.NET Brain DroppingsI'm a Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA)... Feel free to ask me about the program...Don Smith shows how everyone should be using VPC Differencing Disks- June 17, 2005 Don's post on how to leverage differencing disks in Virtual PC is truly enlightening. I am the worst about creating ad hoc VPC images. I have one base image with WinXP SP2 and Office on it; anytime I need a new "machine" I copy that base image, run NewSid, and start installing software. I know this is a waste of drive space (and effort), but I never really thought to much about it. Well, I have now. Don does a great job of laying out how he uses his base images combined.http://weblogs.asp.net/dbrowning/archive/2005/06/16/413435.aspx Excellent whitepaper on Table Partitioning in SQL 005- June 14, 2005 I understand this whitepaper has been out for about a year now, but I'm just now catching up when it comes to new Yukon features. Kim Tripp has published an excellent paper that describes whenhowwhy to use Partitioned Tables in Yukon. Excellent article! I've been wondering how the mechanics of this worked since hearing about Kim's rocking demo of Partitioned Tables using a series of USB keys. Great stuff, you can check out that .NET rocks episode here. Watching: John...http://weblogs.asp.net/dbrowning/archive/2005/06/13/412264.aspx The Best Session at TechEd- June 11, 2005 Aside from finally getting to meet a few of my fellow MCA friends, the best part about TechEd had to be the Cabanas. I would much rather sit and talk to a bunch of people smarter than me that go attend one of those over packed sessions (though I go to quite a few of those). My favorite "session" was an ad hoc one on Thursday morning. I didn't realize it, but Kirk actually caught it on film. That morning Julie, Rich, Don, Clemens, Christian, and I kicked around...http://weblogs.asp.net/dbrowning/archive/2005/06/11/411902.aspx Going to TechEd Looking for a Job Email me...- June 3, 2005 I work for Turner Broadcasting (you know TNT, TBS, TCM, CTN, TSO et al) and we're looking to hire quite a few people for a large project that's ramping up here. It's been pretty tough to find people locally so if you are at TechEd and interested in moving to Atlanta to work for a great company, on a cool project (we're using VSTS, Yukon and Indigo) email me. I have my BlackBerry so I will get the email immediately. We can set up a time to get...http://weblogs.asp.net/dbrowning/archive/2005/06/03/410281.aspx |