Jeffrey Palermo [MVP]

May 2007 - Posts

• Tech Ed 2007: Where I'll be.

  I'll be arriving in Orlando in the afternoon.  Sadly, I'll have to miss the INETA leadership summit since my flight doesn't arrive in time.  I'll be doing some last-minute preparation for Party with Palermo. Sunday, I'll be registering with Tech Ed staff since I'm working at the architecture TLC.  Sunday night is the long-awaited Party with Palermo.  Everyone is invited to the party at the Glow Lounge.  8967 International Dr. Orlando, FL 32819 (407) 351-0361   The party starts at 7PM, and the location is just 1 mile north of the convention center on International Dr.  The entire place is reserved for the party.  Bring your business cards.  We have a great sponsors, and plenty of giveaways.   Monday, I'll be moderating a Birds-of-a-Feather session:  BOF02: Agile Development with .NET @ 12:00pm - in Room S331 A.  Then I'll be at the architecture TLC in the afternoon. Tuesday and Wednesdays nights, I'll be at the Jam Sessions acting like I know what I'm doing.  Tuesday through Friday (in the mornings), I'll be at the architecture TLCs. Wednesday, I'll be moderating another Birds-of-a-Feather session:  BOF19: Techniques for Writing Less Code (Frameworks, Libraries, and Tools)  @ 5:30pm in Room S331 A.   Also, hang around in the community lounge area between sessions for a special surprise! Posted May 31 2007, 09:57 PM by Jeffrey Palermo with 1 comment(s)

• Party with Palermo: Tech Ed 2007 edition (June 3rd @ 7PM) - official announcement updated

  Party with Palermo: Tech Ed 2007 edition (300 attendees estimated) website:  http://partywith.palermo.cc June 3rd, 2007 @ 7PM - 11PM ADD THIS BADGE TO YOUR WEBSITE/BLOG IF YOU WILL BE THERE - LINK IT BACK TO http://partywith.palermo.cc Glo Lounge:  http://www.gloloungeorlando.com/ 8967 International Dr, Orlando, FL (407) 351-0361 COME EARLY AT 6PM IF YOU'D LIKE TO HELP SET UP!!   Cover charge is 1 business card.  This will get you in the door and register you for the grand prize drawings. Free to attend Free food Free drink Free swag Sponsors:     KEEP TABS ON HTTP://PARTYWITH.PALERMO.CC BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE THE INFORMATION WILL BE POSTED. Please post a comment if you are planning on attending.  Also, if you have a blog, write a post about the party and link back. Who will be there? Lorenzo Barbieri Don Demsak Carl Franklin Scott Lock Rob Zelt Keith Elder James Kovacs Kay Sellenrode Dustin Campbell Bob Klass Chris Knuckles Dawn Maxey Dave Mott mark schoenbaum Mickey Gousset Kevin Remde Rob Windsor Andy Winters Jay Johnson Mark Wiseley Philip Colmer  Jason Follas Eric Hexter Arnold Sese (kensington) Joe Healy Shawn Weisfeld [C# MVP] Sheryl Farmer Scott Spradlin (INETA) Drew Robbins Cory Smith Juan Jose de Leon Bill Reiss - DirectX MVP Mike Wells Guino - MVP C# Guino Henostroza - MVP C# Terje Flaarønning Kjetil Nordahl Dave Noderer Chris Coneybeer J. Ambrose Little Regina K. Rader Hakan Karlsson Joel Pratt Jim Ferguson Dan Villanti Martin Woodward Tim Meehle Jeremy Wood Connie Rennie Rob Foster [MOSS MVP] Sasha Krsmanovic Pete Calvert (MCT) Murray Gordon John Paul Cook Neil Bedekar Mike Azocar Bob Krainak Matt Shultz Brandon Kelly David Patrick Tom Barnum Javier Lozano Cam Soper Tobias Barlind Petter Källqvist Jon Grant Rob Rohr John Miller Arno Nel Bob Beauchemin Doug White Edgardo Vega Bryan Hoylman David Makuta DigitalMan Scott Dorman Robbie Clutton Josh Watkins Nigel Pepper DE DavidJ Richard T Milan Magudia Bill Wolff Todd Pukanecz Dan Brinkmann ranji abraham Aaron Sudduth Janssen Jones Paul Dumigan John Osborn Dave Davis Jeff Shaver Tim Stevens Bjarni Ivarsson Dan Duda Keith Rull Julio Campos Robert Stuczynski (Noise) Andrew Connell (MOSS MVP) Travis Fuller Thomas Jespersen (Denmark) Brad! Jones Chuck Lysakowski Marsee Henon John W Scott Hahn Stuart Celarier James Newkirk Rob Caron Bill Vaughn Roberto Henriquez Chris Rogers Chuck Daubenspeck Doug Seven Andy Gray Miguel Castro Brett Richard Josh Holmes Jerry Sheehan Andrea Mancini Kim Dowding Jason Rowe Richard Bertini Jason Heeter Posted May 31 2007, 09:11 PM by Jeffrey Palermo with 176 comment(s) Filed under: Featured

• Tip: Track who's talking about Party with Palermo with Google alerts - level 200

  RSVPs for Party with Palermo (on June 3rd, 2007) are in full swing, and this is going to be a GREAT party!  Check out http://partywith.palermo.cc for all the details and my awesome sponsors. Several weeks ago, I decided that I'd like to know who's talking about Party with Palermo on the web.  That's where Google Alerts comes in.  I set up an alert for "party with palermo", and when Google's web spiders find something new that matches the search, I get a nicely formatted email message letting me know.  I like it a lot.  Here's an email I received this morning: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Google Blogs Alert for: "party with palermo" The TechEd Party to Attend - Party with Palermo By Scott Hanselman If you are headed to TechEd 2007 in Orlando, make sure you make the time to go to Party with Palermo. Jeff throws an unmatched geek party and you don't want to miss it. It's free, and I can attest, it's great. ... Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ Party with Palermo By Jim Minatel Yep, I'll be there. Wrox is sponsoring. That makes it work. ;) Jim Minatel: ASP.NET, XML, CSS,... - http://wroxblog.typepad.com/minatel/  This as-it-happens Google Alert is brought to you by Google. Remove this alert. Create another alert. Manage your alerts. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted May 24 2007, 07:57 AM by Jeffrey Palermo with no comments

• NHibernate 1.2 released! upgrade experience report - level 300

  First, kudos to the NHibernate team for getting the 1.2 release finalized.  Get it here. The first thing you'll notice when upgrading from 1.0.3 is that class mappings are now lazy by default.  If you want to just upgrade your app, you'll need to go through  your mappings and mark each class mapping as lazy="false".  Then, everything should work.  Another semantic change that I noticed in my codebase is that before a new NHibernate ISession is used, the Transaction property was null in v1.0.3.  With v1.2, this object is not null (but isn't active, either).  I found this because I had a check for null in my NHibernate management code.  No biggie, but something I noticed. v1.2 brings a Dialect for SQL 2005, so that's cool.  I had been using the SQL 2000 Dialect for 2005, and it worked just fine because SQL 2005 is pretty much backward compatible. Another biggie is the addition of some ICriterion implementations for subqueries.  We're all used to using Expression.Eq() for forming the WHERE clause, but now we also have Subqueries.* for creating a WHERE clause with a subquery.  This is useful for checking to make sure a bag or list has at least one object while using an instance of ICriteria. The upgrade was pretty painless, and I love it. Posted May 11 2007, 02:02 PM by Jeffrey Palermo with 4 comment(s)

• Running Redgate SQL tools on Windows Vista - level 100

  I was a bit frustrated when I installed Redgate SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare on Windows Vista.  The apps crashed right away with no error message.  I hate the way Vista hides the error message and invites me to the troubleshooting screen (it can't resolve the problem anyway). SOLUTION:  Redgate tools need .Net 1.1 in order to run.  You'd think that Vista would be able to tell me that.  I installed .Net 1.1, and the tools work great. Posted May 10 2007, 07:56 AM by Jeffrey Palermo with 8 comment(s)

• Published! My current podcast list - level 200

  I've had numerous requests to publish my podcast list, so here it is.  Here is what I listen to on my commute to and from client sites or, in the case of this month, to and from a buddy's wedding several states away.   http://polymorphicpodcast.com/podcast/feed/ http://channel9.msdn.com/rss.aspx?ForumID=34&amp;Mode=0&amp;sortby=0&amp;sortorder=1&amp;format=mp3 http://www.hanselminutes.com/hanselminutes_MP3Direct.xml http://www.dotnetrocks.com/DotNetRocks_FullMP3.xml http://www.slashdotreview.com/wp-rss2.php http://www.se-radio.net/rss http://feeds.feedburner.com/javaposse http://feeds.feedburner.com/DrNeilsNotes http://agiletoolkit.libsyn.com/rss http://syndication.sdmediagroup.com/feeds/public/cmp_podcast_udi.xml http://feeds.gigavox.com/gigavox/channel/itconversations http://www.trinitydigitalmedia.com/tnb.xml http://www.oneminutetip.com/feed.xml http://www.runasradio.com/runasradio_FullMp3.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/NetObjectivesPodcast_LAST   In case you'd rather import the OPML, here it is in its entirety:   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> - <opml version="1.1"> - <head>   <title>iPodder Exported Subscriptions</title>   <dateCreated>Tue, 08 May 2007 Central Daylight Time</dateCreated>   </head> - <body> - <outline text="iPodder Exported Subscriptions">   <outline text="Polymorphic Podcast" title="Polymorphic Podcast" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://polymorphicpodcast.com/podcast/feed/" />   <outline text="Channel 9: Podcasts" title="Channel 9: Podcasts" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://channel9.msdn.com/rss.aspx?ForumID=34&Mode=0&sortby=0&sortorder=1&format=mp3" />   <outline text="Hanselminutes" title="Hanselminutes" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.hanselminutes.com/hanselminutes_MP3Direct.xml" />   <outline text=".NET Rocks!" title=".NET Rocks!" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.dotnetrocks.com/DotNetRocks_FullMP3.xml" />   <outline text="Slashdot Review" title="Slashdot Review" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.slashdotreview.com/wp-rss2.php" />   <outline text="Software Engineering Radio" title="Software Engineering Radio" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.se-radio.net/rss" />   <outline text="Agile Toolkit Podcast" title="Agile Toolkit Podcast" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://agiletoolkit.libsyn.com/rss" />   <outline text="The Java Posse" title="The Java Posse" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/javaposse" />   <outline text="Dr. Neil's Notes" title="Dr. Neil's Notes" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/DrNeilsNotes" />   <outline text="Dr. Dobb's Ask Udi Podcast" title="Dr. Dobb's Ask Udi Podcast" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://syndication.sdmediagroup.com/feeds/public/cmp_podcast_udi.xml" />   <outline text="IT Conversations" title="IT Conversations" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://feeds.gigavox.com/gigavox/channel/itconversations" />   <outline text="Tech, No Babel" title="Tech, No Babel" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.trinitydigitalmedia.com/tnb.xml" />   <outline text="One Minute Tip" title="One Minute Tip" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.oneminutetip.com/feed.xml" />   <outline text="RunAs Radio FullMP3" title="RunAs Radio FullMP3" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://www.runasradio.com/runasradio_FullMp3.xml" />   <outline text="Lean Agile Straight Talk podcast" title="Lean Agile Straight Talk podcast" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/NetObjectivesPodcast_LAST" />   </outline>   </body>   </opml>       Posted May 08 2007, 08:42 PM by Jeffrey Palermo with no comments Filed under: Learning, Tips & Tricks

• Building with .Net 3.0 will require .Net 2.0 SDK - level 200

  Here's a bit of info that I've glossed over for some time.  I always have Visual Studio installed with building projects with .net 2.0 and 3.0, and VS bundles the SDK.  On my current project, we have a graphics designer who works on html and css, but we have a local build that even he uses.  Everything is automated.  The designer doesn't have VS 2005 installed, and when we started using WCF in .Net 3.0 for some web service calls, his build (and the CCNet box) started breaking.  Before .Net 3.0 libraries were used, all that was needed to build our app was the .Net Framework 2.0. .Net FX 2.0 includes MSBuild.exe, so all was well.  Using some stuff from WCF causes some other tools to be called, so now the .Net 2.0 SDK is required on the build (CCNet) box as well as the designer's box. What a jacked-up name: .Net 3.0, but be sure to mark "2.0" in IIS!! Posted May 03 2007, 02:33 PM by Jeffrey Palermo with 3 comment(s)