Not sure what everyone's plans are, but if you're in town and want some company, let us all know!
I'm picking up Jay McCormack Saturday at 9am at the Marriott to take him to Guero's, then do a bit of shopping. Let me know if you'd like to join us and we'll save you a spot at the table.
Any other plans or plans in the making that you want to share?
Bringing home a desktop computer for working remotely doesn't require a desk, as long as you have an LCD monitor:
http://www.airdesks.com/computer_desk.asp
I bought the basic air desk for my laptop a few years ago and moved my "office" to the living room -- fabulous convenience and comfort, and I'll never go back!
Another cool web 2.0 app from google.
Check out www.google.com/ig.
It's just a person hompage, but it accepts any rss, atom or module, so you can drag and drop panels and arrange them how you see fit.
Yes Asp.Net 2.0 makes apps like this pretty simple (atlas has drag and drop controls)...
Okay people, let's not underestimate the power of personal communication, especially that which comes from individuals that you respect. I was recently persuaded today to "get blogging or else" (okay, I mentally added the 'or else' part, but I could feel the threat between the lines. Some negative interaction with a baseball bat or other blunt instrument might have been in my near future if I hadn't heeded the advice and posted this). So, as with donations, membership, getting timesheets in (remember the power of the tag team duo in Office Space asking Peter where his TPS reports were?), and everything else, it is a lot more effective to get someone that you already know to get you over the inertia hump and into the land of action. Why is it key to keep this in mind? We need to make sure that we are always conscious of the fact that we, humans, are normally lazy and in a state of inertia and maintenance mode by default and rarely want to take the effort to learn something new, change, modify, and let's face it--evolve.
So as my first foray into the iMIS Community - I thought I would offer a fun resource that I have found. It's called the Web 2.0 Show -
From their site: "The Web 2.0 Show is a podcast about emerging technologies commonly referred to as "Web 2.0". We focus on interviewing the developers and entrepreneurs who are creating the next generation of web services and media delivery. Our goal is to help you figure out where the web is headed. Like you, we are hard at work developing our own cool projects. Maybe we can learn something together."
Overview
The external FxCop utility is used to perform code analysis. For .NET 2.0, version 1.35 is the release candidate to use for this purpose. Visual Studio 2003 can be configured to run this tool from within its IDE. However, Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers embeds a version of FxCop directly into the IDE.
Introductory training would cover data cube and analytics concepts and provide a high-level exposure to examining data in a pre-defined data cube using ProClarity.
Advanced training would teach how to install and configure iMIS Analytics, how to extract data from the data warehouse, how to use the Briefing Book, ad hoc queries, and how to put user defined data into data cubes (iMIS Customizer).
Here are a few great AJAX examples that can easily take the place of popup windows.
All are based off the original LightBox technique
As many people at ASI are aware by now, we are in the process of implementing Balanced Sore Card throughout the organization. Here is a Podcast Paul Ramsbottom and I put together discussing the subject.
There has been a promise for some time by Microsoft to support reporting services on SQL Express. It looks like there are finally delivering on that promise: SQL Express
