A few weeks ago a friend of mine who runs a 5 Star property of 33 luxury apartments in London’s fashionable Sloane Square asked me which is the best iPhone docking station on the market. He told me that he had received many requests from guests to have them in the rooms. After looking at a range of docking stations and what they could do for his guest I suggested he should think about an iPhone application.
After seeing how successful the DSI created “ideal a day” app is working for Avon representatives we decided to create something that would be unique in the hospitality industry. Continue reading ‘DeCare Systems Ireland’s Solution for the Hospitality Industry.’
I came to TechEd 2009 with the intention of identifying what happened with Dynamic Data since last year. For those of you who don’t know; Dynamic Data is Microsoft’s answer to Ruby on Rails. It’s a means of quickly scaffolding your application with validated text boxes, date pickers and images based on the metadata included within your data source. So a database data type of VARCHAR(50) would automatically transform into a textbox with a size limitation of fifty characters say.
Continue reading ‘What’s Happened to Dynamic Data?’
I just saw Stephen Walther deliver the session I came to TechEd to see, what’s new in the client-side scripting side for delivering Asp.Net content. I have been waiting to find out how the Asp.Net team hoped to integrate jQuery into Asp.Net for some time. Like a lot of you, I’ve come to the conclusion the only smart way to deliver data-heavy pages is via client-side scripting. The trick is to confine bandwidth only to readily consumed data as much as possible, as the large amount of mark-up associated with a normal ASP.NET page is often just bloat.
Continue reading ‘Microsoft Ajax Bares new Client-Side Goodies’
Devastatingly smart Rafal Lukawiecki, that virtuoso of technical presentation, gave yet another brilliant presentation on how the seemingly “ivory tower” techniques of Artificial Intelligence can be used in present day applications for unusual data validation scenarios.
Continue reading ‘Predictive Reasoning’
I’m just not feelin’ the Microsoft love here any more.
I’m a Developer and I think Microsoft may have short-changed us developers a bit this year. They’ve rolled the IT Professional part of TechEd into the same week as the developerment section.
As a result, no more than two sessions per time-slot hold any interest for me as a general developer. Of those two, my preferred choice is nearly always full to capacity. Which means you have to turn up at least ten minutes early. This is a wildly less groovy than last year. I had a much less tame rant prepared, but wisely I refrained from venting :-).
Also, because the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) is on next week in the US, some of the more senior Microsoft presenters are understandably holding off coming here to TechEd (in balmy Berlin). Lesson learned, next year I’ll move heaven and earth to go to PDC instead 
