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GottaBeMobile.com
Dennis Rice from GottaBeMobile.com commented on my choosing the Lenovo X60. While Dennis doesn't know me, I'm familiar with his work as GottaBeMobile and its InkShows have been a big part of my research into the Tablet PC world. I read a number of positive reviews on the X60 (they're easy to find), but seeing Warner Crocker and Dennis Rice actually using the X60 and showing its features was really nice.
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So Excited!
After months of research, the time was right. Lenovo was having a nice St. Patrick's Day sale on their notebooks, my wife's old 866mhz P3 was showing its age and my 4 1/2 year-old Thinkpad (while still working fine) was just too slow to be useful for any development.
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Congratulations Darrell!
I linked to this in my last post but I wanted to officially congradulate fellow SRT-consultant Darrell Hawley on being elected the new VP of Marketing for INETA NorAm. Darrell was the original secretary for GANG when it first started and is now Program Chair of the Ann Arbor .NET Developers group. I know he'll do an excellect job in his latest position. Congratulations Darrell!
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Introduction to Windows Communication Foundation
At this month's GANG meeting, we'll have Darrell Hawley (new VP of Marketing for INETA NorAm) giving us an introduction to WCF -- Windows Communication Foundation. He's going to get into the Where, Why and How to use WCF in your .NET 3.0 applications. If you're in the area, stop by for some free pizza and a great talk!
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Day of .NET
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Local Type Inference, Anonymous Types, and var
Bill Wagner explains a bit about C# 3.0's local type inference:
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Day of .NET Pushed Back 1 Week
Jason Follas announced that Day of .NET in Ann Arbor, MI will be pushed back one week to May 5, 2007. The University of Michigan (also in Ann Arbor) is holding commencements at the same time as Day of .NET. Consequently, a hotel room for visiting speakers/attendees is nigh impossible to find.
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Do not use timers that prevent power state changes
Ran into an interesting FXCop rule today: Do not use timers that prevent power state changes. According to the rule description:
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Reflector 5.0 is out.
Just saw this on Jason Bock's blog. Lutz Roeder has released version 5.0 of Reflector. And getting it is so easy: Just launch your current version of Reflector (I assume you already have it!), go to the Help menu and select "Check for Updates". It will download, install and re-start!
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Feeling queasy about lambdas?
If the new C# 3.0 "=> operator makes you feel uneasy, check out Dustin Campbell's post where he gently introduces you to lambdas by taking a simple C# 2.0 algorithm using anonymous methods and converts it to lambdas in C# 3.0.