Bubble Tea
Published Sun, Feb 20 2005 0:03 | coad
My new favorite treat! Bubble tea is a tasty flavored drink with tapioca pearls in it. Also known as Pearl Tea, the drink comes in a flavored ice slush, milk shake, or tea form, but what really makes it is the squishy tapioca balls! At first glance, it...
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Microsoft Coding Guidelines
Published Sat, Feb 19 2005 22:20 | coad
Brad Abrams posted Microsoft's Internal Coding Guidelines . This is a good read! I'd agree with most everything there. I see a lot of Microsoft code and it sure is good to have consistancy. One thing I differ with, is that personally, I really like not...
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4NT - Powerful Command Prompt + My All-Time Favorite Utility
Published Sat, Feb 19 2005 20:34 | coad
4NT by JPSoft is, in my humble opinion, one of the best apps ever created. It is a tool for the 'power user' who appreciats the power of the prompt (C:\>). :) It a console command prompt for Windows on steriods. I've used this app for over 14 years...
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Exploring Ice Caves
Published Thu, Feb 17 2005 6:26 | coad
This past weekend my friend Vito and I went out backpacking in the Mt Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest . We left Vitos birthday party Saturday night @ 2am, started hiking @ 3:30am, hiked over snow covered rocks in the dark (w/ headlamps) till 8am, pitched...
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Lego PDA Digital Photo Frame
Published Thu, Feb 17 2005 6:06 | coad
One of the little gadgets I've wanted ever since getting a digital camera is an LCD Digital Photo Display. This is a unit that sits on the desk and cycles through photos. They typically cost a pretty penny, so using my PDA as the display unit, I built...
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VSTS Enterprise Dev and Test (eDT) Tools Public Chat
Published Mon, Dec 13 2004 18:36 | coad
Join the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)'s Enterprise Developer and Test (eDT) Tools team at Microsoft in an online MSDN Chat! We will be focusing on the tools: Static Code Analysis (FxCop, PREfast), Dynamic Analysis (Profiler, Code Coverage), and Testing...
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Fun Weekend
Published Mon, Nov 8 2004 13:10 | coad
This was a fun weekend w/ my fiance, Dawn , visiting from Texas! Here is a recap I wrote for a friend in an e-mail... Yeah, I had a great weekend. The Highlights: Dawn was in town!! She was visiting all weekend, whoop! This is what gave me inspiration...
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Hello Neighbor
Published Sat, Oct 30 2004 16:58 | coad
Today a friend came over and I'm showing off how to do blogging. Say Hi!
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Engaged to an Angel
Published Sun, Oct 10 2004 12:56 | coad
The Proposal On July 23rd, I proposed to the most wonderful young lady I've ever met ... and she agreed to marry me! My fiance, Dawn Heussner, and I have been dating for over three years now and I just can't imagine my life going on without her. She has...
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Back from the Void
Published Sun, Oct 10 2004 12:00 | coad
In case you haven't noticed, I've dropped out of the blogging scene lately, just so much going on! This doesn't mean I've stopped thinking of blog topics, in fact, I have quite an extensive list of subjects to write on. Well this post is a good indicator...
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Moving to Microsoft
Published Tue, Jul 6 2004 1:49 | coad
Joining the Ranks Well I've taken the red pill, gone blue card, lost my MVP status, been assimilated into the collective, and joined Microsoft! I am now a Program Manager on Visual Studio Team System . On to Washington On Friday (July 7th) my girlfriend...
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Official Forum Flame Form
Published Tue, Jun 22 2004 1:59 | coad
< lol > This is hilarious! :) Here is a simple check off list for flaming forums. I'm not a flamer, but I've got to try using this sometime when it would be appropriate. The checks are from its original post . Official Forum Flame =============...
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Reverse Enum Lookup
Published Tue, Jun 22 2004 1:46 | coad
Sometimes you may have the string name of an enumeration identifier, and want its enum type. For example, you write a enum identifier as a string to a file and want to read it back and obtain the original enumeration type. This takes place when you serialize...
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Obtaining Indented XML as a String
Published Tue, Jun 22 2004 0:55 | coad
Using XmlDocument.Save(string file) produces a file with nicely indented elements. XmlDocument.OuterXml returns a string without any formatting. If you want a nicely formatted string (to display to the user, write to console, etc), without directly writing...
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Creating Quick Tests in C#
Published Fri, Jun 18 2004 2:51 | coad
Update on 5/2/07: This post has nothing to do with Unit Testing (it was written before I was aware of unit testing) but has to do with write little bits of code to try new stuff out. It is also only for VS03. For the current version (VS05), see this post...
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Property Event Pattern
Published Thu, Jun 17 2004 23:59 | coad
Introduction Since the advent of .NET, one of my most frequent and useful patterns is using an event to notify change in state. Applying this pattern has reduced overall code, improved reliability, and made maintenance and expansion easier. Why? The Context...
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.Text Upgrade on MVP Site
Published Sat, Jun 12 2004 10:53 | coad
Susan Bradley just updated (6/11/04) msmvps.com to .Text v0.95.2004.102. We're still working out the kinks, but it is coming along! So if your agregate news reader shows double post entries (like my RSS Bandit), you know why. If you're using RSS Bandit...
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Associating a File Extension and Context Menus with an Application in the Registry
Published Fri, Jun 11 2004 16:31 | coad
You can easily assign a file extension to open with your application in the registry. Verbal Description The extension is added as a key under "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT" with the (default) value set to the file's type (a string arbitrarily assigned by yourself...
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TechEd 2004 Curiosities
Published Thu, Jun 10 2004 14:52 | coad
< lol > I missed these funnies at TechEd , but thankfully they have been captured in time. :)
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Ultra-Portable Laptop
Published Wed, Jun 9 2004 22:44 | coad
Overview I have received many inquiries in airports, conferences, classes, meetings, etc when I pull out my laptop and it is smaller than even the thinnest paper notebooks on the table. I've seen too many people not carry or use their portable computer...
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