Bradley L. Jones

One of the sessions I attended at Tech Ed 2009 was on developing for mobile devices presented by Nick Landry. It was an interesting session. The most memorable quote from the session was: “If you don’t have a device that has an accelerometer, you aren’t going to be able to use the accelerometer.” While this […]

Tuesday May 26, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Introduction to DirectWrite DataBinding a DropDownList in a FormView Codeguru Forum Search Accelerator for IE 8 std::sort Comparison Function My Silveright Barcode Software STL and BOOST Parsing Iterators Hottest Discussions New Articles on Developer.com DataBinding […]

If you listened to many of the discussions in the hallways of the LA Convention center during TechEd 2009, you quickly realize that many of the conversations are not on the typical buzz of newly released technologies or cool new technical insights learned in sessions. Rather, the discussions are on trivial things such as the […]

At PDC last November, there were lots of Surface machines around the LA Convention Center. For TechEd 2009, there aren’t Surface devices all over, but there are a few. The Microsoft Surface is releasing a Service Pack 1 (SP1) update to current Microsoft Surface customers and partners which includes: Faster and easier application development Improved […]

This week I’m at Microsoft’s Tech Ed. There are keynotes, hundreds of sessions, hands-on labs, exhibitors, and tons of things happening. There is too much to cover it all. A lot of it is available online as well. Over the next few days, I’m going to try to post comments here in my blog on […]

Microsoft has announced the release of the sixth version of BizTalk Server today. Microsoft posted a press release on this new release today that contains information on what is new. It is available today on MSDN and will be available in nine other languages on May 1st. In short, BizTalk 2009 contains: Simple, cost-effective service-oriented […]

In my post, Are You a Deluded Developer, the issue is raised as to whether a developer could be both a desktop developer and a Web developer. The real focus of the post ended up being about designers. As a result of this blog entry, a few discussions on the topic occurred on the forums. […]

Desktop and Web developers are two different creatures. We have diatribes about the differences between Linux versus Windows , between Java versus .NET, between Flash versus Silverlight, between Oracle versus SQL Server, and between a lot of other technologies, but have we overlooked one of the more fundamental battles—the one between desktop developers and Web […]

In reading my paper copy of the February 2nd issue of eWeek, there was an interesting article on RIA 1.1 where they evaluated various platforms. There was a chart presented in the article, which I’ve recreated below. The chart is based on a question that O’Reilly Media asked of 200 developers regarding what RIA technology […]

Tuesday March 31, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Scrollable Image Viewer DevicePath Information AMD64 (EM64T) Architecture Create a Eclipse DataBase Client with Hibernate Hottest Discussions New Articles on Developer.com Tapping Into Microsoft Live Services with C# Extend the Flexibility and Functionality of SharePoint […]

For those of you that don’t read the Codeguru Update eNewsletter, I’ve posted part of my editorial here. My editorial leads to the question:  What is the oddest application (on or off the Web) that you’ve seen from a major, mainstream company? In the case of the application I mention below, the company is Procter and Gamble, […]

Tuesday March 24, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Tip: Lock Leveling AMD64 (EM64T) Architecture [Updated] Combinations in C++ Part 1: Installing Features and Adding Breadcrumbs to Custom Pages in Sharepoint Central Administration [Updated] Permutations in C++, Part 2 Blog Entries: ShowDown at High […]