Currently sitting in a panel discussion of various SQL Server PMs and SQL Server MVPs. MVPs from all around the world, and all pretty experienced with SQL Server, including OLTP and BI apps. The MVPs started with a fairly unanimous set of requests for improved control over what functionality is or isn’t exposed to their […]
Via Danny Ayers, Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology by Natalya F. Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness.
Just finished reading Baudolino, by Umberto Eco. It was good enough that I kept reading through to the end, but rather disappointing compared to The Name Of The Rose or Foucault’s Pendulum. Baudolino is a poor simple peasant who is picked up by a king and uses his wits to survive. The book is a […]
John Lambert just got the t616. It’s definitely a cool phone. One of our dev leads has the t616 and used the built-in camera to reduce his Akira movie poster to a background for the phone. I had the t68 before switching to Pocket PC phone last year, and found the SE design to be […]
I’m currently sitting in a demo of grid computing with .NET. The system was built by external people (I am not sure if I can say who it is), and is working quite well, at least in demos. They are demonstrating interop with Linux, Windows rich client, tons of complicated data analysis algorithms, including genetic […]