Monthly Archives: June 2008

Tip of the Day #3 (Ultimate How To Guide)

Posted on Monday, 30 June, 2008 by Colin Mackay

Today’s tip is the ultimate how to guide on being a programmer. It seems to explain almost everything. If, once you’ve read it and want more it also suggests 4 excellent books to read in chapter 1.

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SQL Bits III – Call for Speakers

Posted on Saturday, 28 June, 2008 by Colin Mackay

Session submission is now open for SQL Bits III. SQL Bits III will take place on Saturday 13th September in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Also, if you are feeling particularly artistic they are also running a competition to come up with a … Continue reading →

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Tip of the Day #2 – (Debugging into the .NET source code)

Posted on Saturday, 28 June, 2008 by Colin Mackay

Today’s tip is that you can configure Visual Studio to step-into the .NET Framework. Here’s some background: A while ago Scott Guthrie announced that the source code to the .NET Framework was now available. And Shawn Burke detailed how to … Continue reading →

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Event Organisation – The Feedback

Posted on Monday, 23 June, 2008 by Colin Mackay

This is the first post in a series of random thoughts on community events that I’m writing based on my experience running a user group and the Developer Day Scotland conference. In this post I’ll concentrate on receiving feedback. Photo … Continue reading →

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Scottish Developers Newsletter – June 2008

Posted on Sunday, 22 June, 2008 by Colin Mackay

Welcome As the last newsletter came out a little late the time to this newsletter seems quite short. However, that doesn’t mean there isn’t lots of good stuff happening. We are filling out our programme of events until the end … Continue reading →

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Tip of the Day #1 (Connection Strings)

Posted on Sunday, 22 June, 2008 by Colin Mackay

You can add the Application Name to the connection string for SQL Server so that it becomes easier to debug problems when you use a tool like SQL Profiler as it will be much easier to identify the commands being … Continue reading →

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Navigating XML (LINQ to XML series – part 4)

Posted on Sunday, 22 June, 2008 by Colin Mackay

In my last few posts on LINQ to XML (part 1, part 2 and part 3) I’ve shown you a starter on navigating around XML data. In this post I’ll continue to show you how to navigate through XML data … Continue reading →

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Postgraduate .NET Application Development

Posted on Friday, 20 June, 2008 by Colin Mackay

Glasgow Caledonian University is currently developing a new Postgraduate course on .NET Application Development. This course will combine the expertise of their lecturers with the industry-standard Microsoft Official Curriculum. This course will offer a series of academic qualifications, starting with … Continue reading →

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Wordle – Beautiful Word Clouds

Posted on Thursday, 12 June, 2008 by Colin Mackay

I just got sent a link to a website called Wordle which creates “Beautiful Word Counds”. It is quite good fun and I ran it over the Scottish Developer’s May newsletter to see what it would come up with and … Continue reading →

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LINQ to XML event summary

Posted on Wednesday, 11 June, 2008 by Colin Mackay

The LINQ to XML talk was earlier today. We had a slightly smaller turn out than expected and I’m wondering if it was the weather (it was warm), people went on holiday (it is June – but then why sign … Continue reading →

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