Yeah, I bought my new laptop this week after 2 years of using a great Dell Inspiron 9300.  The new XPS M1730 is very fast, very heavy and looks pretty.  With 4 Gig of RAM, 400 Gig of hard disk at 7200 RPM, Intel Core 2 extreme 2.8 GHZ each, 5 speakers, built in Video camera, Dual SLI GeForce Go 8700, Blu-Ray Disc, oh yeah one more thing VISTA ULTIMATE.  It was disappointing to buy the laptop from the Dell web site advertising that 4 Gig will make your Vista Scream, well I ended up the one screaming when I ...

I have a table in my system that has some 70,000 records in it. I needed to add a field to the table that would flag some of the records as having a certain attribute (I won't go into the details here). The default would be 0, and perhaps only 100 of these records would actually have it set to 1. This got me thinking about what a good design would be for this kind of information storage...

Just adding a bit field to the table seemed like a huge waste of space. I know, disk is cheap, time is ...

Falafel is partnering with Microsoft to offer this free half day seminar at the beautiful Saint Claire hotel in downtown San Jose, CA to celebrate the release of Visual Studio 2008, LINQ, WPF, WCF, WF and other exciting technologies.

Please join us on December 10th from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Register on the Microsoft event site ASAP as space is limited. Charlie Calvert, the C# Community Project Manager will be there to talk about LINQ and Lino Tadros will present the usefulness of the new technologies. Hope to see you there!

Congrats to the VS Team at Microsoft.  The Visual Studio 2008 bits are being uploaded to the MSDN as I am writing this blog.

Good luck getting it downloaded today or tomorrow, You might as well use Pigeons to transfer the bits from the MSDN :-)

Cheers

Have you ever seen one of those web pages that's about to charge your credit card and practically begs you not to click the "submit" button more than once? Even assuming that every user of the page actually reads the text (and many don't), many users have a habit of double-clicking everything, because that's how it works on their desktop. The only reliable way to prevent submitting a web form multiple times is to make it impossible. I recently came upon a situation where I needed to prevent this form happening in one of my web applications, so ...

We will be in Las Vegas between Nov 5th and 8th exhibiting at booth # 832.  Please stop by and say hello, we have a cool T-Shirt for you and some other goodies!  We will be demonstrating our Project Productivity Management Solutions "ActiveFocus 2007" and we will also be showing a sneak peek at ActiveFocus 2008 due at the end of this year.

If you can't find us in the booth, look in the Rum Bar at Mandalay Bay or the Craps table near by :-)