November 2005 - Posts

Cool programmable robot

Published 30 November 5 6:46 PM | William

So there's an affordable robot that's fully programmable with Basic. Wouldn't this kick a33 if you could stick the Compact Framework on the PIC? Sara already has one and just assembled it, I'm thinking of picking one up too. Way high cool factor.

Filed under: Misc Technology

Misc Observations on Biztalk

Published 30 November 5 9:36 AM | William

Yesterday, to my surprise, there was quite a bit of hype about Biztalk 2006. As far as the marketing hype went, I'll go so far as to say that it was featured almost as prominently as Visual Studio 2005 and Sql Server 2005. There were a few differences...

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

'Undocumentation'

Published 24 November 5 8:47 AM | William

My Homie Jason Burton from TiBA just shot me this jewel on 'real' documentation . Everyone needs to read that memo.

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Coding Techniques

XM Rocks

Published 23 November 5 9:20 AM | William

Currently i'm in gadget overload - namely I have way more gadgety stuff than I can even use. XM Radio just made that a lot worse. Three years ago, i got my first XM Radio. Now, you pay $12.95 per month now for the service, for the first radio and $5.95...

Filed under: Me

Portable Media Center - Under $300.00

Published 13 November 5 6:24 PM | William

A few weeks ago, I saw one on sale for $250.00 at a major retailer after rebates. Being that I already have one, I didn't need to get another one. However since it's the Christmas season [I know, I saw Southpark too, 'Christmas' is offensive to Kyle's...

Filed under: Life in General, Me

XBOX 360

Published 13 November 5 6:15 PM | William

I saw a XBOX 360 at WalMart of all places and was quite surprised. Looks like they are coming out next monday. Does anyone know - do I need to pre-order one or are there going to be enough to go around next week?

Filed under: Misc Technology

A cool way to empty out your wallet

Published 13 November 5 5:55 PM | William

Well I was talking with Sara today and heard that she's going independent. That's pretty darned cool since it means she's going to have more time to work on more cool stuff . Right off the bat she mentions embedded the .NET Framework in one of them. Got...

Filed under: Misc Technology

God I hate some MAC users

Published 9 November 5 9:44 AM | William

Well, even though I have a few - this crap e pisses me off so bad I feel like shoving a wide side of my eMac right up some of their a33's. I originally posted the links back through KC's site but figured I'd try again. Since none of my posts seem to be...

Filed under: Misc Technology

All Express Products will be free for a year.

Published 7 November 5 5:38 PM | William

Read on

Filed under: Visual Studio .NET 2005

If you want to prove you're a real programmer

Published 7 November 5 4:51 PM | William

Benchmarking things like this and this is definitely one way to do it. I shouldn't be surprised though, Roland has been rolling in cool posts and projects recently.

Filed under: Remoting, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Meme: No 8th Grade Punk is going to show me up

Published 6 November 5 8:58 PM | William

For once, I didn't get a meme from Scott , I got this one from John Papa . And yes, 8th Graders got nothing on me. You Passed 8th Grade Math Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

Filed under: Memes

How do you handle Session variables?

Published 6 November 5 4:12 PM | William

One of my many pet peeves is working with Session variables that are treated as Strings. For instance, when I see something like this: tbFirstName.Text = Session[”FirstName”].ToString(); Why? Well, because a typical application has zillions...

Filed under: Coding Techniques

Nothing like a platform religious war.

Published 6 November 5 9:33 AM | William

Please click through this link , then click through KC's, then tell the MACholes that were flaming him what wankers they are.

Filed under: Misc Technology

Shameless Gloating

Published 6 November 5 9:8 AM | William

Well, I know I shouldn't do this, but well, there's a few too many UGA fans around me that have been talking trash all season about my hurricanes. #5 Miami whips that #3 Virginia Tech a33 . So for the second week in a row, that puts Miami where and Georgia...

Filed under: Life in General

A few of my JasJar Picks

Published 5 November 5 10:38 AM | William

www. flick r .com More of cuckoozpikshurz's photos tagged with JasJar

Filed under: Misc Technology

South Park Katrina Spoof

Published 5 November 5 9:1 AM | William

The Flooding of Beaverton . Well, I know it's something you've probably already seen, but it's still funny as hell. I'm uploading a few other great ones to my site now (thank God for broadband). This would have taken 3 years from dial-up

Filed under: Humor

The new JASJAR Arrived

Published 2 November 5 3:39 PM | William

I just got Jas Jar and it's too cool for words. It's Tablet PC meets PDA meets phone. Really, it is. You can friggin video teleconference on the friggin thing. I gotta lot of learning to do, will post pics and my new killer app shortly. Mike Fosmire has...

Filed under: Compact Framework