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Aristocracy, Democracy and System Design

From Brooks' famous Mythical Man month essay collection, I liked surgical team (chapter 3) and Aristocracy, Democracy and System Design (chapter 4) more than mostly talked Mythical man month. It's because I found modern PERT and GANTT evaluation more scientifically correct than “parallel task“ definitions he used to describe the inter-process correlation. Following is an…

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IIS 5.0 Isolation Mode and IIS 6.0 ramblings

Recently I've encountered some application permission issues during QA when moved an existing app. from IIS 5.0 Isolation mode to IIS 6.0. Since the entire operation comprised of several layers (web - web service – Business objects - data access layer), there was a need to determine what user account is being used. I found myself…

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TOP 5 Reasons why DevConnections was a raving success

 Did DevConnections conference provide value for time and money companies or individuals paid? The answer is yes and here is why. Marvellous Learning Experience: Right from the source it was. The conference had a fine selection of speakers; Microsoft speakers, other independent Microsoft technology gurus, authors and professional developers. These speakers delivered well in the short session times, provided…

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DevConnections Day 4 - Closing Q&A session

Q&A  Session was pretty cool...as Paul summarized it “at the closing session we answered questions from the audience and gave away two DVD players, 3 IPod Nanos, 3 conference passes, two XBox 360s, and a few other things I can't recall.“Following are the topics covered in Q&A. I'll post the answers soon. Is Visual Studio Team System…

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DevConnections - SQL Server Reporting Services

Paul Litwin’s session on SQL Server reporting services was an informative, developer oriented , no-fluff introduction to reporting services programming. It taught the audience, slowly but surely, what this powerful technology can do for us.  I know this because I was involved in the migration of an existing reporting system to SQL Server reporting services for my company…

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DevConnections Day 3

  Learning at devConnections, or any high-paced-hi-tech-content-packed technical conferences for that matter, is different from conventional educational process. The contents covered in the sessions are of broader nature and requires deep understanding and discussion before fully “digested” by mind. Due to time crunch, it’s obviously not possible to have one day workshop on any or…

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