample Code Sample Application...
Microsoft has been working on a great venture: "Velocity" . I have a great interest in that, since over the past couple of years I have been looking at ways to make cache be more effective for applications. I've started giving talks and demonstrations with Microsoft Velocity. Here are some...
I was having a discussion with another DBA the other day about a particular stored procedure. It was a paging stored procedure with a number of other tasks to do. He was adamant about me including the NOLOCK hint for the SELECT statements. He ranted a bit about how it was "best practice" to...