March 2008 Entries

Edmug is changing it up for our March meeting.  We're looking for five to six untested speakers who would like the chance to make 10 minute presentations on technology that they're passionate about.  At the end of the sessions, the audience will vote on the presentations and prizes will be awarded to the speakers appropriately. We're looking for speakers!  If you're not a regular speaker at user groups, code camps or conferences and going to be in the Edmonton area at the end of March you qualify! Send us a note at info@edmug.net indicating your interest and roughly what...

For one day only get your heroes here!  Microsoft is launching Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 (not really "launching" as much as promoting the delayed release) and Windows Server 2008.  Edmonton's stop is on Thursday the 13th of March with a pre-event whoop up at the Shaw Conference Center on the night of the 12th.

Daniel Moth has written a post called The ABCDEFGHI of setting up Visual Studio for Demos. Some of his points are great. Things like using the default colour scheme, larger fonts and maximizing the screen are bang on. Other points that he lists I'm more ambivalent about. I really don't think that changing the tab key to be two spaces is really going to gain you enough horizontal space to make a difference.  If you're so deep into nested logic of any kind that your code is falling off the side of the page, you should probably be...