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Victoria .NET Developers Association Code Camp on Saturday, 8 April 2006

4 April 2006

This Saturday, the Victoria .NET Developers Association is having its first Code Camp! I’m really looking forward to it; as you can see from the schedule, we have quite the line up of speakers. I don’t know where they got that Jason guy from.  If you’re in Victoria, I encourage you to come by and check it out. We have [...] Read more »

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Version Numbers

17 March 2006

This is a uber-geeky. You are warned. Version numbers consist of four numbers at their most complex: Major.Minor.Revision.Build. They’re very important, especially when you have multiple releases in the wild. They let you track what code is running on the users machine, so if they have a version that contains a bug, you can tell [...] Read more »

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What I’m Reading

16 March 2006

I’m always reading something: blogs, magazines in the bathroom, books. The frequency of each ebbs and flows. Right now I’m amid a dearth of books half read: The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker – This book is an argument against the theory that humans are born without any innate knowledge or skills. He already convinced [...] Read more »

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Hanselman owned tonight. I want to have his baby

8 March 2006

Scott Hanselman gave a talk at the Victoria .NET Nerds Developer Association tonight. It was very good. I’d heard that he was a great speaker and my hearing was right. He was all over the map, and since I read his blog, a lot of his technical asides (showing tools, etc.)  weren’t news to me. Still [...] Read more »

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Greetings From Subtext!

3 March 2006

If you’re a regular web reader of jasonkemp.ca, you’ve probably noticed my new skin. This is because I’ve now switched to Subtext. They released version 1.0 today. Congratulations to Phil Haack and the rest of the team. Despite what the people page says, my contribution was virtually non-existent. I never got around to asking Phil [...] Read more »

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