http://xtremedotnet.blogdrive.com/ Xtreme.NET - Online Journal Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:00:01 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2005. Programming Internet Software http://xtremedotnet.blogdrive.com/archive/76.html Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:19:34 GMT Paul Glen wrote The truth about "useless" people, which is very interesting. Paul Glen, as you might know is the author of the award-winning book "Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead People Who Deliver Technology" (Jossey Bass Pfeiffer, 2003) and Principal of C2 Consulting. With all due respect to Paul, I'd like to add a little something about The truth about these "useless" people. Paul clearly mentions more than one time, that these "useless" people are intelligent and talented! They are good at technical analysis, documentation and strategy, but unfortunately not at delivery! Paul... (more) http://xtremedotnet.blogdrive.com/comments?id=76 http://xtremedotnet.blogdrive.com/archive/79.html Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:26:19 GMT An interesting observation : While I was posting my previous blog entry, I realised something, the formatting toolbars provided by Community Server are blocked by IE7! Cant bold, cant hyperlink!! The whole toolbar of Community Server is gone! Anyone else has a similar experience? Care to share? Cheers! http://xtremedotnet.blogdrive.com/comments?id=79 http://xtremedotnet.blogdrive.com/archive/78.html Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:25:01 GMT Finally, an excellent way for those who wanna try IE7 without messing with any of the IE6 current settings.For those who want quick instructions take a look at Jon Galloway's post and for those who want more technical details and wanna try other versions of IE other than 7, check out the entry by Joe Maddalone! So hurry, what are u waiting for? :) http://xtremedotnet.blogdrive.com/comments?id=78 http://xtremedotnet.blogdrive.com/archive/77.html Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:21:29 GMT LoneStar is now somewhat in a visible shape, wobbling, but atleast it has a shape... Yes, its stucture still changes for the better, but again, it still has a shape... I am looking into making some unit testing models for LoneStar, Yea we all have done unit testings here and there, implemented it maybe, or just wrote more tests into the test files... But i came across this valuable post by Brian Button, followed by another one from Roy Osherove. Very valuable indeed... I have seen the test files written in the project files when i was working with Accenture, and trust me, ppl working... (more) http://xtremedotnet.blogdrive.com/comments?id=77 http://xtremedotnet.blogdrive.com/archive/75.html Wed, 11 May 2005 04:32:56 GMT Then came web-farming issue just when life started to seem smooth sailing :) I am planning to utilize ASP.NET 2.0 profiles in my project and everything was good, then came the scenario whereby the UI layer in running on a Web-Farm! Hmmm... Profiles utilize a local database to keep the info and in a Web-Farm it would be kinda impossible to perform that feat! Good thing Profiles are configurable! Not only ASP.NET profiles but membership, roles, and web-part personalization also support web-farms! So what we do is to configure the profiles to read from a central db (in this case, the db that... (more) http://xtremedotnet.blogdrive.com/comments?id=75 http://xtremedotnet.blogdrive.com/archive/74.html Fri, 06 May 2005 03:04:36 GMT Wow! Been so busy with all the new things happening around me that I couldn't finish this months newsletter on time... What little portion I had done for the newsletter was lost along my dearest favourites and my mail duing VS.NET 2005 Beta 2 and SQL Server April 2005 CTP! And then at work, everyday we had a new challenge to solve. I must admit, past couple of weeks have been very hectic! I didn't even get to sleep properly... yawn... Well, now things are settling down, newsletter is out, and the clouds in the sky are starting to clear :) Great times are ahead! ;) http://xtremedotnet.blogdrive.com/comments?id=74 http://xtremedotnet.blogdrive.com/archive/73.html Thu, 05 May 2005 10:17:06 GMT Well, simple answer - MSF! I am planning to implement MSF in my enterprise level project, and since VSTS supports this, well why not? Reading this also suggests VSTS is more appropriate in for developing Enterprise Level applications etc... VSTS definetly looks a ton better than VS std edition, from my point of view... http://xtremedotnet.blogdrive.com/comments?id=73 http://xtremedotnet.blogdrive.com/archive/72.html Thu, 05 May 2005 10:15:40 GMT Manged to get VS.NET 2005 Beta 2 and SQL Server CTP working togther.. finally... phew... But then, Justin diverted my attention to VS.NET 2005 Team Suite... Damn! How did I miss that?? Time to uninstall VS.NET 2005 Beta 2 Std Edition and go after Team Suite... Damn! How did i miss that?? http://xtremedotnet.blogdrive.com/comments?id=72 http://xtremedotnet.blogdrive.com/archive/71.html Thu, 05 May 2005 10:14:51 GMT All of a sudden, there was a problem, and I found myself infront of Active Directory code.. Well, good atleast i get to explore more of LDAP and AD, cause I know nothing of it! Talked to few of my friends, got the feedback - "Active Directory is huge dude!!" Hmm... Started on a path towards LDAP, although I lack the time to study AD first. Google found that this is a good enough article which could get u thru the pains of LDAP, But how about AD? Turns out, apart from being interesting, it is quite a big concept, so started here on the road to AD! Long AD way ahead.... http://xtremedotnet.blogdrive.com/comments?id=71 http://xtremedotnet.blogdrive.com/archive/70.html Thu, 05 May 2005 10:14:13 GMT That is a question which would be best answered, If I start from what happened on 19th March 2005. I've left Jadelite Technologies for good and joined another company where I'm currently working on R&D for .Net 2.0... The plan is to come up with an enterprise project which will be helping as a framework for the company to build other applications upon... I am planning to build it to be something like Avanade's ACA.Net, but perhaps a smaller version... I am just 1 man after all.. :) It is a tough and tedious process which will take quite a long time to yeild some visible result, but the... 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