April 2005 - Posts

Linguistic Profile - another cool meme from Scott Reynolds.

Published Sun, Apr 17 2005 20:20 | William

in the spirit of my Most annoying accent post, I'm not sure if I like the results of Scott's latest Meme or not . Casey lived in Pittsburgh for a while as did I, and he can verify that it's one of the most annoying accents there is. They've even officially...

Filed under: Life in General

Mega BlogMap

Published Sun, Apr 17 2005 6:04 | William

I came across two pretty interesting folks in the area after Adding a blogmap . I now read both of htier blogs.... So that puts us at 3 for Greenvile. Now if yoyu check out Jeremy Brayton's friggin *blogmap* - 36 PEOPLE! Sure, Hotlanta is a lot bigger...

Filed under: News, Me, Mindless Babbling

Help With a Partioning Problem

Published Sun, Apr 17 2005 0:32 | William

I really should already know how to handle this problem, but I'm at wits end and am seeking assistance. I have a P4 with an 80 Gig hard drive. Originally, my friend installed the hard drive for me and made three partitions on it so there's a C:\ drive...

Filed under: Life in General, Me

Graphics Coolness

Published Sat, Apr 16 2005 20:46 | William

This takes a while to watch in it's entirety but it's really neat. It's a high speed etchasketch drawing of a woman from the inside out. I can think of a few enhancements I'd make... uhh never mind.

Filed under: Humor

Another great catch from Anatoly

Published Sat, Apr 16 2005 6:29 | William

Between Anatoly and Tobin I'm feeling like a real slacker. Although I know how easy it is to bitch about stuff as compared to fixing it, the response is classic. What's up with all the dudes with cool names blogging all the cool stuff lately

Filed under: .NET General

DoS through TCP sequence number vulnerability

Published Fri, Apr 15 2005 23:41 | William

Granted that he's my friend and co-worker so i'm pretty biased, but Tobin has had some really kick a55 Posts Lately . I got into Security for a little while (at least .NET Security) but working at TiBA well, it's really got me focusing on Security and...

Filed under: .NET General

What's wrong with this Transaction?

Published Fri, Apr 15 2005 18:55 | William

I've seen this come up in newsgroups quite a bit and figured that although it's not exactly hot news, it's worth mentioning. Let's say that you have a DataSet and you want your updates to work transactionally [meaining that they all succeed or fail together...

Filed under: Data Access, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques

Sql Mobile Comes of Age - (They're letting me do another Web Cast!!!!)

Published Fri, Apr 15 2005 13:28 | William

Well, I just got the confirmation and looks like I'll be doing a web cast on Sql Mobile. That's cool because Sql Mobile Rocks! Also, if you're a Sql Mobile fan, Rob Tiffany Acknowledged that he's still alive . Rob wrote two really killer wrote two really...

Filed under: Compact Framework, Data Access, Me

New Meme - which leader are you

Published Thu, Apr 14 2005 19:39 | William

What Famous Leader Are You? personality tests by similarminds.com

Filed under: Me

This didn't come from the "C#" Group

Published Thu, Apr 14 2005 18:32 | William

With that as your only hint, want to guess where it *did* come from: “Hi everyone, I am a newbee in the .NET world. Please guide me ?? Scenario: I have a master computer, say, m1 in cityA. I have other client PCs in seperate cities, say, cityB,...

Filed under: Humor, Coding Techniques

Cool Data Base Manager from GUI Innovations

Published Thu, Apr 14 2005 10:59 | William

Hi, RemoteSQLCe , the leading tool for manipulation of SqlCE databases from your PC has been enhanced in its latest release. We have always had an option for generating and populating a SqlCE database from SqlServer, Access, Oracle, MySql etc, but prompted...

Filed under: News, Compact Framework

Check your closets!

Published Wed, Apr 13 2005 11:48 | William

This is so hard to believe that I'd exepect it in the Onion but I guess it's real.

Filed under: Humor

Reminder NetCF Online chat tomorrow

Published Mon, Apr 11 2005 17:32 | William

I'll be there ;-) 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! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...

Filed under: Compact Framework

Return of Caustic Phil

Published Mon, Apr 11 2005 7:52 | William

Ever since he's gotten married, it seems Phil has turned into a happy go lucky guy and therefore, doesn't blog like he used to. (If you saw his wife, you'd understand). However when de does blog, he never disappoints! Great to have you back Phil ;-)

Filed under: Humor

Throwing a bone to the VB6ers

Published Sat, Apr 9 2005 12:01 | William

Who said Microsoft doesn't listen to it's customers.

Filed under: MVP Stuff

India Matrimony - Funny Signatures

Published Fri, Apr 8 2005 18:33 | William

I remember a while back when I was at InfoPro , my coworker had receieved an email with an pretty flashy HTML Signature in it for an Indian dating site. We used to chuckle when we got stuff like this b/c people's email signatures can get pretty funny...

Filed under: Humor, Mindless Babbling

The Apress User Group Puzzler

Published Wed, Apr 6 2005 23:10 | William

“This April, Apress is hosting a crossword promotion, the Apress User Group Puzzler. In May, Apress will award a SONY PLAYSTATION PORTABLE to the creator of an original, Apress-inspired crossword puzzle. Please create a five-up/five-down crossword...

Filed under: News

Pocket PC Blogging

Published Wed, Apr 6 2005 21:49 | William

The other day, I added a Feedmap feed and found someone named Darren Swartzendruber right in my area. So I checked out his blog (I found it through Feedmap so I didn't expect that it was tech related) and saw that he was a Pocket PC User user. Anyway...

Filed under: News, Me

Tobin's Blogging Now

Published Wed, Apr 6 2005 19:36 | William

One of the cool things about working is TiBA is I work with some very cool folks. One of my freinds there, Tobin Titus has started blogging again . T writes for Apress and has another book coming out soon that promises to be as good as this and this and...

Filed under: Books

Getting Props for .NET Refactor

Published Wed, Apr 6 2005 15:59 | William

My friends and former co-workers/boss and I created .NET Refactor to help us refactor some of our code and it turned into a pretty cool product pretty fast. Les is the man when it comes to writing Visual Studio .NET Add-Ins and Brian is the man that never...

Filed under: News, .NET General, Coding Techniques