June 2004 - Posts

More on C# Express

Published 29 June 4 8:22 PM | William

As far as the Outside world goes, please consider me dead. Not really dead, but like comatosed or something like that, at least for the next week. The new IDE Rocks - it kicks soooo much a33 it's not even funny. I was on my way to the gym and now I don...

THANK YOU MICROSOFT

Published 29 June 4 8:6 PM | William

If you've been reading my blog for long, you'll know of the hell I've been through ever since trying to install any of the secondary builds of Whidbey. Well, Microsoft came out the with Express line, which has all the newest vs 2005 stuff built in but...

Scott hooked me with GMAIL

Published 29 June 4 9:4 AM | William

Scott Reynolds Just hooked me up with GMail. WilliamRyan@gmail.com - very very cool. Thanks Scott.

Scarry Personality Test - it's Right...

Published 29 June 4 8:40 AM | William

Casey just posted this link to a personality test. Here's what mine had to say about me: You take charge of your life, and place less faith in your luck and more in your own deeds. You solve problems in a practical, uncomplicated manner. You take a realistic...

Personal Media Center Links

Published 28 June 4 12:31 AM | William

If you are interested in Microsoft's Very Cool new Personal Media Center, I have some new links posted over at Devbuzz . Marcus Ash, the Product Manager for the Personal Media Center was kind enough to do an interview with me and he's got some really...

New Build of .NET Refactor at www.knowdotnet.com

Published 28 June 4 12:23 AM | William

If you are interested in refactoring, then you may want to try out new .NET Refactor . The newest build is available here .This version has support for both VB.NET and C# and chances are, you need some refactoring. We're still building features into it...

Casey asks that we all Pray for him.

Published 27 June 4 2:55 PM | William

The visual image of Casey's latest blog at Ohio Rest Stops was truly hilarious. I thought that stuff only happened here in the South. I thought all of the preachers down here ran the Devil back up North where he belongs. So I wouldn't have guessed that...

Why is Andy such a Precision Freak?

Published 27 June 4 2:37 PM | William

Ok, I'm not being serious. If you haven't read his piece on Floating Point Number , let me tell you, it's a great read. While most of us don't confront issues that require this precision or even think in these types of terms, some people do and it's nice...

A Discussion on ADO.NET

Published 27 June 4 12:27 PM | William

Those of you who know me no doubt know that I'm an ADO.NET nut. To date, I can honestly say that i've read every ADO.NET book out there, at least as indicated by Amazon.com and the major publishers. I'm pretty active in the MS ADO.NET Ng (not the last...

My Reivew of the iMATE Pocket PC Phone Edition - The World's Coolest Phone

Published 27 June 4 12:58 AM | William

Yes, it's one of the few new gadgets that lives up to the hype. To read the full review, click here . I'm going to have the full length review of the new Personal Media Center tomorrow, but if you are interested here's one part now

Personal Media Center and Phil Hendrie - A Match Made in Heaven

Published 26 June 4 10:6 PM | William

First, get one of these and then head over here . It's about as easy to sync your backstage Pass with your PMC as it can be. In this regard, the hype is real, Personal Media Center s just plain old kick a33. I haven't done much syncing with my TV shows...

.NET Patterns Architecture, Design and Process

Published 25 June 4 7:12 PM | William

As you all can probably tell, Addison-Wesley has definitely worked thier way into my favorites list as far as book publishers go. Their Microsoft .NET Development Series is like one hit title after another. Microsoft Press obviously is a strong player...

Cool textbox trick on the Compact Framework

Published 25 June 4 4:5 PM | William

Peter Foot just posted this really cool little trick to simulate automatically pressing the shift key on the SIP. The code is straightforward but it accomplishes the task at hand very well. When I first saw the post I was off searching for something to...

The Solution to my Cat Problem

Published 25 June 4 9:0 AM | William

Again, Andy comes up with a killer solution to one of my problems. Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty.

Girlfriends and their computer 'needs'

Published 23 June 4 3:3 PM | William

I'm frustrated b/c of some silly stuff that happened at the DMV today and someone got on my nerves there. Totally unrelated to anyone I know but frustrating nonetheless. SO I figured I'd just start bitching and get myself in trouble. Just had to bust...

.NET For Strippers Workspace Now on GotDotNet

Published 23 June 4 1:15 AM | William

I tried to include all of the regular readers but I couldn't get some of your emails. Please note that you are ALL invited. Here's the Workspace on GotDotNet. I left the admission open so you are all welcome. If you know of anyone that is interested,...

My Girlfriend Kim is the b35t

Published 20 June 4 11:54 PM | William

Me and the little lady haven't had much time to chill for a while. So we had a weekend alone and just chilled, eating Thai Food and doing much of nothing. We were invited to both of the South Carolina Republican Primaries for Demint and Beasley. I”m...

.NET For Strippers Project looking for Developers

Published 20 June 4 4:37 PM | William

A while back, Casey discussed writing a book called .NET For Strippers. That was one of my first experiences with Brains-N-Brawn and I immediately realized he had to be one of the coolest dudes in the universe. Anyway, you may also be aware that I am...

Sorry A33 Programmers revisited

Published 19 June 4 7:29 PM | William

I guess I'm losing my creativity since I'm resorting to these continuations of previous topics but Phil and Andy chimed in on the last issue of Sorry A33 Programmers and both of them are brilliant. I'm pleasantly suprised each time I check back and read...

CrackHeads and Children's Birthday Parties

Published 19 June 4 2:54 PM | William

This morning, a friend of mine had a birthday for this 2 year old son and me, Kim and Sarah went. They had it at this park in Spartanburg and it's a really nice place. So we get there and the kids are playing and I'm shooting the sh1t with a guy Kim works...