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23 Mar

2007

Business Data Catalog

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Microsoft, Software Development, Tools and Utilities:2 Comments

The Business Data Catalog (BDC) is a new subsystem within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). To the best of my understanding, the BDC wraps disparate data repositories from around your enterprise in a single, programmatically accessible object model. The functionality of the object model is apparently driven by meta data that describes the underlying repositories. The idea […]

22 Mar

2007

An Open Letter to Scott Guthrie

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Microsoft, Software Development:68 Comments

Mr. Guthrie and Whom It May Concern, Thank you for your team’s contributions to the software development industry. ASP.Net, the CLR, and your other significant additions to the .Net platform have genuinely advanced the state of software development. Although it may seem that you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t, most […]

22 Mar

2007

Want My Job?

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Management, Personal, Software Development:1 Comment

There is something very odd about seeing my own job advertised for active recruitment. I have been Director of Core Engineering Services for Healthwise in Boise, Idaho, for several years now. I have recently been honored to accept a position as Chief Architect for Healthwise and I will assume those duties as soon as Healthwise finds […]

20 Mar

2007

Boise .Net Users Group

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Microsoft, Software Development:2 Comments

I have made the mistake in the recent past of not following closely our local Microsoft sponsored .Net user’s group. I was lucky enough last Thursday to remember to attend the monthly gathering at our local Microsoft campus and I am glad I did! In addition to a nice tour of the new SQL Client […]

13 Mar

2007

Some Books. Mostly bad ones.

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Books:1 Comment

I have been shamefully remiss in my pursuit of good reading material. I like to keep at least one good (quality) book of history or fiction at play as well as at least one good technical book. However, during times of personal stress I resort to pulp mystery fiction, trashy war novels, and other pointless crap. With […]

9 Mar

2007

Google RSS Sweetness

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Reviews, Software Development, Tools and Utilities:2 Comments

On the left of my blog page you will see a flair widget entitled “From My Aggregator”. This is so cool, here’s how it works. I read my RSS feeds that I subscribe to in Google Reader, Google’s online RSS reader. I flag posts that I particularly enjoy as “Shared”. These posts are then re-published via […]

5 Mar

2007

Scrollbar Trivia

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Microsoft, Software Development:1 Comment

Did you know that the height of a scrollbar in Windows in a ratio of the visible area of a control to the complete height of a control? For instance, if you have a a text area control that is 200 pixels high, and it contains a document that needs 800 pixels to be fully visible, then […]

3 Mar

2007

1776 by David McCullough

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Books, Reviews:1 Comment

Did you know that there was a battle for Long Island in New York and that the American army defeated a group of German mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey? Did you know that British ships sailed the Hudson river and sent cannonballs crashing into Manhattan island (then New York island)? Speaking as one who received my revisionist history […]