I have been creating custom software solutions for small, medium, and large scale customers for the past 20 years. I'm going to use this blog to talk about various aspects of programming, and my experience in developing software.
October 19, 2005
Something has happening in Redmond - or I got to go buy a lottery ticket.
In the past week I have contacted at least three different Microsoft employees asking for clarification or questions on various issues. All of them have responded back to me in hours - not days - but hours. Now the last time I looked, I was not the only Microsoft customer working against their technologies. With all these new products out, I would think that the support staff is seriously working overtime.
Just wanted to shout out to Robert Scoble, Richard Turner, my ISV buddy Dmitriy Filyushin, Roger Wolter and Euan Garden for their help this past week - you are all doing an awesome job. Not only did they answer my questions, they also followed up with me after a referral!
Software design and construction just keeps getting better doesn' it!
Today I had the great pleasure of coding against Sql Server 2005 and some nice managed stored procedures. Really interesting calling a stored procedure that has VB.Net in it, just a little strange. Need to work out how to debug those assemblies after they have been deployed to the server - had to work a couple of hours to find a bug.
One early stoppage was the use of
object.Dispose within a CLR procedure. That is a no-no and SQL will not let you deploy it! Thanks
Bob Beauchemin for blogging about that little jewel of knowledge!
I also have to figure out how to debug background threads more effectively - with multiple threads going, and some timing issues, putting in a breakpoint just doesn't cut the mustrad. I got to get into tracing and being able to turn it on and off a needed. Why is there always so many things to learn!
October 17, 2005
First post on a new blog - got a couple that I can use to rant about various interests. Please leave a comment and we can learn together!