Satter Ramblings

7 Million Rows an Hour

My friend Rob has hit a new record with his portable data center. His new test works on show how many rows SQL Server and Merge Replication can handle. Turns out to be quite a lot 7 million hours per hour. You can read more at his site.

iPeace

OK I could not resist saying iPeace. Steve Jobs has announced an SDK for developers and it should be pretty open to legitimate developers.

Compact Framework and LINQ

One of the exciting things in .Net 3.5 is LINQ. Being a device developer though can I use LINQ. You can use LINQ in Compact Framework 3.5 although not all features are available. Noticeably missing is LINQ for SQL. However that is not a big deal you get standard operators and being able to query objects and XML.

Mobile Development

The Redmond Developer has a great article about mobile development. OK you will have to look past one minor mistake. The author credits the iPhone as

Since its release in late June, the iPhone has added a new level of functionality -- a phone that works over both WiFi and a cellular network with access to e-mail, digital content (including video) and a browser that adds new presentation capabilities to Web pages.

Merge Replication Blueprint

Rob Tiffany has finished writing his new book, Windows Mobile Data Synchronization with SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server Compact 3.1. His gives you a complete blueprint to build a high available, high volume merge replication architecture. Then goes on to gives clear and concise instructions on how to build the infrastructure.

Mobile Connections Event

Just a quick note. If you can't attend MEDC or you might try Mobile Connections. It is actually several conferences in one including Mobile, ASP.Net and more. I was fortunate to attend last year as a speaker. It was fun and informative. If you are interested in attending I got a special code for an additional discount. Continue on to read the marketing message and get the code.

Using Push Data in Mobile Applications

One very common theme I hear these days from customers is "How can I not only notify people of an item to work on but let them react immediately to that notification?" The typical scenario is approval of some business process for example a purchase order.

New Device Community

I got an email today from Mark Arteaga one of the principals behind OpenNetCF. OpenNetCF has created a new community site. According to Mark it will be home to white papers, host open source projects most notably OpenNetCF community edition, and become the new home of the OpenNetCF Forums.

AJAX and Windows Mobile

Jim Wilson will be doing a webcast on building AJAX for Windows Mobile. He will be discussing how to build AJAX enabled applications that can be run in Pocket Internet Explorer. The webcast is scheduled scheduled for 9/12. You can register at Microsoft Events.

iPhone Unlocked

Today CNBC and Engadget are both reporting that the iPhone has been unlocked. George Holt and several others were able to unlocked the phone using a combination of hardware and software. According to Engadget they have apparently now been able to completely use software to unlock the phone.