March 2006 - Posts

.NET 2.0 Reading List

Published Thu, Mar 30 2006 3:44 | William

Having done nothing but write about it for a few months now, I've had to do quite a bit of research on .NET 2.0. Being an early adopter I was ahead of the curve, but I was focusing almost exclusively on ADO.NET and ASP.NET until recently. Got a few books...

GotSpeech.NET

Published Thu, Mar 30 2006 3:27 | William

Well, now that I'm starting to get my life caught up, first things first. I know Casey has already posted it, but Marshal and Brandon just create a killer Speech Server Site. Since I'm getting out from under all my .NET 2.0 Work, I'm about to start diving...

A little bird told me Caustic Phil's coming back.

Published Mon, Mar 27 2006 20:57 | William

Well, I'm home sick today and feel like I'm about to die, but I got some good news that cheered me up. Looks like He's gonna be back Keep posted!

Filed under: News, Humor, Misc Technology

Why Avoid Code Behind?

Published Sun, Mar 26 2006 0:17 | William

I spent the good part of this week debugging and redoing a bunch of ASP.NET code that featured the no code behind approach prominently. It was excrutiating to say the least. I know Boiling Springs' Greatest Unemployed Guru is a big advocate of this approach...

Filed under: Humor, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

16 Blocks

Published Sun, Mar 26 2006 0:15 | William

I finally got out of my house for a while and went to see 16 Blocks. Figured if Bruce was in it, how bad could it be. Well, it wasn't as bad as war of the worlds, but it was just slightly more pleasurable then getting one's teeth drilled. Avoid if possible...

Filed under: Life in General, Me

MEDC 2006 - I'll be there.

Published Sun, Mar 26 2006 0:12 | William

MEDC 2006 kicks a55 and I'm lucky enough to go this year. Last year I had issues with not being able to get off of work, but that won't be a problem this year. If you're going to MEDC 2006 , let me know and hopefully we can hook up. I'm trying to be a...

Filed under: News, Compact Framework, Me

Coming out of hybernation

Published Sun, Mar 26 2006 0:04 | William

Recently I took a blog hiatus. The main reason (if anyone cares) is b/c I've been stretched thin on time. I have three books I'm working on, was working on a side contract, started working as a Moderator on the .NET Framework Data Access and Storage and...

Filed under: Me, .NET General, Mindless Babbling

Verizon saves the day

Published Sun, Mar 5 2006 3:34 | William

One of the biggest problems I've had for the last 1/2 year is not being able to get broadband (and now, I'm using IE 7 which interacts with Community Server about as well as [fill in analogy here]. I've went down every possible avenue I could find and...