June 2004 - Posts

Sorry A33 Programmers

Published Fri, Jun 18 2004 19:39 | William

I'd like to write a little more on annoying programmers and how to deal with them. Before you accuse me of being a Benedict Arnold, please note that I deal with the same stuff that everyone else does. I get frustrated just like everyone else. But I take...

Our Programmers Don't know how to do it - Revisited

Published Fri, Jun 18 2004 18:18 | William

I got a comment that I let the people off too easy and there's apparently some interest in this subject. Let me say what I should have then.... I'm going to first start with one comment. If you are a developer, and you've told users “It can't be...

"Our programmers don't know how to do it"

Published Thu, Jun 17 2004 21:09 | William

Two days ago, someone close to me sent me an email asking how to enumerate the tables and columns in a SQL Server. This person extremely bright, it's just that she isn't a programmer by profession and doesn't do a whole lot with SQL Server. I showed her...

A few Movie Reviews...

Published Thu, Jun 17 2004 1:17 | William

Maddox just posted some new movie reviews . I was really glad to see this b/c I hated Top Gun. I think he left a few out though. Titanic was one of the dumbest movies I ever saw and I'm sorry, I don't care how cool the special effects are, the ending...

Programmer Wannabe's -AAAAAIIIYYYYYYHHH

Published Wed, Jun 16 2004 22:02 | William

I have had it with Programmer Wannabe's. By Wannabe's I don't mean a recreational user that finds programming fun but doesn't want to do it professionally. I also don't mean people that are intending to do it professionally but are still learning. The...

PowerPoint Nazi - cont'd

Published Tue, Jun 15 2004 19:12 | William

I ranted before about Powerpoint and the evil that it can cause. Again I'd like to point out that it's not Powerpoint's fault that incompetant people find it their lord and savior. It's just too darned bad this happens. But you can tuck away BS under...

A tribute to E.W. Dijkstra

Published Tue, Jun 15 2004 13:56 | William

Andy just responded to my post about Powerpoint Nazis and mentioned that a professor of his, E.W. Dijkstra, would have ripped my beloved PowerPoint Nazi's a new one for their crap. I don't know the guy, but we need more of him. If we had more people like...

ANN: OpenNETCF Source Drop (6/15/04)

Published Tue, Jun 15 2004 13:47 | William

Chris just posted this and thought you'd find it interesting. If you aren't familiar with http://www.Opennetcf.org, it's a great initiative and a MUST Have if you are interested in any serious CF development. >

The PowerPoint Nazi

Published Tue, Jun 15 2004 2:08 | William

If you haven't checked out Caustic Phil's site, you really need to. He's got me inspired to comment on one of my own favorite groups of people to Hate - The PowerPoint Nazi. Powerpoint is great tool and it's not Microsoft's fault that so many total f...

Paul Yao's new Compact Framework book(s) rock!

Published Mon, Jun 14 2004 18:11 | William

Addison-Wesley has really come out swinging recently and I have yet to meet a book in their .NET Developers series that isn't first rate stuff. I recieved a draft of Paul Yao's new Book a while ago and finally got through it. That makes it a perfect sweep...

Political Rant

Published Sat, Jun 12 2004 22:57 | William

Am I the only one that thinks the Wonkette is a lame, BORING snob? What the f^ck is the allure of that site. I admit, I totally disagree with her on just about everything political but being a devout libertarian that's usually the case. I find both the...

The Open Source Debate Revisited

Published Sat, Jun 12 2004 12:49 | William

Not sure if you've seen Caustic Phil new blog, but it's undoubtedly one of the best I've come across. It's so weird how we become desensitized to so many annoying characteristics in people that we just kind of accept them. No one likes Know it alls, particularly...

Spying on people with email

Published Fri, Jun 11 2004 16:00 | William

This is so scarry I don't know what words to use. http://www.didtheyreadit.com/ is a service that will allow you to send email and transmit back the information about when people read it and all. I know, spammers already do this. But this is a commercial...

I'll be hosting a MSDN WebCast, Aug 11

Published Fri, Jun 11 2004 15:44 | William

I got the confirmation from MS, looks like the webcast on the 11th is a done deal. I have to hash it out a bit more, but I'm going to focus on data access techniques and the CF /Smartphone. Since SQLCE isn't implemented on the Smartphone yet, storing...

Installing VS 2005

Published Fri, Jun 11 2004 15:40 | William

After scouring every source I could find, I discovered I'm not alone. Many thanks to Carsten Thomsen who had the answer. If you are an Error 1935 Microsoft.VC80.DebugCRT,publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",version="8.00.0.0" you have to do some fancy footwork...

Conspiracy Whackos about

Published Thu, Jun 10 2004 23:08 | William

One of the interesting things about never sleeping is that I get to listen to Coast To Coast AM on XM . If you don't have XM, get it, it's cooler than hell. I was listening to some lam3 a33e3 “John and Jeff” because I was anxiously waiting for another...

Visual Power Tools for VB.NET

Published Thu, Jun 10 2004 20:35 | William

I'm too sore to do anything other than walk around and too frustrated from my series of Visual Studio .NET 2005 install failures. I started thinking someone at Microsoft must hate me b/c of all the crap I've had with installing 2005. I'm thinking it goes...

Girlfriend Filter, Getting Shown up by Co-Workers and other stuff

Published Thu, Jun 10 2004 16:26 | William

Finally Whidbey looks like it's going to install (Adam installed it on his laptop, clean as a whistle on the first try). That's cool because if it doesn't install, I'm going to quit programming and take up technical writing or something like that so I...

Dotnet247 is evil

Published Thu, Jun 10 2004 11:48 | William

I knew I wasn't alone and this proves it. The other day I came across WinFX247 and just about wanted to barf. Ok, Matt's a smart enough guy and has every right to do what he's doing. But his site is annoying to say the least. For one thing hitting his...

Refactoring for VB Programmers (Don't blame me, I'm just posting the link)

Published Thu, Jun 10 2004 11:40 | William

VB Programmers can too Refactor