April 2005 - Posts

System.Transactions/TransactionScope in ADO.NET 2.0 B2

Published Thu, Apr 28 2005 14:24 | William

Even though he's a real jerk when it comes to hooking a brotha up with a Cobra, Sahil is the man and this post in particular kicks a33. Especially the example content ;-)

Filed under: Data Access, Visual Studio .NET 2005

Rocky Lotka Keeping it REAL on the VB6 Petition

Published Tue, Apr 26 2005 22:49 | William

Amen Brother

Filed under: .NET General

Here Kitty Kitty Kitty (thanks Andy)

Published Tue, Apr 26 2005 21:19 | William

I wish I knew where this store was - I'd buy a bunch.

Filed under: Humor

Which one of these pictures pisses you off more?

Published Tue, Apr 26 2005 20:48 | William

They could both be hoaxes but like her or hate her, Michelle Malkin is a pretty straight shooter as far as getting her facts straight. Assuming neither of them is a Dan Rather, which one pisses you off more? Personally it's close for me but I guess a...

Filed under: Humor

My Speech Server is all the way thug

Published Mon, Apr 25 2005 17:24 | William

So far, I'm throwing a few ideas around to really make my upcoming code camp presentations good. I just ask myself “What would Casey Chesnut ” do and then I get good ideas. So I was playing around with it, and started putting in Lyrics to...

Filed under: News, Speech Server, Me

Why Wait - you can Refactor VB.NET & C# Without waiting for the 2.0 Framework

Published Mon, Apr 25 2005 16:58 | William

Seeing lots of buzz about being able to refactor w/ the 2.0 Framework. A while back we created .Net Refactor and honestly, I think it's a great product and very well priced. Give it a try and let me know what you think - for better or for worse (although...

Filed under: News, Me

Yet another Microsoft Anti-Discrimination blog

Published Mon, Apr 25 2005 14:54 | William

Well, I had to chime in. Not because I care a whole lot either way but because it's getting good. Gary Cornell chimed in.... . Tobin's response was pretty interesting, one part in particular. What if Bill and Steve decided to get saved at the First Baptist...

Filed under: Mindless Babbling

Professor Bullsh1t - I knew it

Published Mon, Apr 25 2005 13:51 | William

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22762 . The MONEY Quote: << "Although I have unlimited respect for facts, and delight in their discovery and appreciation, I have come to the obvious yet almost blasphemous view that, with respect to teaching...

Filed under: Life in General

Speech Server, Book Writing, Code Camps and Pimped out rides

Published Sun, Apr 24 2005 1:42 | William

For the last week, things have gotten kind of weird in my life. And by most standards, I'm pretty friggin weird to begin with. I stared working with Wally McClure on writing a book and so far, things have been going really well. But so far I've only encountered...

Filed under: Speech Server, MVP Stuff, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Cool clocks

Published Sat, Apr 23 2005 16:12 | William

Considering that I live with so many cuckoo birds, they keep me informed about cool clocks. Check these out: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~snoom/c2.swf http://t2.technion.ac.il/~snoom/cable_clock.swf http://t2.technion.ac.il/~snoom/3dc2.swf http://t2.technion...

Filed under: Me

Mid Atlantic Code Camp

Published Sat, Apr 23 2005 13:35 | William

Well, as things wind down the schedules are being posted the upcoming code camps . I'm excited about all three of them. This month, I'm going to be a busy puppy - 3 code camps, a MSDN Webcast, MEDC and my chapters in two different books. All that adds...

Filed under: Me

Smart Cards and Mobile Embedded Developer's Conference

Published Fri, Apr 22 2005 23:28 | William

Smart Cards are one of those things that I know I want to use, just can't seem to find many places to use them. The most notable exception is w/ Microsoft's Code Center Premium Edition which uses a Smart Card. I know that about a year ago when I got a...

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New Freestyle Battle Link

Published Fri, Apr 22 2005 22:10 | William

Since my blog has become one of the hottest places for Freestylers to battle, I needed to open up another link...

Filed under: Humor

Propert Grid in the 2.0 Framework

Published Fri, Apr 22 2005 22:07 | William

Like a whole lot of other things in the 2.0 Framework, stuff that used to be a pain in the a55 got a whole lot simpler. Using the PropertyGrid control is probably on of the easiest of them. Basically, if you want to provide a clean and easy way for people...

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005

Professor Bullsh1t

Published Thu, Apr 21 2005 22:55 | William

I'm hardly qualified to comment on the subject, but listening to this Berkley Professor talk about laptop theft.... set off every BS detector in my house.

Filed under: News

Structured Exceptions in ADO.NET 2.0/Yukon

Published Thu, Apr 21 2005 1:47 | William

Well, tonight I just pretty much finished up the first chapter of one of the two books I'm working on . Anyway, one of the Chapters I'm wriitng is on the T-SQL Enhancements and I got to wondering. How are Exceptions that you raise in T-SQL handled from...

Filed under: Data Access, Visual Studio .NET 2005

The Truest words ever spoken

Published Wed, Apr 20 2005 16:23 | William

My friend Jason just sent me this link about CCing but suffice to say that I feel it's the TRUEST post I've read. I've blogged about this a few times before because I once worked with a CC nazi, but this is a post that should be posted in the breakroom...

Filed under: Humor, Me

Monetary Worth of Your Degree

Published Tue, Apr 19 2005 15:56 | William

This is just sooooooooooooooooooooo true that I had to post it in its entirety: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some of my listeners just can't stand...

Filed under: News

Design Simplicity

Published Mon, Apr 18 2005 13:44 | William

My friend Jason just sent me this link on simplicity vs complexity in designs. I'm sure every one of us has over engineered something in our time or scoffed at a simplistic design that turned out to actualy be pretty solid. How many times have we all...

Filed under: Coding Techniques

Gutsy Blog Entries

Published Sun, Apr 17 2005 21:19 | William

By now, virtually every blog reader has heard about someone who's gotten fired for blogging. Well, one of my Feedmap neighbors just just posted this . I don't think anyone will ever accuse him of not having b4lls ;-). Anyway, I'm writing this from this...

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