May 2005 - Posts

Dear Apress....

Published Fri, May 13 2005 11:11 | William

As a loyal customer, I need to ask you for one favor. This is a very petty and immature request on my part, but I have to ask it anyway. Please don't give Tobin any more HardCovers for his books: Working with Tobin is hard enough as it is because he outdoes...

Filed under: News, Humor, Books, Me

A busy but good month so far

Published Fri, May 13 2005 7:56 | William

1- 2, Microsoft Code Camps (Charoltte, Reston) 2-Books (2 Chapters in Wally's book, 3 Chapters in Jean-Lucs Book) 3- MSDN Webcast 4- Technical Review of 6 Chapters in a new, very cool Addison-Wesley book. 5- Code Camp in Atlanta this weekend 6- Taking...

Filed under: Me

Intellectual Property Theft

Published Thu, May 12 2005 11:27 | William

One of my co-authors, Ambrose just wrote intellectual property theft . Well said.

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Misc Technology

Geek Hell

Published Thu, May 12 2005 11:19 | William

Back in undergrad, I read a Jean Paul Sartre play called No Exit (and just about everythign else him, Kierkegaard and the rest of the existentialist wrote) which was about Exisentialist hell. My blog map neighbor Chris has a funny piece where he described...

Filed under: Life in General, Me

Windows Mobile 5.0 is now ready for prime time

Published Wed, May 11 2005 14:00 | William

I've been pretty heavily involved in the beta and am stoked that it's finally released. Unfortunately I was unable to attend MEDC this year which was a REAL bummer but details are available here...

Filed under: Compact Framework

With ADO.NET DataTables Remove != Delete

Published Tue, May 10 2005 19:39 | William

One of the very first mistakes I made when I was learning ADO.NET was confusing DataTable.Select with Remove. I wrote this a while ago which explains the distinction in detail. Bill Vaughn was kind enough to set me straight on the issue. Anyway, in a...

Filed under: Data Access, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Another VB6 Gem

Published Mon, May 9 2005 15:04 | William

After someone asnwered the crux of his question.... <<I appreciate this, but something's not working right. Can u convert the entire vb code? Thanks in advance.>>

Filed under: Humor

VB6ers at it again!

Published Mon, May 9 2005 14:33 | William

Well, I just got some great comments in regard to This post # re: Spot the VB6 Programmer 5/7/2005 10:53 AM VB User Andy is a ****** dickh**d arse licker << Editor's Note: I blotted out the profanity>> # re: Spot the VB6 Programmer 5/7/2005...

Filed under: Humor

Agreed

Published Sun, May 8 2005 18:29 | William

Julia this about Microsoft caring about it's employees . Gary Cornell this a while back about Ballmer putting his money where his mouth is (Gary, if you're reading this, you're blog is getting killed with SPAM unfortunately. Mabye time for a CAPTCHA)...

Filed under: Me

Prime Time Podcast

Published Sun, May 8 2005 18:01 | William

This weekend, Wally interviewed me Sahil amongst other folks for an ASP.NET podcast that Jason Salas and he are working on. I had spoken with Lance from Lance from Prime Time Podcast a while ago and he encouraged me to give it a try. I'm a day late and...

Filed under: Me, .NET General

Mid-Atlantic Code Camp Picture

Published Sun, May 8 2005 14:16 | William

If you look at my Galleries, most of the pictures are there right now. I definitely need to get a little better orgainzed. BTW, before you go over there, everything is marked exactly what it is for the most part. Great Moments in Ballet, Glad I only work...

Filed under: Humor

Dutch Ovens, Bathroom etiquette and other silly stuff

Published Sun, May 8 2005 13:25 | William

The other day, Frans Bouma had posted a reponse where he brings up the English expression “Going Dutch”. It appears that the expression isn't valid. Well, the “Dutch Expression” I really like is Dutch Oven . But I got to thinking...

Filed under: Humor, Me

Travel Meme from Andy

Published Sun, May 8 2005 10:05 | William

Normally I get these from Scott but this time it came from Andy Your Travel Profile: You Are Extremely Well Traveled in the Midwestern United States (100%) You Are Extremely Well Traveled in the Southern United States (92%) You Are Extremely Well Traveled...

Filed under: Memes

Mid-Atlantic Code Camp

Published Sat, May 7 2005 13:54 | William

Well, I was going to start posting some pics, I have some doosies, but the Proxy at Microsoft isn't letting me through. Oh well, I'll post them later. So far, ran into Wally McClure [The new King of Podcasts], Sahil Malik , Julia Lerman , Andrew Duthie...

Filed under: Me, Code Camps

Flying is cheaper than Driving sometimes...

Published Fri, May 6 2005 16:14 | William

Well, I'm winding down ready to Mid Atlantic Code Camp in Reston, VA tomorrow. So I was ready to rent a car b/c it's a LONG trip from here, about 9 hours driving and realized with gas prices as they are, this was going to run me at least 2 or 3 hundred...

Filed under: Me

Simulating Taps on Pocket PC

Published Fri, May 6 2005 14:41 | William

Ok, Peter Foot posted another cool article . I love this idea - now if I can just get it to work on Tablet.

Filed under: Compact Framework

Software P.I.M.P

Published Fri, May 6 2005 14:35 | William

So the Agile Developer has a post about the title Architect . So he asks, what's a cool title to have. Software Hero? Cheesy. Software Engineer? Maybe, but I worked with a guy who knew nothing but Crystal Reports and he LOVED calling himself Software...

Filed under: Humor

Licensing the CC

Published Thu, May 5 2005 17:47 | William

As you all know, I love complaining about stuff. One of my favorite things in the world is complaining about CC's. They should totally take that feature out of Outlook - or at least, they should charge for it. Seriously, it would be totally cool irony...

Filed under: Me

Using Outlook to fire Skype calls...

Published Thu, May 5 2005 1:07 | William

Darren just posted this little blurb on how to do it - Very Very cool . Basically it let's you use your Outlook contact list to initiate www.skype.com calls. Although I've been using www.packet8.com for a while and have been really pleased with it, I...

Filed under: Misc Technology

Roku's new Product Showcase

Published Wed, May 4 2005 21:43 | William

Ok, this is pure keeping up with the Joneses (or Ryan's in my case) but it's way cool. A certain Punjabi homie of mine decided it would be funny to send me links to Wireless media players that only cost $50.00 - immediately after I got my Soundbridge...

Filed under: Me, Roku