February 2005 - Posts

Another great Andy Joke

Published Fri, Feb 18 2005 5:21 | William

I'm not on a single Joke list or anything these days - so I rely on Andy for my jokes - and he always comes through. .

Filed under: Humor, Mindless Babbling

XM and C#

Published Thu, Feb 17 2005 17:22 | William

Thanks to my homie Jason Burton for this link . Ben Stallhood does an excellent job covering the XM Spec - and it's way cool - unless you aren't into XM Radio. Speaking of XM Radio - does anyone here listen to Phil Hendrie Show ? There was like a year...

Filed under: .NET General, Coding Techniques

Ignore Generated from Script

Published Thu, Feb 17 2005 11:56 | William

Yes, I'm a dork and shouldn't blog under the influence. This should work - and should post 3 times.

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005, Mindless Babbling

Ignore - Generated From Test Script

Published Thu, Feb 17 2005 11:51 | William

Yes, I'm a dork and shouldn't blog under the influence. This should work - and should post 3 times.

Filed under: Me, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Mindless Babbling

Excel Application Yuckyness

Published Thu, Feb 17 2005 11:46 | William

If you've done much w/ VBA in .NET - you are probably familiar with the old Ghost entries of Excel or Word for instance that stay in your process list even after the application closes. There are ways to deal with it of course - but it's a pain. Started...

Filed under: .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Life on Mars

Published Thu, Feb 17 2005 10:54 | William

I just came across this - would be pretty friggin cool if it turns out to be true.

Filed under: News

Please do this at home...

Published Thu, Feb 17 2005 1:16 | William

Using new VS.NET 2005 - I have a challenge - I beat the CAPTCHA twice today - using a tool that was avaialble in VS.NET and previous versions of Pocket PC.. Replicate this behavior using a Test project and you get a prize!

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

So did I spam my own blog?

Published Wed, Feb 16 2005 18:54 | William

After running my own tests - I just started wondering, it is uncool to spam your own blog?

Filed under: Humor, Me

Unit Testing in Visual Studio .NET 2005

Published Wed, Feb 16 2005 18:51 | William

Today has been like some sort of rebuttal to the entire last week - everything went right and then some. Well, not totally but pretty close anyway. As I was screwing around with the new Magneto bits - or should I say sitting there wondering what it would...

Filed under: .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

On the follies of being an adult

Published Wed, Feb 16 2005 0:08 | William

I remember about 20 years ago, back in middle school - when I used to have to consider how to deal with bullies and a-holes. Basically, everyone told you that you should stand up to them. Back then, the whole 'get ghetto' on them thing was becomming in...

Filed under: Me

Compact Framework Tricks

Published Tue, Feb 15 2005 23:44 | William

It's been a few days since I've blogged but yes I'm alive. I'd like to tell you that something just really pissed me off last week and after throwing a temper tantrum - I needed to just chill. But that wouldn't be true. In reality - I was out snowboarding...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Visual Studio .NET 2005

The Welcomed Demise of Access

Published Mon, Feb 7 2005 20:14 | William

It's only Monday and it's already been one of those weeks... Anyway, I needed to just come home and distract myself but my ADD was kicking in hard. If you are unfamiliar with ADD - it's a fancy term “I can't f***cking concentrate on anything and...

Filed under: Data Access, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Team System thinks I'm a l0s3r

Published Sun, Feb 6 2005 19:03 | William

So far, I can't set up any of my data sources, I can't connect anything, and basically all I'm able to do is make cool looking shapes and leave myself meaningful comments. Obviously Team System isn't one of those “don't worry about reading the instructions...

Filed under: Humor, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Sql Mobile - Too Cool for words

Published Sun, Feb 6 2005 13:13 | William

I was in the middle of writing an article on Sql Mobile before Kim dragged me away ;-). The new Management Tools for Yukon alone are enough to make me love the product. The Sql Server team definitely did their homework well on this one b/c the whole UI...

Filed under: .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

So we can't afford Tax Cuts huh?

Published Sun, Feb 6 2005 12:44 | William

I have an idea - QUIT BUYING SH1T LIKE THIS! . Aren't we like in the middle of a war or something? Shouldn't someone's head roll over crap like this. If we started firing all of the incompetent twits at the government (The Congress and Senate wouldn't...

Filed under: News

Meet Mike- Group Manager for the Compact Framework

Published Fri, Feb 4 2005 13:24 | William

Glad to see he's now blogging.

Filed under: News, Compact Framework

Unable to Start Debugging in ASP.NET Applications.

Published Thu, Feb 3 2005 15:59 | William

Well, it's happened to my on a few machines so I figured I'd mention it. You're going along, your ASP.NET apps are working fine other than the bugs you've coded in them, and then you reboot one day and poof - as soon as you try to compile you get a “Unable...

Filed under: News, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005

A little humor from my friend Andy

Published Wed, Feb 2 2005 20:52 | William

Filed under: News, Humor

VNC on the Compact Framework and more

Published Tue, Feb 1 2005 21:36 | William

My boy Jason just tipped me off to a C# VNC . Even runs on the Compact Framework - very very cool

Filed under: News, Compact Framework, .NET General