For the first time ever in the UK, Microsoft is hosting a unique event for developers to learn, share and hear from other developers - but NO Microsoft speakers will be presenting.
Instead the event will feature speakers from the UK .NET Developer Community. <panic>Which includes me</panic>.
It is a FREE event being held at Microsoft UK Reading Offices on Saturday 14th May 2005.
I had planned to cover what is new in SQL2005, but Dave Sussman is doing that and I can't compete! So I'm covering "Hacking websites for fun and profit", which is shoe horned into the SQL track due...
The project I've been working on has finally released its first version to the internal customers; the push to release has been the major cause for my silence. As part of the development process we've been performing code reviews for the permanent members of staff to see how our mentoring has taken. Yesterday I came across an interesting (to me anyway) section of code, an implementation of IDispose. Setting aside the fact that the class had no unmanaged resources to discard and the method was being used to save an XmlDocument that had been created on object construction, something...