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C’mon, you wanted sooo badly that I post another free book:
http://www.charlespetzold.com/dotnet/
Enjoy! :)

Software Example
In the February 2006 issue of MSDN Magazine (http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/), Matt Neely describes a .NET implementation of mobile agents:

“The term agent originates in artificial intelligence and describes a logical entity that has some level of autonomy within its environment or host. A mobile agent has the added capability to move between hosts. In a computing [...]

Introduction
I have been working as a software developer since 1996, and as such I’ve used a variety of different languages, both compiled and interpreted. But the who languages that I know and use most today, are two somewhat different ones, C# and Ruby. I will begin my presentation with a short explanation of both, providing [...]

Somewhere I read that it was a good thing to learn at least one new programming language every year; I think I have kept up that trend since 1992:

1992: QBasic
1993: Turbo Pascal
1994: C
1995: Delphi
1996: Java
1997: JavaScript
1998: VBScript
1999: Transact-SQL
2000: C# and Prolog
2001: C++
2002: PHP
2003: Objective-C
2004: Visual Basic.NET
2005: Ruby

And this year’s winner is: LINQ. The main purpose [...]

Again from Redmond… A quick tip for all of you, ASP.NET developers in the field: stop everything you are doing, and learn all what you can about these two technologies:

Windows Workflow Foundation
Windows SharePoint Services and Office SharePoint Services (not the same thing…)

This applies particularly to those developers working in “pure” business environments with Microsoft technologies; [...]

Tomorrow is a great day; I will be attending the Microsoft Office System Developers Conference 2006!. This will be happening in Redmond, WA, near Seattle, and I will be travelling tomorrow morning to the USA.
The last time I’ve been to the USA was in 2001, and lots of things have happened since. It will be [...]

If you enjoy Microsoft PR material, you may find this “Get the facts” page somewhat interesting. For those of us who really deal with MS and Open Source stuff day by day, please just don’t laugh too loud.
My CV says I’m a “.NET blah blah blah”, and I’ve spent most of my professional life using [...]

So here we go again.
Last week I started my new job, as Software Solutions Consultant for Getronics, in Lonay, near Lausanne (where I live), Switzerland. Yeah, the commune of Lonay has an awful website. Anyway. The good news is Getronics, actually.
My job, as usual, will be one with multiple faces. I will be in charge [...]

I’ve just re-discovered that web services interoperability is not that easy. Right after creating some SOAP web services with Ruby on Rails, I’ve opened Visual Studio .NET 2005 and tried to create an application that consumes those web services… and this is all I got:

No comments.

Next week I will be in Belgium working with the Thales team in Brussels, building a new software solution (for a customer of the public sector that I cannot disclose here) using the following technologies:

Spring Framework for .NET
NHibernate

Personally, this seems like a rather new (Microsoft-less) way of doing a .NET application, and I like this! [...]