http://www.ndtv.com/homepage/default.asp

http://www.chennaionline.com/

I now have friends all over the world through our INETA and blogging communities. Friends in places like Chennai, India which was hit hard by this mornings' earthquake and subsequent tidal waves.

From CNN - Comair cancelled all of it's flights over Christmas. Why?

Comair's computer system that manages flight assignments crashed Friday night after it was overwhelmed by cancellations and delays caused by the winter storm that socked the Ohio Valley. The computer shutdown forced the airline to cancel all of its Saturday flights.

Ouch!

Neil recieved his first copy a few weeks ago and shows us the flyer for the book here.

Someday, I am going to own one of Daryl's phenomenal pastels. Until then, at least I can share them with others via my blog. Here is her website. For now I have some postcards and a pin!

Got Speech? Developing Applications using Microsoft Speech Server and .NET

Registration is open!

Thom Robbins announced the winners of the Will Code for Device contest and then posted individual blog posts describing each of the winning applications and screen shots of them.

If you browse to his list of blog posts for December you can see each of the winning apps.

Poor Robert has taken such a beating this week, but this really is funny!

This story was on NPR (MarketPlace) last night.

Oh good. Now I can take all of those caveats out of my Whidbey BCL presentation!

This is a big deal. Peter Drayton explains why and the impact of this on language developers in this blog post.

Good work, folks!

(of course, if you used Smalltalk..... as per James Robertson)

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I guess it would be fun to rewrite the VTdotNET application from scratch. That was my first ASP.NET applicaiton and learning playground,so I think it's only fitting. Heck. I can even have a user login now.

Sahil asks a good question (something I meant to share...thanks for the reminder) about installing the November CTP bits on a machine that already has SQL Server 2005 (Beta 2) on it.

The latest install put SQL 2005 Express on my machine without asking me. I already had SQL 2005 Beta 2 (Oct. CTP) on there. All of my vs.net tests against the SQL Server database continued to function perfectly. However, I cannot open up a connection in the SQL Server Management Studio.It is looking for a method that no longer exists in the Windows.Forms namespace (cool to see that tie to managed code...). Hmm - a few more dialogs I try to open also have similar issues with the

So I'll probably get the December CTP of SQL Server to see. I'm sure it's working with something! I clearly missed a piece of information somewhere about that. And I can't quite answer your question, yet, Sahil. Sorry.