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GeekPost Weekly Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 6

By James Hippolite, in , posted: 20-NOV-2009 08:14

Geek Post Volume 1 Issue 6 Friday 20 November 2009 Hippolite Musings Tena Koutou Katoa, I learned two new things this week. I'm the developer responsible for maintaining the internal Email Signature Builder at Telecom. I received some log (read the entire post)...



GeekPost Weekly Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 5

By James Hippolite, in , posted: 14-NOV-2009 15:28

Geek Post Volume 1 Issue 5 Friday 13 November 2009 Hippolite Musings Tena Koutou Katoa, Delayed posting this week because of Jury Service all week. Fascinating process, which I will speak more about on my non-technical blog, TVORNZ. Blessi (read the entire post)...



GeekPost Weekly Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 4

By James Hippolite, in , posted: 6-NOV-2009 07:19

Geek Post Volume 1 Issue 4 Friday 6 November 2009 Hippolite Musings Tena Koutou Katoa, Nothing new with www.GrenadaVillage.org.nz this week. My other personal website http://biblereader.cloudapp.net/ is down at the moment for the follow rea (read the entire post)...



GeekPost Weekly Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 3

By James Hippolite, in , posted: 30-OCT-2009 13:24

Geek Post Volume 1 Issue 3 Friday 30 October 2009 Hippolite Musings Tena Koutou Katoa, My Grenada Village (www.grenadavillage.org.nz) project proceeds apace. This week, I have: Converted to ASPX & MasterPages; Enabled .NET Support (read the entire post)...



GeekPost Weekly Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 2

By James Hippolite, in , posted: 23-OCT-2009 07:12

Geek Post Volume 1 Issue 2 Friday 23 October 2009 Hippolite Musings Tena Koutou Katoa, I have recently been asked by my resident's association to assist with the maintenance of a website. This is a volunteer position, but I see it as an op (read the entire post)...



GeekPost Weekly Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 1

By James Hippolite, in , posted: 16-OCT-2009 09:32

Geek Post Volume 1 Issue 1 Friday 16 October 2009 Hippolite Musings Tena Koutou Katoa, I have another blog which shall remain nameless (because it's political) which has been going now for four years. Over those years, I've adapted it's sh (read the entire post)...



Testing Windows Live Writer on GeekZone Blog

By James Hippolite, in , posted: 8-OCT-2009 13:28

This is my first posting back on GeekZone, since I left because it didn't support Windows Live Writer. It appears Mauricio's been busy and got it up and running (via MetaWebLog API). I'm impressed. Well done Mauricio, et al. I haven't managed to d (read the entire post)...



I have moved my Blog!

By James Hippolite, in , posted: 28-AUG-2009 08:53

Old Site: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/JamesHip/

New Site: http://JamesHip.blogspot.com/

Reason: I can now use Windows Live Writer to write my blogs, instead of manually creating an html page in Microsoft Visual Studio! Also, the formatti (read the entire post)...

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Delivered my Quality Presentation Again

By James Hippolite, in , posted: 16-JUL-2009 06:40

This time to the Wellington Dot Net Users Group.
See previous post for link to slides.
Another good discussion ensued.
This time I demoed FxCop. That went well.
I think next time (if there is one) I would also demo the Testing framework. (read the entire post)...



The Microsoft Sync Framework

By James Hippolite, in , posted: 15-JUN-2009 15:33

I gave a presentation at the NZ .NET Code Camp at Whitireia Polytech, Porirua on Sunday 14 June 2009.




What Was Covered




Overview of the Microsoft Sync Framework

Enabled scenarios, vision, appro (read the entire post)...



MSDN Unplugged Roadshow Wellington

By James Hippolite, in , posted: 5-JUN-2009 12:44

Date/Time
Friday, 5 June 2009 @ 9:am - 12:30pm
Product(s)
Microsoft Expression Blend,Microsoft Silverlight,Windows 7
Audience(s)
Developer
Presenter(s)
Mike Zeff, Nigel Parker
Event Overview
Session 1: Windows 7 fo (read the entire post)...



How to: Design and Develop an Application to Ensure its Quality

By James Hippolite, in , posted: 15-MAY-2009 06:48

I gave a presentation last night:

Title


How To: Design and Develop an Application to Ensure its Quality


Audience


Victoria University of Wellington, 3rd year 'Software Engineering' students (SWEN 301 = COMP 3 (read the entire post)...



Right Sizing Agile Development - MSDN Magazine Webinar

By James Hippolite, in , posted: 17-APR-2009 10:57

I logged into a web seminar this morning:



Title
Right Sizing Agile Development


Audience
MSDN Magazine subscribers and/or developers


Presenter

Steve McConnell is CEO and Chief Software En (read the entire post)...



Wellington SQL Server User Group Meeting April 2009

By James Hippolite, in , posted: 17-APR-2009 06:56

I attended a presentation last night:



Title
Wearing multiple hats. Being a DBA and a developer.


Audience
Wellington SQL Server User Group


Presenter
Dave Dustin - Wolters Kluwer Health

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What's New in Microsoft SQL Services - My DNUG Presentation

By James Hippolite, in , posted: 16-APR-2009 08:33

I gave a presentation today:



Title
What's New in Microsoft SQL Services


Brief
Come hear how SQL Data Services is evolving to provide rich relational database capabilities and how easy it is to take existing d (read the entire post)...



ORM for DBAs

By James Hippolite, in , posted: 2-APR-2009 09:30

I gave a presentation today:



Title
ORM 101: Object Relational Mappers for Database Administrators


Sub-title
Why Should I Be Afraid?


Audience
Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) memb (read the entire post)...

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Exam 70-300

By James Hippolite, in , posted: 31-MAR-2009 10:35




Exam Number
070-300


Title
Analyzing Requirements and Defining Solution Architectures for Microsoft .NET


Date
Tuesday, March 31, 2009


Candidate ID
DT1645310


Passing (read the entire post)...



Team Focus

By James Hippolite, in , posted: 30-MAR-2009 10:10




MSF Team
Envisioning
Planning
Developing
Stabilizing
Deploying


Product Management
Overall goals; identify customer needs, requirements; vision/scope document
Conceptual design; business require (read the entire post)...



Exam 70-300 Objective 7

By James Hippolite, in , posted: 30-MAR-2009 08:55

Tested myself on Exam 70-300 (Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures) Objective 7 (Creating Standards and Processes) and received 90%. I've got a bit of study to do, specifically:

Establish standards. Sta (read the entire post)...



Exam 70-300 Objective 6

By James Hippolite, in , posted: 30-MAR-2009 08:44

Tested myself on Exam 70-300 (Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures) Objective 6 (Creating the Physical Design) and received 83%. I've got a bit of study to do, specifically:


Select the appropriate te (read the entire post)...



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James Hippolite
Wellington
New Zealand


Welcome to my technical blog. 

Here, I attempt to distill the Microsoft Certified Professional Developer knowledge I have accumulated since first qualifying MCP in 1996.  This blog started on 13 September 2007 as an off-shoot from my mixed up personal blog.  But it took a shot in the arm from Scott Hanselman's talk at TechEd New Zealand 08 "32 Ways To Make Your Blog Suck Less".