<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com</title><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2008 derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2006 14:20:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/portlet/163/featured-blog-graphic-145.gif</url><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Ask Sam</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/ask_sam.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/ask_sam.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2005 04:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=ask%5Fsam</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As Editor-in-Chief for the .NET Developer's Journal, I get a lot of press solicitations.  Most of them are not relevant to the .NET platform.  Some of the ones that aren't relevant are still interesting, though.  Up until now, I haven't done anyth]]></description></item><item><title>Ziff-Davis likes my temper tantrums!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/ziffdavis_likes_my_temper_tantrums.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/ziffdavis_likes_my_temper_tantrums.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2005 05:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=ziffdavis%5Flikes%5Fmy%5Ftemper%5Ftantrums</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A colleague just let me know that Ziff-Davis has reproduced and commented upon my recent little tirade of an editorial on SOA.  Looks like I should lose my temper more often.The online version of NETDJ has been receiving some feedback on this editor]]></description></item><item><title>Schadenfreude and My MP3 Player</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/schadenfreude_and_my_stolen_mp3_player.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/schadenfreude_and_my_stolen_mp3_player.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:35:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=schadenfreude%5Fand%5Fmy%5Fstolen%5Fmp3%5Fplayer</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago, I left my MP3 player unattended for a few minutes on the treadmill at my local healthclub.  When I returned, it had been stolen.I just got the following email from the MP3 player's manufacturer and, frankly, I laughed so hard]]></description></item><item><title>8 New Adapters in BizTalk 2006</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/8_new_adapters_in_biztalk_2006.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/8_new_adapters_in_biztalk_2006.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2005 03:53:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=8%5Fnew%5Fadapters%5Fin%5Fbiztalk%5F2006</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Scott Woodgate -- the Microsoft BizTalk guy -- has posted a list here of new adapters in 2006.  This should be good for those of you doing a lot of integration work.]]></description></item><item><title>Time Travel Back to Wednesday</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/time_travel_back_to_wednesday.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/time_travel_back_to_wednesday.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2005 02:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=time%5Ftravel%5Fback%5Fto%5Fwednesday</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Microsoft just saved my bacon, yet again.  Here I am, in the middle of co-presenting MSDN Events on ASP.NET 2.0 with Jacob Cynamon -- our local Developer Community Champion -- and my laptop gave me a bluescreen on startup.  Now, I've seen this befo]]></description></item><item><title>Oh yeah?  Well, mock you!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/mock_you_buddy.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/mock_you_buddy.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2005 21:02:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mock%5Fyou%5Fbuddy</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am a big advocate of unit testing.  The big fly-in-the-ointment for me, though, is that there are so, so many situations that are difficult to unit test, because they involve external resource integration -- databases, Active Directories, etc., et]]></description></item><item><title>What&apos;s your Unit Test coverage?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/whats_your_unit_test_coverage.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/whats_your_unit_test_coverage.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2005 01:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=whats%5Fyour%5Funit%5Ftest%5Fcoverage</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I was recently sent a link...

http://www.ncover.org/Index.html

...which provides access to a free tool for finding out how much of your codebase is covered with unit tests.  Unit tests are an absolute must for any software project of decent siz]]></description></item><item><title>Winning the Microsoft Worldwide Technology Innovation Partner of the Year Award</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/winning_the_microsoft_worldwide_technology_innovation_partne.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/winning_the_microsoft_worldwide_technology_innovation_partne.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2005 05:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=winning%5Fthe%5Fmicrosoft%5Fworldwide%5Ftechnology%5Finnovation%5Fpartne</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Details are still forthcoming, but it would appear that my first project for Magenic Technologies has received Microsoft's Worldwide Technology Innovation Partner of the Year Award in the 2005 Custom Development category.  Basically, this is the cat]]></description></item><item><title>Another &quot;must have&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/another_must_have.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/another_must_have.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2005 21:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=another%5Fmust%5Fhave</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Going through my emails now and finding all the stuff that folks doing CF development need to know about.  Here is a link to OpenNETCF's port of the P&amp;P group's application blocks.http://www.opennetcf.org/PermaLink.aspx?guid=b876e34a-deef-45ce-a]]></description></item><item><title>A free &quot;must have&quot; VS 2005 Add On for Mobile Developers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/a_free_must_have_vs_2005_add_on_for_mobile_developers.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/a_free_must_have_vs_2005_add_on_for_mobile_developers.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2005 21:14:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Ffree%5Fmust%5Fhave%5Fvs%5F2005%5Fadd%5Fon%5Ffor%5Fmobile%5Fdevelopers</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Check this out.  It allows you to remotely run operations on mobile devices that you've always wanted to run.  http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=50618f79-c7b1-4588-9c0a-cf4ddae8092aExamples...- CE List - CE Connect - CE IP - CE]]></description></item><item><title>Don&apos;t miss Atlas</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/dont_miss_atlas.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/dont_miss_atlas.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2005 02:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=dont%5Fmiss%5Fatlas</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I've been hearing a ton about AJAX and other methods for getting very responsive UI's in Web Pages lately.  I was glad, therefore, to see that Microsoft is already &quot;on the case&quot; for including this kind of stuff in ASP.NET 3.0.]]></description></item><item><title>Blog your way to the PDC</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/blog_your_way_to_the_pdc.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/blog_your_way_to_the_pdc.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:33:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=blog%5Fyour%5Fway%5Fto%5Fthe%5Fpdc</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The folks at Microsoft have created a way to get a free pass and airfare for the upcoming PDC conference.  Click this icon for more information...  Also, since we're hoping to have SYS-CON TV at the PDC, here is my attempt at winning the contest --]]></description></item><item><title>Project Socrates</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/project_socrates.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/project_socrates.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2005 02:54:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=project%5Fsocrates</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have toyed with the idea of building a robot like the dog K-9 in the TV show Doctor Who (1970's era).  My complete lack of electrical engineering background has meant that I've never gone very far with this idea.  Believe it or not, I've actually]]></description></item><item><title>Gates Keynote at MEDC</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/gates_keynote_at_medc.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/gates_keynote_at_medc.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2005 08:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=gates%5Fkeynote%5Fat%5Fmedc</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Gates began his keynote with a lengthy dissertation on how Microsoft perceives the value of mobility to be the ability to deliver data to any device at any time.  He continued on to site a number of case studies where Microsoft’s mobile offerings]]></description></item><item><title>Too old for horror movies?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/too_old_for_horror_movies.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/too_old_for_horror_movies.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2005 22:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=too%5Fold%5Ffor%5Fhorror%5Fmovies</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So, before I forget to mention it anywhere else, my wife and I actually got up and left about an hour into &quot;House of Wax&quot; last Friday.  This is the second horror movie in a row (&quot;Texas Chainsaw Massacre&quot; remake being the first) t]]></description></item><item><title>Derek Jailed for Morels</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/derek_jailed_for_morels.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/derek_jailed_for_morels.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2005 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=derek%5Fjailed%5Ffor%5Fmorels</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[...well, not quite, but almost.So, apparently, I have been unwittingly engaged in illegal activity for the past several years.  I am an enthusiast for morel mushrooms.  I live in the middle of the biggest forests in Northern Illinois.  Little did]]></description></item><item><title>Mocking VB is Cool!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/mocking_vb_is_cool.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/mocking_vb_is_cool.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 03:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mocking%5Fvb%5Fis%5Fcool</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As a former VB programmer, I can be forgiven for laughing at this.  And, indeed, I will.]]></description></item><item><title>XML is Over-Hyped</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/xml_is_overhyped.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/xml_is_overhyped.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 04:30:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=xml%5Fis%5Foverhyped</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So, this week, I had my first substantial interaction with Excel 2003's much-touted XML functionality.  In the past, I've tended to be rather unimpressed by products' claims to &quot;fully support XML&quot; or to be &quot;fully XML compliant.&quot;]]></description></item><item><title>Windows Body-Slams Linux</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/windows_bodyslams_linux.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/windows_bodyslams_linux.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2005 05:54:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=windows%5Fbodyslams%5Flinux</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[According to these reports prepared by Lion Bridge.]]></description></item><item><title>Visual Studio .NET Hosted Demos</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/visual_studio_net_hosted_demos.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/visual_studio_net_hosted_demos.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2005 05:40:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=visual%5Fstudio%5Fnet%5Fhosted%5Fdemos</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Check out http://msdn.demoservers.com/login.aspx?group=sql2005!  Very cool stuff here where you can try out VS 2005 and SQL 2005 remotely on a Virtual PC without ever having to install any of it on your own desktop.  Cool!]]></description></item><item><title>Exchange body-slams Lotus Notes</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/exchange_bodyslams_lotus_notes.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/exchange_bodyslams_lotus_notes.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=exchange%5Fbodyslams%5Flotus%5Fnotes</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[According to this article, Microsoft Exchange has finally beaten Lotus Notes into submission, exceeding it both in terms of new sales and in terms of current install base.  As a former Lotus Notes developer (and Certified Lotus Principal Professiona]]></description></item><item><title>MCAP: The Ultimate Cert</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/mcap_the_ultimate_cert.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/mcap_the_ultimate_cert.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2005 04:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mcap%5Fthe%5Fultimate%5Fcert</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[According to this article, Microsoft is going to be releasing a mega-difficult certification at Tech Ed for software architects that will take a long time, lots of money, and (probably) interviewing in front of a board of experts in order to attain i]]></description></item><item><title>.NET, Versioning, and Source Control</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/net_versioning_and_source_control.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/net_versioning_and_source_control.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2005 04:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=net%5Fversioning%5Fand%5Fsource%5Fcontrol</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So, here's an unpleasant little go-round I had today.  Someone checked older versions of .NET libraries into Source Safe.  I was happily going along, writing my code, then at some point I refreshed my files from source control.  Everything blew up]]></description></item><item><title>NUnit and .config files</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/nunit_and_config_files.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/nunit_and_config_files.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2005 01:05:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=nunit%5Fand%5Fconfig%5Ffiles</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So, apparently I'd never tried unit testing any class libraries that read values in from an Applcation Configuration file before.  This surprises me, but it is the only thing I can imagine, since my usual technique did not work a bit.  If you've us]]></description></item><item><title>Everyone&apos;s hiring .NET talent!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/everyones_hiring_net_talent.htm</guid><link>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/everyones_hiring_net_talent.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2005 20:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://derek.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/console/comments/popup/?f=everyones%5Fhiring%5Fnet%5Ftalent</comments><dc:creator>Derek Ferguson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Magenic Technologies, my employer, is on the look out for brilliant .NET software developers.  Classify this under, &quot;high rewards, high expectations&quot; in your job hunt vocabulary.  Contact me at DerekF@magenic.com if you are in the Chicago]]></description></item></channel></rss>