July 2008 - Posts

WCF to the rescue

Published Mon, Jul 7 2008 19:41 | William

Although part of the idea below was mine, James Ashley was crucial to helping me figure this out. Problem: Without getting into the ghoury details, we have an application that allows users to send messages to large groups of people. Anyone using a client...

Filed under: Misc Technology, WCF, WIndows Communication Foundation, .NET 3.5 Framework, ChannelFactory

Utter Coolness compliments of Roku

Published Thu, Jul 3 2008 16:01 | William

My first Roku Soundbridge joined the family back in 2005. As far as wireless media players go, it was a bit pricey. But it looked really cool and I got it through a special offer making it a lot more reasonable. The form factor and styling was the main...

Filed under: News, Roku, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Open Source

Speaking of Funny

Published Tue, Jul 1 2008 10:52 | William

On the drive to work this morning, Glenn Beck had even picked up on the whole Dimitri thing posted on HCwDB . It is definitely worth downloading! KC and Ryan turned me on to HCwDB when we were at the summit, and it's just kick a55 beyond the ability...

Stuff White People Like - The Book - On Sale Tomorrow

Published Tue, Jul 1 2008 10:48 | William

Stuff White People Like is just plain excellent and their book goes on sale tomorrow