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I recently saw the announcement that Hotmail now supports POP access. Awesome news, as logging into the web version is a pain on a mobile phone. I grabbed my phone, and gave it a go:
After entering my Hotmail information, I got a nasty surprise:
Windows Mobile is smart enough to recognize the "Hotmail.com" extension and redirect you to their web interface. How helpful!
So, you are forced to do what you often have to do when someone walls you off with BS: you have to lie to them.
Here we have gotten extra sneaky and renamed Hotmail to hotmail2 - don't...
2008 was a pretty good year: I left a job where the path forward was to abandon my .Net skills in favor of learning Java, and returned to Progress Energy to develop and support .Net applications. I was elected President of TriNUG, and given the opportunity to stop whining and start making TriNUG better. I started using Twitter, and really grew my community of peers by dozens. I feel like if I don't put something down for where I want to be at the end of 2009, I will spend much of the year drifting about. So here...
I had dinner with a few friends a while ago, where they proceeded to show off their newly upgraded phones. They finally sold me on upgrading to Windows Mobile 6.1. It is a fantastic upgrade, and if it is available to you, I strongly urge you to get it.
To do the upgrade, I followed the link to information in this great post by Keith Elder.
He is right when he says it is an intimidating number of steps, but they are all very straightforward, and there is little chance of error if you follow through them all.
The Windows 6.1 Upgrade has...
RDU Code Camp was yesterday (Nov 15). It was just an awesome time. From what folks say, it went very well. I'd like to thank all of the folks who made this possible:
Chris Love - Chris was the original driver for doing another Code Camp this year. He took the lead on getting the speakers and sessions together, and stepped up to handle the emceeing on the event.
Rob Zelt - Rob secured all the swag for the event, resulting in some very happy folks when they left yesterday afternoon.
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RDU Code Camp is this Saturday, Nov 15, from 8:15am to 5pm. Door open at 7:30am.
It promises to be a great day full of developer-oriented content. In addition, there will be an Open Spaces, and an XBox 360 for playing Rock Band! Lunch will be provided, and there are prizes at the end - hope to see you there!
There have been numerous postings announcing that Microsoft is going to start shipping jQuery alongside Visual Studio. If you haven't read about this already, see Scott Guthrie's post.
This is wonderful news for the developer community for many reasons.
First, the acceptance of jQuery by Microsoft should be contagious. A lot of large enterprise organizations get their software from Microsoft, and their software tools from Microsoft. The rule in those circles seems to be "No one ever got fired for using Microsoft", and so, Microsoft tools tend to dominate the short list of what can be used in an enterprise environment. With...
RDU CodeCamp is coming!
Nov 15, 2008 at ECPI in Raleigh we will be having the RDU CodeCamp. Registration will be coming soon.
Currently, we are actively seeking speakers! If you are interested in speaking at RDU CodeCamp please drop us a line at http://www.codecamp.org/Speakers.aspx - We would love to hear from you.
On Wednesday, Aug 13, Jeffrey Palermo will be talking about separation of concerns, dependency injection, and test driven development with ASP.Net MVC. This should be an excellent discussion on some of the benefits in using the new MVC framework for ASP.Net.
There are some important points to underline about this meeting:
It will be awesome.
Registration is required to manage headcount, especially for our dinner arrangements. To attend, you must register on the site.
This meeting is not at RTI. The August 13 meeting will be held at ECPI.
This should be a...
Join us for a rapid fire evening full of new VS2008 features presented by our local TRINUG members!
Here's some of the topics you can expect:
- Chris: XML Literals
- Diane: LINQ to SQL Performance
- Glen: VS Tools for Office
- Greg: Extension Methods
- Josh: Office Automation
- Srinu: ASP.NET Dynamic Data
(Disclaimer: This post is a shameless cut and paste, with no original content whatsoever.)
The Enterprise Developers Guild is hosting a Code Camp all day this Saturday, May 17 in Charlotte, NC. You can find the agenda here - it looks to be a great event, with lots of good sessions! If you can make it there, I strongly encourage you to register.
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