April 2008 - Posts

• Mobile Browser Test

  The WC3 Web Test Suites Working Group has just announced that they have a test for mobile devices.  This is an important step as mobile connectivity grows. So head over to there test and see how your mobile device handles it. Short address for the test is http://icanhaz.com/wt Posted Apr 17 2008, 08:36 AM by Matthew M. Osborn

• Community Launch Event | Thanks

  I wanted to thank everyone who came out to the Community Launch and listened to my presentation or pretended to listen. If you didn't come I spoke on the new features of SQL Server 2008.  With in the next few months I will be presenting again on SQL Server 2008 but with in depth examples and walk through's.  If you are interested a copy of my slide deck can be found here Posted Apr 13 2008, 12:43 AM by Matthew M. Osborn

• Community Launch Event | April 10th

  The Utah .NET Users Group will be hosting a Community launch event for Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008, and SQL Server 2008. This is a series of event across the country hosted by users groups and sponsored by Microsoft, Ineta, Culminis, and Pass.  The Utah .NET User Group has decided to make this a four part launch event.  The first being a overview of all three new technologies, with the fallowing three being a in depth look at each technology.  I myself will be speaking about SQL Server 2008 during the launch event series.  So please come and join us on April 10th.  For more information please visit http://utahdnug.org/ Posted Apr 08 2008, 08:46 PM by Matthew M. Osborn Filed under: C#, SQL, Events, .NET

• Coding Question: Max Consecutive Characters

  Recently I was asked to code a simple method.  This method should take in two parameters a string and a character.  The goal of the method was to count the max number of consecutive times the character parameter appeared in the string.  So an example would be that the string "abaabbaaa" is passed into the method along with the character 'a' The method should then return 3 because the character 'a' appears 3 times in a row.  This seems like a very simple method but it is actually very trick to make it efficient.  So let see what you guys can come up with, post your solution in the comments section.  I will be posting the solution in a few days. Posted Apr 05 2008, 11:32 AM by Matthew M. Osborn Filed under: C#