October 2004 - Posts

Portable XM Radio about to come out

Published Fri, Oct 29 2004 20:28 | William

The Portable XM Radio is available, I NEED one. I'm actually pissed b/c http://www.xmradio.com posted a link to the portable player plus this one , both of which I'd buy in a second but neither of which are available. To me it was like being back in high...

Filed under: News

Source Control from Hell

Published Fri, Oct 29 2004 20:16 | William

Everything I'm about to discuss is complete fiction and bears no resemblance to reality - at least that's my story and I'm sticking with it. There's a product out there that begins with “Source” doesn't end with “Safe” but a word...

Filed under: News

Pray with me

Published Thu, Oct 28 2004 22:59 | William

Dear God, please please please, open a can on the SOB spammers that decided to start spamming my site. Give them cancer of the face. Give their moms cancer of the face. Give all of their loved ones Cancer of the face. Make them listen to Janet Reno and...

Filed under: News

My first stab at a Remoting Article...

Published Thu, Oct 28 2004 0:00 | William

Last night I broke down and wrote my first remoting article. . It really made me appreciate what it takes to be a good writer because I'm not one. take a subject like remoting for instance. Where do you really start? Many people think that breaking stuff...

Filed under: Remoting

"Objective" European Journalism

Published Sun, Oct 24 2004 23:13 | William

Some things are just too good to resist. Anyway, I personally hate the American media and think it totally sucks. I mean you basically have two venues as far as the media goes. On the left is TV news with the exception of Fox, just about every major newspaper...

Filed under: News

Cross Platform Programming

Published Sun, Oct 24 2004 17:54 | William

Just to give you an update on the project ----- so far, it looks like Portable .NET is going to be the weak link. I'm not criticizing it, but the implementation is a little small compared to Mono and obviously the full framework. I am not in any ways...

Filed under: News, Remoting

150k Lines of code

Published Sun, Oct 17 2004 15:11 | William

MSDN just posted http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnppc2k3/html/develop_disconnect_mob_apps.asp cool article titled “ Architecting Disconnected Mobile Applications Using a Service Oriented Architecture”...

Filed under: Compact Framework

OReillyroids

Published Fri, Oct 15 2004 23:52 | William

Damn this is cool . It's an Asteroids remake with Bill O'Reilly as the space ship and a33e3 for asteriods

Filed under: News, Humor

Mocking Religion...

Published Fri, Oct 15 2004 23:43 | William

The ACLU couldn't mock religion as as bad as this does . This says it all: "It's a day for the good Lord, not for the devil," said Barbara Braswell, who plans to send her 4-year-old granddaughter Maliyah out trick-or-treating in a princess costume on...

Filed under: Humor

Could ADO.NET be any cooler?

Published Fri, Oct 15 2004 23:38 | William

Sushil just posted this code to Enumerate Sql Server Instances on your network . Previously, this is the only choice you had without using SQL DMO, and although it works great, lots of folks get mighty skittish whenever they have to P/Invoke stuff. EVERYTHING...

Filed under: Data Access

Cross-Platform .NET Development Using Mono, Portable .NET and Microsoft .NET

Published Fri, Oct 15 2004 18:44 | William

Well, I came home today to a pleasant surprise . And fortunately for me, my new iMAC should be here next Wednesday so I can start freestyling, cross platform style. Right now I'm going to see if I can remote a Dataset from my Linux box over to my Win2k3...

Filed under: News, Humor

Compact Framework Chat w/ MVP's

Published Thu, Oct 14 2004 10:54 | William

Just a reminder that we'll be hosting an online chat tomorrow concerning Smart Device Programming with Visual Studio .NET 2003. We will be on hand ready to answer your questions, so bring 'em on! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title: Smart...

Filed under: News

What's wrong with this code?

Published Wed, Oct 13 2004 18:34 | William

Well, if you see someone post a bug in the newsgroup and you've never seen there name there before, chances are it's not a bug. The signal to noise ratio on alleged bugs is quite low. So, someone posted this today claiming that it's a bug or if it's not...

Filed under: Data Access

He's back!

Published Wed, Oct 13 2004 11:48 | William

Finally, he's back. . Yes hot off the press - the latest from from CausticPhil. Now, I'm the first one to give him a hard time because he hasn't posted recently, but in light of the fact that he's been recently married and considering the stunner he married...

Filed under: News, Humor

Go Canes!

Published Wed, Oct 13 2004 1:48 | William

Contrary to that nonsense Scott posted about my beloved Canes, we're #3 . And Damn, I really hate that Georgia is getting it's rank trounced to somewhere below what sh1t.

Filed under: News

a33 or a55?

Published Wed, Oct 13 2004 1:43 | William

Just wondering, which one is cooler? One of my favorite replies when someone tells me something I don't like is “Blow it out your ass” However when Sarah's around I try not to use it so Kim and I go with “Blow it out your A33”...

Filed under: News

Christa Kicking a33

Published Wed, Oct 13 2004 1:41 | William

She's got a couple of different avatars, but the one with the Black Ninja mask and Sword rocks. It doesn't come up as much as the other ones does, but damn it's cool.

Filed under: News

Looks like another great ADO.NET book is in the midst

Published Wed, Oct 13 2004 0:00 | William

While I was moving, I took some time away from the newsgroups (I posted under 50 in one month ;-( ) and when i came back, I noticed Sahil Malik posting up a storm. Now if you aren't familiar with newsgroups, having someone start posting isn't anything...

Filed under: News

I'm Not making this up -it's a real post!

Published Tue, Oct 12 2004 22:33 | William

Be careful, if you actually look at this code and what it does, YOU WILL TURN TO ROCK. Actually, I put this code on my wall and took 4 steps back, it coincidentally forms Satan's picture Hi guys! Just wanted to let you all know that I created a Variant...

Filed under: News, Humor

Plagairize code - and lame code at that.

Published Tue, Oct 12 2004 21:46 | William

At the risk of sounding like a whiney bitch, I just have to bitch. A while ago, i posted some code in the Code Snippets section of Devbuzz . Well, I posted something really lame but helpful and someone immediately copied the same code and posted it as...