November 2004 Entries
From the IEBlog, this is worth mentioning. It will certainly make my job much easier, especially with the CSS selectors and XMLHttpRequest features, which makes writing cross-browser scripting easier.
Phwew, a busy few weeks. Only a few days at home from one conference before the next started. Three days at Microsoft Reading for the VBUG 10th anniversary conference, with the last day being a DevTrain look at .NET 2.0, covering smart clients, obile devices, language changes, Team Systems, ASP.NET and SQL Server 2005. A huge amount to cover in a single day, but we got through it. This course is now part of the Devtrain catalog, so do contact them if you want a full overview of what's to come in the Visual Studio 2005 timeline.
Talks from ASPConnections and...
Got back yesterday from ASPConnections. Only just got back though. Flew from Manchester via Philidelphia, and we took off from Las Vegas 2 hours late, which coincidently was the amount of time we had to change planes. So we arrive at Philly just as they start boarding; we know this because we already had boarding cards with the time on them. We debark to the announcement "last call for ...". Never a good sign when you're at one end of one terminal and the departure gate is at one end of another. I start to run, telling Alex and Tina...
On Thursday last week I attended the UK MVP Day at Microsoft Reading, or TVP as it's generally known (Thames Valley Park is the name of the business park). There's a large global MVP summit every year, but the UK has just started local meetings, so this was an opportunity to meet with MVPs from all over the UK, whose expertise covers everything from Visual C++ to Money. The morning was partly talks about the Partner Program and the MVP program from their respective heads, followed by breakouts. I went to two breakouts presented by Microsoft Research employees, purely because they...
Phwew, a busy couple of weeks with little time to blog. Now it's catch up. First was a couple of days with my brother, while he graduated from his MBA course - a 3 year part time hard slog. Never miss an opportunity to watch family dress up in stupid gowns and hats. Of course, the two days were mostly spent crawling around the floor being a dog. Katie is 3 1/2 and this seems to be her favourite game for me at the moment.
I've never been one for the Friends United path, and am not particularly good at keeping in touch with friends. It's bad of me I know, but it's one of my faults. Others from my past have done the same, but last week someone broke the ice, having found me through this blog. We were at university together and he challenged me to remember who it was. It's nigh on 20 years ago, and suffering from a bad memory anyway, I struggled. He gave a few clues, and I got within the right group of people, but had to give...