March 2004 - Posts

A few new articles...

Published 31 March 4 10:43 PM | William

Well, I'm always torn between writing on stuff high level stuff that people are shying away from and stuff that is a lot simpler but giving people a lot of trouble. So I mixed it up a little bit. I'm going to write a beginning to end discussion on threading...

MS Speech Server and my immediate plans

Published 26 March 4 8:28 AM | William

Working for a company who's primary service is medical transcription, I had a big interest in the new speech technology that was going to be presented. We've heard about voice rec for the last 20 years, but it never seems quite ready for prime time. I...

The San Francisco Cheerleaders

Published 25 March 4 10:44 PM | William

UHHHHHHH! This whole conference was cool and I really enjoyed the city. I haven't been here before, but I figured it would be, well, California. Anyway, the intro to Midnight Madness was the worst! There were a bunch of Male Cheerleaders signing decent...

Booth Babes

Published 25 March 4 9:17 PM | William

Not surprisingly, Casey came up with a really great idea after dinner, let's go take pictures of the Booth Babes. All in all, it went quite well. 3 rejections, the rest were really cool about it. Not surprisingly, the ladies at most of the booths were...

Whidbey is now Officially - Visual Studio .NET 2005

Published 25 March 4 9:48 AM | William

What a morning. Michael Fosmire called me early this morning asking if I'd be interested in participating in a MS Sponsored Focus Group to which I agreed. There were five MVP's (Ginny Caughey, Mike Salamone, Doug Boiling, Dwayne Lamb) there including...

Some Really Cool Sites

Published 24 March 4 7:50 AM | William

Devbuzz.com , the Coolest stuff for Mobile Developers Learn .NET then KnowDotNet Infopro , my employer and The world's Best Transcription and Medical Records Company I'm fortunate to work for such a great company, and would just like the thank Dick, Les...

Casey's Book

Published 24 March 4 7:43 AM | William

This is an update to my comments about Casey Chestnut. Last night, I found out that .NET for Strippers is not scheduled to be released at all, and if that changes, it won't be for a few years. I think this is disgraceful on Casey's part b/c I've been...

MDC 2004 Pre Conference

Published 24 March 4 7:37 AM | William

I'm totally ruined at this point. I came in yesterday, checked in, went to the MVP lounge were they basically laid out what was going to happen at the conference. It was cool but only took about an hour and a half. Then I went back to my room at the W...

Hood Canal System's Management Console Rocks

Published 22 March 4 10:51 PM | William

Way back in the day, I picked up Rob Tiffany's book on eVB. I was trying to learn the CF , but since I was new to embedded development, I figured what the heck it's an Apress title so it's gotta be good. Well, I was right. Then, a few months later, in...

Microsoft Mobile Developers' Conference 2004 - San Francisco

Published 22 March 4 8:37 AM | William

Sitting here at work, thinking I should have done more packing before the trip. After attending DevDays last week, I decided to change a few things about our current web site. I added a bunch of new features but there's a little known bug in ASP.NET that...

I want to be Casey Chesnut

Published 21 March 4 1:51 PM | William

When I first started writing CF apps, Casey's http://www.brains-n-brawn.com was a real life saver. But there's more. When I lived in Pittsburgh, I lived in Washington Plaza which was pretty cool, but my ultimate goal was to move into the The Pennsylvanian...

S.P.O.T.

Published 21 March 4 1:12 PM | William

As an avowed tech nerd, I love just about everything that comes out as long as it's 'new'. Well, about 6 months ago I was first introduced to SPOT (Smart Personal Object Technology) at Mobius in Redmond. SPOT is a new push Microsoft is involved in which...

Why won't Dynamic SQL Die?

Published 20 March 4 3:43 PM | William

On a regular basis someone posts a question on the NG's about how apostrophes are screwing up their code and what can be done about it. So let me be blunt: DYNAMIC SQL NEEDS TO DIE. Period, end of story. For a long time, I was rather passive about this...

DevDays, March 16, 2004 - Atlanta, GA

Published 16 March 4 4:5 PM | William

I just got back from DevDays in Atlanta only to find out I left my house keys in the hotel room. However, it was well worth it. There were two tracks available, ASP.NET Security and Smart Client Applications and I attended the former session with my friend...