May 2008 - Posts

My first hours with my Amazon Kindle

Published Thu, May 29 2008 0:32 | William

I decided to order an Amazon Kindle . As patience is not something I am overly endowed with, I paid the extra money for the expedited shipping. Along with it I bought a backup battery, another case, a car charger, home charger and storage cards (wow are...

Filed under: Kindle, Amazon Kindle

Bill gets an Amazon Kindle

Published Wed, May 28 2008 10:19 | William

Well, almost. I bought it Sunday night and it's almost here although it's not in my hands yet. I have been trying to find a good e-book solution for a long time now. I got the Sony. I've went through a few tablets (although they weren't...

Filed under: Kindle, Amazon Kindle

The Best of Grand Theft Auto IV

Published Sat, May 24 2008 0:33 | William

Shawn posted a link to these awesome GTA IV Death Clips on Twitter . Depending on where you work, it's probably not the safest thing to get caught watching and I wouldn't recommend watching it around young kids. With that said, it really kicks...

Two great folks are tying the knot!

Published Fri, May 23 2008 15:52 | William

This weekend, Frank is getting married to the lovely and charming Roberta. Frank is a fellow MVP, although he's in the Tablet PC group and does a lot of work with the .NET Community, particularly in the South East. I got to first meet him at a code...

Filed under: Friends

Cool Powershell script

Published Tue, May 20 2008 23:59 | William

I can't take credit for this, I came across it in Windows Communication Foundation Unleashe d - but it's very helpful for administering Windows Communication Foundation ... In the <diagnostics> tag of your service's configuration, two...

Filed under: WCF, Visual Studio .NET Orcas, WIndows Communication Foundation, .NET 3.5 Framework

Doing tiers with WCF

Published Fri, May 16 2008 14:48 | William

Because the nomenclature of WCF is often different then the technologies it consolidated, one of the problems you'll likely encounter when moving to it is figuring out how to do the same things you were doing before. That's probably not the right...

Mobile Application Development Webcast Info

Published Fri, May 16 2008 13:04 | William

Constanze just posted this about a 5 part webcast series he and others like Maarten Struys will be conducting on mobile application development: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just wanted...

Filed under: Mobility, Windows Mobile, Device Application Development

ChannelFactory.CreateChannel goes to the Gentlemen's Club

Published Mon, May 12 2008 18:07 | William

Currently, I'm tasked with getting some people up to speed on .NET 3.5 as well as WCF. WCF is really cool and it's easy to fall in love with, but it's also easy to cause you to sleep when you're first learning it. So instead of walking...

Filed under: WCF, WIndows Communication Foundation, .NET 3.5 Framework, ChannelFactory, System.ServiceModel, ClientBase

How cheap are SMS messages?

Published Mon, May 12 2008 15:16 | William

Normally, when you hear a price comparison and the govt is involved, it's some ridiculously expensive item from the govt. However in the case of the cost of SMS messages vs the cost of pulling data from the Hubbell, it's just the opposite it's...

Filed under: Misc Technology

Sql Server 2008, Intellisense and Backward Compatibility

Published Thu, May 8 2008 13:28 | William

Whitney is a little disappointed that the RTM version of Sql Server 2008 will not support backward compatibility with respect to intellisense ... The conversation related to what I felt was misinformation in various places about whether or not IntelliSense...

Filed under: Sql Server 2008

LINQ Gotcha

Published Wed, May 7 2008 20:00 | William

After a long hiatus, I was trying to figure out something cool or at least interesting to blog about. I was having trouble figuring out what I wanted to write, but then one after another, I got a ton of ideas. One thing I wanted to do for my current project...

Filed under: LINQ, Range Variable, Explicit Range Variable, C# 3.5