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Books Written by Brian Nantz |
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Interviewing with MS. |
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4/22/2004
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Microsoft is infamous when it comes to their interviewing. Here are a few helpful tips if you even find yourself in this precarious position!
http://weblogs.asp.net/JobsBlog/
http://www.sellsbrothers.com/fun/msiview/
http://halcyon.usc.edu/~kiran/msqs.html
http://www.techinterview.org
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/riddles/intro.shtml
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/misc/100798-1.shtml
http://www.acetheinterview.com/qanda/microsoft_interview.html
http://www.techinterviews.com/index.php?p=46
And of course the essential book:
How would you move Mount Fuji
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Robocopy |
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4/22/2004
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Every now and then you run into a new tool that you should have had for a long time. I recently showed a co-worker DebugView from SysInternals. This is great for capturing System.Debug.WriteLine messages even better Log4NET trace messages. But I found one today: RoboCopy part of the Resource Kit! This is great for a primitive backup of directories because it only copies changed files! Another NEW TOOL I use regularly is LogParser, it allows you to run SQL queries against a variety of Microsoft log files.
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A few Open Source Links |
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4/20/2004
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Since I am in the habit of collecting Open Source .NET links. Here is Thoughtworks Open Source Homepage. Lots of goodies!
Also check out Joel Pobar’s Rotor (AKA SSCLI) Community Resources.
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This is an update to my UI blog |
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4/18/2004
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This is an update to my dasBlog/default.aspx?date=2003-09-10#a76f42258-8701-4282-adf0-cab62c75b96d">UI blog. I have met many engineers who think they are UI wizards. The problem is that they rarely develop for the average computer user who may not understand to hover over for tool tips, or think of right clicking to find more options, I have found many users like tabs! I hate tabs. But I am not the user. If my product is not intuitive and easy to figure out then we have failed. No training should be required. Anyway enough with the rant. Here is another useful UI website.
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Virtual PC is an essential tool |
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4/12/2004
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Virtual PC is an essential tool. MS is supporting it very well. The product manager @ MS stated that soon VPC will be able to import WMWare images. This would be a great advantage to VPC over WMWare. In using VPC, I have used the newsgroup for several questions; it is one of the most active newsgroups I track from MS. Most of those questions have directed me to either Robert Moir’s Website or this website which is itself running in Virtual Server! People are using VPC in ways I never imagined! They are using it with ghost to convert from WMWare images today! This is a great product even thought shared drives do not yet work with Longhorn L.
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MS Goes Open Source |
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4/6/2004
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Microsoft has become more and more receptive to Open Source. MS has created their own Shared Source Initiative and here is what the Open Source Initiative has to say about that. But MS is going even further. I have seen a number of presentations using NUnit and SVG# specifically. I think NAnt and Ant have definitely made a distinct impression! But now MS is even going further. This Slashdot article reports that MS has actually posted something on sourceforge! Go figure J. I only hope that MS gets the point that everyone likes tabs in their browsers!
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Microsoft has finally released a Port Reporter Tool! |
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4/5/2004
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Microsoft has finally released a Port Reporter Tool! This is long overdue in the Server arena. I have been using Cygwin to get this sort of functionality. But this is a supported tool by Microsoft and I like how it runs as a service and logs to files for later inspection!
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Automatically Track all Open Source .NET projects! |
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2/18/2004
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Many developers I run into have little idea how many Open Source projects are out there that are useful for non-Open Source products developed with Visual Studio.NET. I thought what I should do is post a tool to automatically download the tools and projects that I use or have mentioned in my book. This is useful to people new to the Open Source community to see all the available code as well as people who want to keep current automatically. I thought well I’ll need a task to get things via http, ftp, cvs and subversion. It should be in a config file XML format and then I realized that NAnt already provided all of this. By default the build file will only download .NET related Open Source. But there is another task in the build file for other Open Source projects of interest. Here it is.
To use it simply type nant at a command prompt in the directory that you unzip the package to. Please send me back any improvements.
Have fun and enjoy learning from Open Source.
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Longhorn, Whidbey & Yukon - It's not just marketing hype. |
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1/5/2004
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After much blood, sweat and tears I finally got a Virtual PC Image of Windows Longhorn, Visual Studio.Net Whidbey and SQL Yukon all working together. It is difficult to even decide where to begin! Avalon looks really cool (except that the XAML appears to have to be compiled), Indigo is definitely going to effect my every day development, and having the CLR embedded into SQL for stored procedures is going to cut down on db development time for sure. But I think I will test the waters a little bit with something much simpler. I am going to create a ASP.Net provider for PostgreSQL, MySql and LDAP. This might take a while and Rob Howard (http://weblogs.asp.net/rhoward/archive/2003/11/21/39156.aspx) already has done some work on this. My idea is to make this an Open Source project rather than release it under a Shared Source license.
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