February 2005 - Posts

Congrats to Jeffrey Palermo, MCAD
Published 20 February 5 2:50 AM | coad
Congratulations to my friend Jeffrey Palermo on becoming a Microsoft Certified Application Developer ( MCAD )! Jeff's making great progress on his MS certifications and is headed towards a MCSD & MCT .
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US Patent Plaque
Published 20 February 5 12:39 AM | coad
Between high school and college (at Texas A&M Univ. ), I spent a year in Sandpoint, Idaho , working on a national biomedical smart card system. My Dad was working for a sister company at the same time on a portable home cholesterol monitor which interfaced...
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Bubble Tea
Published 20 February 5 12:3 AM | 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 19 February 5 10:20 PM | 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 19 February 5 8:34 PM | 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 17 February 5 6:26 AM | 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 17 February 5 6:6 AM | 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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