March 2005 - Posts

170 Million?

Published Fri, Mar 25 2005 17:40 | William

Unreal ---- http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,151421,00.html

Filed under: News

"The Documentation Cache is still being constructed..."

Published Fri, Mar 25 2005 11:37 | William

As much as I love working in Whidbey, it's still beta ergo there are still a lot of little things that need some tweaking. I was having some ComboBox weirdness happening when I tried doing ComboBoxName.Items.Add(Object). Here's what intellisense showed...

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005

My Homie Sahil on Bridging Relational, Object and XML Data Models

Published Fri, Mar 25 2005 10:26 | William

Sahil has a really amazing writing style - on that allows him to make just about any topic, no matter how dull, interesting. And watch out when he actually has an interesting topic to discuss . Excellent job my friend!

Filed under: Data Access, .NET General

Computer Skills gone bad

Published Thu, Mar 24 2005 8:01 | William

A little OT but I came across some of the work that Jeff Weise did. The kid obviously had some decent Technical Skillz with Macromedia Flash although if you watch his stuff, I think it's far to say that it's a bit too prophetic to really be admired. It...

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Geek Bling Bling

Published Wed, Mar 23 2005 17:44 | William

All the way Fly

Filed under: Humor

Scarry GPS/Map Point stuff

Published Mon, Mar 21 2005 10:18 | William

While I give the guy props for his technical implementation, I'm not sure that having your wife track you via GPS is cool. American women are already out of control and giving them ideas like this, sheesh! http://spaces.msn.com/members /steverider/Blog...

Filed under: Compact Framework

Credit Cards for Dummies

Published Sat, Mar 19 2005 19:04 | William

I got an email (wasn't spam) today with an offer for a new credit card among other things. I don't have any credit card debt right now but was interested in getting a new tablet and thought, if the terms were right, it might be a good idea get one. Until...

Filed under: News

Telling the Internet Bad Guys to F-Off

Published Sat, Mar 19 2005 18:33 | William

This is hardly hot off of the press news, but I figured it's useful and I'd post it. One way to keep yourself 'safe' while on the net is via your Hosts file. This won't guarantee your safety, but at a minimum it will make your browsing a little less annoying...

Filed under: News, MVP Stuff

Andy's little declaration of war!

Published Sat, Mar 19 2005 11:58 | William

I remember Terry McAuliffe's reallly funny speech the last night he was head of the DNC “I don't know what happened,we got over 90% of the Duck Hunting Windsurfer demographic”. If you haven't noticed, the BIASed Heteronormative and Speciest...

Filed under: Humor

Configuration Enhancements in Visual Studio .NET 2005

Published Fri, Mar 18 2005 23:54 | William

When I first started working at http://www.tibasolutions.com , I quickly realized that we were doing quite a few things that I had never come across before. Our typical projects are usually mid to large size enterprise applications brimming with cusomtizations...

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005

More Details on Orange Code Camp

Published Tue, Mar 15 2005 23:07 | William

Orange Code Camp - an intensive three day event in Florida where member's of Orange Partner - the partner and developer programme for mobile company Orange can... test products against their networks as live learn about and fully understand the Orange...

Filed under: News, Compact Framework

Violating NDA and Misc other subjects

Published Mon, Mar 14 2005 15:29 | William

This monday marks the third or fourth week I quit drinking (I just remember it was a Monday) and I was hoping that drama in my life would decrease. For the most part, it has (my a-hole moments increase exponentially when i drink). But not really. I posted...

Filed under: MVP Stuff, Me

DontWasteMyMoneyOnStupidFingThings

Published Sun, Mar 13 2005 21:24 | William

A priceless piece from my homie Chris Auld

Filed under: Humor

Posting to Newsgroups!

Published Sun, Mar 13 2005 19:53 | William

Daniel Moth just this piece on being cool in newsgroups . All I can say is Amen brother!

Filed under: .NET General

New VB Petitions....

Published Sun, Mar 13 2005 10:36 | William

http://www.cadencoding.net/blogs/users/cornbread/comments.aspx?id=149 http://www.atrevido.net/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=a1db3a46-466b-440b-ad71-55b13e2feb75

Filed under: News, Humor

Sorry, I just had to post this...

Published Sat, Mar 12 2005 18:00 | William

Ok, I feel really guilty about this, but since I haven't really been blogging for a while, I missed a few thigns. First, the the gay penguins in Berlin now the necrophiliac ducks in the Netherlands . I heard on the Neil boortz show that the Penguins were...

Filed under: Humor, Mindless Babbling

Whorish Media...

Published Sat, Mar 12 2005 16:03 | William

I was sitting at work today trying to get caught up on some work I have to do. It's pretty friggin cool b/c it's for a major state agency and we're doing a Proof of Concept on it. It's going to be a Tablet PC based application and it's using SQL Mobile...

Filed under: Mindless Babbling

Orange Code Camp - April 18-20 [Sarasota, FLA]

Published Fri, Mar 11 2005 15:08 | William

Looks like a great excuse to skip work for a few days... - and it's cheap too - $249.00 [usd]

Filed under: News

Code Camp in Charlotte - April 30

Published Fri, Mar 11 2005 8:42 | William

Well, I just finalized the arrangements for the April 30 Code Camp in Charlotte, NC . Finally decided to do this one on Speech Server - and of course, doing Speech Server on the Compact Framework.

Filed under: News

Exception Inuendo

Published Thu, Mar 10 2005 17:06 | William

So El Maliko http://codebetter.com/blogs/sahil.malik/archive/2005/03/07/56645.aspx via Sexual Inuendo. Ok, so I started thinking about this. StackOverloadException - When a VB programmer is asked to do something more complicated than MsgBox(”Duh”...

Filed under: Humor