CodeCampSA website

I could keep dropping hints waiting for CodeCampSA to get its own site – or I could just go ahead and create it myself!

So, I’m please to announce www.codecampsa.com – the new home of Adelaide’s own .NET Code Camp.

So let’s get the word out amongst Adelaide’s .NET community. Pass the word to your colleagues and developer friends. Tell any higher education or training organisations – what a great way for students to network and make contacts in the industry!

If the name “CodeCamp” puts people off, feel free to call it a “.NET Conference”! In fact call it what ever you like to get people to come along, because once they’re in the door I’m confident they’ll be glad they came.

CodeCampSA 2009

According to an email from ADNUG’s Peter Griffith, Adelaide’s CodeCampSA 2009 will be held on July 18-19th. As in previous years, it will be at UniSA.

I’ve offered to do a talk about Pex. I wouldn’t be surprised to see WPF guru Nigel popping up on the speaker list, and I’ve encouraged Ben and Timothy to think about whether they’d be interested in speaking too.

I still think having a CodeCampSA website would be a great help for promoting the event too.

When PreRelease really means Release

Once upon a time, I’d installed the 180-day trial version of SQL Server 2008, and prior to that I’d been running the last CTP.

The expiry time was fast approaching, and I also needed to install the Integration Services components so I figured it might be time to uninstall the trial version and install the proper licensed one instead. The main reason I’d been putting this off was I knew it was going to take a few hours of uninstall/reinstall.

So I uninstalled everything in Add/Remove Programs that looked vaguely related to SQL Server, rebooted, then installed a fresh version….

Only to see “10.0.1600.22 ((SQL_PreRelease).080709-1414 )” in the About box of SQL Server Management Studio.

Hmm.. In desperation I then uninstalled everything vaguely related to Visual Studio 2008, and then tried again…

Same result!

It was only then that I found this post in which I discovered that no, SQL_PreRelease really means RTM!

Oh well, I guess it means my Visual Studio and SQL installs are fresher, but a bit of a pain nonetheless.