Cory Foy

This week’s Charlotte Java User’s Group meeting is on Hibernate with Gavin King of JBoss. Gavin founded the Hibernate project and is the author of /Hibernate in Action/. As always, the meeting starts at 6:30pm, and is being held at my employer’s offices. More information and directions can be found on the CharJUG web site.

Before my wife and I moved to Charlotte, I spent nearly 7 years with the Fire Department in Lutz, FL. Our particular station, averaged 4-5 calls a day, though some days we were *much* busier. We had our share of people who called us, sometimes frequently, with made-up problems. People who were just lonely and…

Just finished reading a blog entry over on ZDNet about some speculation over the warming trend between Red Hat and Microsoft. While it certainly seems beyond ludicrous to me, it did seem funny to think about if Microsoft bought Red-Hat, and IBM in kind bought Novell (acquiring rights to Mono along the way) what kind…

As I was flipping through The Register this morning I came across an article about a slight problem with Google Maps. Look at the following screen grab: Yes, that is the U.K., zoomed out and panned over just far enough to see the U.S. Maybe there’s something someone isn’t telling us?

(Edit 3/6/2006: This is wrong, in that it still uses mod_jk2. This is not a how-to for mod_jk. Rjae Easton has a good post on getting mod_jk working that you should head over to if that’s what you need. – Cory) I don’t really anticipate this taking that long, but figured I would document it…

Quick follow up from the code camp. We got an email with the aggregate of comments from the attendees. Overall some good comments for the code camp that will hopefully let them bring it back next year. As for me it was an interesting mix – one that said I was all over the place…

Today was the MSDN Code Camp here in Charlotte. I got to see some great presentations on things like SOA, Mobile Speech Server, and Reflection. I also presented on Test Driving ASP.NET Development (ppt). I felt like the presentation was quite a success. It ran an hour and 10 minutes, and I had a lot…

This Saturday (April 30th) I have the pleasure of speaking at the MSDN Code Camp here in Charlotte, NC. I am going to be speaking on Test-Driving ASP.NET Development. In preparation for that, I’ve put up a copy of my PowerPoint presentation (675k) for comments. What do you all think? Anything that should be added,…

To follow up from my earlier post, I found that Microsoft does indeed offer updates for the Machine.Config file browserCaps section. They call it a Device Update, and by us installing Device Update 4 we were able to fix the issue we were having with Nextel’s new phone header information. Now that’s how I like…

Config files can be nice. They can help set settings so that you can tweak things on the fly without having to recompile your code. Or so that non-techies can modify things without having to know your code. Microsoft uses several config files for .NET. The biggie is Machine.Config. And today I had the pleasure…