Man vs Code : December 2003

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I started working on the outline for a book I am planning to write about ObjectSpaces. My goal was to get it started before 2004, so there you go - well ahead of schedule. Please don't tell Dare though, I am suppose to be finishing up a long over due Read More...

Posted Wednesday, December 31, 2003 12:05 PM by aconrad | 4 Comments

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anyone got a couple of million?

I have always wanted an aircraft carrier . Incidentally, I have updated my links to include Mark Fussell's new Blog. Thanks to the multiple people who made me aware of my post that incorrectly contained his old Blog. Read More...

Posted Tuesday, December 30, 2003 5:15 PM by aconrad | 0 Comments

Englishman in Redmond

Mark Fussell, a semi crazy Englishman I work with here at Microsoft, has co-authored a good introductory book about the what's new with ADO.net and SqlXml in Whidbey. I reviewed the latter content and found it quite detailed and well written. The book Read More...

Posted Monday, December 29, 2003 11:57 AM by aconrad | 3 Comments

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Don Box interview

Interesting interview of Don Box by Mary Jo Foley (of Microsoft Watch fame). I think his comments on OO and the SOA world are right on. Read More...

Posted Saturday, December 20, 2003 11:36 AM by aconrad | 0 Comments

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ObjectSpaces in an SOA world

There have been several internal email threads here at Microsoft about how ObjectSpaces will fit into the world of SOA. Below I have included my internal reply to one such post on the subject. Note - my reply is not intended to be a manifesto on the subject, Read More...

Posted Friday, December 12, 2003 10:16 AM by aconrad | 12 Comments

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the million dollar question

Paul Wilson has asked me what seems to be by far the most common question about ObjectSpaces: “Will it support other databases besides Sql Server... i.e Oracle, Access, etc?” For V1 of ObjectSpaces, which will ship as part of the Whidbey release Read More...

Posted Thursday, December 11, 2003 2:10 PM by aconrad | 2 Comments

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Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya...

Hello All - since this is my first post on http://weblogs.asp.net since moving from the gotdotnet blogging site, I decided to revive my original “introduction” post. My name is Andrew Conrad, I am a Software Design Engineer with the Sql Server Read More...

Posted Thursday, December 11, 2003 10:10 AM by aconrad | 10 Comments