I was one of the million reported purchasers of the iPhone v2 (aka iPhone 3g) that was released on July 11th. I am going to be reviewing the iPhone after a bit, but there are some obvious first impressions that I wanted to share. Day 1 Purchasing Strategy: It is silly that I even had to think abou

I just confirmed that on Thursday July 24th I will be in Nashua, NH for an INETA sponsored user group meeting with the New Hampshire .NET User Group [http://www.nhdn.com]. I’ll be up in Albany a few days before that at the www.TVUG.net [http://www.TVUG.net]user group, so I’ll be doing a bit of driv

A buddy of mine and I were tossing around some ideas for scrubbing DBNull values so we could more easily grab values from a DataReader. Our first pass resulted with something like this: T NullScrubber<T>(object checkValue) { T outValue; if (checkValue == DBNull.Value) out

I just confirmed that on Tuesday July 22nd I will be in Albany, NY for an INETA sponsored user group meeting with the Tech Valley .NET User Group. I used to live in Albany so its going to be fun to check out the area and the user group. The session is titled Data Services with Silverlight 2 and here

Tuesday evening I will be presenting at the Miramar .NET User Group [http://www.fladotnet.com/Reg.aspx?EventID=306] in Miramar Florida, sponsored by INETA [www.ineta.org]. The topic will be the Entity Framework, one which I am always excited to talk about! If you find yourself in the area (near Ft