February 2005 - Posts

College Debate...

Published 28 February 5 11:2 PM | William

A little while ago, I was at my favorite local restaurant minding my own business reading the Updated version of Ingo's Killer remoting book . I eat there regularly and use it as a time to catch up on my reading - then I usually go home and try out a...

Filed under: Me, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

Remote control for Smartphone

Published 28 February 5 10:39 PM | William

Just saw this Smartphone Remote Control on MS Mobiles - damn it's cool

Filed under: News

Code Camp

Published 28 February 5 1:42 PM | William

I'll be speaking at two different code camps in the near future - the one in Atlanta and the one in Charlotte. Code camp is really cool even though they let people like me talk there - they have to allow the token dork make a speech. If you aren't familiar...

Filed under: News, .NET General

Why I love T-Mobile

Published 28 February 5 11:43 AM | William

Well, other than the fact I got pics of Paris and some chick because of http://www.t-mobile.com , I really love T-Mobile. When I first moved to Greenville, there were a few spots that weren't covered but overall coverage was great. Then, within two months...

Filed under: Me, Mindless Babbling

IConfigurationSectionHandler, MasterPages and more...

Published 26 February 5 1:8 AM | William

An excellent post from start to finish.

Filed under: Coding Techniques

DataReader vs. DataAdapter

Published 26 February 5 12:53 AM | William

I'm totally stoked to see Bill Vaughn blogging because he's 1) Irish 2) named William 3) He's a bad a33. I saw Sahil and Rocky chimed in on this issue - and it's one that I feel like running my big trap about too. In the debate between which to use, there...

Filed under: Data Access, Coding Techniques

HoneyPots?

Published 25 February 5 2:36 PM | William

Considering that lately I'm falling flat on my face in the 'Things I want to do' vs 'Things I actually find time to do' category, the issue of HoneyPots really got my interest up. Just saw Apress is putting out a new book on HoneyPots by Roger Grimes...

Filed under: Books, Me

Another Meme via Scott R.

Published 24 February 5 12:22 PM | William

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Installing the December CTP Release of Visual Studio Team System

Published 23 February 5 8:11 PM | William

hot off of the press!

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005

"Rate this comment"

Published 23 February 5 4:56 PM | William

Check out the new feature on Aaron's blog.

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My PocketPC Phone Edition is nice and safe.

Published 23 February 5 4:52 PM | William

I know, I already posted a link about this but d4mn this would suck . Just walking by the display w/ your Bluetooth on can get you infected? Yuck!

Filed under: News, Compact Framework

High School Meme

Published 21 February 5 9:24 PM | William

Got this latest meme from Andy and Scott : What year was it? 1985-1989 What were your three favorite bands (performers)? Rem, The Church, Depeche Mode, 10,000 Maniacs, Pink Floyd can't remember if Nine inch nails was senior high school year or freshman...

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The most Disturbing I've seen since the "Gimp" scene in Pulp Fiction.

Published 21 February 5 8:33 PM | William

Ok, assume Pulp Fiction was real life. Who would you rather be, this poor SOB or Marsallus Wallace? Just like the Bobbit case, I'm wondering how far down the chopping went... but I better stop here because the next stream of consciousness is just too...

Filed under: News, Humor

Google SMS

Published 21 February 5 8:28 PM | William

http://www.google.com/sms/ is just what I needed to start playing with. Now when I'm SMSing and driving - I can also get responses back on things like directions to where I'm going. This will provide the perfect excuse for SMS and Driving

Filed under: News, Compact Framework

Adventures with my iMATE

Published 21 February 5 8:19 PM | William

About a week ago, I started playing with Magneto and built my first RSS Reader based on it. BFD. Well the whole thing got me in a Mobile kind of mindset, which is cool because I need to be in that mindset more often. So I decided that I have way too much...

Filed under: News, Compact Framework

It doesn't infect Pocket PC!

Published 21 February 5 5:4 PM | William

Well, I'm not sure if this is really the 'first' mobile virus but suffice to say they aren't common.

Filed under: News, Compact Framework

Someone please tell me where I could get one of these!!!!!!!

Published 21 February 5 12:21 PM | William

Since it's illegal and all - I would NEVER actually purchase one, but if anyone knows where I can get one of these cell phone jammers , please let me know. This is purely for informative purposes of course since there's some stupid law against selling...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

Technological Paradoxes of Phishing Scams

Published 21 February 5 11:44 AM | William

Irrespective of how much I hate the SOB's, I have to give it to the people that create the Phishing Scams and many of the spammers - at least in terms of technology. They definitely come up with some pretty clever mechanisms for pulling off their BS....

Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling

Stuff I learned this weekend...

Published 20 February 5 7:58 PM | William

--It gets technical - I promise Last night, Kim and I rented Open Water . I actually wanted to see it when it was out in the theatre but didn't get the opportunity. Scuba divers that I've met with very few exceptions tend to be amongst the most annoying...

Filed under: Humor, Mindless Babbling

What's the best music for coding?

Published 18 February 5 5:41 AM | William

Different strokes for different folks - I know. But for me, I usually download the last nights Phil Hendrie Show which is a 3 hour show but usually comes to about 1 hour and 45 minutes b/c commercials are edited out. That usually causes me to start busting...

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