Kindle Session at Cloud Expo
Barnes and Noble just recently unveiled their upcoming eReader, the Nook.
On the blog of my non-techy alter-ego I've posted a comparison of the two
readers that is entirely based on my own personal feelings of what is cool
and what isn't, so take it as opinion and certainly not as a technical
review.
So far I've remained relatively aloof from the whole "eBook" craze.
Ordinarily, given my geeky background and borderline insane craving for
technology, one would think that I'd be all over these things. The problem
is, my love for the written word also extends to a love for the experience of
reading a book.
Click here to check out the blog post.
Call me crazy, but I love the smudged thumbs I get from a 3-hour reading
session where the real wor... (more)
As mentioned in my previous blog post, you don't get full designer support on
SQL Azure within SQL Server Management Studio. In addition, you don't get
designer support for LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework, either. So what do you
do if you want to take advantage of these awesome object mapping tools but
the designers don't work directly against the cloud?
Conveniently enough, if you follow... (more)
So after the long and torturous wait, you're now in the SQL Azure CTP and you
are ready to get the ball rolling with your fabulous, shiny new cloud-based
SQL database server. Now what? Well, the first thing you're going to need to
do is create a database.
To do that, you'll go to sql.azure.com and follow the directions to sign in -
if you haven't already supplied the invite key you'll nee... (more)
If you're like me, you've probably been spending every waking moment you have
eating, living, and breathing the iPhone SDK. Since March 6th, that's pretty
much all I can think about once I get home. So, what do you do if you want to
learn how to write iPhone apps, but you want to become a pro at iPhone SDK
programming? Its one thing to read the SDK, page-by-page until your eyes
bleed (wh... (more)
Recently I was reading the Hanselblog when I discovered these two articles
here and here. Before I get to what I've been doing, I want to recap my usual
machine (virtual and physical) usage scenarios:
A clean host, this is what I do my day-to-day stuff on : writing, browsing,
e-mail, gaming virtual machines all over the damn place: every beta, CTP,
limited new ultra-shiny thing gets put i... (more)