April 2006 - Posts

ActiveSync 4.2 Now Available

Published Thu, Apr 27 2006 20:40 | William

I meant to post this last night but got sidetracked. Anyway, download it here .

Filed under: Compact Framework, Misc Technology

Tobin's new Blog

Published Thu, Apr 20 2006 20:35 | William

My former co-worker and good buddy Tobin recently moved to Redmond and is working at Microsoft (lucky bugger). Anyway, looks like he's finally got his Official MSDN Blog up and running and well, he'll no doubt have some good stuff to post

Filed under: Misc Technology

I'll be speaking at Speech Server Days

Published Wed, Apr 19 2006 13:33 | William

I'll be speaking at Two Speech Server Days Events . I have one presentation on May 3 in Atlanta and one in Ft. Lauderdale on June 2nd. Marshall Harrison is going to be speaking as well at the Ft. Lauderdale event, so finally I get to meet him. If you...

Filed under: Speech Server, Me, .NET General

Text To Speech Ideas?

Published Tue, Apr 18 2006 5:01 | William

I've been getting back into my Speech Server book and well, there's a lot to it. My 4th chapter covers Grammars in depth and is a lot longer than I anticpated. If you do much speech work, they you know that Grammars are everything and ostensibly the most...

Filed under: Speech Server, Books

And I thought I got some bad hate mail...

Published Tue, Apr 18 2006 4:54 | William

Well, that's not exactly accurate. I get a fair amount of crap, mainly idle threats to sue me for stuff or some unhinged nut threatening me with his 'high dollar' lawyer . But as far as bona-fide hate mail goes, I don't think I've ever got any. I was...

Filed under: Mindless Babbling

Regular Expression Recipes for Windows Developers: A Problem-Solution Approach (A Problem-Solution Approach)

Published Sun, Apr 16 2006 19:52 | William

My buddy Brian Davis is probably one of the most kick a55 regex gurus I've ever come across. That's created a little bit of a problem b/c whenever I need a regex, even a really complex one, he can usually whip it up in his head faster than I can describe...

Filed under: Books, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Book Update

Published Sun, Apr 16 2006 19:41 | William

A few of you have asked so I figured I'd mention a general update on my Speech Server book. Chapter 1-3 are in the bag and I'm just about done with Chapter 4. Chapter 1 covers your standard technology introduction a brief description of the tools you...

Filed under: Speech Server, Books

Can you get high off of this stuff?

Published Fri, Apr 14 2006 5:46 | William

Since we've moved MSMVPS over to Community Server, comment spam has been a lot better to deal with. In the old days, we either had to make readers suffer through CAPTCHA hell or go through hell cleaning out spam. If I had a dollar for each person that...

Filed under: Mindless Babbling

Another homie of mine just made MVP

Published Fri, Apr 14 2006 5:41 | William

Well, looks like another one of my homies just made MVP . Well done Brian!

Filed under: MVP Stuff

Church of the Subgenius

Published Thu, Apr 13 2006 22:44 | William

I originally heard about The Subgenius custody dispute from Karl Levinson . He was kind enough to include a few other links. http://buffalobeast.blogspot.com/2006/04/more-on-subgenius-child-custody-case.html http://www.buffalobeast.com/96/subgenius.custody...

Filed under: Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

MSN Search showing some love.

Published Thu, Apr 13 2006 13:29 | William

I just changed my blog byline last week and WHEEWWWY, I'm #1 and #2 on MSN Search! for 'Walter Bellhaven'. If you aren't familiar with Walter Bellhaven, here's a little more about him: Quote from Wikipedia entry about Walter Bellhaven : "Walter Bellhaven...

Filed under: Humor

100% Kick a55 Bling

Published Thu, Apr 13 2006 13:25 | William

My friend Jason sent me this killer link . Normally I detest blinging up cars, particularly nice ones, but any rims that come with a computer interface are cool with me.

Filed under: Misc Technology

Partial Classes and Unit Tests

Published Mon, Apr 10 2006 1:53 | William

Just thought of something. A few times when I needed to create unit tests that covered private members, one thing I did was create nested classes. I never liked this approach but in a few cases, it seemed a lot cleaner than the alternatives (after all...

Filed under: Coding Techniques

How do they report this without laughing.

Published Fri, Apr 7 2006 20:49 | William

Being the fan of Gold Tooth Caps that I am, well, I just started cracking up when i read this . Legally I'm not sure if there's precedent or not, but it'll be interesting.

Filed under: Humor

Motorola Q

Published Tue, Apr 4 2006 18:55 | William

I don't really think I can say I *need* one with a straight face, the a new Motorola Q is just what I need. Well, either a Q or a Samsung i1320 but either way,they look really damn cool. One of the really kick a55 features about it is the fact the resolution...

Filed under: News, Compact Framework, Misc Technology