February 2007 - Posts

Northern Virgina Code Camp

Published 22 February 7 12:23 AM | William

You've probably already read the announcement on Jeff's blog but they just announced the registration for the Northern Virginia Code Camp . Code camps are always pretty cool and hopefully this time I can stick around and hang out with Sahil , Scott ,...

Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation

Published 18 February 7 11:41 PM | William

I went on a book binge this week and have had my nose buried in WCF all week. There's a lot of really good stuff out there, but without a doubt, Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation by Chris Peiris is probably my favorite. Overall, the book...

Filed under: Books, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, WCF, WIndows Communication Foundation, .NET 3.0 Framework

Some cool Rainbow blogs

Published 18 February 7 10:15 PM | William

Until recently, I didn't have much experience with either Rainbow or DotNetNuke. I've heard a lot of great stuff about both and am still stumbling around through them. Here are two pretty good resources though if you're interested in Rainbow... Eric Ramseur...

MVP Chat at StrongCoders

Published 16 February 7 2:54 AM | William

Details here...

Contaminated Peanut Butter

Published 16 February 7 1:52 AM | William

So if you haven't heard there was a recall of Peter Pan peanut butter . I'm reading it and notice that just last night, I bought some and yet, it was Peter Pan. The recall notice was for jars who had a number beginning with 2111 on the lid. Sure enough...

World Wind 1.4 Released

Published 15 February 7 4:11 PM | William

I'm a day late on this so it's probably old news, but if you're a World Wind user, the new version is available here. And in case you were wondering, yes, it's 100% kick a55

Filed under: Misc Technology

First pass through Windows Live™ Search Web Service API

Published 15 February 7 6:24 AM | William

So far, I've done nothing too impressive with this. I got sick of SSRS, I guess the Miami Vice Bikini girl just got me distracted. Anyway, as most of my family and co-workers know, I've been working on the CuckooBot for a while now, much to their dismay...

Total Time Wasters

Published 15 February 7 5:13 AM | William

At some point, I'm going to learn that I'm apparently unable to 'just take a 5 minute break and watch some stuff on YouTube". I was sitting here working on what might possibly be the most boring code I've ever written and just needed...

My first speech post

Published 13 February 7 1:52 AM | William

This is a test. Ignore this text and this post

I don't know what it is, but I want one

Published 13 February 7 12:43 AM | William

Earlier, I was reading a post from the Drudgereport linking to a blog post from Michael Yon . As is often the case when one gets linked to from Drudge, Yon's server went down. If you aren't familiar with Yon, he's a milblogger who has some really interesting...

Some things are just wrong. Seriously

Published 10 February 7 2:46 AM | William

So there I was at the mall tonight, in a major retailer when I was overcome with this really eery and uncomfortable feeling. I wasn't sure what it was but my subconcious mind was yelling "Dude, something's wrong, big time." Oblivious to my surroundings...

AcceptChanges and Updates once more

Published 9 February 7 4:45 AM | William

So the following question was posted to a forum I frequent and it serves a good point of illustration: "I wont to clear all the data from tables in the database. I have studentiDataset, and i tried this code: Form2.StudentiDataSet.Clear() Form2.StudentiDataSet...

EVERYONE must lurn .NET.

Published 9 February 7 4:21 AM | William

<Yes, this is an inside joke geared specifically for a chivalrous group of my readers> So the questions of the day are, is it 1 out of the 4 And Is it A or B? Being the lover of philosophy that I am, I'd defer to Occham on this one: " entia non...

Ignore: This is just a test

Published 9 February 7 3:47 AM | William

I took Sahil's advice and am trying Windows Live Writer . Technorati tags: Mindless Babbling , Me , Misc Technology

Better keep my day job

Published 7 February 7 2:44 AM | William

I got this from Brian's - it's been around a while but always interesting to re-check. My blog is worth $10,161.72 . How much is your blog worth? Looks like i better keep my day job...

Filed under: Humor, Me, Mindless Babbling, Memes

Famous Last Words

Published 7 February 7 12:32 AM | William

I have very little to goof on Bill Gates about, but he's being Mighty brave with challenges like this . On the one hand, I really admire his approach and smack talking. "We made it way harder for guys to do exploits," said Mr. Gates. "The number [of exploits...

Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Vista Upgrades, Windows.old and RTFM

Published 6 February 7 3:38 AM | William

Well, I upgraded my computers to VISTA and didn't have any problem. I was scared about my tablet b/c I install every bit of alpha and beta software I want to try on it. So it all went without a glitch. Except this annoying "Windows.old" file. Like the...

Filed under: Vista, RTFM, Vista Upgrade

Programmers do actually make suckier interfaces than other people

Published 5 February 7 1:56 AM | William

Aaron's post asserts that programmers aren't to blame for crappy UIs and I'm not sure he's right about that point. As a programmer and software user, I have to say that most of the truly terrible user interfaces I've seen in my life were not the result...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Mindless Babbling

I guess they send the spam for a reason

Published 5 February 7 1:34 AM | William

I guess I've been on the internet so long it's hard to remember when I got my first spam email. In fact, I honestly don't have an inkling about the details of the first spam message I got. But I do know that I haven't once seriously considered responding...

Filed under: Life in General, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Any Thoughts?

Published 5 February 7 12:22 AM | William

So I need one of these like I need a hole in the head but I think I want one. Another thing I'm thinking about is going to Wireless N at the house. I just upgraded the stuff at Kim's house to Mimo G - and so far, it seems a lot cooler (if nothing else...

Filed under: Me, Mindless Babbling, Gadgets