April 2008 Entries
Update (29/4): If you can't see the video, you can also find it here.
via Warren Ellis.
As a writer, this pisses me off. Someone scraped the contents of Darren Di Lieto’s website and published it into a 350-page book being sold online for $100. Publishers have faked their details, resellers refuse to pull the book. Please spread the word about this and help alert people that they should not buy this book. Technorati Tags: Colorful Illustrations 93C,ISBN 978 988 98142 0 5,Plagiarized Book,Great Creativity Organization,Azur Corporation
GoogleTech talks with Gerard Merzaros author from book "XUnit Test Patterns" (amazon link)
via ADO.NET Team Blog It’s settled! The Entity Framework (and the Entity Designer) along with ADO.NET Data Services will RTM as part of the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP1 releases! Unfortunately, we don’t have official release dates at this point, but stay tuned. You’ll also want to keep an eye out for the upcoming SP1 Beta 1, which will be your next chance to check out updated bits for both of these products. Elisa FlaskoProgram Manager, Data Programmability
It was September 2007 when I started work on this book. The conversation had been innocent enough. "Fancy doing a quick update of our ASP.NET book?" said John Osborn of O'Reilly. "There's not too much new in VS2008 and ASP.NET 3.5 this time round. Should take a couple of months and be out for Christmas." Naively, I agreed with that sentiment and to update the whole darn thing with the guidance of Jesse Liberty and Dan Hurwitz, the authors of the previous edition of this book, signed the contract. Six months later and...