FORTRAN creator John Backus dies
John Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, has died. He was 82.
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We all have our favorite database structure generator or schema reporting tool. Maybe we have built one of them in the past. I always tell my clients that it's a great "first application" to …
Read more →Visual Studio Team System Seminar in Boise
Next week there will be a two-day seminar on Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). Unfortunately, I won't be delivering the event.
If you attend, you can see how VSTS includes an integrated team …
Read more →For some time, I’ve been sharing a neat hack that I came up with for finding files using Google. Here’s how it works:
Assume you are looking for a specific file, such as northwind.mdb.
If …
Read more →Agile Tool - 3x5 Cards that both shuffle and stick
Here's a great tool for agile development that was mentioned in a blog post below. Go get a stack of these! Shuffle them, pass them around, put your use stories on them, and slap them …
Read more →Team System geek needed for 6 weeks in Lebanon
Recently, Microsoft and IESC Geekcorps have teamed up to send Microsoft developer experts to participate as volunteers in the "Access to International Markets Through Information Technology" (AIM-IT) …
Read more →It took me a couple of days to go through my photos, but I found a good one of the various Visual Studio Team System MVPs who attended Basta!
Here's Martin Kulov, me, and Ognjen Bajic. But, where's …
Read more →Using the ReportViewer control in .NET 2.0?
One of the coolest controls that Visual Studio 2005 includes is the report design and view functionality of the ReportViewer controls. What used to be a server-only function, .RDL …
Read more →Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista
If you are running Vista and VS 2005, you need to install this SP1 update.
It's referenced by KB929470, and you can download it here.
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