March 2006 - Posts
Yesterday we ran into a bug in the Visual Studio 2005 IDE. To be precise: in Intellisense when writing a web.sitemap file. The Intellisense tells you the attribute which indicates whether a site map provider filters site map nodes based on a user's role is called securityTrimmingEnabled. But when you use this attribute and run the website, you receive an error stating there is an Unrecognized attribute 'securityTrimmingEnabled'.
When you look the attribute up in the help, it is called SecurityTrimmingEnabled. Notice it starts with a capital S in stead of a small one. Changing the attribute's name seems to have fixed the problem, so it's no biggy. But it is still a bug. As long as this is the biggest one in there, I'm happy ;).
Wednesday and thursday I attended the first part of a BizTalk 2006 course at Class-A. Next week I'll be finishing the course (tuesday and wednesday). I have to say that the trainer/coach who gives the course (Astrid Hackenberg) really knows what she's talking about. At this point the 12 (?) people attending the course have not yet come up with a question she couldn't answer.
The first two days weren't very difficult, I think because they were an introduction to the basics of BizTalk. This combined with the fact I already played around with BizTalk 2004 some time ago made that the first two days were easy to follow for me. On the other side, the understandable way things are presented helps. ;)
I'm looking forward to learning more about the possibilities of BizTalk 2006 next week. If I encounter shocking stuff, I'll let you know.
After years of loyal service, I'm going to sell my current digital camera. I'm interested in buying an even better one (7.1 MP), although the
Sony DSC-S85 I have now (4.1 MP) has brought me lots of great pictures.
It accompanied me on several holidays and events. I've got a few Gb of images to show for it.... ;)
If anyone's interested in buying it: drop me a
line or visit the advert on
markplaats.
I attended the DevDays 2006 and my overall impression was: cool. Allthough some of the sessions I attended weren't good (or actually, were very bad), the overall feeling is good and I picked up on some great stuff. Meeting up with some smart people is also a good addition to attending the sessions.
The most impressive session I attended was
Scott Guthrie on Atlas. Microsoft is doing its best in making the life of developers easier. My guess is they are getting there pretty fast. The AJAX framework they are developing, called Atlas, makes it possible for you to AJAX-enable your site within a few minutes. There's a dummy-proof implementation which takes almost no knowledge of JavaScript or whatever to AJAX enable your site. But there also are possibilities to take it to the next level and write lots of complex code and JavaScript to take even more advantage of AJAX.
Another great session was Anko Duizer on MSF. I think that because of the movement IBM is making with RUP (gradually pulling it more and more to Java), Microsoft has brought their way of developing software to market supported by the Team System/Team Foudation suite. Anko talked about MSF and the rules used to ensure a good software development process. That was interesting stuff...
For those who attended: the best rule I heard was "Don't shake the Jell-O".