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Free Silverlight Training

Published Tue, Aug 14 2007 20:53 | William

My friend Brian Madsen who owns CSharpZealot has teamed up with InnerWorkings to extend a really slick offer for Free Silverlight Training for CSharpZealot members . In addition, Shawn Wildermuth has been way ahead of the crowd when it comes to Silverlight...

Filed under: Life in General, .NET Basics, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Misc Technology, WPF, .NET 3.0 Framework, Silverlight, WPF/E

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

Coming out of hybernation

Published Sun, Mar 26 2006 0:04 | William

Recently I took a blog hiatus. The main reason (if anyone cares) is b/c I've been stretched thin on time. I have three books I'm working on, was working on a side contract, started working as a Moderator on the .NET Framework Data Access and Storage and...

Filed under: Me, .NET General, Mindless Babbling

Seasons Changing

Published Sun, Feb 26 2006 15:43 | William

Today one of my Tobin Titus is packing up for his move to Microsoft. At the same time, another good buddy, Chris Williams is moving to Greenville. Although I live in Augusta, I spend most of my time here in Greenville. Chump Change , since I know you...

Filed under: Books, Me, .NET General, Misc Technology

Lunch with Jeffrey Richter

Published Sun, Feb 26 2006 1:14 | William

Well, I've been so busy that I hardly realize how fast life is passing me by. Anyway, I had a chance to take off some time and do lunch with Jeffrey Richter . Got to hang out with a lot of great people. Shawn Wildermuth , GridViewGirl , Todd Fine, Doug...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, .NET General

Do the right thing and contribute to Jaxass

Published Mon, Jul 25 2005 17:15 | William

If you like making a mockery out of trendy idiocy and having fun in the process... Get Involved with Jaxass . Plus you get the added benefit of hanging out with me and Tobin .

Filed under: Life in General, Me, .NET General

One of Tobin's most brilliant moments

Published Fri, Jul 22 2005 20:05 | William

Tobin's latest idea on creating JAXASS is brilliant. There's some wank action going on trying to get it deleted over here but I'm all for it. Just check this out: ----------------------------------------------- This should soon be followed up by the Farcical...

Filed under: Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Fedex API

Published Sat, May 28 2005 15:38 | William

Since Web Services have become cool, I've tried to do as much with major commercial ones as I can. The problem is that in professional terms, I haven't had many requirements where I really needed to use them. I'm written some utilities for my own use...

Filed under: Speech Server, Me, .NET General, Misc Technology

Prime Time Podcast

Published Sun, May 8 2005 18:01 | William

This weekend, Wally interviewed me Sahil amongst other folks for an ASP.NET podcast that Jason Salas and he are working on. I had spoken with Lance from Lance from Prime Time Podcast a while ago and he encouraged me to give it a try. I'm a day late and...

Filed under: Me, .NET General

Speech Server, Book Writing, Code Camps and Pimped out rides

Published Sun, Apr 24 2005 1:42 | William

For the last week, things have gotten kind of weird in my life. And by most standards, I'm pretty friggin weird to begin with. I stared working with Wally McClure on writing a book and so far, things have been going really well. But so far I've only encountered...

Filed under: Speech Server, MVP Stuff, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Improving a CAPTCHA - An idea

Published Mon, Jan 31 2005 0:20 | William

Ok, so you have probably already heard about all of the controversy my homey KC caused with his Captcha beater. He posted his suggestions on how to make Captcha stronge, which are provided below: render the characters with different colors make some characters...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

http://www.everythingado.net

Published Sun, Jan 30 2005 2:45 | William

Well, I finally bit the bullet and purchased my site from Brinkster. I'm going to be hosting blogs for a few of my disaffected DNJ friends - but well, due to the nature of the site - I'm not handing them out to everyone - If I know you, or you can convince...

Filed under: News, Humor, Compact Framework, Data Access, MVP Stuff, Me, .NET General, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling

Newsgroup Cowboys

Published Thu, Dec 30 2004 18:32 | William

Originally, I was going to title this Newsgroup a-holes. But I decided to sound a little more European and opt for Cowboy instead. What is a Newsgroup Cowboy you ask? Well, it's someone who runs their mouth first, and then thinks about it later. Here...

Filed under: News, Life in General, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques

Why is Microsoft half-stepping?

Published Wed, Dec 1 2004 21:50 | William

I'm saying this as a devout, dyed in the wool, Microsoft Fan. I'm writing this in the hopes that someone will read it, and hopefully do something about it. Even before I was an MVP, I used to get sick of listening to Microsoft bashers and the typical...

Filed under: Me, .NET General