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NovaBlog is Born for One-Touch Blogging

Published Mon, Jun 7 2004 21:08 | coad

The Struggle of a Fly in the Web I want my development to fly! ... but am tangled by the web. Those that know me know that I am not a fan of web development due to the additional constraints and limitations of the browser based model. With separate languages...

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Why Engineers Won't Make Money

Published Mon, Jun 7 2004 15:35 | coad

Here is a little fun "proof" for why engineers won't be rich. :) First off, two postulates which everyone knows: Time is Money Knowledge is Power And every engineer knows that: Power = Work / Time Substituting, we get: Knowledge = Work / Money And solving...

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VS Team System Debut Demo Video

Published Fri, Jun 4 2004 19:56 | coad

The great video demonstration of Visual Studio Team System given at its debut at TechEd 2004 is now available! VSTS TechEd 2004 General Session Demo

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TechEd Photos

Published Thu, May 27 2004 0:07 | coad

Here are some of my first photos to come out of TechEd. We're having a great time up here! Chillin' with the hosts of .NET Rocks! Carl Franklin and Rory Blyth Hang'in w/ Anders Hejlsberg Anders Hejlsberg is the creator of Turbo Pascal, Borland's Delphi...

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Visual Studio Team System is a Go!

Published Wed, May 26 2004 23:32 | coad

Just announced to the world here at TechEd is the new Visual Studio 2005 Team System for lifecycle management! Team Productivity In the past, Microsoft has focused on making the individual developer more productive with better focussed tools like improving...

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TechEd MVP Joke

Published Wed, May 26 2004 23:02 | coad

I'm up here at the conference and this joke gets out... Okay, so we're MVPs right? So... we have MVPness... Then someone else points out that we're also under Non-disclosure Agreement (NDA), so we also have NDAness. (hint, say them out loud a few times...

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TechEd Has Begun

Published Sun, May 23 2004 12:35 | coad

TechEd 2004 has begun here in beautiful San Diego CA! Today, Sunday, are preliminary events and I am currently sitting in on an INETA meeting for interest group leaders, community leaders, and MVPs. There have been great presentations from committees...

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Moving Away from Word Based Blogs

Published Sun, May 16 2004 11:25 | coad

The Old Well after much work with trying to get nice looking code from Word by copying and pasting, even with the steps mentioned in my previous blog, I'm headed to other methods. Word creates bloated xHTML that is quite messy, it works, impressively...

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RSS "FEED Validator" Bombs

Published Wed, Apr 14 2004 23:56 | coad

ARG! After spending so much time making sure my RSS feeds are valid XML, I have run into a limitation of the seemingly most preeminent RSS feed validator online. It bombs out right at about 200K. If the feed is longer, it is invalid. There is no warning...

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Well Formatted Blog, Can't Directly Copy from MS Word

Published Wed, Apr 14 2004 23:06 | coad

Wow! Well I just had to go back through all my posts and repost them all. It seams that one can not directly copy and paste from a Microsoft Word document to achieve a nicely formatted blog. Invalid XML code is the end result causing the RSS feed to break...

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First Blog Post

Published Tue, Apr 13 2004 19:24 | coad

Welcome to my first blog post! Let me introduce myself… My name is Noah Coad (pronounced “code”). I am up here at my first (and last, more below) MVP Global Summit, which has been absolutely incredible! My colleagues have convinced me to give this blog...

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