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My Top 10 Personal Community Goals for 2007
09 January 07 05:35 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

It's really hard for me to believe that 2006 has come and gone. All the things that I was able to accomplish and all the hard work. It's amazing that it was just 14 months ago that I became the President of Tulsa .NET Users Group when then President Read More...

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First Presentation to my own group TulsaDevelopers.NET
28 November 06 12:36 AM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

As the President of the TulsaDevelopers.NET group I have made great effort to get presentations from others. I definitely don't want the group to become the David Walker show. That's why when I first started giving my Introduction to Programming Read More...

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Report on the Wichita Code Camp
04 June 06 11:31 PM | dwalker | 3 Comments   

Raymond Lewallen: http://codebetter.com/blogs/raymond.lewallen Building strongly-typed session objects, cache objects, and viewstate. If you aren't using a session management object you must. Do a search for session[] and make your developers give a justifiable Read More...

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My first real presentation: Intro. to Programming Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) ... and challenges!
01 June 06 11:40 PM | dwalker | 2 Comments   

Just a few more days until my June 3rd presentation Introduction to Programming Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) at the WichitaDevelopers.NET Code Camp ! I am ready to go, except WCF is being a pain in the butt trying to get a few things to work Read More...

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New Tulsa .NET Users Group President!
19 October 05 12:50 AM | dwalker | 1 Comments   

Man, there's been so much stuff going on, since my last blog! We went on vacation to Galveston Island, TX right and returned the weekend before Hurricane Rita - whew that was close! I've been trying to play catch up on home work for the Tulsa Community Read More...

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Lost Love - Not For Me!
29 July 05 08:27 AM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

Jose Fuentes writes about Lost Love . I couldn't agree more with everything he had to say! At one point in my career I thought the grandiur and financial enticement of taking a traveling consulting position would be the best position for me. Luckily before Read More...

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Tip For Employees - Don't Stop Looking
29 July 05 08:26 AM | dwalker | 1 Comments   

Steven Smith posted this very intelligent article: Tip For Employees - Don't Stop Looking . But do take heed to his warning! Just a couple years ago I was working for a "Manager" who called me into his office and was very upset that I had posted my resume Read More...

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Longhorn loves RSS! But HATES the FileSystem?
13 July 05 01:43 AM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

I was reading on this blog about how Longhorn loves RSS . While I'm one who always likes new features. I just don't understand why Microsoft would waste their time integrating such a simple and open standard as RSS into the OS!! And yet remove a feature Read More...

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PayPal to stop doing Bill Pay! We Want Global Transfers!
08 July 05 09:50 PM | dwalker | 1 Comments   

My wife just told me that PayPal has announced that starting Aug 1st they are going to stop offering the bill pay service. How retarded! Here's another area that I truely do not understand. I just read an article in Information Weekly that talked about Read More...

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Happy Anniversary Baby! You're now married to an MCSD!
02 July 05 05:27 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

Today is my 11th wedding anniversary and one of my presents to my wife was taking the 70-300: Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures exam and passing! So now, she has certifiable proof that she's married to a geek! :) Read More...

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Printers - Technology for the worst, as usual!
30 June 05 09:22 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

We used to use an HP OfficeJet G85 (paid $500+) until it seemed as though it was jamming a lot. So we bought a cheap Lexmark X6170 (paid $200ish) and it does the same thing! Well, at least it's half the size, even if it suffers the same unbearable problem! Read More...

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The Secret of the Hybrid CDROM and 3 1/2 Floppy Drive!
29 June 05 01:24 AM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

Back in the day, before there was CD-RW's, there was the first prototype device that Panasonic released known as the PD-CDROM drive, featuring 650mb of rewritable optical media. I bought one for approximately $500 back then, thinking I needed the space Read More...

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Just passed 70-316 - C# Windows Apps!
29 June 05 12:15 AM | dwalker | 3 Comments   

I did better than the rest so far on this one! Probably because at least 20-25% of the content is shared, considering ADO.NET is a big part of Web App, XML Services, and Windows App development! Now to study up for Exam 70-300: Analyzing Requirements Read More...

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Mactel Newbie thoughts!
22 June 05 10:18 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

I just recently purchased a Mac Mini and was barely able to score OS X on the cheap, since I purchased it just before OS X was released. My main interest was the fact that it's based on Unix and I've always loved to play with it and Linux and felt this Read More...

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Just passed MS 070-320 - C# XML Web Services and Server Components
21 June 05 01:11 AM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

Woot! Going into this test I felt very confident, but after the first few questions I was thinking holy cow! Is this the right test?? Some of the questions I hadn't seen reviewed or discussed in either the Microsoft Prep Book or ExamCram2! With this test Read More...

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