October 2007 - Posts

I'm presenting on Speech Server 07 at the Atlanta .NET Users Group

Published Mon, Oct 29 2007 1:30 | William

If you are in Atlanta and at all interested in building speech enabled applications, I'll be presenting tomorrow at the Altanta DNUG . The meeting starts at 6:00 and the presentation commences at 7:15. I hope to see you there.

Filed under: Speech Server, User Group Presentations

A note from the blog admin

Published Sun, Oct 28 2007 5:24 | admin

Pardon the interruption and apologies to Bill. I just logged onto the server to edit and unpublish a few of the blog comments on the blog. If you have problems with my censorship my email address is sbradcpa@pacbell.net . I'm also reviewing the IP...

Liveblogging the Twin Cities Code Camp

Published Sat, Oct 27 2007 10:02 | William

So, D'Arcy and I got here shortly after Chris Williams and Log Vega did. Looks like a pretty decent turnout but I can't tell exactly how many people are here. We had the launch meeting given by Jason Bock and things are off... Nothing eventful...

Filed under: Code Camps

Atlanta Geek Dinner Tonight

Published Thu, Oct 25 2007 12:26 | William

Just in case you are in Atlanta and want to come, Shawn is hosting a geek dinner tonigh t . Hope to see you there.

Hopefully this will help

Published Thu, Oct 25 2007 11:13 | William

Folks - As you know, Charles Carroll went on the attack and is blaming me for all sorts of things. In the past, I've tried to clean up comments that were imposters. I edited them to say "This isn't really from Charles" and I wrote a...

Fact Checking Charles M Carroll

Published Thu, Oct 25 2007 10:57 | William

I write this with pause, not for fear of getting kicked out of the MVP program but because it's a waste of time. A complete Waste of Time. Exhibit A . Charles accuses me of posting fake comments on my blog and all sorts of other insane stuff. He goes...

Technology and the law

Published Wed, Oct 24 2007 16:32 | William

Chief Justice John Roberts made a speech recently where he talked about how technology was going to be perhaps the most important area of the law . Justice Alito has certainly echoed the same sentiments before discussing rules regarding search and seizure...

There are more WOW players in the US than Farmers

Published Mon, Oct 22 2007 10:00 | William

Glenn Reynolds has an interesting post about it.

Speech Enabled Applications with Microsoft Live Communication Server

Published Mon, Oct 22 2007 9:55 | William

If you want to see a really cool dude present on a really cool subject, Check this out . Or just read below: Speaker: Bill Ryan In the past, building Speech Enabled applications was for many developers, elusive. Although the initial incarnations of Microsoft...

VB vs. C#

Published Mon, Oct 22 2007 9:12 | William

As I've said 1,000 times and will say 1,000 times more, C# is just better than VB.NET - it's that simple. No, really, it is. Now, you may be calling me a hypocrite b/c of all the times I said "VB.NET vs. C# arguments are moronic. Few people...

Twin Cities Code Camp Coming up

Published Sun, Oct 21 2007 21:10 | William

Many of my fellow coworkers are going to be speaking at this one and the Twin Cities Code Camp promises to be a great time.I'm arriving in Minneapolis in Friday and hanging around until Sunday so if you're going to be attending, drop me a line...

Filed under: Code Camps

First!

Published Sun, Oct 21 2007 20:59 | William

I'm going to try, in abject futility, to embed a swf movie in my site. Try as I might, I never seem to be able to do it correctly so I'll probably screw it up too this time. Anyway, if you read a lot of high volume blogs, you'll probably see...

Filed under: Humor

Atlanta Geek Dinner - October 25, 2007

Published Sun, Oct 21 2007 17:12 | William

I meant to post this a few days ago but as always, I'm a slacker on keeping my blog up to date. Anyway, Shawn Wildermuth posted the details of the next Atlanta Geek Dinner - Five Seasons - October 25 - 6:00 PM . He is asking that you R.S.V.P. The...

If you haven't taken a look at NDepend, you ought to.

Published Sun, Oct 21 2007 13:58 | William

Fellow MVP Patrick Smacchia created a product called NDepend . It's been around for a while and I've used it on and off but recently started playing with it again. It's pretty well known and has been mentioned in MSDN Magazine for one. In...

Swatting

Published Wed, Oct 17 2007 21:02 | William

Having worked in IT for a good 7 years now, I understand how script kiddies can pull off a score here and there. A lot of people don't take security seriously and many view it as a downright pain in the butt. Too often, admins and programmers blow...

Google is the new Microsoft

Published Wed, Oct 17 2007 15:44 | William

It actually hurt to type that. Not b/c of a like or dislike of either company, but because the whole X is the new Y thing is trite to the point of being excruciating. Like the title of this post, the whole Microsoft /Google juxtaposition is pretty tired...

Never a dull moment in the life of Bill

Published Sun, Oct 14 2007 18:21 | William

Earlier this week, I got really sick. When I say really sick, I mean really really zombified can't get out of bed sick. I started to get up and around yesterday and have been fairly functional today although still not feeling all that well. That's...