The Journal of an Xbox InfoPath Nut

Friday, October 28, 2005

The Server and Studio Have Landed

Well people today is the day, finally after all Microsoft's Hype and shenanigans SQL and Visual Studio 2005 have gone RTM
it's been 5 years coming for SQL and not a minute too soon good job guys
Now all we have to do is wait for the rest of the world to catch on so we can start doing some cool stuff with it :o)

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Update VS2005, SQL2005 and all things cool and new

So thanks to my habit of only making sparse posts every now and then I figure I better give you all an update.

I had the special pleasure last Saturday of attending the VDNUG hands on day in Melbourne, I got to try out all the cool new features of both SQL 2005 and VS2005 and in addition to that I also got to play with Beta 1 of WINFS and let me say MP3 collections everywhere can benefit from this cool new file system.
I also got to see VSTS (Visual Studio Team System) in action.

So now all I have to do is wait, the release of VS and SQL 2005 has been knocked back 2 weeks from what I hear so I’ll have to hold on to my excitement a little longer.

Other than that not too much has been happening in the world of me, been working hard on this InfoPath project I’m currently on which keeps growing and growing.

I have a couple of other little surprises in the pipe line at the moment, but I’ll keep you in suspense until they become a little more solid

Who is Nilcraban

I received a question yesterday from another blogger friend of mine (thanks Dave) as to where I got the name for my blog. Well Dave first we must cast our minds back around 2 years, there I was a young starting out developer who had one small problem, I lacked a decent logon name that I could use anywhere that would not return a “that name is already in use” message from websites. By chance I received an email that pointed me to a Lord of the Rings Name generator, so after a little playing I managed to get Nilcraban which was my Elvish name that meant something along the lines of “Great Wise One” very fitting I thought. So hence that where the name Nilcraban comes from. Alas I have not managed to track down the same website again despite much trying. Oh well until then I must say this name has served me well and will continue to with any luck.